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by lamontcg 3y ago
Here I thought the ultimate promise of autonomous self driving cars was to eliminate this kind of logic.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
China built out 180-230 GW of solar last year. They deployed more in one year than the total installed base of nuclear that China is expected to have by 2030.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Chef's problems "with ruby" were largely design problems. The whole structure of the run collection and the "two pass parsing" design made it so that users had to almost immediately fully understand how the ruby pa
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by lamontcg 3y ago
https://pubpeer.com/ but it is hit or miss. It has a browser extension so it'll alert you if it finds URLs to papers with discussions.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
After a year or so my mastodon feed is getting better and its more of the same people who were on twitter, less void-shouty than it was.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> if Firefox starts gaining traction... yeah, so lets make that happen and then find out what the response is. right now we're stuck in the "tried nothing and all out of ideas" state.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
But Google actually is rent seeking by the economic description. The poster is just accusing google of a 'lesser charge' by misunderstanding the concept, they should fix their accusation of what Google is doing not change the te
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Could set him to work on hacking official state enemies, but you'd have to expect that he'd still engage in side-projects against whoever pissed him off or he had contempt for.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It is real weird to see the Fed suggesting rate cuts with no recession or core financial stress being immediately apparent. Normally the Fed doesn't really cut rates as some kind of christmas present to the economy. I have my doubts t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Except that our experience shows that over time competition decreases and things like regulatory capture happen so it becomes harder for anyone small to enter into competition and then prices get hiked up. And the cars and autonomous drivin
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Bet you we could make an autonomous vehicle that handles snow and ice conditions better than the average Seattle driver. Most people aren't any good at driving under those conditions. And half of Seattle forgets how to drive in wet c
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I remember one post on reddit where some idiot in a Tesla launched it into an intersection and saw nothing wrong with that -- claming that it was unfair for everyone to give him shit over unsafe driving while he was merely "enjoying&qu
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Bigger issue is the human in the loop. If you always engage the parking brake when leaving the vehicle so that it becomes a reflex then you never forget. People will claim that this will never happen to them and that it is pointless to do
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Companies have redefined advertising to exclude advertising for their own platform (and people will defend this for them and claim that "promotions aren't ads" or something like that). At this point, we need a bill in Congres
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> If you need to mock out 80% of a system to make your unit test work, then yes, it's potentially pointless. In that case I'd argue that you should consider rewriting the code so that it's more testable in isolation, that
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Once again, this isn’t Apple stealing tech from Joe Shmoe. This is just standard legalistic BigCorp infighting, corporate backstabbing, brain drain/theft, etc. Conversely, if Apple feels comfortable stealing from BigCorp, they wil
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And the converse makes me feel like the statements are conveying emotion and aesthetics and reinforce the idea that politics are sport for the professional management class.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
If you entertain the notion that 55M years ago the PETM was caused by the Silurian civilization then geologically you have to realize that it was only 40M years ago that the Indian plate slammed into the Eurasian plate and caused the uplift
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by lamontcg 3y ago
prices should include all taxes and fees
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Well elsewhere in this thread I've pointed out that the black hole evaporates before the infalling observer ever crosses the event horizon. If you have a classical black hole and you don't bother yourself with how it forms, though
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> “So, today we kick out a rulemaking[...]” Is it too much to ask that those who run the government use just slightly more formal language when making statements in their official capacity?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> It's true that infalling observers will experience outside time speeding up, and conversely outside observers will see infalling objects slow down. And the infinite passage of all external time is observed in a finite time by the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> And I have to assume bodycam software is less reliable than iOS/Android. Uh, no? I'd naive assume it would be much simpler and more reliable, and that failure to do something like recharge or upload data would log an exceptio
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Nope, your signals also slow down and never reach them, and they appear to be 'frozen' and cannot respond to you. As they approach the event horizon their "reflexes" slow down in a kind of Zeno's paradox. Your sig
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by lamontcg 3y ago
But then on a long enough timescale the black hole evaporates via hawking radiation in a finite amount of time before the external observer has ever seen the 'frozen' object fall through the event horizon.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The theory of what happens inside a black hole can have implications for what happens at the event horizon of a black hole and what happens outside of the event horizon, which could be testable. It does require the assumption that physics
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by lamontcg 3y ago
So is this a sign of panic by the Fed as they're reading signs of financial stress in the system (things going to get bad), or are they capitulating to political pressure from billionaires and they now have a "low rate mandate&quo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It has been happening all along. People are just barely starting to notice now (and back in the 1970s people were a lot more aware of it).
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The problem is that for 99.99% of the people engaged in the debate over if git is good or not and should be replaced the correct answer for them is "stop fighting it and just learn git" because there's nothing better. They n

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