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by not2b 3y ago
Yep. I have UHC through work. I'm on an expensive medication and UHC requires that I order it through Optum, so they keep more of the money. At least neither of the doctors I usually see work for them, so I don't have that conflic
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by not2b 3y ago
Electric cars make sense. Having Apple build electric cars, when they've never built anything like that before? That's far less clear.
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by not2b 3y ago
It appears that they are trying to prevent generating accurate images of a real person, because they are worried about deepfakes, and this produces the blurring. While Yennefer is a fictional character she's played by a real actress on
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by not2b 3y ago
It's aimed directly at them (and OpenAI and Microsoft) so they have to honor it if they don't want a legal battle. But there's nothing stopping others from doing benchmarking.
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by not2b 3y ago
It's considerably less work than maintaining the grass lawn that it replaced, which needed to be mowed and weeded. Also, you use quotes here, but I'm not sure who you're quoting, it wasn't me.
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by not2b 3y ago
We took out our front lawn and replaced it with a drought tolerant garden with redwood chips, succulents and other drought tolerant plants. It looks much better than it used to look, and we got part of it paid for by money from the Santa Cl
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by not2b 3y ago
There are antitrust laws. They just need to enforce them properly.
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by not2b 3y ago
The fact that one company repeatedly bought out its competition and now owns, according the the article, 45 dating apps probably has a lot to do with why they suck. Instead of competing by trying to be better, just buy out the rivals, gut t
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by not2b 3y ago
If their sales are very low, it would make no financial sense for Tesla to build out a supercharger network, at least not all over the country, and people would have trouble getting service for what would be an obscure foreign car in the lo
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by not2b 3y ago
It would be more correct to say that they have officially interpreted a current law (the Telephone Consumer Protection Act) to clarify that AI-Generated voices in robocalls violate that law, which seems reasonable.
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by not2b 3y ago
Improving operating margin helps raise the stock price: the company then can at least temporarily produce the same revenue for lower cost. But firing employees is only one way to do it. Executive compensation is now so bloated that reducing
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by not2b 3y ago
Congrats for demonstrating her point (which was that commenters often claim that anyone who ever benefitted from tech in any way must not criticize tech).
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by not2b 3y ago
I know, /s, but: If you have someone who aimlessly kills products and fires people but lacks vision or a decent plan, you could find someone much cheaper, and save tens of millions on executive compensation. If operating margin is so c
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by not2b 3y ago
People suffer consequences for their worst day all the time. Ordinary workers who engage in this kind of conduct usually get fired, often followed by police investigation, and they aren't judged for the days that they didn't bring
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by not2b 3y ago
He said he was drunk when he posted the rant calling for slow death of most of the San Francisco city council, so of course he didn't send it to corporate PR to check. This kind of behavior shouldn't be acceptable for the head of
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by not2b 3y ago
Evidently he was allowed until he was no longer allowed.
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by not2b 3y ago
You dropped "where it is irreplaceable". The traditional hedge in such places has been to use a more stable currency, like dollars or euros, as a hedge if the national currency is subject to hyperinflation.
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by not2b 3y ago
No, it doesn't. Shifting by a wider amount than the width of the type, or an equal amount, is undefined in C and C++. That was done because different processors handled the case differently, meaning that any specification would give on
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by not2b 3y ago
The case with multiple increments in an expression might produce different results depending on optimization level, perhaps not in this case but in other cases. That is because the compiler is allowed to use any order, so the order it picks
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by not2b 3y ago
The quiz is exactly right: yes, the answers are all "I don't know" because the behavior is either implementation defined or undefined for each of them, and a couple of these reflect mistakes that I have had to point out in co
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by not2b 3y ago
I knew all these. I came from a time when portable code had to work on an incredibly diverse range of platforms with many different compilers, some proprietary, and all of these corresponded to real issues, not language lawyer nitpicking.
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by not2b 3y ago
I don't think I'm you. :-)
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by not2b 3y ago
I worked with Hans Reiser in the late 90s. He was a contractor with the company that I was working for, and he was doing that (working on logic synthesis for FPGAs) by day and trying to start his company at night. He was very passionate abo
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by not2b 3y ago
And even that application is leading to this abuse which kills the benefit: Person A: ChatGPT, expand these bullet points into a ten page presentation. (sends to person B) Person B: ChatGPT, scan this ten page presentation and give me the m
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by not2b 3y ago
You are saying "leads to" but the data just say "is correlated with". As the article points out, assuming causality can't really be justified, because of selection effects. For example, it may be that having lots of
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by not2b 3y ago
And Debian releases are named for Toy Story characters.
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by not2b 3y ago
That might be true of many of those buried there. But the story describes someone who wasn't unidentified; he was buried with his ID in his pocket and his family had been looking for him for months. At best incompetence, but given the
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by not2b 3y ago
I haven't taken a position either way. Media interviews would not count with me. Research papers that survived peer review and were published would count.
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by not2b 3y ago
Please explain what you mean by "do your own other research". Searching with Google or scanning social media posts by people you agree with is not research. Someone with no education in the field isn't qualified to do researc
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by not2b 3y ago
"people in charge" doesn't just include elected officials, it also includes heads of corporations. Checks and balances has to apply to them as well, meaning that regulation is necessary.

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