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by lolc 3y ago
The bulk of the roof can be assumed to be oriented to the sky, or it wouldn't get much sun and be of no concern. So it will radiate towards the sky mostly. The infrared radiation will indeed go out in all directions. The way I understo
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by lolc 3y ago
Looks like he's finally listening to his lawyers! Before his bail was reluctantly revoked, he was generating an astonishing stream of evidence for the prosecution.
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by lolc 3y ago
If these drones act autonomously there is no radio link that could be detected or jammed. That makes them much harder to fight. Just recently I read how decoys are deployed to attract enemy missiles in Ukraine. I guess such drones can be fo
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by lolc 3y ago
I never report anything to Google. They don't give back. When I try to report mail spam from their network they want me to fill out a form instead of reading the abuse mail they got.
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by lolc 3y ago
Ah thanks. Funny how second life is still around.
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by lolc 3y ago
To me it was weird in a list of things "to look out for". When somebody makes those threats, the jig is up. But of course, retrospectively, it may help to classify. So yea, I get now why it's on the list.
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by lolc 3y ago
> Threats to release proprietary source codes if additional payments are not made; This is "a sign"? In what company is that not grounds for immediate revocation of all access, termination?
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by lolc 3y ago
I was interested in that, but unless I missed it, it doesn't show the currently playing track. And no tracklist anywhere.
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by lolc 3y ago
An argument can be made that we don't expect the car to speed up significantly anymore. But the steering is haphazard. And the terrain is getting steeper. Some people say they're working on brakes.
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by lolc 3y ago
What do you think I'm paranoid about?
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by lolc 3y ago
As long as the model doesn't know about words, and finds letter sequences that correspond to words, we can conclude that it found actual writing.
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by lolc 3y ago
I wondered about that. My understanding is that the models were trained to look for letter shapes, not words. And that the models couldn't produce known words unless they were trained on the language. If it wasn't trained on a sub
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by lolc 3y ago
Yea, the tone of "never do this" felt quite extreme. I regularily eat stuff past the date on the label. A blanket rule to not do that will just make me ignore the whole article.
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by lolc 3y ago
So the assumption is that the driver didn't even try to pay attention, lulled by Tesla's messaging, ignoring warnings that are "only there for legal reasons". To me, this is a clear example where personal responsibility
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by lolc 3y ago
If I were to draw that, there's a few ways this could be fair use. Or simply unlicensed without a problem if I share it privately. I don't see how it's fair use when a company provides these stickers in such a broad manner. P
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by lolc 3y ago
Oh when I say Facebook I mean anything under the Meta umbrella. I'm slow to change.
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by lolc 3y ago
That is hilarious! I've never been so tempted to use Facebook :-) When will this feature be added on Hacker News? Right after they implement emojis I do hope! I wonder how Facebook reasons they're not violating copyright here.
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by lolc 3y ago
The client is a scientific institution. I wanted to check whether they are tweeting at all anymore. But it doesn't show their tweets without me registering. Shrug.
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by lolc 3y ago
As somebody with only second-hand exposure to Twitter, it feels like they're actively driving it to irrelevance. All I hear for a year now is that they turn off interfaces that enabled people to integrate with them. Just last week a cu
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by lolc 3y ago
Do your aesthetics favour slobs in big boxes?
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by lolc 3y ago
Yea there may be a shift in usage hidden in those numbers. As this article laments, we can't use ngrams to measure the develpment of usage between said, replied, and retorted.
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by lolc 3y ago
The way I read it, the article was a rant about how people shouldn't be using ngrams to prove things.
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by lolc 3y ago
A decline to half the usage of "said" within 6 decades, followed by a recovery to the previous level within two decades? Show me evidence that the English language changed so fast in that way. It's extraordinary and you'
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by lolc 3y ago
On the one hand, if I query GPT-4, it does associate "special military operation" with Russia's actions in Ukraine. However, it does not reference any escalation beyond Donbas and Crimea. The generated text stays within well
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by lolc 3y ago
Well a single hit yes, that could be explained as coincidence. But the generated text is too long and too close to reality. In Jan 2022 the meaning of "special operation" was not a war. So if the cutoff were complete it would&#x27
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by lolc 3y ago
What is your certainty based on? You say that the cutoff was Jan 2022, and that what the model says about the war in Ukraine is "extrapolation". However, the summary it generated includes details such as a reference to "denaz
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by lolc 3y ago
Would be nice to get a working pancreas again. And I can wait another year if that means people with MS get it first :-)
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by lolc 3y ago
I get the feeling, but unless their business is something web-related, their attention to detail is better spent elsewhere.
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by lolc 3y ago
Actually, Alain Bombard[0] demonstrated that one can live off the land on sea :-) Not that this Florida man had any chance of repeating the achievement. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard
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by lolc 3y ago
This guy would have died if he managed to get off shore enough to be past anybody noticing him. He'd be blown along by the winds mostly, being so high and light. So if he didn't plan it well, he has no chance. And by the article,

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