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by jldugger 3y ago
> So... what, are you trying to say they do what they do as a form of charity? Trying to improve the security landscape out of the goodness of their hearts, one bug at a time? My take: - Project Zero is a public demonstration of their co
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that essentially buy all OK mortgages from the banks so long-term liabilities don't ruin banks FDMC/FNMA mostly buy up conforming loans and repackage them. In theory the bundling and government spon
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by jldugger 3y ago
Ah, yea.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Yea, autogyro (which I only know about due to this vid[1]) sounds like the answer to OP's question, but that would not (and clearly _did not) save this Chinook from what happened. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei
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by jldugger 3y ago
At least you're eventually consistent ^_^
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by jldugger 3y ago
> It's pretty clear from the title; it's an AR app that projects an emulator over top of your controller. It's not that clear at all if this is your take away -- its not just projecting a 2d surface emulators normally gene
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by jldugger 3y ago
IDK that we _need_ to increase state funding, but it absolutely explains the tuition trend. I don't feel particularly bad about people graduating with student debt if they have high paying jobs on the other side. What does feel bad is
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by jldugger 3y ago
> if I didn't have an appointment, it would take half an hour or so to get somebody over. It probably goes a long way to explain things if you know that Watch launched while Ahrendts was SVP of Retail at Apple. She came from Burberr
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by jldugger 3y ago
> to get feedback, in particular, about monetizing Why should I care about high dividend yield? FINRA prohibits "selling the dividend"[1], and this project seems one step removed. Not illegal or necessarily deceptive, but seems
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by jldugger 3y ago
AFAICT, Canonical's customers are cloud vendors and people who buy cloud services. The Linux desktop is, in that sense, just a hearts and minds investment for people who run linux workstations to manage their much larger linux server f
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by jldugger 3y ago
But you wont have access to wikipedia without more work, and definitely wont have google.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> UNIVERSITY NEWS: free cloud storage now available to all students and faculties. Your data are now safe on the cloud. This is a trap!
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by jldugger 3y ago
Commentator's curse in action!
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by jldugger 3y ago
> I have had conversations with non-tech people about ChatGPT/AI, but not very frequently, which led me to think, are we just in an echo chamber? Maybe, but like, ChatGPT has broken outside the echo chamber. NPR and marketplace have
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by jldugger 3y ago
Oh, and one book I rather enjoyed was Ideas That Created the Future, which is not exactly a textbook (but is probably used by the author as such) so much as a survey on the history of computer science via primary sources. Each source has a
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by jldugger 3y ago
Used textbooks can get pretty cheap when you don't need the exact edition for the problem sets. Textbooks I still have: - Operating Systems, Tannenbaum - MINIX, Tannenbaum - Computer Networks, Tannenbaum Not schoolbooks: - UNIX & L
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by jldugger 3y ago
> But then why the entire detour with race? Why not just.. well, let poor people come first? Because the state apparatus systematically oppressed people by race. If poor smart white kids succeed but smart black kids do not, this is a fai
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by jldugger 3y ago
> There's a reason why a lot of these "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" stories happened in eras where you could comfortably rent a workshop with little means and do things like solder your circuitry for a desktop compu
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by jldugger 3y ago
I'm not disputing that's what is happening, but I do find it interesting _why_ its happening. Consider a scenario where consumer demand for your product jumps rapidly. The two normal profit maximizing responses are to raise prices
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by jldugger 3y ago
Well, you have to come up with a reason for why now -- the profit motive has been there forever. There's also a question of why high margins don't induce new entrants to these markets, or why consumers responding too cleanly to hi
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by jldugger 3y ago
>They both failed their duty in nearly identical ways Once they showed up in court, one of them was unable to explain how to interpret a very basic "you should know this to practice law" case citation ("F.3d"[1]). Not
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by jldugger 3y ago
> This isn't going to go away. This decision will dog them for the entire rest of their careers. I get the impression from the events leading up to the use of GPT this is not the first time their competence led to outcomes that will
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by jldugger 3y ago
Cookie clicker is an OG in the "incremental" space. But while universal paperclips goes places, CC also goes to different, weirder places.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Why does the age of the movie have any bearing on this? Opinions vary: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05/as-regards-spo...
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by jldugger 3y ago
The film is not a mystery, it is a satire using the framing of Plato's allegory of the cave. There's no twist, its purely comedy and commentary about his antagonists and their motivations.
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by jldugger 3y ago
Yea, things get a bit more dire if you build an adversarial model where resellers are allowed to declare reputation bankruptcy.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> 6. Not accounting for seasonality Doesn't the online nature of an A/B automatically account for this?
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Two of them were defense jobs, my current job deals with the Linux kernel. I don't work on the kernel, but one of the most professionally useful talks about the Linux kernel was an engineer talking about how to use statistical tes
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by jldugger 3y ago
By way of one tiny pipeline that has to travel across an entire continent the long way, or via boat through the suez canal?
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by jldugger 3y ago
> will exceed # of destroyers that US has by 2040 Bear in mind that China has pretty much no oil and these 055 destroyer boats are diesel&gas turbine powered. And the US has been slowly winding down military presence since the Cold W

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