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by grlass 5y ago
also, human failure modes are better understood, and can be better anticipated by e.g. you can still have a somewhat predictive mental model of how a swerving drunk drive might behave. We don't have a good frame of reference for how ma
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by grlass 5y ago
Internet archive link for people who can't access the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20211001190851/https://techcrunc...
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by grlass 5y ago
this is possible (use daily, verified again right now). There's a drop-down menu underneath the last-message received timestamp in the list of chats.
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by grlass 5y ago
Worth highlighting the Open Book Project [1], an open source e-reader hardware design and software stack. The design is open, and you can make your own with commodity parts. People are starting to sell PCBs, and complete devices. It has it
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by grlass 5y ago
You can see a great map of how terrible Germany's grid is compared to say France with this map [1]. Compared to France, which is so green due to high levels of nuclear, Germany has banned the building, and is compelling the decommissio
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Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)(distill.pub)
49 points by grlass 5y ago|5 comments
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by grlass 5y ago
I guess that feeds into the cultural/temporal ambiguities of "what is new york?" and "what is a mayor". New York could be the state, and mayor could just be a word that means leader of an area. Perhaps that is getti
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by grlass 5y ago
this wouldn't be covid-19 vaccine, rather a vaccine for another disease. We absolutely do not have any data on the efficacy of any covid-19 vaccine after a decade (or more than 18 months or so) yet.
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by grlass 5y ago
The source also notes that: > In debian 9, I get 't=ffab' in the search url instead. Running on debian, I also see this, though I haven't tested on another distro. Is this the OP's distro too?
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by grlass 5y ago
"The mirrors guiding this light, made of sandwiched layers of silicon and molybdenum, are ground so precisely that, if scaled to the size of Germany, they would have no bumps bigger than a millimetre" < https://www.e
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by grlass 5y ago
Another related view on this, especially Chapter 6, is Chapter 18 of Scott Aaronson's "Quantum Computing since Democritus" [1], that discusses some interesting stuff you can do with SSA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by grlass 5y ago
For those interested in reproducible builds, the gitian [1] project is a fairly simple VM which sets the up the necessary environment for doing this sort of thing. The tooling and community around reproducible builds is growing all the time
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by grlass 5y ago
I prefer m.xkcd.com because the alt-text is easier to access
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by grlass 5y ago
This blogpost [1] by security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis suggests that the false positive rate could be very high: [1] https://pseudorandom.resistant.tech/obfuscated_apples.html
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by grlass 5y ago
calling resized thumbnails metadata is a bit of a stretch imo. Surely that's just the data, but resized?
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by grlass 5y ago
The book Halting State by Charlie Stross (2007) [1] had an interesting self driving car model, where it was autonomous on simple roads like highways/motorways, and a human driver took over remotely for more complex city streets. Of cou
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by grlass 5y ago
I have some contacts who work for organisations use it instead of Slack for SMEs of 100-1000 employees. Unsure what their billing looks like, but it works pretty well for them apparently.
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by grlass 5y ago
one of the founders and current CEO Jason Citron had a previous org called OpenFeint, which: > was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other
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by grlass 5y ago
Not in the Unicode guidelines as they currently stand ':). They are very explicit that this is not permitted [1]. Also, RE :poop: 1. Huffman encoding philosophy - encode frequently used symbols using fewer bytes. 2. Standards are help
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by grlass 5y ago
Yes, and emoji came from emoticons, meeting a need to express more complex ideas. Unicode adopted emoji after they were popularised.
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by grlass 5y ago
RE point 4, I believe that this was initially a descriptivist rather than prescriptivist step. People were using emoticons, showing that emoji might be desirable. Some cell phone manufacturers/carriers added their own emoji [1]. They
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by grlass 5y ago
would need to subject oneself to the pushy notifications, whims of Brendan Eich, and the dubious approach of the BAT cryptocurrency [1], but the Chromium based Brave browser on Android has a built in ad-blocker. I think Opera might have on
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by grlass 5y ago
Additionally, this is about encouraging gradual shifts by reallocating funding. It's not an instant global ban. Well designed incentives can work better than violence.
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by grlass 5y ago
Random doesn't mean unweighted. Choose a number at random from this list [5, 10, 5, 12, 8, 5].
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by grlass 5y ago
Not to mention the people who design many of the machines that TSMC use in their plants: ASML. "The mirrors guiding this light, made of sandwiched layers of silicon and molybdenum, are ground so precisely that, if scaled to the size of
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by grlass 5y ago
Indeed, thank for the post! +1 on org-roam, and may I add org-roam-server, which visualises that graph in the browser very nicely, in an interactive way: < https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server >
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by grlass 5y ago
I've been using org-roam for my research for a couple of months now, which has a lot of overlap. The org-roam-server visualisation are really useful for me, since it makes it easier to see what areas have sparsity in them and should be
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by grlass 5y ago
Toffler's book Future Shock has some interesting discussion about advanced production techniques allowing high degrees of bespoke customisation with very little additional costs beyond a generic production line. We're still a long
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by grlass 5y ago
It gets me thinking about community agency in technology. Large scale consumer technology has a lot of central planning in it, by nature of how specialised the skills required to produce many aspects of it are. But central planning has its
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The Making of the Kosher Phone (2014)(blog.assafnativ.com)
47 points by grlass 5y ago|70 comments

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