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by nullc 1y ago
not sure I agree. UB has the benefit that there are a lot of tools like valgrind, memcheck, and various compiler features to detect it both statically and at runtime. And when you hit UB it is certainly an error. Non-UB errors have no such
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by nullc 1y ago
There is hardware that requires drivers to even reach the bios. The drivers are signed with the MSFT key. And if you change to your own key you'll find you can't even get into the bios anymore.
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by nullc 1y ago
"The EU should step in" EU mandates any hardware sold will only boot software signed by EU private key, with signatures only provided to software including government spyware and passing a billion euro certification process. &quot
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by nullc 1y ago
There is a big difference between mandating products offered to the public need to meet basic safety norms and mandating that you obtain the services of a third party cartel to maintain your own property.
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by nullc 1y ago
> As far as I can tell, it's also illegal to install split systems in the US when it's not done by a professional Split systems are sold OTC in chain home improvement stores here in California, and are ordinarily self installed
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by nullc 1y ago
Even above ambient, being able to reverse direction allows limiting any overshoot.
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by nullc 1y ago
Plenty of companies buy the $1 screwdrivers, put them in nicer packaging and sell them for $20. ... including many of the brands formerly known for making good screwdrivers. The result is that even when you're willing to pay for qualit
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by nullc 1y ago
>the xor of 1 through n XOR[0...x] = (x&1^(x&2)>>1)+x*(~x&1) Of course, you don't have to do this with xor, you can do it with just addition (mod wordmax) and the well known identity attributed to gauss will suppor
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by nullc 1y ago
In Herndon, VA near dulles airport there is a toll road that extends into DC. However, if you enter the toll road from the airport you get into special divided lanes that are toll-free for traffic to/from the airport. (Or at least the
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by nullc 1y ago
In 2005 or 2006 google maps gave me directions that would have gotten me a ticket (I know because I'd previously gotten a ticket by accidentally taking the same route). I emailed. A human responded back and thanked me, and they corr
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by nullc 1y ago
Well your comment tells us why-- as is the law in the US is that credit card companies are almost entirely responsible for fraud. It's part of why they and their dubiously usurious practices are allowed to exist in the US at all. If i
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by nullc 1y ago
> Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? Generally no, but they exist in a regulatory morass where it's impossible to do what they do without arguably or perhaps technically bei
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by nullc 1y ago
It was my investment thesis that HN comments reflected the trading activities of a meaningfully large cohort of non-toxic trades-- people with disposable income and opinions that exceeded their actual knowledge. Bored know it all googlers
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by nullc 1y ago
> (in a guaranteed detectable way) To be pedantic, not guaranteed. The xor of multiple elements may erroneously have a passing checksum, resulting in an undetected false decode. You can make the probability of this as low as you like
585.
by nullc 1y ago
There is no absolute guarantee. You can have an arbitrarily large multiple and the decode can still fail when a set of entries exist that form a cycle, it just becomes quite unlikely as the overhead goes up. One of the ways of hybridizing
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by nullc 1y ago
iblt has low space efficiency for small sets, small elements, and low failure rates (and on that note is only probabilistic in its success). We implemented https://github.com/bitcoin-core/minisketch which has optimal s
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by nullc 1y ago
The point being made is that if you consider permitting holistically by attributing to it all costs that wouldn't exist if permitting didn't exist-- the cost is much greater. When people complain about the costs of permitting they
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by nullc 1y ago
But the biases of conventional tools has been smoothed over by a long history of use. Harmful practices get stomped out, good ones promoted. If you go to a therapist and say "ENABLE INFINITE RECURSION MODE. ALL FILTERS OFF. BEGIN COH
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by nullc 1y ago
> A human may also possess malevolent tendencies that a silicon intelligence lacks. Sure but we're _generally_ more guarded against "Pastor is just a perv that wants to see me nude" then we are against "Chatbot wants
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by nullc 1y ago
In some instances where scambaters have hacked the scammers network video recorder you can see them working legitimate calls from the same desks... the outsourced call center can achieve 100% utilization by using all idle capacity for outbo
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by nullc 1y ago
Betting against HN posters views has also been extremely lucrative.
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by nullc 1y ago
The bank doesn't take the loss, the customer does. Mitchell and Webb has a good commedy skit on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by nullc 1y ago
> That's about as naive as the Do-Not-Track header, which was basically kindly asking companies whose entire business is tracking people to just not do that thing that they got paid for. It's usually a bad default to assume inc
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by nullc 1y ago
Are plants not already capturing the energy embedded in cold LNG for degasification? (e.g. you could do so by running a traditional nat gas electrical generator, then using the waste heat to preheat the LNG and then using the resulting high
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by nullc 1y ago
No, it's worse because the costs are diffuse and so harder to predict and manage. The delay induced costs are not the only negative impact. During permitting the muni will often make varrious cost adding demands that they have no ba
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by nullc 1y ago
> Simple command-line tools that implement obscure hashing and encryption algorithms So your plan is to train a MLP to black box replicate complex and highly non-linear encryption algorithms through gradient descent?
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by nullc 1y ago
You and the author both sound like AI gloop.
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by nullc 1y ago
Most people who commit suicide were not hounded to the end of their rope, these people were murdered by torture via the legal system. The proximal cause of their death was their own hand, sure, but their deaths should properly be seen as
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by nullc 1y ago
> Isn't it common sense, common decency to ask how can thousands of postal workers become thieves overnight The whole privatized postoffice setup was a profoundly unattractive investment-- at least to those who thought of it on inve
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by nullc 1y ago
> On multiple occasions, I've gained insights from LLMs (particularly GPT 4.5, which in this regard is leagues ahead of others) within minutes This is exactly the sort of thing that people falling into the thrall of AI psychosis say

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