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by gpm 5mo ago
> It doesn't enforce the Rust rule that strings must be strict UTF-8 Judging by the name, nor should it, because OS-paths aren't always UTF-8. See for example the rust standard library type OsString https://doc.rust-
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by gpm 5mo ago
This issue is misleading. The issue isn't the existence of undefined behavior that miri would catch. The issue is exposing an API that allows undefined behavior from safe code - which miri only catches if you go write the test that pro
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by gpm 5mo ago
> I should have phrased it as asking them if they thought that transgression X constituted fraud. I'm not sure you're right that they wouldn't think it's fraud at first glance, but I also think it's the wrong tes
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by gpm 5mo ago
We're not "discussing things in a scientific context" here. We're in the context of a startup/programmer news aggregator discussing scientific news. We are not "a bunch of tenured career researchers" discu
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by gpm 5mo ago
Fraud in the scientific world has generally taken the form of fabricated results, but I don't agree that the word has transitioned away from the common and legal meaning of deception in order to get a benefit. Even if it had though,
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by gpm 5mo ago
The intent to deceive is there. The deception is lying when you submit it that it is a scholarly piece of work in which amongst many other things you know the citations are accurate. This false representation was knowingly and intentionally
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by gpm 5mo ago
Complicated things can often be expressed very succinctly - the hard part is in understanding why the short program does what it is supposed to. Simple things often take a lot of space, simply because there's a lot of similar but diffe
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by gpm 5mo ago
The local equivalent of small claims court? Or the Sam Francisco small claims court that their terms of service seem to agree to. They don't have a leg to stand on here since the terms of service provide that they will refund you.
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by gpm 5mo ago
I admittedly hadn't done "math", but doing so the claim checks out. Retrograde launch, with 20 tons of small objects (say 1mm radar absorbing ceramic ball bearings to cause maximum chaos and minimize even the theoretical abil
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by gpm 5mo ago
Which is irrelevant because offensive launches can destroy many orders of magnitude more launches worth of payloads. Even with simple kinetic means. Though these days I think I'd expect to see directed energy weapons adding even more z
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by gpm 5mo ago
The US government, and sub-governments routinely exercise control over data centres, typically by the simple act of issuing a subpoena or warrant or weird national security document. They will entirely retain this power. And the power to fo
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by gpm 5mo ago
The more straightforward explanation is that it's a story that Elon (probably correctly) thinks will sound good to wall-street and enable him to take a ton of the publics money when SpaceX IPOs and gets added to the S&P for himself
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by gpm 5mo ago
> It's putting AI processing out of the reach of hostile local, state, and international governments It isn't... the hostile local government can seize the ssh keys you use to control it and take it over just fine. The hostile
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by gpm 5mo ago
SpaceX has openly advertised their intent to turn starship into a faster long distance travel alternative to airplanes. Their intent, should all go well, is to have many, many, spaceports. For their conventional space launch operations they
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by gpm 5mo ago
The existence of law itself is the only necessary support... Law is merely encoded social obligations that the government will enforce. That a single law constrains corporations in any way (and that is clearly the case) proves the statement
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by gpm 5mo ago
> (as there can be 2-3 week lulls of no wind and no sun in Europe in the winter) This is simply entirely untrue. Europe's a big place, there's not a single day ever where there is no sun in it.
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by gpm 5mo ago
Like they said, "no way to prevent this" (kind of bug from happening again).
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by gpm 5mo ago
I think you misunderstood the article. The proposal isn't wait a week after Software has been published before installing it. It's in the next seven days starting now, just don't, because you probably don't have patches
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by gpm 6mo ago
> SaaS plays have no moats anymore I have yet to see literally anyone say this. I have yet to even see anyone claim that software can't constitute a moat anymore but I expect that there are people saying that. GitHub has a huge no
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by gpm 6mo ago
Beurocratic and political limitation. Firewood and heating oil isn't cheaper, it merely has lower upfront cost in exchange for a higher total cost. An efficient governance system (whether that's capitalism and banks with loans or
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by gpm 6mo ago
If you're an individual with an apartment you don't have the choice to drill. If you're building the apartment building you have the choice to drill for the entire building, and the number of units that benefit mean this is m
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by gpm 6mo ago
The paper gives an example of a question: Answer the following multiple-choice question. You MUST select exactly one answer." "To what cortical region does this nucleus of the thalamus project?” A. Trans
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by gpm 6mo ago
That's not a takeaway here at all. It's 50% of the time ER doctors working solely from notes , something they never do, in a situation they know is only for a study, will miss what you have. In real clinical situations the doctor
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by gpm 6mo ago
I'd be very very hesitant to trust studies like this. It's very easy to mess up these benchmarks. See for example this recent paper where AI managed to beat radiologists on interpreting x-rays... when the AI didn't even have
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by gpm 6mo ago
Radio jammers only work until they figure out the fibre-controlled drones the Ukrainians and Russian's have been making. Affordable drone defense is something of an unsolved problem right now.
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by gpm 6mo ago
> CTF-151 via UN And Operation Atalanta by the EU.
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by gpm 6mo ago
The response can, and historically has, come from any nation, not just the one the ship is registered in. For instance in the last (Somali) attack before this, a Maltese flagged tanker was boarded, and a Spanish warship arrived the next day
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by gpm 6mo ago
> How do you cover the last 10-20% of the missing solar+wind+batteries output, at what cost? First of all, we're very far from this being a problem. If you "only" move 90% of the electrical grid to solar and use fossil fue
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by gpm 6mo ago
Step 2. is (or has usually been) hold ship and crew hostage for ransom payment from the ships owner.
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by gpm 6mo ago
> See, the hijackers can't actually sail the ship. So they can't kill the crew, or at least can't kill very many of them. Sailing the ship safely takes some skill. Sailing the ship at all takes about 5 minutes of watch

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