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by bloppe 1y ago
That's always been a feature of the 2-party system. I mean, the Democrats were once the party of southern white supremacists. We don't really get new parties, but the parties we have change over time as the coalitions within them
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by bloppe 1y ago
That's not the only extension Firefox still allows that's blocked in Chrome. FF also blocks 3rd party cookies and has shown no interest in Google's "privacy sandbox" tracking features. Funny how much better a browse
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by bloppe 1y ago
The wider Trump administration is extremely anti-free-market. They're very explicit about it. The Republican party is nothing like it used to be.
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by bloppe 1y ago
Also a lot of trees have fixed arity, like binary trees. But to model a general tree, you'd need a dynamically allocated list of children for each node, adding a layer of indirection that can noticeably worsen performance. Trees are of
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by bloppe 1y ago
Good publicity for proton mail
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by bloppe 1y ago
Dude what's your angle here. Scammers don't offer full refunds.
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by bloppe 1y ago
That other country also has paper ballots. A bunch of people decided to count the ones in Arizona by hand after 2020. They found that the machines were accurate. The only reason people got angry was because one candidate decided to be the s
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by bloppe 1y ago
It's because there's conflict between individuals but also between groups. With inter-group competition, the tribe that cooperates better is going to out-compete the tribe that succumbs to in-fighting. The alarming corollary is th
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by bloppe 1y ago
27% of the federal budget for 2024 was spent on health care [1]. A lot of that is because health care in America is, on average, twice as expensive as in other rich countries [2]. Clearly, it ought to be possible for us to achieve the same
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A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy(apnews.com)
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by bloppe 2y ago
McProtocol
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by bloppe 2y ago
I have a theory that all the people who truly believe this are either not software developers or have spent their whole career writing boring, cookie-cutter code. I'm over here trying to play with bleeding edge tech and push some bound
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by bloppe 2y ago
Software isn't just built. It has to be maintained over time. A long, unplanned outage is much more destructive to a brand than a delayed release. Vibe coding prioritizes the latter at the expense of the former.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Technically, the first amendment applies only to state actors, not private entities. See Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, Hudgens v. NLRB, and many other cases that upheld this interpretation. Private companies like Apple can re
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by bloppe 2y ago
These are kind of separate issues. Apps using Infatica know that they're selling access to their users' bandwidth. It's intentional.
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by bloppe 2y ago
This has nothing to do with Israel or even antisemitism. The administration just doesn't like Harvard and they'll use whatever justification they think has the best chance of of holding up in court
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by bloppe 2y ago
You consider blatantly disregarding a court order "preexisting legal machinery"?
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by bloppe 2y ago
You're thinking about this wrong. There's no place for logical questions here.
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by bloppe 2y ago
It doesn't have to be a red line for maga. In fact, for them, the cruelty is the whole point. They want the fear and simply don't care about laws.
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by bloppe 2y ago
An LLM is given a definition of the macrostate which creates the probability distribution, but a different definition of the macrostate (such as would be known to the omniscient being) would create a different distribution. According to the
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by bloppe 2y ago
We're talking about 2 different things. I agree that probability is objective as long as you've already decided on the definition of the macrostate, but that definition is subjective. From an LLM's perspective, the macrostate
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by bloppe 2y ago
Probability is subjective though, because macrostates are subjective. The notion of probability relies on the notion of repeatability: if you repeat a coin flip infinite times, what proportion of outcomes will be heads, etc. But if you actu
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by bloppe 2y ago
Yes.
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by bloppe 2y ago
There are 2 issues here. The first is that it's not consistent with ending speech control policies. The second is that hostility to American values is actually pretty subjective. For instance, the January 6 insurrectionists were very h
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by bloppe 2y ago
I agree that OpenAI is not technically a single point of failure because if it were to disappear, then all the companies that depend on it could simply switch to Gemini or Deepseek or Llama, etc. It's been well established that they ha
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by bloppe 2y ago
Sure, and stocks have recovered since 2008, but that's still referred to as a "crisis".
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by bloppe 2y ago
Yaml is a sad Icarus parable. The syntax is great but the type inference is too much. I don't see why we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and settle for toml, though. Here's how yaml's type inference should work:
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by bloppe 2y ago
Is that different from Spotify? Am I using Spotify wrong? I mostly just curate and listen to my own playlists
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by bloppe 2y ago
Wasm, specifically using the component model [1], is really good for plugin use-cases. - Polyglot; you can write plugins (in this case Bazel rules) in "any" language, and the component model is easily the best system ever created
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by bloppe 2y ago
Fair enuf

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