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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
It's probably a coincidence. Having worked for federal judges I can tell you that, by and large, they make a point of paying no attention to that kind of stuff.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
That’s one set of reasons. But you might also choose to use a computer because you need something fine faster, cheaper, or in a larger scale than humans could do it—but where human-level accuracy is acceptable.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Yeah. It would be pretty funny if an alien reader of the plaque concluded that 1 refers to the actual length of the line between the two circle thingies and concluded, therefore, that we're only a few cm tall.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro nails it, as far as I'm concerned: This sounds like a bit of a riddle! Here's how to think about it: If you can dry all the towels at the same time: For example, if you have a large enough dryer or enough space on
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
I think that GP's point is that you could accomplish the same thing by simply having separate functions with different names, signatures, and return types.
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by pdabbadabba 1y ago
Seems exactly correct to me. And certainly as good as the average human. What am I missing? I guess it could just say “it doesn’t make sense to talk about a literal pound courage which is an abstract concept.” But the answer already clearly
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
What's wrong with the em-dash? That's just...the typographically correct dash AFAIK.
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I'm not ignorant of the legal incentives in the U.S. and I'm not saying people never marry for those reasons. But the post I was responding to was making a much stronger generalization. Most people who marry in the U.S. also do
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
> People get married in the states because of the law That's at least vastly overstated, and probably just false. I'm an American living in a major urban center and I don't think I know anybody for whom the decision to get
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
If what you say is literally true: yes, I think you probably are the only one!
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
That's what I do. And I still don't even bother to charge most nights. If you live in a relatively urban area and don't do a lot of driving that is more than adequate.
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
On the one hand, that seems problematic. But on the other, it seems cherry-picked: For the U.S., it generates a picture of JFK. For Russia/USSR, it gives Stalin. For India, it gives Ghandi. For South Africa it gives Nelson Mandela. For
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
But why would these not be places already served by terrestrial wireless internet service providers? It seems like it would be much easier and generally more attractive to serve locations like this using, for example, 5 GHz. Normally, the l
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
He could be! Popes pick their new names, after all. But yeah, he'd probably pick "Innocent" or something less amusing.
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I will remember Pizzaballa forever for two reasons: 1. Great name. 2. After October 7, he offered to trade himself for Hamas's hostages. [1] [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jerusalem-catholic...
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Well, I'm working on a project now where we would absolutely have needed to recruit at least one additional entry-level dev if we didn't instead have an LLM to generate a few thousand lines of python to orchestrate some basic DB i
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I continue to be baffled by this kind of sentiment. I realize that today's LLM's aren't perfect. But, meanwhile, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT o3-mini-high are out there doing the jobs of multiple junior devs for just a few d
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Point taken, of course. But the fact that emerging technologies (or technologies that people wish would emerge) are often overhyped is not exactly an argument that "commercially viable fusion electricity still remains a looooong way
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Why is that the correct interpretation? It seems like another would be: "This is a ~33% improvement over a record set only three seeks ago. Innovation is rapidly accelerating to a point where plasma can be contained indefinitely."
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
'Gestalt,' like 'pajamas,' is also now an English-language word. (Though, admittedly, I think people use it with some level of awareness that it is borrowed from German. So it's different from 'pajamas' in
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
> has anyone else noticed that Stephenson loves the word "firmament", not just in this book This is the ultimate tangent but yes, I had noticed that. In fact, I was also listening to an interview with Reid Hoffman the other day
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Because your comment was posted 9 hours ago, I have no idea what view you think is wrong. Could you explain what the incorrect view is and — ideally — what’s wrong with it?
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
> the cites you have are all based on speculation and vague allegations by US officials Totally untrue. It was also confirmed by officials from affected companies as well as Cybersecurity monitoring companies. There is quite a bit more d
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I'm tempted to say: what's the point if you've preemptively disregarded it as made up "American propaganda." But here you go anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I'm not sure where GP's 25% comes from. But there have been various assessments that China intends to "reunify" with Taiwan by 2030. [1] Xi Xinping has also instructed the PLA to be prepared to invade by 2027. [2] If you
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Assuming you're in the U.S., the FCC has adopted new broadband labeling transparency requirements meant to address exactly this sort of thing. They went into effect last year. https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
Actually about 20 W — if you ignore the 80 W used by the rest of the body (which seems debatable). And clearly far more than this was required to 'train' the human brain to the level of intelligence we have today.[1] But this stil
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
> They rarely have any good original ideas. Other than IaaS and online retail. Lol. Is that all?? If you have to have only two good original ideas, you could do a lot worse.
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
I think these were two different things. It was Starship that reentered (successfully) at a lower angle of attack, but it was the Super Heavy Booster that was supposed to attempt the chopsticks landing.
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by pdabbadabba 2y ago
This is right. But I'd add that the fact that the speaker is the German defense minister adds an additional layer of meaning. Ordinarily such a person would not be expected to give such an initial assessment without careful considerati

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