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by dTal 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape...
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I definitely remember reading some folk etymology that claimed they were so named because the buttons affected each other despite being physically separate, "as if by radio". "Like buttons on a car radio" seems more plau
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"See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a Halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call it a Chung Ling and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird. You only know somethin
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"now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy", since HN seems to be lacking something to argue about here. It is interesting because one of the primary accusations leveled against systemd has long been[0] that it's a monolithic
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I find it surprising that it would cause issues. There are as of this writing only 162 comments in the thread, which was posted 17 hours ago, and the (simple!) web page is still very slow to load. How much traffic slows down a static web pa
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https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21 Even has "climate models aren't reductionist enough".
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>So I get my hands on your laptop for a few minutes, there should be nothing you can do to impede me from doing whatever I want to it? Correct. This is true of all my other possessions as well. Ultimately, the physical hardware of the co
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>robust system state attestation (both local and remote) against attackers with physical access Phrases like this give me the shivers, as it translates into "mandatory surveillance by some authority telling me what I can and can&#x2
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I advocate applying the original term for such things, "freeware". No need to needlessly complicate things.
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Of course you're imagining the world we have now with all the cars simply removed, instead of one that had developed without cars in the first place. A lot of competing infrastructure was deleted, or never made in the first place, beca
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Do I? Hell no, I'm a model citizen. The trouble, you see, is with all these other assholes... You are positing an individualist solution (don't be a "gaping asshole" by some vague standard) to a society-level problem (pe
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I think they go to some considerable effort to avoid as much awareness as possible.
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Do you have some sort of reference to the "plausible bug" thing? That's shocking. Well, not that shocking...
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Why do they say it's "specific to each host" and not some ultra-simple algorithm like "flip the sign on $PREDATOR_FEAR_COEFFICIENT"? One might suppose that "fear of predators" is a highly conserved, re-use
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> Only certain access points are whitelisted to access things. If you aren't using one then you're blacklisted. No, this is not how these terms work. Blacklist and whitelist are not just words for opposite sides of a partitione
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> NIR sensitivity does not improve night vision Your comment and its grandparent are both excellent, but I would like to nitpick a bit here. Technically, NIR sensitivity does improve night vision through the simple mechanism of "d
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Forgive me - could you please clarify the relevance of thalidomide to the discussion at hand?
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Extending the thought, I would argue that this indicates the urgent need for more utopian speculative fiction, since it appears that as a society we tend to "steer where we're looking" even if it's straight into a pole
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This observation is so widespread it now has a handy shorthand in the form of a meme, the "Torment Nexus": Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the
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It might crawl it, but without tons of "SEO" it will never show it on any results page. "Google can't find it" is shorthand for "Google is useless for finding it".
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That exists, it's called a Windows PC...
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It didn't suck for the shareholders of the remaining 3. With a state monopoly, we'd all be shareholders. Win!
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Men and women are much more similar than bicycles and aircraft. It's more like asking "how do you fix a front bicycle tire", in which case it's reasonable to inquire if the distinction is actually relevant.
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From a different comment whose main thrust you also ignored (you are all over this thread with the same fallacy): >It doesn't mean it's locally always +5C warmer than it used to be; it means you're seeing insane temperatur
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What even is this comment Also, <spoilers> It didn't do anything bad to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in a pocket universe created especially for him (therefore ensuring that he was the most important thing in it, and thereby securing his
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Worth noting that even setting aside weird black hole physics, in the real world the amount of storage available given some information density and some maximum constant access latency is bound in r^3 by the speed of light, and therefore ar
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This is not a useful take and does not contribute to the discussion. Nature being reduced to "one amoeba" is not "just fine" according to any human value system. I don't understand this need to say "akshually t
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I would argue that the kind of modification you can do to a big blob of weights is more akin to fiddling with a binary in a hex editor than modifying source code. It is not the "preferred form" for the source, and you cannot clean
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> open source weights but the corpus is secret This is oxymoronic; the corpus is the "source". Yet this usage of "open source" is widespread. Maybe we should start calling such models by their rightful name, "f
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Cynical answer: because art is a field where there is no unambiguous distinction between "correct" and "incorrect", between "good" and "bad". At the end of the day all that art needs to be is "in

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