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811.
by nullc 2y ago
The way it works is that their margin is essentially fixed, so they drive wasteful spending to increase profits. It's worse for all of us because we have to pay for both the waste and the profits.
812.
by nullc 2y ago
Four words: Diesel engine fuel injection.
813.
by nullc 2y ago
Another reason to never give companies your phone number is because as soon as you do simswappers will be able to take over your account-- seems once a company knows a phone number they will simply be unable to resist "recovering&quo
814.
by nullc 2y ago
You know what also causes low police reports? Police dissuading people from making them or refusing to take them, and people not bothering to contact police because they believe (correctly or otherwise) the police won't do anything ab
815.
by nullc 2y ago
Freaking Poe's law. :)
816.
by nullc 2y ago
I lost a little chunk of flesh to a pulsed laser, didn't even know I was injured immediately-- the wound didn't hurt until later. Clearly the solution is laser ignition of napalm-- don't want to accidentally catch the drone o
817.
by nullc 2y ago
Thanks for being frank. The reason it's a popular target is because it's such an embarrassment, denying it or diminishing it makes it more powerful as a war drum. It makes it more excusable for the drummers to exaggerate it, to t
818.
by nullc 2y ago
> I remember when Bob Lee was murdered in SF and everyone came out of the woodwork claiming it’s the supposedly violent mentally ill homeless people who clearly must have been responsible (it wasn’t). ... not so much different We can go
819.
by nullc 2y ago
Thank you. I think what you're saying is particularly true on this subject-- the people with skeptical or negative remarks are likely people who they or their families have personally suffered harm. When someone denies your own exper
820.
by nullc 2y ago
Most policy is set by gut because we lack the data and lack a sufficient understanding of the limitations of the data we have. Sometimes we launder gut through truthy data strawmen, to our detriment.
821.
by nullc 2y ago
The message you are responding to did not say anything about homeless people in general, nor anything about race, nor economic standing. Being a victim of violence is entirely compatible with being a perpetrator of violence. I believe that
822.
by nullc 2y ago
That's what the article was written for-- and it's one valid perspective on it. To those whose lives have been irreparably harmed by the violent mentally ill people inhabiting SF's streets and parks while the police stand idl
823.
by nullc 2y ago
I find that rogue poopers are most effectively addressed with loitering munitions. It's well known that immediate feedback is critical in animal conditioning.
824.
by nullc 2y ago
One difference is that a little upfront work to download the movie is approximately 500 infinities better than the thing glitching out or stopping during playback either due to the streaming platform or your "99.99%" ISP deciding
825.
by nullc 2y ago
Sure but why not, say, an XYZ or XYZT gantry instead? There are a lot of downsides in 'arms' -- stacking all the axis hurts their speed, stiffnes, accuracy, increase complexity (e.g. in pathing, limiting speed, restricting to safe
826.
by nullc 2y ago
Well I think you might kind of be making my point-- not because I agree with you: I don't, I think man's ongoing impact on the atmosphere and climate is an important issue. And collectivist humanity is smart enough and wealthy e
827.
by nullc 2y ago
In the US and UK there is generally no duty to aid. And a duty to aid seems like bad policy, in the sense that it invites litigation over the "at risk" question. It's easy to make judgements after the fact. It's also s
828.
by nullc 2y ago
I hope this means a move away from standards that result in serious usability impacts for moderate improvements. Examples I've personally experienced is that many/most driers now available require multiple attempts to get clothes
829.
by nullc 2y ago
or a kite. It's not like the monkey deployed special monkey skills beyond "occupy space while being electrically conductive".
830.
by nullc 2y ago
4 is still though fundamentally limited: you need a minimum six DOF to position all three translational and rotational freedoms. The human arm has 7, and I think a case can be made the smart software would reduce the problems from having
831.
by nullc 2y ago
In ~2022 myself and a dozen other former and current volunteer Bitcoin contributors were sued in the UK by a shell company controlled by a fraudster/imposter. The plaintiff alleged that they had 'lost' (through no fault or ne
832.
by nullc 2y ago
If you're going to policy reason on gut, that's fine-- most policy is set that way. But we shouldn't disguise gut as "science" and make it unquestionable or just offensive to debate. (Or instantly resorting to pers
833.
by nullc 2y ago
> This is just not true. Plenty of regressions have coefficients that arent statistically distinct from zero. Sure. But you are responding to something I didn't claim, or at least didn't intend to claim. If you throw in a spu
834.
by nullc 2y ago
Your comment might sound trite to some but is not without a basis. I recently followed a rabbithole on media reports that the recent California wildfires are due to climate change. The underlying study driving the report worked like this:
835.
by nullc 2y ago
I think it's useful to think of the atmosphere as a battery, when we burn fossil fuels we discharge it gradually by taking O2 from the air and converting it to CO2 via the 'fuel'. You can extend this to an idea of there be
836.
by nullc 2y ago
but AI is telling you what 'people' think-- not a person-- but a blended up mismash of people, like the move Dark City, then strapped into a torture chair to diminish wrongthought. But it's people. or peopleish. It was made
837.
by nullc 2y ago
The people most likely to offer that service are the same people most likely to ferment useless conflict.
838.
by nullc 2y ago
HTTP streaming is pretty much inherently high latency, or at least none of the software stack is particularly agreeable. I don't think it's fair to say that Opus was made for that purpose in any way that any other general purpose
839.
by nullc 2y ago
Floor wax and dessert topping, all in one! More substantively this is too big a drill bit for the pilot holes for the screw size it fits... so it won't act as a tool-change timesaver. Also, forget phillips for new construction. Torx i
840.
by nullc 2y ago
Clicked this to tell you that you need to use a bijective arithmetic coder only to find you already were. Good work! So the next obvious step would be to run the LLM with all exact integer arithmetic so there is no breakage from rounding er

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