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by briandw 7mo ago
I specifically said sex. Gender is mostly undefined. If you say that gender is the societal presentation as male or female, but you can’t define male from female then what are you defining? Its the “trans women are women” contradiction.
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by briandw 7mo ago
Male puberty changes body composition in non-reversible ways. Muscle distribution, composition, quantity and bone density, all favor men that have gone through puberty.
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by briandw 7mo ago
The fact that it's only one way (banning men from competition in women's sports) is evidence against your point, not for it. If it was strictly anti-trans, then it would be an applied to both. The fact that no one cares that if a
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by briandw 7mo ago
Men are stronger and faster and not just a little bit. If you allow men in women's sports, (basketball, soccer, boxing etc) then women will not be competitive in those sports.
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by briandw 7mo ago
Looking forward to this update. There are so many hidden gotchas in FreeCAD once you get past the basics. Load of bugs and head scratching issues. However its free and local so can’t complain to much.
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by briandw 7mo ago
My limited understanding is that issues like being vulnerable to side channel attacks are very difficult to detect. So you have to have shown that the entire development process is safe. From the code to the compiler to the hardware to the
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by briandw 7mo ago
Are we talking about the Pope or Thiel?
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by briandw 7mo ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doubling the volts doesn't change the amps, it doubles the watts. Watts = V*A.
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by briandw 7mo ago
I'm really confused by the FSF statement here. The court ruled that the use of copyrighted information is fair use. The issue is that Anthropic pirated (obtained illegally) copyrighted work and that was the offense. FSF books are free
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by briandw 7mo ago
It’s too difficult to distinguish between a terminal in small GA aircraft and something with destructive payload. Commercial aircraft are few and controllable.
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by briandw 7mo ago
I think this violates ITAR. You aren't allowed put a guidance system on a rocket. And even if you were allowed to do it for your own fun/education, you certainly aren't allowed to provide instructions to foreign entities abou
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by briandw 7mo ago
The bill claims that it doesn’t grant any new powers. Then it goes on to explain that if you don’t collect meta data and retain it for up to a year, that you can be fined or jailed.
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by briandw 7mo ago
The “emitter” can either produce more thermal photons than the background thermal noise or fewer. Because it absorbs thermal energy particles of the time and loses that energy at others, it balances out to background. You have to know at w
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by briandw 7mo ago
This the “no true scott”! fallacy. I sure he writes code and makes it open with an open source license, but he not really doing open source.
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by briandw 7mo ago
Obviously satire, but it will clearly be what happens in the future (predicting here, I'm not endorsing this practice). We can scratch train a new LLM on code generated from "contaminated" LLMs. We can then audit all the trai
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by briandw 8mo ago
I don't often see a human driven car parked sideways in the middle of a road (never really). If a human was in that Waymo, they would have moved quickly. I'm an huge fan of Waymo and autonomous vehicles. They save lives. However t
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by briandw 8mo ago
I feel the same. The Golden Gate Bridge took 3 years to build, start to finish. It was the biggest suspension to have ever been built at the time. Compare that to any modern public works project of today. There are countless examples of how
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by briandw 8mo ago
The brains (ai models) are more important than the sensors. Cameras are good enough. Lidar doesn’t keep Waymos from driving into an 18” deep puddle, or driving the wrong way down the street. Lidar doesn’t help predict when a pedestrian is g
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by briandw 8mo ago
This remind me of [Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned]( https://mythoftheobjective.com ). When looking at scientific discovery there many examples of happy accidents. The researchers were not intending to find the breakthrough that t
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by briandw 8mo ago
How many of you have run into a bollard or other fixed structure at less than 5 mph and didn't report it?
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by briandw 8mo ago
First let's stick to the lower grades (under 5th). The evidence isn't as clean for upper grades. Constructivist teaching favors things like student-centered discovery, inquiry-based, minimal-guidance, "child-led" or &quo
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by briandw 8mo ago
AI is held to a much higher standard than the existing education techniques. Even without AI teachers are implementing new techniques without any evidence of their effectiveness. In some cases, there is mountains of evidence that their tech
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by briandw 8mo ago
Everything that is not compulsory is forbidden. Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.
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by briandw 8mo ago
These are good lectures and there is also a discord. https://github.com/gpu-mode/lectures
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by briandw 8mo ago
This was enabled by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), enacted in 1994. Congress made their bed, now they need to lie in. Time to remove the govt mandated backdoors.
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by briandw 8mo ago
This “practicing without a license” tactic has been used before. This case where a city fined someone for making a mathematical model of traffic lights. [ij]( https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li.
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by briandw 9mo ago
Eager Space [Orbital Data Centers Yes or No]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcR7kqOb3o ) Goes into great detail with extensive calculations (for a YT video at least). TLDR: Cost to orbit needs to be under $200/kg befo
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by briandw 9mo ago
forgot about a few others uber marriott clearview openai €4 899 121 028 or 71.5%
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by briandw 9mo ago
point conceded, they do enforce gdpr on smaller companies thanks for the enforcement tracker link i scraped that page to get the raw data and added it up by company. i wanted to see how much the main us tech companies paid vs everyone else
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by briandw 9mo ago
You are of course correct. It's not likely to succeed. "Could work" doesn't mean high chance of success. I was trying to imply the opposite. It's just that Xcode has so much baggage that the previous attempts have b

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