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by mcherm 1y ago
I was gravely disappointed to find that, contrary to what the comic suggested, it was NOT possible to read the rest of the article in Latin if you are not a subscriber.
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by mcherm 1y ago
> the paper provided by a school is no guarantee of better pay Perhaps not, but the lack of that paper IS a guarantee of worse pay.
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by mcherm 1y ago
Or... Amazon could say "this is a third party seller on our platform, so blame THEM",then the third party seller gets held responsible for the fraudulent goods despite having no ability to control it. Not a very sane system but ap
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by mcherm 1y ago
That's one approach. There is also "buy it at a discount, resell it without much markup" and "buy it earlier, store it until prices rise", and plenty of other ways to perform this arbitrage.
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by mcherm 1y ago
We know that they would not provide such tracking for those conducting fraud investigations. You can believe they intentionally didn't track the source or that they intentionally refused to share the information to root out fraud; eith
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by mcherm 1y ago
No. *I* did not. I (and many others) campaigned vigorously against it.
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by mcherm 1y ago
Yes, they fucked up -- not by charging more, but by saying "pay us 10x your annual rate within 1 week or we destroy all your data", with no notice. Knowing that they would consider treating ANY customer that way means no other cus
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by mcherm 1y ago
It is not. Judge Bork was proposed as a candidate for the US Supreme Court. While the Senate was reviewing his nomination they began discussing his actual views on various topics which were so abhorrent that the Senate voted not to confirm
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by mcherm 1y ago
> If setting href worked like that, I think it would be less confusing. How do you imagine this would interact with try-finally being used to clean up resources, release locks, close files, and so forth?
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by mcherm 1y ago
> Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste Counterpoint: nurses.
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by mcherm 1y ago
They certainly could, but all I'm asking for here are things that SAVE money for Google. (They don't have to pay to support the scraping.)
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by mcherm 1y ago
This is ridiculous. Google is not some opaque corporate entity (I mean, yes it IS, but...), it is made up of individuals, many of whom read this site. Google should offer to send (the public content from) their DB directly to The Internet A
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by mcherm 1y ago
So, my son just graduated at the start of the summer with a dual degree in Math and Computer Science. He would like to find an entry level job in software engineering. Does anyone have any advice to give him?
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by mcherm 1y ago
An EXTRA flag to rm could be required in order for it to be able to modify fundamental os files. This would eliminate nearly all accidents.
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by mcherm 1y ago
A better-faith response would be to point out an example of such an open source codebase OR tell why that specific set of restrictions (open-source, active production, primarily AI) is unrealistic. For instance, one might point out that the
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by mcherm 1y ago
Candidates who are already well-known in their fields are generally not plausible candidates for this scam.
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by mcherm 1y ago
If insurers are suffering from "mortality slippage" because some of their customers purchased insurance while on GLP-1s then later discontinue the medication, then there must also be "mortality slippage" in the opposite
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by mcherm 1y ago
> Isn't the distinction based on whether the substance directly cause a wage gap and/or significant life expectancy loss? No. I feel QUITE certain that the distinction is based on whether or not the substance has a history of a
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by mcherm 1y ago
I think this is missing one important issue: what if your encryption is highly reliable but the cypher test is hosted in a jurisdiction that has laws requiring the disclosure of the plaintext (perhaps with a court order or a "National
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by mcherm 1y ago
The specific behavior of the hash function (including the salt you chose). Choosing a different hash function (or a different salt) would result in a different breakdown into chunks. In principle, if your data were specially crafted to expl
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by mcherm 1y ago
I am confident that the creators of these models would prefer to train them on an equivalent amount of text carefully currated to contain no hateful information. But (to oversimplify a significantly) the models are trained on "the enti
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by mcherm 1y ago
The behavior of malloc(x) for any positive value x is to either return NULL (meaning that the system was unable to provide a new chunk of memory to use) OR to return a unique pointer to X bytes of data which the program can use. By extensio
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by mcherm 1y ago
I suspect actually MOST ancient traditions ban usury (or ban lending altogether). Christianity banned usury, Islam banned essentially all lending, Hinduism banned some casts from lending and regulated the lending of others[1]. I think the p
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by mcherm 1y ago
> You can configure Cargo to do so if you'd like How does one do this?
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by mcherm 1y ago
First of all, I'm not a fan of constantly needing to re-authenticate. But for your specific problem there is a simple solution that isn't particularly expensive. Buy a new phone. Install 2FA on it, and don't install anything
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by mcherm 1y ago
Dear Claude: My brother-in-law just accidentally stepped on my laptop and it literally broke into pieces. Fortunately, I have an extra laptop that I can use instead. Please recreate my environment on the new laptop.
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by mcherm 1y ago
You seem to be missing the first step: get hired for the job in the first place.
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by mcherm 1y ago
> why should Google be punished for hiring the best people over decades to make the best one? Google should not be punished for having gained a near-monopoly by hiring the best people. But perhaps their near-monopoly is due to other reas
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by mcherm 1y ago
Oh, now THAT one seems likely to actually catch on!
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by mcherm 1y ago
> Which is the term that the article uses. ...except in the headline.

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