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6mo ago
Many games have obvious inventory dup exploits that this is a very reasonable solution for.
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6mo ago
thousands of people die every year from DHMO toxicity, literal overdoses of DHMO, yet you can still find it in baby food and breast milk.
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6mo ago
an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
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6mo ago
FSD still sucks ass compared to Waymo.
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6mo ago
2004, actually, with a minor update in 2008. This was the same principle I used coincidentally at the same time to also disbelieve the same thing.
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6mo ago
Yeah, the OEX is a more serious index for more serious people.
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6mo ago
How many American schoolchildren have Iran killed in the last 25 years? How many Iranian schoolchildren have America killed? Where's your moral justification for this war of choice if "oops, 137 dead kids is a normal expected outc
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7mo ago
Jewel cases may be fragile but LPs are far more vulnerable to damage than CDs are. There are much better ways to hold a CD collection.
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7mo ago
Waymo uses remote contractors to hint the Waymo driver when it can't figure out a path forward. They're not being remote piloted. They are however, very cagy about how often this is necessary.
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7mo ago
This is like keeping your kids inside in case something bad happens to them. If your kids never leave the house, something bad definitely happens to them, they stay kids.
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7mo ago
"A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how this is going to work. Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections. The on
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7mo ago
I think they were already in the async world and needed message passing -- the polling code was also in python async.
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7mo ago
What about a more general message-passing mailbox approach? This works really well in the Erlang/gen_server/gen_fsm world. (and in plenty of other contexts, but Erlang's OTP is still some of the best, simplest incarnation of
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7mo ago
When I was younger I was lucky enough to live somewhere rural where I got into a couple of single car accidents that I walked away from. Now my ADHD hyper focus is super attentive when driving.
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8mo ago
Who is accountable for the actions of the bot? It's not sentient, and this author is claiming zero accountability -- I just set it up and turned it loose bro, how is what it did next my fault?
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8mo ago
I sat in the back seat of a model Y with two other adults and it was extremely painful.
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8mo ago
(Always worth noting, human depth perception is not just based on stereoscopic vision, but also with focal distance, which is why so many people get simulator sickness from stereoscopic 3d VR)
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8mo ago
I can't get over Scam Altman.
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8mo ago
I lived through some of the events described therein. It's not satire.
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9mo ago
Came here to mention jj fix. It is a fundamentally more elegant way of doing things.
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10mo ago
A signature on a certificate doesn't allow CA to snoop. They need access to the private key for that, which ACME (and other certificate signing protocols in general) doesn't share with the CA.
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11mo ago
You're not going to to get a good answer to this, because 1) 99% of people here aren't lawyers and 2) the ones who are lawyers or know the law have better things to do than argue with the nonsense machine, certainly not via proxy.
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11mo ago
People exercise coordination ability like this all the time. I got stuck getting out of shoreline after a large concert with abnormal parking conditions, and when we didn't move for 30 minutes I got out of the car and directed traffic
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11mo ago
> He is not wrong, but we demand superhuman performance from our machines I have a model 3 with v3 FSD hardware. FSD is an objectively terrible driver compared to the average human.
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2y ago
It’s not the identical product but it’s fairly similar. Nespresso accepts their used pods back for recycling, and they are made out of metal and not just plastic, but they are owned Nestle and who knows how well they actually recycle that s
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2y ago
Only manual transmissions would really cut down on texting and driving.
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2y ago
If you’re going to build a powerful tool for governments don’t you want a constant reminder of how even tools for good can be corrupted by evil?
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2y ago
I haven’t worked there in 8+ years, but when I was there we all understood the object lesson and took it seriously. Palantir is the Quenya word for far-seeing, it has many uses beyond the seeing stones. Moreover the seeing stones (palantiri
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2y ago
I might agree with the decision to keep the one person alive, but right now we have limited numbers of machines and medical professionals to run them. How many people would have to die because this one person is monopolizing the one (if any
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3y ago
0x1d and 0x1e in the ascii standard exist for exactly this reason and don’t need more than one byte unlike this goofy thing.
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