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by deschutes 3y ago
And yet this was newsworthy for the unusual number of deaths. That's pretty telling. To your broader point, yes just ignore the problem and everything will go away. That has worked so well. The folks calling for an unconditional surren
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by deschutes 3y ago
The explanation is not convincing. My guess is some kind of measurement error or one of the "load bearing nop" phenomena. By that I mean the alignment of instructions (esp branch targets?) can dramatically affect performance and c
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by deschutes 3y ago
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001387 it's not just mass but elevation. The eruption was significant in the upper atmosphere.
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by deschutes 3y ago
One wonders if European lawmakers have any idea what a business is.
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by deschutes 3y ago
The promise of AGI isn't really optimizing something mundane like widget manufacturing though surely it will be tasked with doing that. It's a rapid advancement of the frontier of knowledge. For example we dream of curing disease
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by deschutes 3y ago
The effectiveness of persuasion depends on the appeal of the idea. AGI is going to have the credibility to make very appealing claims. For an evil example, I imagine it would be easy to convince animals to eat poisoned food.
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by deschutes 3y ago
Do sub interpreters actually work with c extensions? I get the extension API has long supported it. However, I wonder if in practice extensions rely on process global state to stash information. If so, sub interpreters invite all kinds of n
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by deschutes 3y ago
Doors are part of the structure of the vehicle and must stay closed to do their job in a collision. To my understanding this is the primary if not sole reason doors lock after a few seconds in motion.
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by deschutes 3y ago
You can't eliminate the risk of data loss, only control for it. fsync is one such control. Empirically, having separate power failure domains strongly controls for the power loss risk. In the tail there are all kinds of things that wi
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by deschutes 4y ago
Who knows. It's completely uncharted territory. It's not hard to imagine how malevolent AGI could end us. The illusion of control over something that may well have incomprehensible intelligence is a joke. Tell me, what control doe
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by deschutes 4y ago
It's a common thought but from what I can tell it's probably not true. Natural gas is simply the cheapest and most scaled way of producing ammonia (which is the critical ingredient in fertilizer production). Apparently electrolysi
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by deschutes 4y ago
I was thinking of upwards price pressure on housing stock in those communities as the main negative effect. Rationale being that tech salaries are going to be significantly above incomes the local economy supports and thus tech workers are
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by deschutes 4y ago
Many made expensive decisions assuming remote work would become the norm. My guess is there is a large overlap between the bristling crowd and expensive decisions crowd. Sure remote work is good for many experienced individual tech workers
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by deschutes 4y ago
Fun stuff. Why aren't unfinished tasks gc roots?
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by deschutes 4y ago
The struct tag is an idea that's survived into approximately zero other languages. It's largely visual clutter.
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by deschutes 4y ago
Wait until you see what Apple has been at for the last 15 years.
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by deschutes 4y ago
This doesn't track at all for me. Rust provides strong guarantees around accessing discriminated unions. The net effect of which is that the code you write has the "railway style" error handling that you get with exceptions i
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by deschutes 4y ago
Making it impossible for them to operate a business in the US ought to be more than sufficient.
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by deschutes 4y ago
Let's not forget this gem https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/...
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by deschutes 4y ago
Personal emissions are framed as a moral issue by environmental activists. Those allied with the activists are perceived to be outsized users of air travel. And most air travel is non-essential. Amongst users of air travel, it is a signific
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by deschutes 4y ago
I agree. I also want to note that Tesla has treated this subject like an opportunity to market and really done nothing to deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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by deschutes 4y ago
This is exactly why level 2 systems will never be safe. The constraints set the human up to fail.
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by deschutes 4y ago
You could ask the same questions about virtually every vehicle on the road. A model x weighs in at slightly over 2.5 tons. A model y is about 2.25 tons.
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by deschutes 4y ago
I'd rather see how it's implemented. In my experience enterprisy abstractions are a lot of motion without any progress. They impede change and stymie understanding. The cynical part of me thinks that is the whole point.
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by deschutes 4y ago
Anyone can mount a wheel. Clearly the author is talking about a hypothetical vehicle where the wheel has been welded to the axle assembly. Actually replacing the tire on a wheel has practical engineering constraints that leave it best suite
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by deschutes 4y ago
Personally I've needed lots of batteries replaced and lost 1 phone to water damage. It's not at all clear to me that hermetic phone designs are the right tradeoff from a utilitarian perspective. On the other hand, if utilitarian p
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by deschutes 4y ago
More like everyone in the city thinks they're the main character.
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by deschutes 4y ago
Clearly they're in the business of something else because the product isn't very compelling when it comes to browsing and searching. You need to be able to build the code to even have a chance at that level of understanding of the
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by deschutes 4y ago
I never claimed to know anything about the subject and I don't see how you got from what I said to "check your tone". I read the thread you linked and shared my own conclusions. What I can say is that the explanation given is
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by deschutes 4y ago
`fmt::print` isn't using the uninitialized variable in your example. After correcting that, it produces a report. https://godbolt.org/z/97bo3YTbc

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