mrexroad

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by mrexroad 11y ago
So if they train an "anti-model" based on 4chan comments over a period of time, what would be the next phase of trolling? Excessive politeness?
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by mrexroad 11y ago
I think the vulnerability was msft underestimating the extent of effort 4chan users would put into trolling Tay. By the end of the day, Tay could 4chan with the worst of them.
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by mrexroad 11y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good enough .
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by mrexroad 11y ago
SYN-ACK
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Answers to your questions about Apple and security(apple.com)
545 points by mrexroad 11y ago|365 comments
606.
by mrexroad 11y ago
This. Consumption of advertisements should have age restrictions similar to cigarettes. We haven't had cable/etc since 2005 and there was a period between '07 through maybe '13 where out kids weren't exposed to any
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by mrexroad 11y ago
I'm photophobic and am guaranteed a migraine when in direct sunlight or high contrast lighting environments. Diffused, evenly lit indoor environments are my safe harbor without dark/polarized/full-cover sunglasses. Please don
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by mrexroad 11y ago
Ironically, living in a small house with hardwood flooring applied to car-decking (t&g 2x8 subfloor, atop 4x8 girders 4'oc -- loud AF), my kids naturally began to avoid striking their heel after a year or two. The sound transmissi
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by mrexroad 11y ago
And to think, there's an alternate 'verse where the above comment was s/w\//with/, you'd still not know...
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by mrexroad 11y ago
this. i've joked before that parenting 3+ young kids is really just figuring out how to ensure one doesn't get neglected any more or less than the others or that it's switching from man-to-man to zone defense. either way, you
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by mrexroad 11y ago
I've set the expectation for my kids that my answer will be "no" if they've already asked Mom (this also helps out an end to the "go ask your father" redirect. If they ask me after Mom had already said "no
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by mrexroad 11y ago
"just the tip, I promise!" - a guy
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by mrexroad 12y ago
Same worst-case scenario when humans drive daily, but wrong less often.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
I'll be sure to set (hack, reprogram?) my future self-driving car to dispense liberal spraying of washer fluid after finally weaving around and getting in front of the asshat going 54mph in the left most lane on 101.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
Because real-life harassment isn't protected by first amendment. A large part of the problem is people, like you, who view all of this as someone just expressing their opinion equally with others. That has nothing to do with targeted h
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by mrexroad 12y ago
this may get me down-voted, but i tend to drive faster and more aggressively than, uh say, my parent's would like me to [1]. when i'm driving this way, i'm fully engaged and almost always "in the zone." i constantly
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by mrexroad 12y ago
put a tennis ball on the end of a broom handle and wipe w/ the ball. works awesome.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
i have a wife and 4 kids. i'm home to eat dinner with my family each day, i bathe my kids, i read to them for 15-20min before bed, i put them to bed, and then watch a tv show or movie w/ my wife. wife goes to bed, i usually stay u
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by mrexroad 12y ago
if walking dead and zombie movies taught us anything, it's that things can get a whole lot more sub-optimal.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
interesting. the "fast vs deep" comment intrigued me; i find i can go exceedingly deep when i can let things "simmer." to your comment, i had an intelligence test administered as a teen and the two outliers were basicall
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by mrexroad 12y ago
plus, if in the middle of the Australian outback, the datacenters can serve as the plot device for a 5th Mad Max film.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
i might just move there. sounds like better odds than most places during zombie apocalypse.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
i used to nap under my cubicle desk... w/ the geometry of my cube, no one could see me even if they poked their head in. doesn't work w/ standing desks in open layouts :( now i often go to car.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
sure, kinda like if someone picked your door's pin tumbler lock... or if someone accused me of picking theirs since they knew i carry a pick set w/ me.
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by mrexroad 12y ago
sounds like science is doing a fine job, the important thing is that it self-corrects and we have a far, far deeper understanding of subtile complexities. one of the few things that gives me hope for humanity is the hope that most things we
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by mrexroad 12y ago
from what i recall (no documentation link, but it's been posted here before) strengthening is more about making associations/connections for the things that are important. so if you have CPU bound batch jobs that run each night fo
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by mrexroad 12y ago
"they give a 'fun' listening experience that people enjoy" ding that's the crux of it. people want something that makes them feel good, which often isn't something you can quantify in a lab. so rather than tr
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by mrexroad 13y ago
we had shitty chairs for a good 12+ months at the first start up i joined. i begged for a better chair, but it wasn't a priority for the founders at that point; 8 months in, i developed a spinal disc herniation from the chair and desk
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by mrexroad 13y ago
along 101 between sf and southbay, 80 is normal flow in left most lanes (or should be unless some asshat in a prius is smugly going 65 while 25 cars are flashing their brights in vain and forced to dangerously weave across 3 lanes to pass)
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by mrexroad 13y ago
seriously? organized sports were nothing like that for me during the late 80s / early 90s, nor are they like that now for my 7yo and 5yo boys. baseball is the same now (in california) as it was for me growing up on the east coast. socc

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