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> This is probably why savings here matter a lot more (or at least in a very different way) than the battery weight. Wouldn't that make it worse or just ... different. Before this the unsprung weight wouldn't have had a motor i
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> October 23, 2023: They confirm receipt and are working on taking action. After this date and up until January 2, 2024, there were various back and forth emails trying to get Tata Motors to revoke the AWS keys. I am not sure if somethin
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1y ago
That's pretty neat. Thanks for pointing it out. The abstraction on top still async based and I agree it makes sense for Zig. But in general I don't like that abstraction. I like it when it's flipped around -- the abstraction
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> Feels like this violates zig “no hidden control flow” principle. A hot take here is that the whole async thing is a hidden control flow. Some people noticed that ever since plain callbacks were touted as a "webscale" way to d
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1y ago
Are payments "speech" though? Just like the Israeli govt thinks they are being "cute" with the "winks" so can other governments be "cute" with their interpretation of "speech".
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1y ago
> I'm so surprised there is so much pushback against this.. AWS is extremely expensive. Basic rationalization. People will go to extraordinary lengths to justify and defend the choices they made. It's a defense mechanism: if th
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1y ago
Now that the trick is out the gag order will say explicitly not to make the payment. Or specifically to make a “false flag” payment, tell them it’s the Italians.
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1y ago
Good points. And I'd say that also falls into the "put the money where the mouth is" category. We know where both of those things are for them, so we don't have to have any illusions or fantasies.
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1y ago
Good for them for putting their money where their mouth is and standing up for what they believe. Also, this is a golden opportunity for multi-billion dollar tech companies to also do the same and match or double the grant money in support
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> On July 7, the company dismissed the lawsuit against McNally instead. > Proven also made a highly unusual request: Would the judge please seal almost the entire court record—including the request to seal? Tough at first then running
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These things are ugly and take up a lot of space. They do have their fans which claim they do not generate that much traffic relative to their size since, they don't have that many people working there. For example, if they were replac
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> name literally comes from the Russian town of Asbest The other way around, since it's pretty much the reason the town exists, they named it after asbestos. It's not too unusual in the largest country in the world rich with mi
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1y ago
It is mostly performative. They do it so nobody can point fingers and accuse them of not doing it.
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Advent of Code is 12 days this year
(adventofcode.com)
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Thank you. That’s a great explanation.
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> Both Kris and Armando have PhDs in cryptography. The issues here are a lot more subtle than that wiki article makes it seem. That's sort of make it look worse then, doesn't it? The main issue isn't that subtle. Even the
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I like the style of the blog but a minor nit I'd change is have a definition what SSA is right at the top. It discusses SSA for quite a while "SSA is a property of intermediate representations (IRs)", "it's frequent
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They should have found someone who knows what they are doing or not implement it at all. We're talking about a company with a $1B+ yearly revenue here. They put their name behind it https://blog.cloudflare.com/introduci
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> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes It'
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Does the “don’t implement your own cryptography” advice apply to multi-billion companies, or it’s just for regular, garden variety developers? Some of the issues like validating input seem like should have been noticed. But of course one wo
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They do and they've had her for a while, but from what I understand that's "so last Tuesday" in the AI race. It was ok in the race with "Ok Google" and "Siri" but not competing with OpenAI, Anthropic,
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9s don’t have to drop if you increase the time period! “We still guarantee the same 9s just over 3450 years now”.
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> through September, Anthropic has spent more than 100% of its estimated revenue (based on reporting in the last year) on Amazon Web Services, spending $2.66 billion on compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue. Well I don't
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> included AI-generated testimony from a Burundian woman describing being raped by three men and left to die in 1993 […] has been taken down, as we believed it shows improper use of AI, and may pose risks regarding information integrity
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That could work. There is still a danger heretics would appear, so the inquisition would have to keep a watchful eye!
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> No deep-sea shenanigans around the Titanic wreck were revealed. Manley explains in his Twitter thread that “the camera had been configured to dump data onto an external storage device, so nothing was found from the accident dive.” Noth
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> Interesting, from what cultures have you noticed this? In what place, e.g. where is the new culture? New cultures: US and Western Europe. Old cultures/countries: Middle East, Eastern Europe.
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No I haven't and noticed someone else mentioned too. I'll have to see it or read the book. Thank you for the suggestion!
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> The odds of the counter revolution deciding to go exactly back on their grandparents original course, out of what is honestly quite a large space is possibilities, seems quite low to me Not if those are the only two known destinations
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> They are already doing that in professional settings. They are the training data. It's a self-reinforcing cycle. AI sucks up and barfs back up the same bland style and eventually books, articles, news will all look even more bland
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