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by krisoft 2y ago
They make hardware prototypes. When you do that having your own machine shop can lower the iteration time and thus speed up the development. Just from the top of my head: waymo develops their own lidars, akamai obviously needed a ton of mac
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by krisoft 2y ago
> or he managed to somehow get time with the king in order to know what he looks like for the commission. That is unlikely for all kind of reasons. Chiefly among them that when the painting was painted the King was long dead. The paintin
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by krisoft 2y ago
That sounds even better! Thank you for that rephrasing.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> This seems needlessly pedantic as the meaning is still very clear. As I said it wasn’t clear to me. The two meaning which was fighting in my mind were the one i wrote and that the percentage is the probability of a male dying in their
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I wish the CAPTCHAs could tell me what I've become instead. Why would you have "become" anything? It is not humans who changed. It is the computers who caught up with our skills. (at least the ones which are easy to veri
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by krisoft 2y ago
> at 34 years of age, about 4.3% of men have died I think what you are saying is that 34 years after being born 4.3% of male individuals are dead. In my understanding if someone dies when they are 10 years old they will never be "34
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by krisoft 2y ago
It is also not just electronic distractions. I have seen parents who are wealthy enough so they can afford to fill their kids life with a regiment of after school activities. Monday French tutoring, Tuesday/Thursday basketball practice
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by krisoft 2y ago
And we would absolutely do it more often if compiling would cost as much as training of an LLM costs now.
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by krisoft 2y ago
But that also adds to the same effect! Their moral is to stay on the boardwalk and don’t stray off from it. Their morale is to look out for your kids and pets that they do the same. Which equates boardwalks with safety. Which, as an approxi
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by krisoft 2y ago
> commercial value: no Of course there is commercial value. The cost of reshooting video materials is huge. You made an advert mentioning 3 features, but by the time the product is about to be released one of them got dropped or even wor
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don't think you are quite talking about the same kind of design here. You are talking about very high level choices. (Do we bundle a charger with every new phone? does the phone have a jack?) Those are not really good examples where
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by krisoft 2y ago
> On that note, why is Apple still successful with this? It is very possible that they are successfull despite their web design choices.
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by krisoft 2y ago
Everywhere. Cattle is a very popular topic of sculptures. Just to mention two from the top of my head: This one is in Oxford: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_statue,_outside... This one is in Budapest: ht
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by krisoft 2y ago
> This is completely unnecessary, you only need to pick the lens that you actually want. It sounds like you are thinking only in the context of photography. In robotics and machine vision applications you often choose the fisheye lens be
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by krisoft 2y ago
> State Actors, given the current Geo-Political tensions. I love a good conspiracy just like anyone. And i certainly hope the relevant authorities will take a good, deep look at what knocked over the dominoes CrowdStrike set up in a line
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by krisoft 2y ago
“stuck strictly” implies exlusivity. That and the “apart from the first WTC bombing” implies that the first WTC bombing was the only vehicular explosive in the USA. I agree terrorist in the USA use guns a lot more than vehicle-born explosiv
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by krisoft 2y ago
How is that different from point 2?
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by krisoft 2y ago
Just my interpretation: that programmer is a professional. They are paid to do programing. They are still professional even when they are working on their hobby project, because it is not a function if they are paid for that particular code
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by krisoft 2y ago
> It's interesting that (apart from the first WTC bombing) American terrorists have stuck strictly to guns and not attempted car bombs. That is not true. Oklahoma City bombing is the first which comes to mind where the explosives wa
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I have worked at places which controlled the roll-out of new security updates (and windows updates) But did they also control the roll-out of virus/threat definition files? Because if not their goose would have been still cooked t
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by krisoft 2y ago
> I suggested a simple solution for that - receipt printers. Just so I understand what you are saying you are proposing that we drown our hospital rooms in paper receipt constantly. In the off chance the computers go down very rarely? Do
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by krisoft 2y ago
> However an artist friend of mine said generated images are easy to spot because every pixel is "perfect". What does perfect mean? Does the pixels drawing 15 fingers count as "perfect"? I think this heuristic is lia
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by krisoft 2y ago
> we'll all end up eating food that it is just nutritious enough to keep us from starving That's not what the ongoing obesity epidemic shows.
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by krisoft 2y ago
> For example, if I tell my kids they can stay out later than 10pm any night if I know about it, then even if they message me saying they'll be out late tonight, actually staying out late is blocked by my ack. Do you have an integra
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by krisoft 2y ago
Maybe if we cheat with the straight segments to make up for the error? The idea is that visually a straight road or a road bending with a very large radius are almost impossible to distinguish. Whereas visually a 90 degree left turn is very
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by krisoft 2y ago
> How many people from Purdue Pharma went to prison exactly? Have they told the patient that they are dying?
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by krisoft 2y ago
> what happens when your doctor is getting bribed to say you're dying We pay people to figure out that this is happening (the police), then we prosecute the doctor and if that is what happened we hit the doctor with the full force o
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by krisoft 2y ago
I don't really understand this argument. It is not like a web based tool is stopping you from seeing the code in your editor. You just check out the code and now you are seeing the code in your fav editor. Which is exactly the same pro
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by krisoft 2y ago
> purpose of work is to serve humans I don’t think that you and I are going to disagree on that. This is not an argument about philosophical values. This is an argument about incentives and reality. > humanity is free to do whatever w
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by krisoft 2y ago
It sounds like you don’t understand what is claimed. There is an often repeated claim that while the best AI has beaten the best human chess player, a combined human/AI player beats the purely AI player. The idea is that an AI and a hu

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