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by klodolph 1y ago
Honestly I would say “working as expected” for like 99% of Microsoft’s telemetry. I think the only difference is that I fucking hate hate hate OneDrive and so I’m gonna be more upset about the fact that Windows uses it. iCloud does not bo
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by klodolph 1y ago
Maybe… some of these algorithms from the 1980s struggled to do basic OCR, so they may need a lot of modification to be useful.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Games from the 2010s I still see people playing: FTL, Celeste, Undertale, Skyrim, Mass Effect 2, Stardew Valley… there are definitely survivors from the 2010s. Your list may be different from mine. Not counting any of the perennial games li
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by klodolph 1y ago
dB(A) is a weighting. It’s not a reference and it’s not units. I think some of the confusion here comes from people not actually understanding units. A-weighting describes how different frequencies are summed up. It’s like saying “RMS”. RMS
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by klodolph 1y ago
What’s to improve? I think the situation works well for people who work in the fields that use dB.
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by klodolph 1y ago
I remember typing tutors that started with the home row and slowly expanded. There aren’t a lot of words that use the home row exclusively, so you end up with nonsense. (You said “typing tutors programs” but my memory is of actual tutors, a
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by klodolph 1y ago
The article only had bad examples in it, I was hoping for perspective from someone that made sense. The voltage / power example doesn’t make sense. It’s always power or voltage squared, which are equivalent when the load is resistive.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Audio, the only gotcha I’ve seen is that -10 is -10 dBu and +4 is +4 dBV. That one is sloppy. But this comment doesn’t illustrate your point, and I still don’t really understand where you’re seeing this.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Maybe I just live on the planet, but I don’t have this problem with dB and to me, it sounds like you’re the alien. Maybe you could elaborate, or give a motivating example? I just don’t remember encountering the problem you’re describing, an
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by klodolph 1y ago
It’s understood in context, that’s the point.
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by klodolph 1y ago
If you want 0 = no sound, then you can’t use a logarithmic scale. You end up with sound being measured as Pascals in the micro to unit range. “0 dB SPL” is 20 micro pascals which is roughly the threshold of hearing. A loud rock concert at 1
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by klodolph 1y ago
Exactly. I’ve never seen it otherwise.
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by klodolph 1y ago
Sure, but the author is wrong. “How old is your son?” “He’s 3.” Clear in context. People write things like dB SPL (A-weighted) in spec sheets because spec sheets benefit from being unambiguous. Most of the time it’s really clear, like you’r
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by klodolph 1y ago
Exactly—Haskell’s type checker can be made Turing-complete, but that won’t make it much like Prolog.
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by klodolph 1y ago
“Arbitrary prolog in Haskell’s type system” is overselling it. There are a lot of GHC extensions out there, so maybe some combination of extensions can bring this statement closer to reality. But, as stated, it’s pretty far away. There’s an
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by klodolph 1y ago
I was replying to an “it pays for itself” comment and looking for the most favorable possible numbers for the most limited incremental change to the program, to show that even then, it doesn’t pay for itself. That’s where the $5M comes from
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by klodolph 1y ago
> Not quite. The argument then becomes about pointing out that our accounting systems are stupid, brutish and terrible at modelling second order consequences - social, economic, even moral. Are you disagreeing with me, or just reframing
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by klodolph 1y ago
2010s and 2020s are the two different decades. I found $23,884 expenditure per child in 2014-2015, which is when the $4.30 school lunch cost is from. With 180 instructional days, lunch would be $4.30/day x 180day/year / $2388
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by klodolph 1y ago
You’re comparing the NY state education budget against a program for elementary school students in NYC using numbers from different decades. If you want better numbers, a good place to start would be to take total cost per student for a giv
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by klodolph 1y ago
I agree… and yet “it’s cheap, it’s the right thing to do, and provides massive benefits” is a different argument from “it pays for itself”.
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by klodolph 1y ago
If Moldova were a US state, it would be the 35th largest state, by population. Most of these programs are done state-by-state in the US. Because the US is so large, it takes a large amount of political willpower to push programs out at the
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by klodolph 1y ago
You can look at stats from NYC: https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/if-no-student-pays-cost... The report used 2014-2015 numbers, where the cost of lunches for elementary students was $102 million and the participatio
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by klodolph 1y ago
You’re on a roll.
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by klodolph 1y ago
“These people (crypto industry) are bad people so it is justified to ignore the rule of law when hurting them” is a classic bad take. What you can do is regulate crypto into oblivion and make people feel bad about working in crypto. If you
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by klodolph 1y ago
Dollars to donuts the NK team is reading this article and adapting their strategies. IMO, rather than ask candidates to justify inconsistencies, you should forward the information to law enforcement and tell the candidate you’re hiring some
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by klodolph 1y ago
I’m a little skeptical that generative AI is an effective way to land a job. It doesn’t really seem like it helps that much in résumé generation. Are people applying to enough hundreds of jobs that generative AI helps you keep up with the s
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by klodolph 1y ago
The fake people are sometimes backed by entire teams (the article alludes to this). It’s easier to do well in your job when you’re supported by a team of people, maintaining the fiction that you’re one person. This isn’t happening left and
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by klodolph 1y ago
Physical interpretation of geometric mean… you have a collection of multiplicative speedups, and some of them apply to any given workload. I think the geometric mean falls out of the resulting statistical distribution in a natural way but I
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by klodolph 1y ago
I’ve seen those too, which is why the “Japan is weird” or “South Korea is weird” angle doesn’t resonate.
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by klodolph 1y ago
> Chibi was an indirect reference to what western cultures refer to as CSAM (in not-as-uncommon-as-outsiders assume cases). Too subtle eh? Sure, subtle, or maybe downright cryptographic. I would describe it as cryptographic. > Do you

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