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by eesmith 7mo ago
I didn't need Abramowitz and Stegun until grad school. In the 1990s. It was a well-known reference book for people at that level, not a text book. For my undergrad the CRC math handbook was enough.
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by eesmith 7mo ago
Analogies are fun! AI is to software like particle board/chipboard is to old growth wood. Particle board didn't replace all other uses of wood. They made wood products accessible to more people. They make furniture less expensive.
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It's not a useful phrase because a "we accept AI-generated contributions" is also virtue signalling. You have no doubt heard claims that AI "democratizes" software development. This is an argument that AI use for th
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As a native English speaker I read this as two parts. If it's obvious, the response is immediate and not up for debate. If it's not obvious then it falls in the second part - "any attempt to bypass this policy will result in
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by eesmith 7mo ago
> the line for images should be aligned with the line for the act itself. Ergo you think the judge in the Facebook case was wrong to chastise Meta employees for wearing Ray Ban-Meta AI glasses, under threat of concept should they take pi
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by eesmith 7mo ago
I took your list ("The issues are internet connectivity, data retention/mining/sale, and non-local processing") as being incomplete. The examples I gave were to give examples of additional issues. There are equivalents f
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Determining where the cameras are placed and what to alert on are also important and unresolved issues. Simply getting alerts from a camera can cause people to believe that the area is a high-crime area, when it's merely a consequence
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> As I’m sure you’re aware Please do me the honor of remembering that I gave examples of monopolies and near monopolies which are not considered abusive, and linked to https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly with m
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Then you need a primer in competition and anti-trust law. The steps are to identify the relevant market and show abuse of market power - abuse as defined by antitrust law. The relevant market is not "aggregate retail spending". Th
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What is your goal here? Do you understand what malfist wrote by "near monopoly power", and agree that it's a correct description of California's anti-trust lawsuit? If not, what do you not understand? As to your new set
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Nor Niven's "Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard" - make coins out of radioactive waste. ( https://www.larryniven.net/?q=yet-another-modest-proposal-th... albeit with an SSL certificate error.)
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malfist literally wrote "near monopoly power", which is not the same thing as claiming that "Amazon is a monopoly". You asked malfist 'In what sense does Amazon have “near monopoly power”?' I answered that ques
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Looks like you've got an axe you decided to grind.
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Where "classic literature" is specifically defined as: “(B) CLASSIC WORKS OF LITERATURE.—The term ‘classic works of literature’ means the works of literature (including translations of such works)— “(i) included in the Great Books
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I still don't see how qualifying it as "government" schools is at all relevant to the topic. This bill would also apply to private schools receiving money under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Yes. And? There's no claim that Amazon is part of a price-fixing cartel or other collusion. A pure monopoly is one where there is a single seller or provider. The US grants limited-time monopoly power to a new patent holder, and USPS h
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"just an int32" I remember hearing that Zimbabwe, during its period of hyperinflation, had problems because the databases for the banking system couldn't handle a time with $100 trillion banknotes, and ATMs didn't work b
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No need to emphasize "government" -- It's an inevitable consequence of schools. Private secular schools have fights about what gets taught. Private religious schools have fights about what gets taught. Children have more righ
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Here is the Complaint of the People of the State of California about Amazon - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2022-... Section V is on Amazon's market power. Section VII is on
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by eesmith 7mo ago
In the sense described in the lawsuit. See https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2022-... for details, starting with: > The policy and spirit of the California antitrust laws are to p
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by eesmith 7mo ago
By your response, I think you've flipped the bozo bit on me. I will try again. I'm most certainly not asking for irrefutable proof. I'm asking for a concrete example of how you know, in a way that that would inform me and oth
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I fully agree with the assessment it was "reasonably well". It is not, however, something equivalent to the product of a disciplined TDD practitioner. Not even close. You write that test-first development helps protect against two
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You didn't think they were the wrong tools when you wrote it. You said "this example is simple enough that both Claude and ChatGPT can implement it using their default code environments". From what I gather, a lot of people a
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Will you be updating the text at https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern... ? As it currently says: > A significant risk with coding agents is that they might write code that doesn't work, o
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by eesmith 8mo ago
Companies are required to follow the law. These laws do not prohibit putting up political banners, but Amazon certainly cannot do whatever they want. There are laws regarding price fixing, abuse of monopoly powers, discrimination on a prote
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I think the problem-to-solve is a good one. The Google Markdown spec is very clear, with plenty of examples, and I think the problem is well-defined. I've seen entirely too many examples of how to use TDD which give under-specified toy
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The Wikipedia article points out 'native speakers have limited opportunity to meet one another except where meetings are specially arranged. For that reason, many parents consider it important to bring their children regularly to Esper
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My points though are 1) the development isn't actually using red/green TDD, and 2) the result doesn't show "really good results", including not following a very well-defined specification so doesn't work as a c
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I believe the ChatGPT code has a bug, in that it accepts three spaces or tabs before a code fence, while the Google Markdown spec says up to three spaces, and does not allow a tab there. I also see that the tests generated by ChatGPT are fa
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I know you were speaking tongue-in-cheek. Esperanto has native speakers. Shatner is not one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers > Native Esperanto speakers (Esperanto: denaskuloj [denasˈ

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