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by iofj 11y ago
Don't you think that the fact that webapps don't have interoperability, open interfaces, or datastructures, nor even a way to execute them under a debugger or own infrastructure or even read the files they create ... Don't yo
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by iofj 11y ago
Keep in mind that there are definitions for these terms. "near miss" means coming up on 200 meters distance between two objects if > 400 meters up, otherwise it means whatever the tower decides it means (and presumably for them
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by iofj 11y ago
The airflow would be trying to prevent a collision with the front of the wing, and a drone would simply go where the wind blows. Which is to say if a drone flew straight for an airplane wing, it would fly around the wing and suddenly explod
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by iofj 11y ago
From another post by a Xoogler: [1]The new building was a new-style REWS abomination with impressive public spaces to walk through on the way to totally open offices with no cube walls (as opposed to the 4' walls around the 12 person c
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by iofj 11y ago
Big problem in this way of looking at this: energy is measured in Joules, not in Watts. So this is not a fair comparison. Yes Lee was pretty cheap energy-wise to "run" during the game itself, but needed 150W or so constantly for 3
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by iofj 11y ago
The answer for most of these problems where humans say "humans do X and X is difficult because ..." is either : 1) it's not complex at all. 2) same as 1, with "in 99.99...% of the cases" appended to it. Most of the
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by iofj 11y ago
The EU does passport checks on many internal travel services. It's not that there truly are no ways to travel without showing passports, but there's very few. Well on the continent you can just take a car, although with the refuge
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by iofj 11y ago
The patents identified there seem like they're on very loose footing. Firstly they're all from halfway the previous decade ... about 50 years after voice recognition was invented (and cute detail: even their client-server voice pa
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by iofj 11y ago
I have always wondered how patents and copyright apply to deep learning networks. It is pretty obvious that the NMIST deep learning convolution network uses the same algorithm patented in letter separation patents by OCR companies. And yet
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by iofj 11y ago
But all that is even worse. It doesn't help for the fundamental problem : mortgages are losing money slowly and (I just checked) corporate loans and bonds are losing money a bit faster. If the government owns those loans, once their lo
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by iofj 11y ago
So apparently the government has fixed matters. One starts with a big risks banks would go bankrupt as a result of an asset bubble. One gets the government to fix things using an unlimited supply of government spending. Stir thoroughly, and
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by iofj 11y ago
That's not the worst of it. Currently interest rates do not cover the risk of non-payment. If you calculate out, at the standard default rate, plus risk-free interest rates, plus a certain amount to do all the admin work on a mortgage.
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by iofj 11y ago
Chargebacks have nothing to do with credit limits. If you send a transaction online (which any fixed terminal would always do), it will be checked against credit limits. Chargebacks are different. Chargebacks are when the customer alleges t
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by iofj 11y ago
This is economics, not physics. Since we have institutions like the Fed and "fiscal policy" (where and if it differs from "government spends more money NOW") you cannot have a widely accepted economic theory without infl
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by iofj 11y ago
Keep in mind that that doesn't just result in more costs : it results in limits on scaling. Suppose you are on S3 and you can serve a customer x Mb/$. Now you're limited to products that you can charge more for. Suppose you g
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by iofj 11y ago
So does the security track record of large-scale java software ... The only conclusion I've ever really drawn from software analysis is that large scale software written by armies of programmers is full of security problems. As soon as
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by iofj 11y ago
Better demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqhBL9eEts#t=1m14 I love the questions idea.
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by iofj 11y ago
There is a large cohort of programmers that don't understand map/filter/reduce. They love Go (and C) for not allowing it and forcing everyone to think purely imperatively. Go makes it an enormous effort to make something comp
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by iofj 11y ago
There's a legal order of compliance. You don't get to break the law because you agree to a contract that stipulates you're going to break the law. In this case, I bet the interpretation would be that if a piece of software re
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by iofj 11y ago
Testing a gold bar's electrical conductivity will easily tell the difference between a real and tungsten filled gold bar. So will it's capacitance. Given the simplicity of this test (touch one or two wires to the bar and measure)
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by iofj 11y ago
You just told a lot of people that there's no difference between them and a garbagemen. I think you're pushing the point that unless you own a company, you're not "equal" to the people that do (and one assumes you d
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by iofj 11y ago
Well, it costs their customers money.
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by iofj 11y ago
> Are you serious? Would you base your research career on software that you don't trust? I wouldn't. I guess you haven't seen the quality of academic code recently. The choices are basing your credibility on slow badly wri
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by iofj 11y ago
Ditto for math libraries, machine learning libraries + tools, statistics calculations and matrix multiplier kernels. Hell, I'd take a 1% chance of blowup for a 10% speedup any day.
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by iofj 11y ago
But that is actually one of the worst truths I've ever learned. I know several people who have this problem to various degrees. And yes, they don't really seem in control, at least not all of the time. Even if they are consciously
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by iofj 11y ago
> Who's going to pay for the research needed to prevent a pandemic? Actually given that this is a real threat, someone will. Even if only to save themselves. And because they'd have extreme problems if they saved only themselve
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by iofj 11y ago
This is not the advantage that a democracy gives. A democracy makes it impossible to fuck any group that's sufficiently large to either be a majority or able to team up with another minority and make a majority. You won't realize
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by iofj 11y ago
Because the world economy is currently overproducing (more supply than demand) to prevent prices from falling, these ships (esp. oil tankers) are being "transformed" into storage. Either by taking a longer path, or by outright idl
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by iofj 11y ago
One can only hope so. Or that they have some other major disadvantage. This is going to prevent a large amount of people from earning a living. Additionally it's going to kill a decent segment of SMBs who do truck driving and cargo tra
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by iofj 11y ago
Having started out, during studies, as a tech support agent for an ISP, as I imagine a lot of people have here, companies don't like support calls either. The vast majority are either dumb (trivial problem like misspelling username), u

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