ivanbakel

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by ivanbakel 2y ago
>Strictly, it doesn't even mean that you are legally allowed to modify the source code to make it not update automatically. Most definitions of open-source (e.g. OSI) include rights to modification. Without modification and distribu
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
I think you're oversimplifying the issue. It's not important that the model cannot distinguish between people of different demographics, it's important that the model does not use demographic information in place of actual di
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
>You can't have an excess of food and famine at the same time. Sure you can. Food supply is not just a question of production, you also need logistics and will to distribute. There is currently a global food surplus, but areas of th
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
>So, farmers destroyed their crops and starved. Is that how you understand it? Wealthy farmers destroyed crops that weren't worth the money to sell, yes, and poor farmers went under. That's not a surprising idea, given that it
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
>Farmers were going bankrupt because there was so much food that they couldn't sell. And the originally-quoted passage is about farmers destroying crops as part of price controls due to overproduction. Could you provide any kind of
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
If you want close to real time performance, why go for a task table at all? You can spawn threads and track them instead provided you have the resources. If you don't have the resources, I don't see why the minor listen/notif
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by ivanbakel 2y ago
> Yeah this info, very condensed, should just be on big signs at station. ”You can just tap your credit card and travel, no need to do anything else at all”. This messaging is all over TfL stations and advertising. If you're stood
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
Wikipedia says pinnipeds are monophyletic, so there's only a single evolutionary branch they originated from. The travel question is much more interesting. Napkin math puts the distance between the polar circles at 12500 miles, the max
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
It's true that being collision-resistant is a strong enough property to make collisions unlikely, but it doesn't hold that collision resistance is a requirement for such a hash function. What is the relevance of collision resist
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
Those properties are not a direct result of a function being collision-resistant, which is a property that only makes sense in adversarial contexts. If nobody is trying to produce collisions, it doesn't matter if they're easy or h
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
But what's the relevance of collision resistance, without a meaningful attack surface?
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
You're missing the GP's point. They're claiming that scam ads pollute the ad marketplace and drive away engagement. Why click on an ad, or even pay attention to it, if there's a good chance it's a scam? And why woul
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
Forced infinite loops are still a draw, but setting up a complex-enough board state where the infinite-ness or forced-ness of a particular loop is hard for the judge to decide on will just result in a game loss. Put another way: you can try
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
The definition of bullshit used here is not the dictionary one. It more closely follows the definition from On Bullshit [0] (also cited in TFA), as content which is truth-irrelevant. Under the above definition, AIs do always produce bull
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
I think you're missing the nuance of the author. "Bullshit" is not synonymous with "wrong information", it means something that is produced while disregarding the truth. AIs don't "sometimes produce bullsh
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
>We are not relying on specifics about bar(), just the general assumption that up until the return 0, the program hasn't done anything incorrect which interferes with what we want to do. That's not qualitatively any different.
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
That's a terrible maxim. You'd forbid the Rust compiler from performing as simple an optimisation as changing: fn foo() { let x = 0; bar(); return x; } to fn foo() { bar(); return 0
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
For a one-sided, unbounded distribution when you still want to observe changes without being susceptible to outliers. If you're monitoring response timings on a server, for example, the median might be very close to 0, and it won'
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
I'm surprised Dutch ranks so opaque for reading. Opaqueness in writing, I could understand - as 't kofschip and its ruder cousin evidence, writing Dutch has always been a problem of having more graphemes than morphemes. But readin
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
What? A metric hour is 144 standard minutes - or do you imagine that a day of metric hours is 144 10 10 = 144,000 standard minutes long? A tenth of a metric hour is 14.4 standard minutes. A hundredth of a standard hour is 1.44 minutes. Bein
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
No, the fallacy comes from choosing the sample before analysing the probability. The probability a specific nurse could have such specific bad luck is very low, but there are of course many nurses, and each nurse treats many patients. Wha
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
I don't see how that follows from your link, which doesn't make a big deal of the inaccuracy of carbon dating. In fact, it says: >Radiocarbon dating works on organic materials up to about 60,000 years of age. Which would certai
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
What exactly is the intended takeaway from your comment and the provided link w.r.t. the article?
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
England has no national police force. The Metropolitan Police operate only in London (hence the name.) Christie disappeared in Surrey, which had (and has) its own territorial force, the Surrey Police. Note in particular the concern was that
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
>No. Because you cannot outweigh a wrong by another wrong. There's no balance, it only adds up on wrong. This is not in line with consequentialist thinking, so there is no logical fallacy. You're failing to consider a line of r
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
> Punishing a criminal's family _is_ perpetrating violence on innocent people What's the logical fallacy here? The point is that consequentialism doesn't object to ideas like "perpetrating violence on innocent people&
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
>Bless Elden Ring, one of the only big new games that wasn't a sequel last year. Elden Ring may not be a narrative sequel, but it is definitely a mechanical sequel in the line of From Software games stretching back to Demon Souls in
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
The .EML file opens in the Outlook email viewer, presumably? A PDF would open in either the native PDF viewer, or some sort of Outlook PDF previewer - but either way, would be more obviously third-party content than an email in the email cl
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
>That link is about users. You're misapplying its lesson if you're using it to justify not answering a developer's development question. Why do you think "users" is an inaccurate description of the role question
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by ivanbakel 3y ago
Again, I don't think this enough - because it's a well-acknowledged fact that people can't read [0] (as I said in my comment.) How many newbies are going to see a working solution, try it out, and immediately skip all the ex

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