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by lostdog 2y ago
You would be wrong. Just trying to sleep doesn't work for me either, but putting on a distraction for 15 minutes helps a lot.
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by lostdog 2y ago
It's really hard to do in practice. Yes, you can train an ML model on rendered data, but the model tends to fixate on rendering artifacts, and performance doesn't transfer to real world images. Plus, it's very difficult to ma
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by lostdog 2y ago
Once upon a time Facebook told you about friends' parties so you could go out and have fun. It also told you your friends' "status," giving you something to ask them about when you see them. That version of Facebook adde
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by lostdog 2y ago
The endorsement lets them write why they support the candidate. Laying out the reasons is what could be convincing, and is what's also being blocked here.
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by lostdog 2y ago
I've tried, but once you fall behind you're done. The current algorithms just drown you in the cards you've forgotten. There's no way to say "I went on vacation. Please reset my progress to something manageable to m
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by lostdog 2y ago
You can do even better with radar. If you place a set of radar reflectors around the tower at known locations, then you can detect them from the booster and triangulate the distances to a precise position. Plus, radar gives you relative vel
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by lostdog 2y ago
The most common bug in that type of code is mixing up x and y, or width and height somewhere in your loops, or maybe handling partial blocks. It's not really what Rust aims to protect against, though bounds checking is intended to be h
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by lostdog 2y ago
I wish there were a good TUI for handling merge conflicts. Vimdiff seems to be the closest, but doesn't have keyboard bindings for 3-way merges. Nothing beats Meld for me, but if you're on a remote GUI-less machine, there aren&#x2
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by lostdog 2y ago
How about abbreviating the 12 most common things in the codebase, but everything else is long? That's a nice compromise where you need to learn a few core concepts, but the code itself is easier to scan for bugs in a lot of places.
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by lostdog 2y ago
I have seen the results from searches of patents in my field, and the patents that my colleagues get granted. It's hard to find even a single good patent in the bunch. Is there a way to sample 5 random ML patents? I'd be surprised
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by lostdog 2y ago
The parent clearly said that approved parents were bullshit, and I agree. I have several patents, and have seen how nonsense the process is. When lawyers obfuscate the text enough to confuse the patent examiner, the patent gets approved. I
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by lostdog 2y ago
The patent office is also horrendous at evaluating novelty, so I suppose ChatGPT has already reached human level performance on this task!
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by lostdog 2y ago
He's mostly good, and is the main guy fixing housing and transit in CA. But yeah, there are some issues he's just wrong on (AI and the recent restaurant fee problem), others which are controversial (decriminalizing HIV transmissio
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by lostdog 2y ago
Well, you already can't nuke someone. You can't make and release a biological weapon. It's probably illegal to turn the whole world into paperclips. There are already laws against doing harm to others. Sure, we need to fill s
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by lostdog 2y ago
Tell your kids they have to perform a challenge worthy of getting the chocolate bars.
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by lostdog 2y ago
Bash scripts tend to grow to check on file presence, conditionally run commands based on the results of other commands, or loop through arrays. When it is a nice pipelined command, yes, bash is simpler, but once the script grows to have con
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by lostdog 2y ago
Here's the secret ingredients for successful robotics products: 1. Does it do something useful? Useful enough to pay for? 2. If it's solving something hard, are you going to invest enough to solve the problem? The article is like
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by lostdog 2y ago
It recently started working. It's improving very quickly. The results look very cool. And it's mostly understandable how it works to nonexperts.
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by lostdog 2y ago
As always, there's a bunch of people who should seek higher perfection, and a bunch who should seek lower. And most people are wrong about which group they're in.
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by lostdog 2y ago
They're almost certainly going to pick someone centrist for the VP. Politico has a list of likely running mates [1]. They're pretty much all centrists. Of course, whoever they nominate will just be called a leftist anyways. Even H
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by lostdog 2y ago
Harris will be fine but unremarkable. Middle of the road economic policy, with slightly more protectionism for high tech. Immigration policy continues as-is, with a slight increase in preventing illegal immigration. An Obama-like foreign po
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by lostdog 2y ago
Make your work more visible. When your PR is ready, send a friendly note to your lead, their manager, and the PM, saying that you'd like to get it into the next release, and it's ready for a review.
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by lostdog 2y ago
Induced demand should really be called "insurmountable demand." If there's a million more people who would take a traffic-clogged freeway if it were moving at 6mph, then it will always be clogged with traffic.
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by lostdog 2y ago
I've been in a few close calls, and in every one the driver was not paying full attention to the road and (nearly) swerved into someone riding a bicycle. But reporters use such sympathetic language describing the negligent driver.
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by lostdog 2y ago
I've never met an HR person with this skill, so I bet they are extremely rare.
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by lostdog 2y ago
I've come across two startups with 6 day work weeks. They were absolute garbage dumps, the both of them. They had an average employee tenure of 6 months, and neither of them could execute on anything more complex than a basic web API.
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by lostdog 2y ago
Jail. Jail would be reasonable for purposefully poisoning tens of millions of people.
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by lostdog 2y ago
Is there a source, or is this made up?
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by lostdog 2y ago
The IRA started out adding $80b to IRS funding, and Republicans negotiated it down to $60b.
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The FBI Made a Phone Network. It Was a Trap(slate.com)
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