deadbeeves

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by deadbeeves 3y ago
If the argument is "the data controlled by this company could be used by an incompetent judiciary system to punish innocent people, therefore this company shouldn't exist", then you should go live in the wilderness away from
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Exactly, so I'll reiterate: if all you know is that setting A is opt-out and that user B has that setting turned on (i.e. in its default value), it's incorrect to say that the user has opted into the setting, because you don'
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That jury would have been equally swayed if the sample had come directly from me.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>pretty bold claim I don't think so. How would that even work? It's not much different from framing someone of a crime just by knowing their blood type. >we likely wouldn't hear very loudly the stories of innocent folks
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I might be wrong, but I don't think a genetic sequencer is something that's easy to build in your garage without anyone knowing. So if loose hair is not PHI but the information that the owner of that hair has or not a genetic diso
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
What a strange thing to say. If you committed a crime and the genetic information you gave to some company leaks, and someone is able to use that information to prove you're guilty, what sends you to jail is the fact that you committed
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That's a misuse of those terms. If you're presented with a switch that's in the the on position you don't switch it off, it's arguable that you've opted to leave it on. If you never realized the switch existed
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
This isn't an architecture, though. It's an instruction set. What if the JIT generates new instructions dynamically and initially there are no AVX512 instructions but later on in the process' lifetime there are?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Well, but what if it doesn't? Also, who's supposed to set that bit? The programmer, or the compiler? In either case it's possible to set it wrong.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Because the binary might contain a JIT, or even more simply, it might load a DLL with new code.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
In reply to your other comment that was flagged: Well, the reason why the Holy Grail killer rabbit is funny is precisely because a rabbit could never jump onto a man's neck and nibble his head off. If killer rabbits were actually a ser
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
When I'm aiming for elegance, I like to define NAND as an N-ary function: nand() = false nand(x, ...) = !(x && !nand(...)) That eliminates the problem of needing arbitrary constants.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I was thinking the same. Reading about von Neumann is humbling. I don't think Einstein is overrated. The ideas he put forward were pretty out-of-the-box. von Neumann was for sure a more diverse thinker, but it's hard to argue that
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I think you're missing my point. I'm saying they shouldn't be allowed to give their incentives higher priority. They should be more tightly scrutinized so that their incentives don't matter.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Note that I didn't say that either didn't make sense or was grammatically incorrect, just that it sounds very strange. I don't think your examples are that great, since you're listing requirements that "you" mu
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That's not a list of prohibitions, though. It's a single prohibition: drink and drive is the one thing you shouldn't do.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
"Any" and "all" do have similar meanings, but you can't always simply replace "any" with "all" and retain the same meaning every time. "From any floor, you can use the fire escape to reach t
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Can you remember a single time in your personal life when someone has given a list of prohibitions joined by "and" instead of "or"?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
The thing is, almost every time when people put negative conditions (that you must not meet in order to qualify for something else) every condition is disqualifying, and that idea is expressed with "or". Which of these sounds more
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Are you saying that it's common for store owners to be set on fire by shoplifters, or is your example inappropriate for being an outlier and not representative of what most shoplifting is like?
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
It seems to me that the incentives of police departments should be irrelevant, and that an organization with that much responsibility should not be able to simply refuse to give out at least certain types of information.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
1. What's wrong with pimping per se? Fundamentally, a pimp is an just an intermediary that finds clients for people who sell a service. How is it different from an agency? Yes, pimping can involve violence, but the reason why is that t
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>So sometimes they strengthen it, sometimes they weaken it, and so I'm not sure it appropriate to presume malice. If you had a dog that sometimes licked you and sometimes bit you, would you let it sleep with you? Neither NSA nor NIS
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>the vertical axis is literally labeled "Quality" And the labels on that axis make it perfectly clear what they mean by "quality". It's how much of the spectrum they preserve at that bitrate. If "quality&quo
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
I mean, you called PCM lossy because it quantizes the signal. What lossless recording method exists, if PCM is lossy? If the answer is none, then it seems you have a word for something that doesn't and can't possibly exist, and a
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
That graph does not describe codec efficiency. It's explaining how the various codecs preserve the frequencies of the raw signal at various bitrates: Some codecs only work at low bitrates and preserve only narrow bands of frequencies.
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Well, my OS lets me configure the output device and specify the sampling rate. I would think that if I configure it at 44.1 kHz and I'm playing back some ripped CD and the system tries to play a notification sound, that whatever that s
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
>PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step No, it's a lossy encoding step. Losing at least some of the information of a performance when you record it is unavoidable. For PCM to be a lossless, when you play it b
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
You won't build technical or design expertise, but I can see it being something that's easy enough to do as a side gig or as an experiment to see what it's like to publish a game on Steam or wherever. You can use that to deci
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by deadbeeves 3y ago
Arguably that should be even easier to make. Find a good artist who's willing to take a bit of a gamble, program some excuse gameplay, usually some sort of puzzle game, and you're pretty much set. If your audience knows what they&

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