mr_toad

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by mr_toad 1y ago
> but that’s not what the moneyed retirees down at the opera house want to hear. The last (well only) time I was in an opera house the retirees were listing to Blue Öyster Cult.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It amazes me that some people can ever make it out the door if they spend all their lives contemplating a series of increasingly unlikely possibilities.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
IDEs were a crutch, and now that crutch has been replaced by a semi-autonomous bot that can fetch and carry.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You’re basically saying that only extroverts are allowed to be tourists. Fuck that.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I meant courts should've called in multiple expert witnesses and even computer forensics companies. UK courts don’t (can’t) do that, that’s up to the plaintiffs or defendants.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If any large system wasn’t constantly logging errors I’d immediately assume there was something wrong with the error logging system. Only trivial software is bug free.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> There’s incredible utility to the term. It’s a red flag, so there’s that.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
AI companies don’t need to be users of the software to train on its source code. And, again, if they don’t need a license then the license is irrelevant. Lastly, if you place restrictions on the use of the software then it’s no longer open
789.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> A clause in a license which states something like "You may not use this work for training an artificial neural network" should suffice. If you needed a license to train AI then that clause would be redundant. It doesn’t matt
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You don’t even need to be the copyright owner to sell GPL software, but it’s unlikely many would pay for it.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Making furniture with chainsaws is a thing. Funnily enough they used to call this hacking, rather than carpentry.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I think the most interesting thing about them is that they can communicate the location of flowers to other bees.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> we can't directly observe what's going on the earth's crust over a period of millions of years Depends what you mean by “observe”. The parallel lines of reversing magnetic polarity that are embedded in the sea floor on e
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I think the majority of palaeontologists now accept the idea. Alternative ideas get disproportionate attention in popular articles.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
They did have significantly larger brains than modern humans. There are many explanations of why they weren’t smarter than us, which I think is because many people would really like that to be true.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I explained that it doesn't matter, the water won't get any hotter. I'll just waste electricity making steam. He didn't believe me I think we had the same roommate. I used to call him Captain Humidity because he fi
797.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Most people who recover from a heart attack will not suffer a terrible quality of life. Depending on the severity and the treatment many will live quite normal lives for decades, and die from something completely unrelated.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> heart attack and had to be revived from arrest Worth pointing out that heart attacks and cardiac arrest are not the same. A heart attack (myocardial infarction) is insufficient supply of blood to the heart, which causes damage. Cardi
799.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Generate a new private/public key pair on the new machine and then copy the public key (from the new machine) into the authorised keys (on the server) using a login that already has access (e.g. from the old machine).
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by mr_toad 1y ago
People do, or have eaten cats, mainly when they’re starving. I’m not sure I’d want to be in the water with a starving Orca.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Is there any case where they ever need to be shared? If you need a login, generate a new one.
802.
by mr_toad 1y ago
They wouldn’t need to stand if they had chairs with belts.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> large amounts of nitrogen or some other inert gas You could ship liquid ammonia and then burn it to produce nitrogen and water.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Actually we’re in a surprisingly sparse area of the galaxy, a giant hole in the galaxy created by one (or more) supernova. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> only a minority of people wear their politics around as some sort of identity A minority perhaps, but not an economically insignificant one. The sales of MAGA hats show that a significant number of people literally wear their politi
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by mr_toad 1y ago
It’s called under-employment. It has been widely discussed in the literature but it’s very difficult to measure. Economic statistics do suffer somewhat from a lamplight effect.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I will never tire of pointing out that machine learning models are compression algorithms, not compressed data.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Except for the annual “health system in crisis” story. Edit: substitute any issue you care to name for “health system”, there’s always a crisis that can be used to grab eyeballs.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
A linear increase in technology can easily lead to a greater than linear increase in economic gain. Sometimes even small performance gains can overturn whole industries.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> But, for everything else, you can get by with vertical scaling I’m not arguing with that, I’m just pointing out why very large organisations still use Oracle.

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