radu_floricica

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by radu_floricica 2y ago
And, I'm saying this in the nicest way possible, gives you the right to make up rules on what I can do with my property? Measures as drastic as this need correspondingly dire reasons. You can call it "housing crisis", but the
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
> shepherding him through what one Recreation and Parks Department official described as the “arduous and achingly bureaucratic tasks” necessary just to be eligible for housing. I'm going to risk a political statement and say that t
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
That's an argument for a small government. Private entities are both much faster than current governments, and more careful with their money. And when they fail, you basically get free infrastructure (as part of the bankruptcy process)
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I did check the conversation thread before I commented. At the time, and without looking very carefully, this particular view seemed missing.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Well, they probably aren't permitted to smoke tobacco indoors. I honestly fail to see even the irony. "Company that makes hammers doesn't want you to use hammers all the time". It's a tool. But if I squint, I _can_
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I'll be the contrarian and say that I don't find anything wrong with this, and if I were a candidate I'd simply take this as useful information for the application process. They do encourage use of AI, but they're asking
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Sonnet's strength was always comprehending the problem and its context. It happened to also be pretty good at generating code, but what it actually made it its first really useful model was that it understood _what_ to code and how to
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
"maliciously interfering" does a lot of the lifting here. And if true, I hope that they didn't stop at firing him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I hate the kind of entitlement that makes people feel justified to destr
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
That's taking something that happened about a century ago and using it as an argument for the current situation. If you're looking for something much closer to home, look at how in the past half century unionized corporations were
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
It was never crazy, just... early. Not being able to hit Pause on a medical issue will probably seem on par with doing healthcare without antibiotics. We simply happen to live in the years before that.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
When you're talking about "evil" and percentages of life spent in jail, I'm going to ask for a more direct causal link to harm than just "demonstration is trivial and left to the reader". 1s and 0s can be sendi
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Found this thread yesterday. Finished the book yesterday as well. It was well worth it.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Yes, there is a risk, just like every other activity in the human society. Since currently the risk is so small as to be unmeasurable, I refuse to worry about it and don't really understand why we need a conversation about this - other
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I was a bit "flamy" with my first comment, sorry. I'm honestly not very into podcasts - short attention span? But if by any chance you have a written source I'll probably take a peek.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
All this counts into the "I'm usually very pro-tech". The point I'm contesting here is pure ideological regulation, without numbers behind it. Ban on plastic bags is actually the perfect example. You can calculate the nu
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I'm incredibly pro-tech as a rule, but my first reaction here was a groan. We'll probably be forced to use plastic replacements that are 100x more expensive and come with a new set of problems. I hate it with a fiery passion when
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I don't know there's a teapot on Mars either. But it's an easy guess.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Sounds like they took a good concept and cut way too many corners. Hopefully they didn't ruin it for the rest.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I mean, it's to be expected. Most driving infrastructure is designed for human eyes and brains, including flashing lights on police cars. If you redesign the driving system from scratch to work on silicon and not brain, you pretty much
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
A booster stage solves exactly that. I noticed in the launch yesterday that the booster was a hog - it was bigger, but it also had a lot of engines and a lot of work to do, so it burned through its fuel faster. This particular configuration
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
I'm working on my PPL at the moment, and I found some pretty fascinating facts about certifications. Apparently there's a very very sharp divide between anything that can be constructed as "commercial" flight, aka somebo
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
He's probably suggesting it was an indirect political move in a power struggle, so we should not take it as gospel that Austrians chose to end nuclear. The way, for example, democrats postponed the covid vaccine for about a month to wi
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
The disease is independent of context. It's about taking a political club and using it to hit anybody you don't like. And we're far from being immune to it even now. The correct reaction is to identify people using this parti
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
"advance" and "groundbreaking work" is far from enough. Those two basically invented a couple of new sciences. "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" is the paper that made them famous, and it&#x27
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
They're pretty small for a commercial reactor. But on the other hand nobody stops us from building them in parallel. The point is that they break existing rules: we'll stop counting reactors, for one thing, because numbers will me
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
Is there not wider EU regulation dealing with responsible disclosure? I know for a fact that in Romania you can do that, if and only if you follow certain steps (definitely not public disclosure after 3 days, obviously), and I _think_ the s
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
This is why I don't like metaphors :)) In any case, password or not is not the problem. EU law actually has protections for white hat hackers, even when they actually hack. I do have a friend who does this regularly, he's been in
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
Are they? I think it's more of a policy issue. When I said phones are starting to be confiscated by default I didn't even mean tech crimes. Many incidents nowadays can be better investigated if you have access to messenger apps an
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
An edge case would be a hidden URL. Publicly accessible, but not publicly available. That's more or less the same as a rope tied between posts, with the posts maybe felled by the wind. It's a good argument that it's a misunde
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by radu_floricica 3y ago
I'm not at my best to argue this, since it's evening here and I had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. But my first instinct is to comment on how the case you're describing is at the edge of the law, where things are na

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