lopmotr

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by lopmotr 6y ago
That verb "target" used to sound ominous but it turns out it's used for perfectly OK things like a boss reminding their staff not to share confidential information with the media. That's described here as "The admin
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's a problem for lots of technologies. The native language in my country hardly has any literature published in it because it's so obscure. How should the printing press solve this unfairness? The internet in general also does
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Not sure the details of her employment arrangement, but usually work you do for your company belongs to the company and you don't have any right to freely publish it. Seems she was able to publish it anyway, so that's pretty good,
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Does that really matter though? Isn't the proper way to evaluate what data is being shared to assume each app exploits its permissions up to the level of trust you have in the company that provided it? Eg. if you worry Facebook is stea
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I wish we used different words for domain and range. Like "input range" and "output range" or something. It's an endless source of confusion, especially since range can legitimately be used for the domain if you phr
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I once taught in a physics curriculum that went a step beyond calculators. Students never had to do numerical calculations in the exams. For example, a question asking you to find a force, could have an answer like "F=ma where m=3 kg a
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What kind of exam requires you to memorize trig identities? Were they trying to prepare you for a world without paper or computers to look them up on? Or to be a smidgen faster at hand calculations?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How can a math teacher make such an obvious mistake? She's right it's picked less often than all other sequences combined, but that's not the same as being picked less often than every other sequence individually. Best lotter
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I face that Google search risk for my business but all businesses have risks. If not from Google, from regulation changes, Covid-19 lockdowns, competitors, disruption of the market like Uber/AirBnB, etc. If you don't want risk, do
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You know that you will have to sign a contract. And even if you don't, they're in an "at will" state so they can fire you whenever they want (eg. on your first day) without giving a reason. You know all that going in and
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's usually other people voluntarily give it to them, not that they take it. First to market isn't just luck. It's often the result of work harder and faster and taking more risk than others. It's not as if Bill Gates j
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by lopmotr 6y ago
People often want symbolic things whose main purpose is to remind you of that person, like ornaments, a card or a personalized home-made thing. I know someone who embroidered a Thor's hammer picture for a friend who was a fan of those
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How do you judge that number to be a lot? Are you comparing it to something else you're already familiar with?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
But does it matter? The odd organism dying here and there doesn't matter. If the effect isn't quantified, then it could easily be "effectively nothing".
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Surely you'd have heard about it from friends or family if it was common for pregnant women to have cravings for nails and bottle caps and that their bodies need the nutrition from them?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yes. After removing "3D Objects" and other stupid useless folders from File Explorer too many times and having the re-appear randomly some time later, it's easier to just give up and just try to tune out all the rubbish they
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's horrible when a familiar respectable blogger suddenly dumps a pile of partisan talking points all seriously as if it's just as valid as their regular content. Suddenly, it shakes your confidence in their ability to think rati
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Just like homeless shelters, somebody's going to want to impose rules on their use and that will immediately exclude people.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Can you quote where it says this is a different functionality? The statement from Amazon says it's none of their business.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
What a ridiculous title and claim. It obviously means nothing so what are people suppose to think of it? Just be impressed and stupefied at the same time? The important missing detail that took 6 paragraphs to get to is "1 million flui
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Why hubristic? Because he did it? What would a non-hubristic attempt to estimate the prevalence of life in the universe look like, short of actually finding aliens?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I tend to agree. However it's not hopeless - we already have a system to serve them. It's the culture of monogamous relationships and marriage. That removes the most attractive men from the dating pool, leaving the remaining women
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Sure but it's going to be 10x harder and still not be as successful as people who were just born with attractive genes and did nothing.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If an argument is bad faith but right, doesn't that still make it right? Perhaps what you object to is being dragged into some messy going-in-circles argument. Those are frustrating but they happen because the good-faith participant to
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by lopmotr 6y ago
But isn't that an important part of the value of neural networks? Mathematicians are expensive so we'd like a computer to make a model for us, just like drivers are expensive so we want self-driving cars.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Everything in your comment is an insult. That's probably why it's downvoted.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> and those directly added to the app The article says this is just owners allowing access to the company that manages it for the police. How can Ring stop that?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
"Ring customers have control and ownership of their devices and videos, and can choose to allow access as they wish."
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How would you propose Ring stops it? Change the T&Cs to disallow sharing your video with the police while still allowing sharing with your friends? What if a private company says it's your friend and collects it on behalf of the po
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I would call these bodges, not architecture. They're all tacked on modifications independent of the rest of the building's design and some of them obviously conflict with the actual architecture.

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