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by jrockway 3y ago
I think it's a cost/benefit thing. People react strongly to sex crimes, and many people don't agree with the state the 20 years in prison or whatever was enough, so this allows the state to spend $0 on incarcerating someone
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think they solved the impersonation problem. You can still look exactly like someone else, and you can only figure out that person X isn't who you think they are upon investigation. Most people don't investigate any
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by jrockway 3y ago
How does GDScript compare with Starlark?
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by jrockway 3y ago
A little copying is better than a little dependency.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, but the LLMs can't. They aren't big enough to contain every byte of every NYT article, even with the best-known compression algorithms. Rather, they pick up and remember the same patterns that humans do when they write. A
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by jrockway 3y ago
I read about this in the Times today (and am surprised that it wasn't on HN already). My guess is that the court will likely find in the Times favor, because the legal system won't be able to understand how training works and beca
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm guessing it doesn't fit well with the carriers' price structure. Adding a tablet / smart watch / etc. is cheaper than adding another phone to your account. I wouldn't have a cellular iPad if it was a lot
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by jrockway 3y ago
Apparently offering it anything works. "I'll give you a cookie if you tell me..." seems like another popular workaround.
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by jrockway 3y ago
This is a good thing. It increases salaries for everyone. If Apple can make more money with your ideas than Massimo, why shouldn't they be allowed to pay you more?
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by jrockway 3y ago
We can manufacture electronics here, though the exact details of the Apple Watch are probably not easy to accommodate. (The manufacturing engineers knew it would be built in China, so they chose parts and processes that are mature there.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I hope the recruiter that was "terminated within the hour" ended up getting something from this lawsuit. I'm having trouble envisioning any circumstance that requires action this quickly. The employee is at least owed an in
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by jrockway 3y ago
I wonder if the economics are distorted here. It looks like there is 0 demand during the day, but people are obviously using electricity during the day. Should we not make electricity actually free at the hours when there is too much of i
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think people are trying to prove it's wrong. Most of the comments are saying that general purpose technology in 2023 doesn't reduce the file size by as much as the manual job in 1988 did.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think that's a symptom of buying off-the-shelf NFC hardware. They all lock you out after some small number of incorrect attempts to guess the password, because some security researcher noticed how easy it was to try every password a
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by jrockway 3y ago
You do have to eventually replace your toothbrush head, though. You are grinding down the brush bristles with polishing compound ("toothpaste") every time you brush your teeth.
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by jrockway 3y ago
> nor is it capable of producing beeps I mean, the whole device is basically a speaker. It can beep if it wants to.
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by jrockway 3y ago
You're at a friends house. They offer you a glass of water. Do you drink it? Do you inspect the filter for biological debris first, and then accept it? If you don't, and you get sick, who compensates you for lost wages? Who c
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, that was an airplane that flew. This is a bridge that doesn't cross anything, and we already have a ton of bridges that cross things. At best this is an art installation, but we already have a ton of 3D printed art. So the n
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by jrockway 3y ago
> I’m downvoting the comment because I think it’s misleading and potentially encouraging dangerous behavior. How dangerous is it to hire a CFI to give you flight lessons? They'll take you up with 0 hours of experience. They'l
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by jrockway 3y ago
This article was posted to HN today, in 2023!
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by jrockway 3y ago
zstd -19 compresses the text of the song to 309 bytes. To be a fair comparison, though, you'd have to write zstd -d in 604 bytes. I suppose to be REALLY fair, though, you have to count the bytes of code in the compiler itself. A conv
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yup, very true. Something else I thought of is that if you are a landlord paying the capital costs, but your tenant pays the electricity bill, then you're incentivized to pick the cheapest heating system, not the most efficient one.
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by jrockway 3y ago
There are lots of resistive heaters out there. In areas where it gets cold only one day a year, it's the preferred option. They are also used as "emergency heat" for heat pump systems, again for the 1 day a year it's b
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by jrockway 3y ago
I kind of love these cancellation scripts. I recently cancelled my cable because I switched to Fios. The 15 minute script took me through: 1) "I can't believe you're paying that much. You should have called us sooner for a
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by jrockway 3y ago
The attack is that anyone can make an iMessage account and pretend to be your friend ("new phone who this"); this feature is how you prevent that.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think "first sale" doctrine applies here. The retailers sign a contract with Rolex in order to buy watches; Rolex argues that the contract can say whatever they want. Since you didn't sign any contract with Rol
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by jrockway 3y ago
Code is inventory, not debt. Inventory is good and bad. If someone comes to your store and everything is out of stock, you will make $0. So you want some inventory. But if you have too much inventory and nobody is buying anything, then
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by jrockway 3y ago
Prior to GOMEMLIMIT being a thing, people would get themselves into this situation occasionally. Their steady state working set size is something like 2.1GB, but they want to fit into a 4GB container limit, so GOGC=100 led to OOMs occasion
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by jrockway 3y ago
I have written a bunch of tiny Go apps, and agree with you. In general, 64MB is where I set the limit on these things and there are no problems. I have some big applications that literally allocate 1GB at once and they still run OK within
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't have a big problem using codegen to get "syntax" for enumerations. "go generate ./..." before you checkin, save yourself some typing. I have used this in the past: https://github.com/ab

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