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by bux93 1y ago
Nice bit of PR for this company, but surely traintracks and terminals are built all the time to factories? Like the Ford/Blueoval facilities in Stanton, Tennessee and Glendale, Kentucky, Scout motors in Blythewood, South Carolina, Redw
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by bux93 1y ago
There are a few worries. The US government accessing private data is the one that gets this treatment. Sure, the contracts are not worth the paper they're written on, but it's a state actor - even if you store the data only on a U
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by bux93 1y ago
"We view AI as a tool that we can and should remain in control of, and we argue that this goal does not require drastic policy interventions" If you read the EU AI act, you'll see it's not really about AI at all, but abo
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by bux93 2y ago
I'd say that phrase means 'consideration' in some cases, and in any case something like 'reasonable expectation', which would enter into the 'meeting of minds' prerequisite of contract law. Banana republic
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by bux93 2y ago
It's not just price. The market for this expertise is also not very deep and liquid. If I have to get a laptop repaired, what are my choices? Send it off to the manufacturer/importer if it's still under warranty, and get it b
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by bux93 2y ago
I was going to mention Scream Tracker, but the Swedish language link names Fasttracker (apparently Swedish made, while Scream Tracker is by the Future Crew who hail from Finland).
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by bux93 2y ago
Standards are essential for a common market and competition and drivers for prosperity. This is nothing new. Your Iphone probably also says "RoHS", which marks compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. Mos
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by bux93 2y ago
"As it happened, one of my father’s sisters, Aunt Irene, was a vice president of the Canadian National Railways" kinda says it all. Put on "Common people" by Pulp in the background when you read this article.
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by bux93 2y ago
The search order is neither indeterministic, nor deterministic; it is undefined. Some implementations do depth-first search, others go random. If your code is logically correct, it doesn't matter in the end - except if you use the cut-
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by bux93 2y ago
The 'graduated proposals' for UI elements don't even have any mockups at all. Great if your UI proposals are for gopher, I guess. The people proposing deliberately bad UI on reddit as a joke make GIFs, just saying.
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by bux93 2y ago
Tariffs are just a tax. Similar to a sales tax, but it needs to be paid on import. To be clear, it's a tax on your own citizens, not foreign exports. If a product is cheaply produced in another country, and your domestic industry canno
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by bux93 2y ago
Just changing the technology isn't enough, the whole GUI needs an overhaul. For example, browsing 'by album' just adds unsightly [+] icons that are hard to hit with fat fingers on a touch screen. There should be a carousel of
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by bux93 2y ago
Yes, the clean look of a 'traditional' GUI is somehow refreshing now we're surrounded with dark patterns and inconsistent style over substance.
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by bux93 2y ago
TMC (Thinking Machines Corporation) was ahead of its time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
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by bux93 2y ago
The author got very close, but missing the forest for the trees. What a diagram really needs is a purpose. A clear need for the information to be conveyed. Who's to say that unlabeled arrows are a bad thing? Or that there's too mu
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by bux93 2y ago
Whatsapp has had end-to-end encryption since 2016. But it only added encryption to cloud backups in 2021. They didn't share any key material with Google, just backed up the messages and media without any encryption to begin with.
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by bux93 2y ago
Ah, the tale I could tell you about "encrypted ZIP codes".
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by bux93 2y ago
Of course we're trusting CloudFlare to be a good citizen. If they were not, they would be banned - unless they sold their business to a sovereign wealth fund.
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by bux93 2y ago
OCR software like ABBY can spit out something called a "searchable PDF", which has a text layer underneath a picture of a scan. Otherwise, PDF has 'dictionaries' with arbitrary key-value pairs in them. The "Info&quo
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by bux93 2y ago
A sliding scale would make sense. Don't use it? Don't pay anything. Fewer than x searches? Pay Y per search. More than z searches? Pay z * y for unlimited use. I suspect this would also work great for streaming services, like HBO
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by bux93 2y ago
But imagine all that grant money going to, say, grants for SpaceX and EV-subsidies for Tesla..
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by bux93 2y ago
Ripping apart institutions is a great way to increase interest rates.
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by bux93 2y ago
Said barriers to AI are - not allowing the use of AI for social scoring, precrime and other nefarious profiling methods - for high risk applications, requiring a quality system. You know, like the kind of quality system you need in place i
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by bux93 2y ago
If you only count startups that offer payments - and little else - as fintechs, then yeah, they're not displacing banks. If you count private credit funds like Apollo Global Management, the story is very different: private credit is se
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Anonymization with μ-Argus (2021)(research.cbs.nl)
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by bux93 2y ago
The Dutch national office of statistics has open source tools that can de-identify 'microdata' (not aggregated data) such that k-anonimity is achieved. K-anonimity means that for any given property it can never be traced back to l
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by bux93 2y ago
The Dutch national office of statistics has tools intended to de-identify 'microdata' such that k-anonimity[1] is achieved called mu-argus[2] and tau-argus. [1] A release of data is said to have the k-anonymity property if the inf
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by bux93 2y ago
Even more frustrating is when you're specifically looking for a simple tool to do X, but the marketing material is so aspirational you can't even find out if they offer X, and finally when you figure out that they DO offer X, it t
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by bux93 2y ago
I have a hard time visualizing even 3 dimension, but 4 dimensions and up, I just think of it as a spreadsheet where each thing has 4 or more columns of data rather than 3. Whether a 4th column is time, spin, color, smell or yet another coor
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by bux93 2y ago
or, as the late great @justsaysinmice used to point out "IN MICE"

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