lamontcg

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811.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> I have uniformly found people kind and decent There's a whole ton of assholes out there. You can get ripped off in any culture if you don't watch your back.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Is taking land you don't own also violence?
813.
by lamontcg 3y ago
This isn't even a "trolley problem" it sounds like this is just "fake news": > "Throughout the entire duration the AV is stopped, traffic remains unblocked and flowing to the right of the AV," a Cruise
814.
by lamontcg 3y ago
As you've seen "degrowth" is a counter-productive argument and you are your own worst enemy and this gives ammunition to the side which claims that climate change is only possible via severe personal sacrifice -- which again
815.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances, such as propane, should we be focusing more on closing the carbon cycle and simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear? Being able to do that ch
816.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> Surely the environment hasn’t been that stable on evolutionary time scales? We're about at the maximum temperature that has ever been seen over the past few million years. The ice age cycles normally don't exceed about where
817.
by lamontcg 3y ago
> The meteor location is not known to within tens of km. CNEOS reports locations to ±11 km. Siraj & Loeb (arXiv, not reviewed) try to use the Manus Island seismometer’s detection of the airburst to refine this. If the explosion arriv
818.
by lamontcg 3y ago
The human probably wrote the title and the spelling mistake.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Are you willing to go to jail after someone hacks into your phone and uploads CSAM to it which triggers this detection mechanism?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Replying to myself... There's a real "No True Scotsman" problem here. Or like the legal fiction of the "Rational Person". We have the "Average Safe Driver". After you've removed all these drivers:
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> * Driving very late at night > * Sleep deprived driving * Driving after having an emotional argument or any other serious emotional stress Those are all things that we're all probably going to do at the low points in our lives.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
so scrum is a symptom of a company that nobody should want to work for.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
HN doesn't want to hear that.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You had bad engineers. If you inflict all that process on any good engineers in your company because of the bad engineers, you'll probably chase them off and be left with only the bad engineers who need all that process to keep them in
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by lamontcg 3y ago
No True Scrummist
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Entirely depends on how extensive the patches are. FAANGS will all have their own kernels with custom patches, some of which will find their way back into the distros, and some which are kept in-house for custom reasons. It isn't nec
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It isn't just housing, it is also the medical system and education. These things that basically everyone needs are not getting cheaper over time but are getting more expensive so that they vacuum up as much money as possible. (And it l
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> but unless Nvidia is planning on forking the kernel and fully maintaining their own version of Linux https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-6-user-guide/introduction...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of the doubt? They can also very earnestly believe what they do and simply be wron
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Any revolution that involves burning any institutions to the ground in this country is very likely to be a fascist one (and will be quite happy to keep all those DNA profiles).
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Until now no neutrino produced at a particle collider has ever been directly detected. Is this considered different from e.g. the OPERA experiment because in that they dump the proton beam from the SPS into a target? So what you'r
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I have to ask the engineers that work at these companies [...] Yeah, global warming is also entirely my fault because I just don't recycle hard enough.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This whole article is based on a bad reading of the problem. The problem that happens when code is first duplicated is that the correct abstraction is a fundamental UNKNOWN. If you knew the right way to de-duplicate it, you would of course
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It isn't. We can't build anything big and complicated without costs spiraling out of control. You're going to have to fundamentally change our management approach in this country to get cheap nuclear.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
infinite captchas
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Actual monetization of AI is likely to be a large hurdle. Right now lot of companies are throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks in a panic to not get left behind. The downstream business models which will generate sustainable revenu
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Third world wealth equality conditions correlates with third world social conditions.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Transmissible diseases usually mutate to be less deadly over time, because killing the host is a bad reproduction strategy. Incorrect. This virus has already spread by the time you're dying in the hospital and it doesn't &q
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is ‘not great’ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci... > White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauc
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The problem is that it is still entirely illegal to do this kind of hacking without any permission. The fact that a lot of companies have embraced bug bounties and encourage this kind of stuff against them unfortunately teaches "kids&q

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