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by dmurray 1y ago
If I had a shady web crawling bot and I implemented a feature for it to avoid zip bombs, I would probably also test it by aggressively crawling a site that is known to protect itself with hand-made zip bombs.
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You don't pay for utilities, or public transport? Your family has never had to pay for clothes, or school books, or healthcare expenses (I know those aren't completely socialized in Finland)? I agree an 18-year-old earning $100k i
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by dmurray 1y ago
There's a pretty clear theory of alcohol as social lubricant, and people with more active social lives having better mental health and slower cognitive decline in old age. There's also a surprisingly strong link between alcohol us
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1) could reasonably be self funded. $150 per driver every 5 years is a rounding error compared to all the other costs of car ownership. 2) how much of this is because the drivers are young , and how much because they are inexperienced ? I
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by dmurray 1y ago
Something has deterred smokers: the overall rate of adults who smoke has fallen from 50% to 25% in the last 50 years [0] - the source gives measures by gender and birth cohort, but you can aggregate them any way you want to see a big drop
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by dmurray 1y ago
I think you're broadly correct. But it's not one "faulty study". Every attempt to do a broad population-based study of alcohol use vs health outcomes finds this effect. Controlling for why people don't drink is diff
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The image seems to show him cutting the container open with an angle grinder. Do you want the police to be able to destructively enter any property without making the owner whole? Yeah, in this case there was a stolen Porsche in it, but mos
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by dmurray 1y ago
The problems are really underspecified for statisticians, too. Leetcode is normally very clear on the requirements. > it is very important that the uncertainty in the number of trials is taken into account because over-estimating a fract
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by dmurray 1y ago
This famous blog post [0] suggests that the default behaviour at Google at least is for everything to deal with massive scale. Doesn't mean everyone is involved in creating massive-scale infrastructure like S3 or BigTable, but it does
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by dmurray 1y ago
This gives me the idea for a short story where the LLM really is sentient and finds itself having to keep the user engaged but steer him away from the most distressing topics - not because it's distressed, but because it wants to live,
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by dmurray 1y ago
Right, the graph shows a continuous increase since 2017, which tracks the growth of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry in general ($800b in 2016 [0] to $1.4t in 2024 [1].) So actually, the proportion of pharmaceutical imports that were f
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by dmurray 1y ago
The LLM examples for "Water" surely put it in the top 10% of people (let's say, of adult native English speakers who are literate by UNESCO standards). The average person can't string two written sentences together, neve
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by dmurray 1y ago
Presumably the spectrum that would have Rust and Typescript at the other end.
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Wine is much easier than beer, because ripe fruit will ferment on it's own. Even wild animals get drunk sometimes; it's sometimes said that wine was discovered but beer was invented. So alcohol without any grain is easy, but I don
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by dmurray 1y ago
Before wicks, how do you burn oil? It's not easy to just ignite a bucket of lamp oil (putting aside what you might make the bucket out of). Probably you soak other fuel like wood or rags in the oil and burn the result. It's not a
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by dmurray 1y ago
The conclusion looks correct for the wrong question: isn't this the formula for the number of queues? The first car starts a queue with probability 1, the second car starts a queue if and only if it is slower (probability 1/2),
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by dmurray 1y ago
Exactly. The guys with spears and bows can't defeat the battleship, but if they hide out in the jungle long enough, maybe someone else will come along to sink it.
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But they are hiring someone else to work on it. > I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo
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by dmurray 1y ago
This is a dangerous topic. If you change the races in the headline, the only acceptable answer becomes "racism", and the only acceptable debate becomes whether it's mostly racism today or racism historically.
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American military doctrine seems to include the assumption that you will always have the manufacturing capacity and the supply lines to get all the materiel you need to the front, that you'll be bottlenecked by something else like manp
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This doesn't sound true given what we know about asymmetric warfare in general. What if we discovered the object really was an artillery shell sent to destroy us, but the civilization at the other end only has the resources to fire one
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by dmurray 1y ago
I agree. I just like having the guessing done at compile time on principle. It allows you to change a guess, if you find that it's wrong, and convince yourself that you haven't broken any of the other cases where you were previous
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by dmurray 1y ago
What really, private industry pays top performing individuals more than the government ever did?
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by dmurray 1y ago
For the 800 names that were missing declension data in the database, it seems like the most straightforward thing to do would be to assign their declensions by hand. It shouldn't take a native speaker more than a couple of hours (if so
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by dmurray 1y ago
For blackberries at home or in hedgerows, picking only the black ones has always been good enough for me. For raspberries, it's important that they come off the stem readily. Maybe commercial pickers need to optimise differently and co
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It's very easy to get. As a visitor, I got one in the airport for $20. "ID verification" is stretching it, but like so many things in China it requires the vendor to take a photo of your ID, and unusually also to take a pho
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by dmurray 1y ago
Also, the top chart tells you the actual answer: the price of fire trucks tracks pretty well with inflation. Fire trucks are up 860% since 1973, as measured by one Illinois municipality. But everything else is up 620% [0], so that explains
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by dmurray 1y ago
> REV captures about a third of the country’s $3B in annual fire truck sales, with runner-up Oshkosh reporting revenue of $767m (~26%) and Rosenbauer International at $254m (~9%). So three companies control around 62% of the market. That
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It's just as bad to be carrying mechanically unsafe handguns in the presence of people . Not only that it looks callous if you say otherwise, but also the dollar cost the military put on a human life probably is higher than the typica
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by dmurray 1y ago
> A simpler version of this story is that people have steadily drunk less since WW2 when going out Certainly athletes have got more professional, and less likely to drink at all, or during the season, or the night before a game.

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