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by olliej 3y ago
"To better address these techniques, we’re strengthening our policy to focus on this abusive behavior — producing content at scale to boost search ranking — whether automation, humans or a combination are involved" But this isn&#x
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by olliej 3y ago
There are plenty of things that are random, that are not uniformly random. The hardware RNGs that are used for physically based RNG are not uniform, including the great lava lamp wall or geiger counters, etc. The problem is if you are doing
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by olliej 3y ago
Nope, uniform is a description of the probabilities of a random distribution. The easiest example most people are aware of in practice is throwing two 6 sided dice vs one 12 sided dice. The outcome of both is random, but people seem to know
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by olliej 3y ago
I was always surprised at how easily you get biased sampling when generating random points despite all input - something I often saw students do was essentially normalize({2 rand() - 1, 2 rand() - 1, 2 rand() - 1}) or variations of that (wh
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by olliej 3y ago
I just never use Siri, every time I use it I feel like I still have to use very stilted and clearly enunciated speech, even though the speech transcription for voicemail can apparently deal with a drunk pilot flying at altitude with the win
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by olliej 3y ago
I'm curious to see how this turns out, but one thing I'm not sure I agree with is that lifetimes are confusing? I want to be clear here, it's been a few years since my job was coding in rust, but I found lifetimes to probably
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by olliej 3y ago
Having your children stop talking to you is not abuse, and trying to frame it as such is offensive to people who have been subjected to actual abuse. If your children have tried to stop talking to you, and you keep trying to contact them, a
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by olliej 3y ago
The whole idea of anti-monopoly laws is to prevent price fixing by market, and there are numerous (illegal) ways to do that: being a monopoly and using that position to set prices that are not representative of market value (both buying and
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by olliej 3y ago
All of the argument parsing functions are insanely large, at least most of the actual individual argument handling stuff is autogenerated. [edit: a lot of the older code involves huge single functions, webkit, etc are similar and I suspect
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by olliej 3y ago
Oh, I foolishly thought this might mean actually protecting data, not just "you can invade everyone's privacy as long as you don't [directly] sell it to china"
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by olliej 3y ago
because people are responding to the sudden surge of this one story, so keep seeing exactly the same near identical story from multiple different sources on multiple different sites, so have have already gotten tired of the same BS everywhe
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by olliej 3y ago
So for people who don't understand how government works: The governor does not create legislation, they simply sign or veto legislation the legislative branch passes. Another thing the story doesn't acknowledge: the donor in quest
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by olliej 3y ago
The irony of the US worrying about stuff like this when they spent years introducing security vulnerabilities into SSL and TLS for decades for "exported software" (esp. when that then became a flaw that undermined people in the US
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by olliej 3y ago
And also don’t use “modern” features like string_view that are memory unsafe by _design_.
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We frame SBF's crime as "just non violent fraud", but his fraud was targeted at people's retirement funds and life savings, so for many victims in the best case they lost any hope for the future - it's literally the
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by olliej 3y ago
Oh absolutely, but I realized another way to think about SBF's sentence: Imagine this scenario: 1. Scammer defrauds a person for $$$ 2. Scammer is caught 3. Scammer goes to jail 4. Scammer gets out 5. Scammer goes back
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by olliej 3y ago
I found this to be a really interesting article, both in the general "just because someone owns a majority of the company the board is not required to just do what they say because they represent the interests of all stockholders"
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And plenty of people have life sentences for non violent crimes that don’t even involve theft.
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The address here would presumably be the one where you can be physically served a lawsuit. My concern is that if I had an online business that I worked on at home, I still wouldn’t want my home address to be given out by my payment processo
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by olliej 3y ago
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, for political purposes. [merriam Webster] Taking out a communication cable is not that by any stretch of your quite substantial definitions below.
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by olliej 3y ago
I assume it's because MBA folk think layoffs and gouging existing customers with price surges (at least those who "can't easily leave") is a great way to create profits, and MBA folk are the ones the determine stock pric
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by olliej 3y ago
"temporarily" No, they just want the ability to spy without warrants, and the first step in that is making sure that spying is an option.
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by olliej 3y ago
I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.
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That was what I meant by "not allowed to sell/ship less". I guess this is a novel new way around trade agreements - just add costs that only meaningfully apply to external products (e.g. "a carbon tax for all products th
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by olliej 3y ago
The issue isn't "are the available now", it's were they practically available at the time reader was killed. At the time reader was killed there were a plethora of okay-ish options, but most were new, or lacked the usabi
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by olliej 3y ago
Afaict this is "you're in a regulated industry [whether or not it should be is irrelevant] but you're also not allowed to cease operation or leave that regulated industry, or you'll be subject to fines".
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by olliej 3y ago
Ok, I'm just trying to understand this: Korea passed a law that increased operating costs for twitch (and similar entities, twitch is just the relevant case here). Twitch responded by reducing those costs by reducing the resolution, wh
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by olliej 3y ago
I have no idea :-/
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Yeah I think you’d take the GSoC so you could have qdrant and gsoc on your cv, but also many folk do need a job to pay bills, and even an “unknown” company paying bills and being experience on your CV is better than Walmart (in my case The
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by olliej 3y ago
“Easy, just…” lol I do like the joke (and I appreciate you pointing out that in reality things aren’t necessarily _that_ simple), but as I understand it these programs (internships?) are targeted mostly at young folk/undergrads who are

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