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by bdamm 3mo ago
Expect an error but this will depend on the brand. "Smudging" is a common trick. Just dab some face oil on the lens, just enough so it can't get detail but not so much that the system can tell there's a covering.
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by bdamm 3mo ago
Because the "other side" is busy trying to anthropomorphise AI into solving the trolly problem, while being mostly clueless about the actual problems. They'll show up after the fact and whinge endlessly about how they should
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by bdamm 3mo ago
How? Training and operating models seems to naturally focus on those willing to invest quite significantly in these operations.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
It's remarkable how often I hear about brilliant products being released by asshole personalities who were hard to work with, but still stayed engaged. The other two extremes tend not to produce much of interest; the committee of peopl
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Which just goes to show that technical chops and business chops are entirely unrelated. I think John Carmack did alright anyway.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Actually yes. Pretty much most credit cards are in fact JavaCards. Weird but true, and quite obscure.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Well, Oracle may have done fine, but IIRC open sourcing the JDK was Sun's very penultimate move on its deathbed. Oracle inherited the license to the trademark, but the actual JDK was already free.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Personally I loved it. The Japanese aesthetic is subtle and delightful. Also, riding my bicycle in the countryside with very few traffic signs to mar the view. Just the necessary ones, at exactly the right places. They assume you are not an
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Ah, the fixie benefit is in every stroke, especially the ones where I'm slowing down with my legs and doing whatever else I want to be doing with my hands that doesn't involve the brakes. I wish I could transmit to you the pure ze
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by bdamm 4mo ago
You do you. I have a fast and light road fixie, and I have a nice carbon fiber road bike. Do I ride my road bike in fondos? Yes. Do I ride my road bike around town and for training? Mostly, no. Why? Never in my entire life have I ridden a f
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Are you thinking of affirmative action? Affirmative action is by design discriminatory, but not against nationality. It's discriminatory based on race and sex. So I think your grudge is not striking the right target. And in any case, a
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Could it be a right-to-repair issue? That seems to be the only legal wrench available for forcing automakers to open up access to anything.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
It is kind of a hard problem to solve. Sure, we can have expensive and custom equipment flying around, but the invasion of Ukraine (and really, any war when it gets bad enough) is all about economic efficiency. The question is not can it be
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Ah hah, this is it. I was also confused - the tool isn't the thing. It's the behavior analysis capability.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
If anything this video is kicking off a storm of amateur hacking enthusiasm for these wild bikes. Do us all a favor and sell yours!
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Autonomous weapons are actually a really interesting branch of this and deserves a little more. Yes, autonomous weapons were explored and were found to be poor performers compared to actual pilots. The breakthrough is in terminal guidance a
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Check back in 5 years. This is going to age poorly. The reason is that, despite what many think, AI actually is able to create novel ideas and solutions. That's why AlphaGo was so important; it couldn't beat the world's best
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Yes, although in all honesty the actual compilation is somewhat small compared to the many layers of unit, simulation, integration, and regression tests. All those corner cases take a long time to explore.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
You are absolutely right. It will be a small window in the development business. Enjoy it if you can!
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Since I've been working in C++ a lot recently I decided to watch the video as I waited for a build to complete. So the length is about right. And fortunately, the video is a delight!
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by bdamm 4mo ago
This is absolutely the right vision imo. Personally, I'm seeing massive improvements to my workflow and the quality of the product I'm shipping. I'm using AI to crank out far more tests than I used to be able to write, and I
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Is this supposed to work? I just get a vast blank canvas with decorations but no content.
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by bdamm 4mo ago
The launch business is impressive relative to the launch industry, but in terms of company capital value, it is a very small part of the company. I'm rooting for SpaceX, but even I can see that there's some extremely dicey work be
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Unfortunately, that isn't good enough. Any government has a library of exploits in free software, and there are many documented cases of this. Your encrypted files are only as good as the clients that access them, and that's where
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by bdamm 4mo ago
What is your point? If anything, PRISM argues that Apple users are more secure; it took the NSA a solid five years longer to work their way into Apple. But at this point, every provider is compromised, every country is compromised, so again
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by bdamm 4mo ago
What are you saying, that you think Windows or Linux are better platforms for evading covert government oversight? Let's be totally clear here; if the government is interested in you, your choice of computer platform matters very littl
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by bdamm 4mo ago
How? My experience with Excel, Word, Powerpoint, event Teams, is that they generally work fine. This is unlike the situation from e.g. 20 years ago, when you could barely get work done due to all the crashes, but that is a very distant memo
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Except, it was true before and it is still true today that the best "artists" whether graphic or mathematic, are the ones that do somehow manage to cross the chasm of pure research and providing a tangible benefit to their benefac
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by bdamm 4mo ago
Is this a known or quantifiable thing? I thought that the limit had already been determined i.e. the existing models top out and at some point it doesn't matter how much time or energy you let the model consume, it won't improve t
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by bdamm 4mo ago
They can definitely recognize the problem class and build programs to do math. So what's the difference? It's like saying that people can't turn high torque nuts on machine bolts, because you can't use your fingers to do

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