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by joosters 3y ago
Probably a dumb question, but is this trained by the use of lots of inputs of similar objects, or is it 'just' estimating by the look of the input image? Like, if you have an image of a car, viewed at an angle, you can gauge the s
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by joosters 3y ago
Please don't insult the 2014 government safety film 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'.
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by joosters 3y ago
And: > But BYD is also a car maker in its own right Yeah, it's actually the largest electric car manufacturer in the whole world.
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by joosters 3y ago
IMO, LaTeX is just a way for computer scientists to keep on programming when they've finished their research project and are writing it up.
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by joosters 3y ago
What the article needed was a comparison with 'normal' white paint, otherwise reporting 99.6% is not meaningful. The linked story https://newatlas.com/materials/super-white-paint-teflon-98-s... mentions that
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by joosters 3y ago
'I described them as knockoff Air Pods' If Facebook didn't immediately block sales of items self-described as knockoff <whatever brand>, they'd be (rightly) criticised for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods
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by joosters 3y ago
> AI can now read through SEO fluff text and ads and present the user with the information they are looking for. So? Google can do that too. They just choose not to, for profit reasons. AI can (presumably) also do that. But will AI
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by joosters 3y ago
A picture is a record of a point in time and you can’t change the past. I don’t think either of those things are true. Both can be changed, and are often changed. Much of what we ‘know’ of the past is wrong.
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by joosters 3y ago
It's surprising that "least requests" is still so less commonly used than random or round-robin. It's a simple metric and yet it handles work-sharing remarkably well, without any need for servers to communicate their loa
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by joosters 3y ago
Nowhere in YouTube’s voluminous terms of service does it say that you have to watch the ads. Why are you defending a multi billion dollar company from something that the users aren’t obliged to do in the first place?
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by joosters 3y ago
That always felt counterproductive to me. I knew people who did this and they still stared at the adverts. In fact, without the sound, you are probably focusing more on the ads, trying to figure out what is going on.
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by joosters 3y ago
See also: https://twitter.com/flavorflavtime/
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by joosters 3y ago
I think the record is pretty good for banks switching behaviour after being fined for a specific failing. They do know that if they get caught doing the exact same thing again, the punishment will be more costly. It's far cheaper (and
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by joosters 3y ago
Not really. How on earth could that ever be implemented?
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by joosters 3y ago
The problem is, a null-terminated string is a very simple concept for an ABI. A string with a length count seems simple, but there is a big step up in complexity, and you can't just wistfully imagine effortlessly passing String objects
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by joosters 3y ago
A bit off-topic, but it is refreshing to see a news article that can be bothered to link to the full report!
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by joosters 3y ago
You are not a lawyer.
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by joosters 3y ago
This sounds like a situation that would benefit from using an approach like all-pairs testing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_testing Basically, if you have N different features (let's assume they are al
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by joosters 3y ago
Thank you! That looks very useful. The associated program 'ansi2txt' could also solve a similar problem for me from the other way round: I tend to have grep aliased to 'grep --color=always', simply because often I'm
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by joosters 3y ago
It would be nice to be able to have something like 'colorless <command I want to pipe to less>', and the 'colorless' command will run the given program, fake a TTY so that the isatty() check passes and it outputs c
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by joosters 3y ago
How can they claim 'it is secure as long as one person forgets their secret' and 'we need to protect against sybil attacks (so sign in with your github account)' ? If the first claim was true, why should they care if the
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by joosters 3y ago
Surely some of these costs / economic activities are just like the parable of the broken window? For example, the meal makers. Construction works buy their lunches from shops nearby - that's great for those shops. But how is this
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by joosters 3y ago
a defacto core tenet of UNIX is composability of disparate programs that do one thing well? cron goes completely against that principle - after all, you can schedule jobs with the 'at' command, and to make a repeating task, you
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by joosters 3y ago
No-one is going to stop selling games in the UK, they would be leaving money on the table if they did. Instead, they might move development away from the UK. Bad for developers, sure.
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by joosters 3y ago
I was visiting the V&A museum the other day and came across some stone typography carvings by Eric Gill - they include A-Z, 0-9 and also just &. I wonder if this is why? (However, the ampersand is still very much separate from the a
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by joosters 4y ago
The difficulty here, as I understand it, is that Trump could have plenty of reasons for paying off someone, not all of which are to do with political campaigning. For instance, he could argue that he paid off SD to avoid damage to his relat
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by joosters 4y ago
The researchers didn't complain about the bounty, AFAIK.
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by joosters 4y ago
Clever idea! I wonder why they chose to tell the users when they registered, instead of waiting? Could they have gone ahead and let them place orders for DDOS attacks, to capture more proof of the users' criminal intent, or would that
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by joosters 4y ago
A brief history of APFS version numbers , more like. Doesn't seem to tell us much about APFS as a thing, other than saying 'there was a bug in this version'.
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by joosters 4y ago
The political pressure (on crypto and banking) is also because of fraud. If you are transferring money via a blockchain with no KYC, it's going to be hard to get a legitimate banking partner to be happy with that. Now when you say &#

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