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by kalenx 8y ago
Worse than that: he threatened to sue OpenBSD 3 hours after the OpenBSD developer working on the port specifically asked for permission to use different compile flags on Palemoon forums!
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by kalenx 8y ago
It's a deadly sin considering that many (most?) researchers do not treat it as a test set, but as a "validation set #2". Basically, you tune your hyperparameters (up to the random seed!) to fare better on the test set. So, as
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by kalenx 8y ago
Well, to her defense, I still believe there's a difference between voicing an opinion and being offended. Being offended is having an opinion everyone should wholeheartedly agree with: reserves are offenses in themselves. Offering an o
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by kalenx 8y ago
Of course, the vast majority of drivers would do so (including me). That would just be incredibly inefficient to do otherwise. Nevertheless, in my home town, it is against the law (Ontario btw, so I confess I cannot speak for the US). Same
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by kalenx 8y ago
Merging is different than changing lane or turning. In some states, you may have to give the right of way even if you do not change lane yourself. But I agree it was bad wording on my part. My point was about those drivers who just leave th
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by kalenx 8y ago
My wording was bad, I admit it. My point was that signals should be given only when you have the _opportunity_ to do such maneuver. If the lane to your right is crowded, putting your right signal on achieves nothing. In other words, your si
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by kalenx 8y ago
Yes of course, but it is a _signal_, not a request. You should _not_ put your signals if there is no room, just to "ask" other drivers to clear the other lane.
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by kalenx 8y ago
> it would seem Waymo programmed its autonomous vehicles to treat turn signals as an indicator that the car is about to execute a turn or merge, not an indicator that it is looking for the opportunity to do so. Well, here's one, if
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by kalenx 8y ago
Firefox is still a terrific browser. Compared to forks like PaleMoon I would even say that it is now much better given the continuous improvements we've seen with quantum and others. I definitely do not agree with Mozilla on everything
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by kalenx 8y ago
Here is just one of your incorrect inference : > Black crime rate being high explains black arrest rate being high. Where is the causality here? Sure, there is a correlation and sure, it may be seen as a reasonable argument, but like yo
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by kalenx 8y ago
False dilemma. Of course over exploiting arable lands contribute to this problem. But it does not mean it is the only cause. You'll have a hard time in this world if you believe that every problem has a single source...
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by kalenx 8y ago
Because again, there is a difference between stating a fact and wrongly inferring from it.
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by kalenx 8y ago
Fair enough. Have your motte and bailey. You said (verbatim) : "Holding black people to the same standard as white people when they are genetically incapable of meeting that standard seems like a much bigger problem" True, you did
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by kalenx 8y ago
Well, to keep things simple : - CO2, as a greenhouse gas, increase the Earth surface temperature - This temperature increase causes droughts/floods/other extreme meteorological events - Lands that used to be arable aren't any
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by kalenx 8y ago
Well, to be more specific: literally any handbook about statistics will explain the difference between correlation and causation.
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by kalenx 8y ago
Again, this is plain racism. This is the precise definition of judging a group of people solely based on their race. Refuse to see that things like IQs and crime rate can be affected by so much factors than race if you must. Say "black
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by kalenx 8y ago
Maybe because it would be the opposite of all democratic principles we cherish and stand for?
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by kalenx 8y ago
Not acknowledge, e.g. would advise against and, if were the maintainer, would reject the change. ACK and NAK are used quite a lot in communication protocols, and the usage drift from there.
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by kalenx 8y ago
You clearly can't compare those two percentages. One of them is over the total energy consumption of the society and the other over the energy needed be keep a human alive. Computers would not get "magically" more efficient i
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by kalenx 8y ago
It is also fascinating how some US people cannot even _think_ about a different society than theirs. Take this simple example: > No Air conditioning in many hotels/airbnb and they had to switch places last minute. Why do you absolut
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by kalenx 8y ago
That's specifically not how MIT license works. They could (even _I_ could) sell it under a commercial licensing without any legal issues...
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by kalenx 8y ago
No, the post about OpenCV and BGR talks (for about 80% of it's length) about how everything we know in transportation, up to space shuttle, is linked to horse width. Which, as pointed out in the link I provided, is simply false (or at
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by kalenx 8y ago
Well, not only it is quite long just to say "BGR was used a lot back then", even the back story is wrong : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/horses-pass/
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by kalenx 8y ago
The := is missing! No wonder Guido would leave its BDFL position!
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by kalenx 8y ago
Of course the automation was in error: it was so much in error they have to disable it! All the arguments about the driver that should have been alerted or reacted are simply not autonomous driving so unrelated. Again, I'm not saying
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by kalenx 8y ago
> And the primary causes of those fatalities are the kinds of things most easily addressed by automation - lane drift. Running red lights and stop signs. Speeding. Driving too fast for conditions. Aggressive maneuvering leading to loss o
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by kalenx 8y ago
120 kWh / 24h = 5000 W, not 500 Many houses in cold climates using electrical heaters will actually use at least 2-3x this energy. So yeah, 100 kW is quite streched, but we're not _that_ far from the power available in a home.
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by kalenx 9y ago
Another very interesting characteristic of the arm instruction set is that MOV and AND have their opposite op (MVN and BIC). That means you can write MOV, r0, #-1 (equivalent to #0xFFFFFFFF) and the assembler will emit a MVN r0, #0 to fulfi
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by kalenx 9y ago
No, he would be forgiven for feeding the troll 17 years later.
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by kalenx 9y ago
Funny how he talks about TiVo well before the advent of GPLv3, but as a victim: > From the stance of a commercial vendor creating a commercial product, the open source world holds other barbs. For example, if components of your system li

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