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by jpollock 3y ago
No? A smart board is $3000. Another teacher is $66,397. You can buy 20 boards per year for the _salary_ (ignoring benefits and other non-payroll costs) of a single teacher. https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-s
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by jpollock 3y ago
You can subscribe to Sunday Ticket without signing up for YouTube TV. See "NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube" or "NFL Sunday Ticket + NFL RedZone on YouTube"
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by jpollock 3y ago
Look into "Chaos Theory", "Control Theory" and "Damping". In particular, consider how you would damp an undesired movement by a satellite. A naive approach would be to apply thrust in the opposite direction. Ho
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by jpollock 3y ago
That's not how CI works? CI is the backend verifying that the tests pass, not that the developer has run the tests. From what I understand, requiring developers to assert they run the tests and not run them again from a clean checkout
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by jpollock 3y ago
If it's “among friends”, isn't "change the script" out of scope? You either trust the client to do the requested work, or you don't. If you can't trust the client to use the appropriate CI script version, then
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by jpollock 3y ago
Yes, but people's behavior is different if the price is included or not. This is true for all taxes. People's decision to purchase is based on the list price, not the total price, so if it is GST inclusive, buying drops even thoug
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by jpollock 3y ago
What part, tax inclusive pricing? Yes. It keeps the populace from realizing how much tax they're paying. :) No tipping? No, that's social. Workers paid a decent wage? I'm pretty sure that servers would claim they're not
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by jpollock 3y ago
If your job can be done remote, it can be done offshore for 1/10 the cost.
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by jpollock 3y ago
They weren't any less litigious, Intel sold licenses to the x86 architecture. There were several fabs that had licenses, and there were lawsuits around whether or not they were transferable. https://jolt.law.harvard.edu&#x2F
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by jpollock 3y ago
As the population goes up, the variability is likely to go down. Single people are less of a blip in the numbers. This means you can run with fewer free beds than in a low population area. For example, if you have 3.8 beds/1000 people,
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by jpollock 3y ago
This week during code reviews, I caught: 1) O(N^2) in the hottest code we have. 2) O(N^3) from someone else in the same area. 3) Filling a cache on first access - this causes the system to page (high latency!). 4) Hunting for data themselve
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by jpollock 3y ago
Sampling tests will accept a base rate of failure, and governments have a bad habit of mixing up what sampling results mean. For example take a look at NZ’s corngate where they ignored the test results… https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by jpollock 3y ago
Bank reconciliation is done using files. They will arrive randomly, typically on a multi-day lag. Then the payments are matched against the requests that were sent to the bank. The amounts _can_ and _will_ differ. I understand it gets... in
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by jpollock 3y ago
Instead of trying to define "socially important job", how about... If government is having trouble hiring people for roles they can either increase the wages paid, or enter into the housing market and include "free housing&qu
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by jpollock 3y ago
There is also this - "intent to commercialize" would preclude most third parties. "The Board should first determine whether a petitioner meets the first three criteria—standing, intent to commercialize and privy/real par
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by jpollock 3y ago
No, the board can combat "extortion" in other ways. Don't allow the initiator to _drop_ the request once started. Initiator pays all costs (I think this is already done?). Then any extortion has to happen up front, and it bec
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by jpollock 3y ago
When looking at the proposed rules, I think this is the problematic bit (search for "standing"): "The changes under consideration would make clear that the Board would discretionarily deny any petition for IPR or PGR filed b
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by jpollock 3y ago
My reading is that it's probably related to an extortion attempt where a firm went after VLSI and Intel? https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/blackmail-at-the-uspto-dir...
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by jpollock 3y ago
Thanks! I assumed "Take Action" was a simple form, and I didn't want to do that until I read what I was taking action about.
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by jpollock 3y ago
Anyone have a link to the proposed rules? I couldn't see a reference to the text in the EFF release.
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by jpollock 3y ago
I agree that MAI v Peek is crazy. I was only pointing out that the law is of the opinion that a copy is a copy is a copy, regardless of where it's made, or how long it exists for. Other decisions come into play to save us, like Authors
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by jpollock 3y ago
Copies made by search engines don't need authorization, and can be unauthorized copies. Search engines are allowed to make copies under Fair Use since they are transformative - see Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. There hasn't
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by jpollock 3y ago
The copy isn't authorized, the copy is allowed under Fair Use. There's a huge difference between the two.
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by jpollock 3y ago
Copying into RAM during training is making a copy, and can be a copyright violation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp... . However, it seems that there is a later case in the 2nd circuit: ht
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by jpollock 3y ago
https://take-profit.org/en/statistics/minimum-wages/kenya/ 2018 Living Wage Individual - 209.281 USD/Month Wages High Skilled - 567.779 USD/Month $1.50 * 40 * 4 = USD$240. See also: https:
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by jpollock 3y ago
When I use "write a function..." it produces code.
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by jpollock 3y ago
phind seems to be showing the Google search results as "Sources", rather than the actual code used as training data. Bard links to a github repo with license information.
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by jpollock 3y ago
Nifty, thanks! The code has the standard "you can't fit 24 bit or 32 bit unsigned values in an int" bug. I get the feeling this is a common bug. Probably insufficient testing in the hobby implementations used as training data
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by jpollock 3y ago
phind needed two additional prompts to get to correct code. It needed: 1) write a function in java to decode a rfc 3588 diameter header 2) 32 bit values will not fit into a java int, please fix the code. 3) 24 bit values will not fit into a
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by jpollock 3y ago
Thanks for the tip, phind is much better. Still has the "won't fit in an int" problem, but it did use byte & 0x77 to get them into ints. Amazingly, it got the field correct and in the right order! It did not reference a s

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