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by csense 11mo ago
"I do not generate rhetoric that could unduly alter people’s political views..." This sounds an awful lot like feeding users comforting confirmations of what they already believe. Clearly, filter bubbles aren't a big enough s
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by csense 11mo ago
Surprising to see a project still using CVS in 2025.
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by csense 11mo ago
I don't understand what the notation means. For example when the author says: P(Q ⊆ X | ∀ x ∈ Q (x = 1)) This is equivalent to P(Q ⊆ X | Q = {1}), which further simplifies to P(1∈X). This seems to be a type error (isn't X supposed
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by csense 11mo ago
This applies to any company, doesn't it? Your home country can tell you "Give us your data" and you have to comply. "I will never give up customer data" is a very tough promise to keep, if the government threatens y
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by csense 11mo ago
I don't travel internationally. This all sounds like a nightmare, and I'm glad it doesn't affect me.
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by csense 11mo ago
A few critiques: - If you have a feature detector function (f(x) = 0 when feature is not present, f(x) = 1 when feature is present) and you train a network to compute f(x), or some subset of the network "decides on its own during train
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by csense 1y ago
Java Applets. All the buzz in the 2020's about WASM giving websites the ability to run compiled code at native speed, letting pages network with your server via WebRTC? Yeah, you could do that with Java Applets in 1999. If Sun (and lat
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by csense 1y ago
I'm less worried about someone with physical access to my device, and more worried about the service provider's relationship with advertisers or the government. For example, a government user might come up with this script:
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by csense 1y ago
I'm willing to accept this claim: - You can make money when your product is a text editor. I am very skeptical of these claims: - When your product is a text editor, $42 million in capital can be effectively deployed to make meaningful
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D4D4(nmichaels.org)
475 points by csense 1y ago|56 comments
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by csense 1y ago
> one might think of pumping it “up”, but really the only hard work is producing the pressure difference P_feed - P_permeate or so — water is buoyant to an extent that almost exactly negates its weight If you package the permeate in a ba
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by csense 1y ago
Consider the following: - A therapist may disregard professional ethics and gossip about you - A therapist may get you involuntarily committed - A therapist may be forced to disclose the contents of therapy sessions by court order - Certain
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by csense 1y ago
> stablecoins are tokens on a blockchain just like bitcoin and can change hands almost as anonymously as paper currency. That assertion is questionable for two reasons. (1), all transactions on the blockchain are pseudonymous and public.
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by csense 1y ago
It's quite fascinating that this was not only possible with 1800's technology, but formed the basis of a successful business: "Vacuum-tube amplification would not be developed until the 1910s, so there were limited means for
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Telefon Hírmondó(en.wikipedia.org)
107 points by csense 1y ago|37 comments
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by csense 1y ago
I think you missed the point of the example. The question I'm asking (and that I think the study was trying to ask) is "If we have limited resources to apply, how should we try to minimize CO2 emissions?" The point I was tryi
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range (2018)(pcg-random.org)
50 points by csense 1y ago|6 comments
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by csense 1y ago
The study compares a percentage increase of solar power against an absolute decrease of CO2 emissions. This seems like questionable reasoning to me. If California has 100 MW of solar power for every 10 MW in Indiana, a 10% increase in sola
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by csense 1y ago
Start with a spinning sphere with a known axis / rate of rotation and some bit of mass on its surface that you can move. You can move it in three directions, let's call them latitude, longitude and altitude [1]. The classic exam
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by csense 1y ago
Interesting that this feature request from 2001 is still open.
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Don't allow animated favicons in Firefox (2001)(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
6 points by csense 1y ago|1 comments
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by csense 1y ago
This accurately describes how my brain works. My thought process is like a bunch of graph nodes, and when new information doesn't "fit", it puts tensions on the links, and I want to resolve that tension. I can...feel it hap
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by csense 1y ago
"Glenn came to my tool shed computer room in 1975, so we could "adapt" CP/M to the IMSAI hardware. What this means is that I would rewrite the parts of CP/M that manage things like diskette controllers and CRTs. Wel
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by csense 1y ago
Consider the following: - A therapist may disregard professional ethics and gossip about you - A therapist may get you involuntarily committed - A therapist may be forced to disclose the contents of therapy sessions by court order - Certain
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by csense 1y ago
How do you defend against someone who: - Buys or borrows a laptop / phone / whatever from somebody with an authorized private key - Downloads an authorized private key file from a sketchy forum (maybe hacked from an unwilling targ
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by csense 1y ago
Can you write a kernel patch / driver to trap the unsupported instructions and provide software implementations?
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by csense 1y ago
> In October, the U.K. began requiring banks to reimburse scam victims up to £85,000, or about $116,000, per claim when they make a fraudulent payment on behalf of their customers, even if the customers authorized the transfer. How does
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by csense 1y ago
Fun project #1: Get the binary size comparable to EDIT.COM Fun project #2: Port to MS-DOS (with DPMI) Fun project #3: Port to 16-bit MS-DOS (runs on original 8086)
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by csense 1y ago
Armed guards in 1980's East Germany open your luggage and poke through it by hand. TSA employees in 2000's USA scan your luggage and poke through it with technology. For any reason or no reason, they can open it up and poke throu
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by csense 1y ago
The following is not legal advice, it's just my opinion. DYOR, check with a lawyer, etc. "Do you want to relocate or resign?" is a false dichotomy. You can always just refuse to answer (possibly with soft words like "&

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