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by rdtsc 9mo ago
But if you’re plan on building a fleet of cars operating all over the country or the world, do you want to model them after the careful driver, who has awareness about the situation (school, drop off/pickup hours, etc) or say “what the
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
That's my thinking as well. Taken in some abstract scenario, all those steps seems very reasonable, and in that abstract scenario we can even say it would do better than an average human would. But that is missing the overall context t
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Well at that point we might as well say it's gremlins that you summoned, so who knows, there are no laws about gremlins hot-wiring cars. If you summoned them, are they _your_ gremlins, or do they have their own agency. How guilty are y
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
You could first measure the perf impact of the fence instruction and then subtract that out? But yeah I guess it may not matter much for quick and dirty calibration loop. I found somewhere ( https://aloiskraus.wordpress.com/2
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Notice that in the Skylake Client microarchitecture the RDTSC instruction counts at the machine’s guaranteed P1 frequency independently of the current processor clock (see the INVARIANT TSC property), and therefore, when running in Int
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
I like that one as well. I just rewatched it again. One of the trappers in the movie is Mikhail Tarkovsky and I just learned he is actually the nephew nephew Andrei Tarkovsky, the film director.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Start-ups and venture-capital investment could begin to flow to lower-tax states; the next hub of technological innovation may end up being seeded in Austin or Miami instead of Silicon Valley. There is another agent (group of agents) i
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> people appeal to the internet, terrified they’re hindering their careers by striking the wrong balance; they seek advice from job coaches ... They do? It seems strange to me people are terrified about this and they need coaching about
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> did you feel really smart putting that totally made up "because people often leaves guns in their cars" in there? I can’t tell if you think people obviously do leave guns in their car, and GP should know better than add the p
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Prisons are hell on earth, so after his release, he will murder first person on sight and he will be back in no time > So smart What should have been done instead?
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
The criminals know this as well, of course.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
If high profile enough they may find some excuse to arrest a US or EU citizen then “exchange” them.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> I wonder why that is. My guess is that it's just a symptom of the same thing that causes everyone to stop buying colorful cars, and instead default to a grayscale one: fear that being too outlandish or creative will turn off poten
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Since we’re going with Kyiv equivalence, presumably there not air raid sirens, veterans coming back from war, mobilization vans grabbing people from the streets. I just don’t see how “Kyiv is the exact same way” is plausible. > Like what
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Is everyone talking about domestic terrorism or Putin and the war in Ukraine? Or are you thinking the domestic terrorism is not that domestic and it’s Putin doing it?
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Does Europe overall feel and act like that’s the case though? It seems as if the European war has been pushed to the background recently, and most people kind of forgot about it. If you walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin does it look
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
That was my thought too. You’d have “loved ones” calling with their faces and voices asking for money in some emergency. But you’d also have plausible deniability as anything digital can be brushed off as “that’s not evidence, it could be A
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
It’s hard to say what really nice means. I have been using Ubuntu for more than a decade for all my home laptops. But I also researched models are very compatible with Linux. Also besides steam, some basic libreoffice spreadsheets and dev
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
That’s the first thing that jumped out to me. He was flagged multiple times, tweaked the listing and passed. But it may not be a free pass every time. Eventually multiple flags added up to something - a ban. So may not be Samsung per se as
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Exactly but it has to be recognized as such. It’s easy to fall into self delusion and make it into some “oh yeah this will be collapse of the US empire, finally” story. Not, that it also fun to go with that story, but as long as everyone in
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Agree, that's a good point. Perhaps many who would have voted remain just didn't think it was a chance it would pass so sort of stayed home because of that.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Rejoining is seen as politically too risky in the short term. As you observe, the UK would not get back its privileged position, Just curious, what privileges did it have? I can think of keeping it currency only.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> In June 2025, 56% of people in Great Britain thought it was the wrong decision: How many thought it was the right decision at the time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_U... Remain was 48
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Meanwhile, reporters were on the street asking people how they felt about the oncoming invasion and they all said some variation of "they've been threatening that forever, it's all talk, it won't happen". The U
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Think of it as catering to the fantasy of a geek's revenge. The keyword is fantasy. > so i built a tiny app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 seconds. asked claude, it spat out a working version in one prompt. s
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers. Are they mincing words here? By selling your data they mean they'll never package the raw chats and send them whoever is
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
Ah fair enough. I just couldn't see it. Thanks for explaining.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> Silent fix So did they fix it silently, without responding to the researcher, or they fixed the silent part where now user is made a aware that a website is trying to execute code on their machine.
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
> I wonder what Tolkien would say of so much of the symbolism from his novels being used to bootstrap a horrible dystopian control grid? What is that referring to? Some new LotR adaptation or some new game? > The way that orcs are deh
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by rdtsc 9mo ago
In a few years everyone will be talking like this -- humans and LLMs alike. We're not there yet but our LLMs masters will train us soon enough. I am only half-joking. Kids talking to LLMs to get homework done, people use it for therapy

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