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Very cool. As an aside: thanks to the author for pre-rendering the latex as the page looks pretty much the same with JS on or off. Pre-render your latex! https://katex.org/
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> Samsung fridge owners can also opt to avoid the latest software update altogether. However, they would miss out on other features included in the software update, such as a UI refresh and the ability for the internal camera inside some
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> Users are largely unsure about the implications for their passkeys if they lose or break their device, as it seems their device holds the entire capability to authenticate. To trust passkeys as a replacement for the password, users ne
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Some say it's not the phone, it's the app a company makes. So is it the company that is bad? Company products and services are a result of the system of regulations. The market is a playground where companies survive, thrive, and
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> These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federa
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The Official Federal Land Records Site(glorecords.blm.gov)
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Looks like that's accurate. Deleting the png from the defs makes the svg 11kb.
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From the results in Figure 5, it appears that this would only be advantageous for long long contexts. In particular, it is slower when used with <30k token context.
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Not the main topic, but as I was in the network tab, I noticed that the page is ~3.3MB compressed, 2.4MB of which is the "Alaska Hawaiian" svg logo here: https://news.alaskaair.com/wp-content/uploads/2025
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In chrome, saving anything to your device can be blocked completely: chrome://settings/content/siteData Here's an extension to block at a per-site granularity (despite it saying cookies, it blocks it all including l
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Referenced NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons...
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paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/9/10/498
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Key paragraph: > However, a small handful of models such as Alibaba’s Qwen and DeepSeek are most popular for inference, with most other models only sporadically called upon. This leads to resource inefficiency, with 17.7 per cent of GPUs
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If I could measure only two things when hiring but I got an exact measurement of them, they would be initiative/drive and interest. In my experience, those who are truly interested in something and have an innate need to get things don
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Apologies. What I mean to highlight is that although a mistake in filing may lead to the IRS rectifying the mistake by sending/requesting the error balance, there are other possible effects, including civil and criminal liabilities. Th
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Yes, but tax filers have potential civil and criminal liability risk if they make a mistake. Presumably much less if one pays more than the IRS calculates is owed. Essentially both the IRS and tax filers verify correctness of the tax filer&
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Both of these are just absolutely atrocious: https://tidbits.com/uploads/2025/10/iOS-Liquid-Glass-Reduce-...
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Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language(kaitai.io)
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I've often wondered about where the lines would be for a similar issue in the USA: > CFIUS oversees transactions that might give foreign entities control of U.S. businesses. This includes mergers, acquisitions, or takeovers. It also
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Immix: A Mark-Region Garbage Collector (2008) [pdf](steveblackburn.org)
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I think other responses here may miss an important line of thought. There seems to be confusion around the differences between bug and correct. In the referenced study on binary searches, the Google researchers stated that most implementati
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The OTA car updates, the OS's doing stuff we don't want, the ads on phones and websites, buying something on a new website knowing you're immediately put on an email list that you'll immediately unsubscribe from... It&#x
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As another comment notes, "tens of millions" implies a maximum company value of ~$200 million. Seems low. I wonder if it's because it being a foreign company was valuable because it wasn't subject to as many US laws.
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> As humans, we care about forming true beliefs and avoiding false beliefs. We want to know, understand, get things right. We want to avoid cognitive error and ignorance. These are our twin epistemic aims. Unfortunately, I think there&#x
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It seems that anytime a company sells a product that can connect to the internet, they can't help it, they have to attempt to exploit that to their advantage over the consumer. It's why I attempt to prevent all devices from connec
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> ...How many hours do you spend staring at a screen, looking at something on the internet? I’m guessing countless hours. Maybe double-digit hours in some cases. It’s not your fault. > ...We are slaves to a system we didn’t create. &g
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> “‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. > .... > Bray told the outlet that the family were rebooked for Thursday evening but were in the dark about why
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I'm not proposing that all guardrail responsibilities be shifted to the insurer. Just the "medically necessary" provision. Doctors would still have a Duty to Code Services Accurately and a Duty to Maintain the Medical Record
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Similar to Chesterton's Fence. We should probably learn CS from the least abstraction to the highest. So that when the abstraction breaks, we know where to look to understand why.
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Health insurance companies are not immediately insolvent because they 1. pay out claims slowly and/or 2. deny or downcode claims outright? Really? That to me would imply that doctors/patients are submitting a huge amount of incorr

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