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571.
by not2b 4y ago
Sometimes it's because they don't know it will break in 5 years. They weren't anticipating exponential growth and when they started, the i32 range was a thousand times more than they needed. Ten more doublings later ...
572.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, someone has to run the official registry, so there's a choke point, unless there are rules in place to prevent abuse. For Verisign's management of .com there's a contract that limits their power. For the new vanity domai
573.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, this is an attempt to teach ChatGPT how to Rot13 and demonstrates that this isn't possible. The model doesn't learn. It can extend an input to produce a longer input, but its memory is limited. It can find the exact definitio
574.
by not2b 4y ago
It doesn't work fine if the check is omitted, which is easy to do, and if an error is extremely rare the missing check won't be noticed until much later. For rare errors exceptions are an alternative, but something has to catch an
575.
by not2b 4y ago
It doesn't surprise me. Especially among men over 40, on average gay men pay much more attention to their appearance, grooming, etc. than straight men, because men whether gay or straight tend to be more visually oriented than women an
576.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, alpha particles aren't relevant to the fission reaction, so the fact that it's easy to shield against alpha emission isn't relevant. It's all about the neutrons.
577.
by not2b 4y ago
The alpha particles don't cause the chain reaction. Neutrons do, and they are a good deal harder to shield than alpha particles. The rate of spontaneous fission is very low but once it gets started, in a critical mass it will keep grow
578.
by not2b 4y ago
Because Meta open sourced it, and because PyTorch caught on, hopefully some of those laid off people can continue to work on it and also market themselves as PyTorch experts.
579.
by not2b 4y ago
Some restrictions might be appropriate, but a lot of people don't have the savings to buy even a small house and need inexpensive places to rent, so more in-law apartments in cities would help a lot.
580.
by not2b 4y ago
But they don't have to do that. They can choose to sue spyware vendors and not sue security researchers who have technically violated the same provision.
581.
by not2b 4y ago
But they treat pregnant women, and somethings things go wrong. Very wrong. The procedures to deal with incomplete miscarriages are the same as for abortion. Delaying such procedures can have horrible consequences. Some Catholic hospitals ha
582.
by not2b 4y ago
People keep saying in this thread "there is nothing stopping people from using the same method" to do something else! I think that this is an irrelevant criticism. This is a valid attempt to minimize the amount of information coll
583.
by not2b 4y ago
Only on the same day. Everything is reset the next day.
584.
by not2b 4y ago
The number of unique visits in a day is the number of total visits minus the number of repeat visits from the same users, so they need something like this to get an accurate count. You can't produce the number without information on re
585.
by not2b 4y ago
The competition between gcc and clang has made both compilers better. At this point, it is easy to construct examples that will make either of the two compilers look a lot better than the other. I think it is best for users if they continue
586.
by not2b 4y ago
Nonblocking assignments in hardware description languages (like Verilog or VHDL) work a lot like this. For example always @(posedge clk) begin A <= B; B <= A; end swaps A and B on each positive clock edge.
587.
by not2b 4y ago
Wilson, liberal? Besides nearly eradicating the 1st Amendment, he was a promoter of the KKK and did his best to reverse any gains Black Americans had made that hadn't already been erased.
588.
by not2b 4y ago
He also owns less than half of SpaceX. But SpaceX's management is probably just fine with him going off and focusing on Twitter, they can do fine without him playing an active role.
589.
by not2b 4y ago
Programming defensively in this way is possible but has a huge cost (extra saves and restores). The caller is supposed to be able to trust that certain registers persist across the call. If it can't, it has to save everything to memory
590.
by not2b 4y ago
Max Barry's "Jennifer Government" does a much better job of this kind of satire.
591.
by not2b 4y ago
Compilers have moved away from parser generators in favor of hand-written recursive descent parsers in many cases, and the main reason has been to produce high-quality error messages. In the special case of C++, another problem has been tha
592.
by not2b 4y ago
But modern fuzzers aren't open-loop, they are coverage directed, adjusting their inputs to increase coverage. As the article points out, this works best if leaf functions are fuzzed; difficult to reach corners still might not be found.
593.
by not2b 4y ago
Wow. I suppose the downvoters have never heard of what happened to the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
594.
by not2b 4y ago
I'm not confident that they will get it right, or that they will apply it fairly; reducing the reach of the boss's tweets won't go over well.
595.
by not2b 4y ago
If the person is a professional, lying is a huge risk, as in the end of a career even if not convicted.
596.
by not2b 4y ago
Any meddling? Like when people of one ethnic group use social media to organize a massacre of another group (as has happened in a number of countries)? Social media have correctly tried to suppress that, and I worry about what happens when
597.
by not2b 4y ago
This might be what Elon is thinking, but some of his fans will be bitterly disappointed if he executes on it and no one sees their tweets any more because they are hateful. How can they own the libs if the libs don't see their attacks
598.
by not2b 4y ago
It's already the legal standard in many places that a court doesn't just accept evidence like a photo or a video. Typically the photographer testifies under penalty of perjury that they were there and can be questioned about the c
599.
by not2b 4y ago
They could make a dirty bomb, but it would contaminate their own land for hundreds or thousands of years. So not worth it.
600.
by not2b 4y ago
Yes, how do we know that visual rather than verbal information is even being processed? I can get a decent image from Stable Diffusion or Dall-E from a pure text prompt, and if that's added to a very basic scribble and we do img2img a

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