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by krisoft 8mo ago
> If this were a question on a grade school word problem test then just say 100 Let me repeat the question again: "If 5 machines can produce 5 parts in 5 minutes, how long will it take for 100 machines?" Do you think that by ad
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> the term is still more commonly referring to the assembly of a wiener or frankfurter wrapped in a bread of some sort I had that disagreement in an alpine resort once. A seller was vending some sort of sausage stuffed in a bread, i was
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by krisoft 8mo ago
What does “get it wrong” mean for you with this question? Or what is “getting it right” here? If i hear that Pat is a rooster and i understand and retain that information I will look at you like you are dumb for saying such an impossible st
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by krisoft 8mo ago
Theory of mind won’t help you answering this question. It is obviously an underspecified question (at least in any contexts where you are not actively designing/thinking about some specific industrial process). As such theory of mind i
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> If trucks were designed for aerodynamics, shouldn't one of the designs have "won" by now, Because aerodynamics is not the only concern the manufacturers are thinking about. The difference is in the regulation. The maximu
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by krisoft 8mo ago
What does “supernatural” in the context of your comment means to you?
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by krisoft 8mo ago
Of course. There is no doubt that you can shoot cameras out. That's not the problem. The problem is if you try to scale that effect up to the size of a club what you have won't be eye safe. There is not enough margin between &quot
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> a type of laser that doesn’t damage the human eye but completely obliterates a phone camera If we are asking for impossible things why make it so scifi coded? I would much prefer cute bunny unicorns who suddenly grow fangs and bite peo
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> my question then is why does Slack exist? I do not actually believe that you can trivially vibe code a viable slack replacement. But even if one day we could it wouldn’t mean that Slack as a company would just disappear overnight. They
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by krisoft 8mo ago
The best kind! Thank you. https://youtu.be/zXINZxodu9U?si=54dH35btTuouLtzJ
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> we need strong legal protections for white-hat and even grey-hat security researchers or hackers. I have a radical idea which goes even further: we should have legaly mandated bug bounties. A law which says that if someone makes a prop
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> so obviously Qualcomm that it seems silly for the article to call it “company 2” Redactions / aliases are sometimes quite transparent. When policy dictates that it must happen they do it even when it is not hard to puzzle out who
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> the loyalty an American will have for this or that foreign adversary will trend to 0 Yeah. National loyalty is not the only motivating force why someone would leak something. The common reasons why someone becomes an insider treat is
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> Imagine if this anonymous person worked with a foundation pledging to match $3.5M if said amount was raise via crowdfund. Idk man. Thing is where i live we are already crowdfunding to maintain our pipes. It is called local taxes and wa
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by krisoft 8mo ago
I do not know. But the best evidence of something surviving for 500 years is looking at things which have survived that long already. Laser printers were first invented in the 70s. So the oldest surviving laser printed pages are like 50 yea
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by krisoft 8mo ago
Pray tell where did i say that all parents should be responsible whose children were harmed by a third part? I’m specifically talking about this case. Unpredictable random acts of violence happen. Would be lunacy to punish the parents for t
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> To reach mass adoption, self-driving car need to kill one every, say, billion miles. Important correction “kill one or less , per billion miles”. Before someone reluctantly engineers an intentional sacrifice to meet their quota.
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by krisoft 8mo ago
Yeah. It has a very strong "and then everyone clapped" vibe to it. But even if the teacher "grew very quiet" in actual fact there can be many reason behind that. The story as told tries to imply that they realised that t
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> they're obviously worthless Collecting information, organising it into a easy to understand format and then presenting that information to others is a very common task in real life. There are whole very well paid and respected pro
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> What stops ExampleCo from asking for a receipt and limiting replacements only to legitimate channels? They can. Doesn’t help with the reputational damage though. People who think they bought an ExampleCo jean will still think that the
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> Would you want her charged if she didn't even know? Yes. She is responsible for making sure her children is safe and well taken care of. I say this morally, not as a legal fact. She should know what they are up to, and she should
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by krisoft 8mo ago
I mean, there is no official database of “boyfriends”. Even after you identified the girl, and found the mom, how would you figure out if she has a boyfriend, and if so who? Remember that if you tip them of in any way the abuser might go es
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by krisoft 8mo ago
If you ask for a raise and they say “maybe in two to three years” thats simply a polite no. > “you know the world outside is hostile to job seekers and a steady paycheck beats the unemployment line” You can search for a new job while emp
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by krisoft 8mo ago
How much data do you want to preserve? I know it sounds “boring” but it is hard to beat a good acid-free archival paper printed with a good quality ink. Stored in the right circumstances (not too humid, dark place, not on fire) it should la
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> The frustrating thing about this program is that it is not possible to avail of this unless you are ALREADY an artist. Frankly we don’t know the selection criteria for the program this year. It will be only released in April. But we kn
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by krisoft 8mo ago
A “video call” perhaps requires a human, but the type of test described need not be a video call. One can imagine a network trained to distinguish a fake id card from real one from a video recorded where the user is asked to move the card s
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> We still don’t have any plan I’ve heard of for avoiding a cascade of space debris when satellites collide and turn into lots of fast moving shrapnel. What do you mean we don’t have any plans to avoid that? It is a super well studied to
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> Whatever sat datacenter they biuld, it will run better/easier/faster/cheaper sitting on the ground in antarctica than it will in space That is clearly not true. How do you power the data center on antarctica? May i remin
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by krisoft 8mo ago
There are two different kind of “prediction” mixed up here. The thing which was easy to predict is that Trump is going to continue his trade war against China. It is also easy to predict that in a trade war companies who manufacture some pr
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> France? A nuclear state? Paris is properly sovereign. That is true. But nukes are not magic. Explain to me how you imagine the series of events where Paris uses their nukes to get the USA to extradite Elon to Paris. Because i’m just no

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