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by gizmo686 7mo ago
This isn't a case where you need bug free software. This is a case where the frequency of fatal bugs is directly proportional to the support cost. Fix the common bugs, then write off the support for rare ones as a cost of doing busines
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
LLMs outputting code that doesn't compile is the failure mode you want. Outputting wrong code that compiles is far worse. Setting aside the problems of wrong but compiling code. Wrong and non-compiling code is also much easier to deal
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
How does a TPM stop people from lying about their age?
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
Damage scales with the 4th power of weight. From what I can find, the standard weight limit for a truck in 20 tons per axle (less when multiple axles are close together). In contrast, the average weight for a car is a bit under 4 tons (even
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
All distributions involve maintaining patch sets. The question is what the marginal burden of this particular patch is.
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
All models are wrong, some are useful. Yes, there are theoretical issues with assuming PRNGs are truly random. However, there are also theoretical issues with assuming that Newton's law of universal gravitation is true. I am confident
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
For almost all practical purposes, a decent prng is just as good as a csprng. Cryptographic security only becomes relevant in an anverserial situation. Otherwise, you would need whatever weekmess exists in the prng to be somehow correlated
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
Alternatively, we are gatekeeping basic decency behind having a diagnosed disability.
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
Dog tags are easy to replace. Microchips are not. Having a level of indirection allows the meaningful contact information to be updated as needed.
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
Also, chromosome count is not as stable as you might intuitively think. There are hominidaes alive today with 48 chromosomes. There are human men alive today without any Y chromosomes that present with standard male phenotypes without needi
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
Because kilo- already has a meaning. And both usages of kilobyte were (and are) in use. If we are going to fix the problem, we might as well fix it right.
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by gizmo686 8mo ago
I had a similar problem a few years back. Our decades old system had a poor architectural system baked in that was causing major performance issues in some cases. Fixing it within the core was straightforward, but ended up violating an assu
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
Generally speaking, liability for a thing falls on the owner/operator. That person can sue the manufacturer to recover the damages if they want. At some point, I expect it to become somewhat routine for insurures to pay out, then sue t
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
I would be surprised if that was what they were actually looking at. They are an established insurance company with their own data and the actuaries to analyze it. I can't imagine them doing this without at least validating a substanti
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
> The Hippocratic oath says that a physician should do no harm No it doesn't. Such a standard would make the practice of medicine impossible, as all treatments have some risk of harm. What is relevant to this discussion is the below
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
Germline editing is banned everywhere (with some exceptions for laboratory testing that will not result in an actual human). Nothing about this treatment is targeting the germline. Edit: Also, high cholesterol tends to become a concern for
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
That is why we do long and expensive trials before approving any medication for use. Having said that, we have we been medically lowering people's cholesterol levels for decades, and the evidence seems pretty clear at this point that i
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
High cholesterol is well documented to be heritable. Perhaps more relevantly, even if they would work, lifestyle changes have a significant patient compliance problem, which significantly reduces their effectiveness. There is a more reasona
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
It would give you a certificate chain which may authenticate the onion service as being operated as who it purports to. Of course, depending on context, a certificate that is useful for that purpose might itself be too much if an informatio
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
I've seen another type of "let projects fail" in my career done by middle managers in a large project. Essentially it takes the form of them saying "the larger project we are working under is probably going to fail. When
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
Letting people fail and letting projects fail seem fairly different to me (at least for large projects). There have been a bunch of times in my career where I've allowed people under me to "fail". Often times, an individual f
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
Even if you have deterministic LLMs (which is absolutely something that can be done), you still need to pin a specific version to get that. That might work in the short term; but 10 years from now, your not going to want to be using a model
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
It's not just a matter of publishing it under its own name. It also massively reduced the friction to do so compared to needing to run the image through an external tool and upload the result. That friction would greatly reduce the num
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
The bottleneck on research is funding. We have a glut of students wanting to go into research who don't because of how competitive the field is. We then have researchers constantly leaving the field for the same reason.
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
> What's really crazy (even by today's US standards) is how Trump and his clique speak as if he annexed Venezuela and he can do whatever he wants. Setting aside what this does to the image of the US, this also just isn't g
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
Is python performance actually relevant to AI use cases? It's my understanding that all of the actual number crunching is done with native code.
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by gizmo686 9mo ago
That is the reasoning that is most at risk here. China's tactical ability to succeed in Taiwan is not really related to America's ability to succeed in Venezuela. However, assuming the US gets away with this diplomatically, this d
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
Research papers are not literature reviews. This paper reports on the results of this study. And that study only investigated what it investigated. In the case of public health, there are a bunch of organizations that keep on top of the res
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
I don't know about Denmark, but the US CDC indicates that you can get the HPV vaccine starting at 9; with a recommendation do get it at 11 or 12. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendati
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by gizmo686 10mo ago
I have never worked on projects that give non members write access to our bug tracker. This includes both our open source project not giving the public access. And our entirely closed source internal projects not giving other developers wit

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