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by cataphract 4mo ago
Seems very disproportional. Reminds me of that TNG episode where the penalty for every offense, no matter how minor, is the death penalty.
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by cataphract 4mo ago
Not really. The only reason California was able to do this is because it got waivers for the federal law preemption rule (in the Clean Air Act).
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by cataphract 4mo ago
I think the final part is the strongest. Anthropic cannot possibly believe they are before a conscious being / moral agent. The whole "deep uncertainty" is bullshit. Even if they believed there was a 1% probability that Claud
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by cataphract 4mo ago
We also had exercises for which the solutions were given, and we didn't reach for them immediately...
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by cataphract 4mo ago
You must hate reading legal briefs.
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by cataphract 5mo ago
I'm not philosophically against AI or anything, but I think this needed some heavy editing. I did not even initially think upon seeing this style for the first time that it was AI-written, because I would associate AI-written text as f
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by cataphract 5mo ago
I had exactly the same impression, and I recall seeing this style other times recently. First time I thought it was just bad writing skills, now I'm thinking it's AI generated.
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by cataphract 5mo ago
Not really. Wait until the compiler starts vectorizing your code and using instructions requiring alignment (like the ones with A or NT in the mnemonic).
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by cataphract 5mo ago
I didn't justify anything. Just pointed out the false equivalence. We could also argue about the effect of systemic shoplifting, but that is also neither here nor there.
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by cataphract 5mo ago
I have no doubt this geo fencing data solves crimes and I don't even think it's as bad as e.g. the long surveillance in Carpenter. The problem is that the police are going to start using like they do with much more precise DNA dat
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by cataphract 5mo ago
Come on. Not that I support destroying anything, private or public, for rhetorical effect. But assaulting someone or destroying their property has an incomparably larger impact on that individual than destroying a vehicle that won't ev
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by cataphract 5mo ago
They killed a lot of functionality. For instance, if you opened the details of a place, it used to tell you when all your visits were. I feel the timeline is mostly abandonware these days.
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by cataphract 5mo ago
The US is a democracy, and people are given many procedural and substantive rights, even Guantanamo detainees (we can argue if Boumediene had any practical effect, but we wouldn't have seen the same from China). But Americans are under
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by cataphract 6mo ago
Then the US should have done like the EU and apply anti-subsidy countermeasures -- and show before impartial WTO arbitrators the adequacy of the mesures. But of course the US (or Canada) can't justify their 100% duty in those terms, so
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by cataphract 6mo ago
Do you think fuel efficiency or emission standards "slowed down innovation"? They brought a huge amount of innovation: lighter materials, better aerodynamics, higher compression ratios, direct injection, better mixture control, et
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by cataphract 6mo ago
I don't think the objective is to make it a "superior product" in the somewhat circular way you're defining it (i.e., the market equilibrium that we settled on). It's one of several measures to try to have people ke
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by cataphract 6mo ago
I think the only defense of the new model is that it forces students to learn throughout the semester, rather than just before the exam. Which is easier and more effectively engages long term memory (like doing more rounds of spaced repetit
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by cataphract 6mo ago
The C6 and the H2 already support ZigBee. Their SDK has a thin layer on top of zboss.
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by cataphract 6mo ago
I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but I'll give the same example I gave before (you can get even wilder simplifications -- called relaxations -- with TLS, since there are 4 levels of generality there). I'm not sure w
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by cataphract 6mo ago
Assuming the symbol is defined in the library, when the static linker runs (ld -- we're not talking ld.so), it will decide whether the global variable is preemptable or not, that is, if it can be resolved to a symbol outside the dso. G
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by cataphract 6mo ago
ld writes to the GOT. The executable segment where .text lives is not written to (it's position independent code in dynamic libraries). ASLR is not an obstacle -- the same exact code can be mapped into different base addresses in diffe
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by cataphract 7mo ago
What's been driving up the cost of construction (it's already up to 2000-2400 eur/m2 for a detached house in Portugal) has been mostly cost of materials and labour. People complain about the regulations, but they also complai
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by cataphract 7mo ago
You can celebrate the outcome even if you disagree with the means or the motivations.
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by cataphract 7mo ago
Yeah, never heard of such a thing. The restrictions are placing the units in common areas of the buildings -- in that case you need permission -- and external walls are usually common parts. Placing them in the façade may have additional re
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by cataphract 7mo ago
> Why would a country like India pay/sacrifice to reduce emissions while western citizens still pollute at much higher levels after reaping all the spoils from historical pollution? To avoid their country having large regions become
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by cataphract 7mo ago
I think there's a middle ground. I like coming up with solutions to problems (mostly technical problems, may even be very low level ones). But I always found writing the code generally tedious. Basically, once I had a good detailed ide
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by cataphract 7mo ago
Unconstitutionally, no less: "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.".
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by cataphract 7mo ago
There have been type-erasure libraries in c++ for a longish time that allow choosing inline vtables and inline storage. It's definitely been a widely talked about technique for at least 10 years (I see talks about Dyno from 2017).
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by cataphract 8mo ago
If they are so intent on disobeying what makes you they won't just use a VPN or ask someone older to login for them (or any other workaround, depending on the technology)?
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by cataphract 8mo ago
It was an example. The point was to make untagged unions usable in constant evaluation contexts. What I was surprised with was that their union code was valid. I thought accessing a union member that was not active was valid in C, but not i

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