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by sagebird 7y ago
It’s kind of interesting- the asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement. If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars instead of 5, they will let you undo it. On the other hand, if the matter is reversed
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by sagebird 7y ago
I jumped into reading this note without looking at the url or author and near the end I was wondering who wrote it -- Then I saw the reference to the SPI driver which was a dead give away for James Bowman. I am continuously impressed with h
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by sagebird 7y ago
Zooming into the grid representation of 64KB of memory reveals some fun artifacts. Tiny o’s appear kind of regularly. I don’t know what kind of resampling would account for that... maybe a mistake or a counterintuitive way to shift error am
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by sagebird 7y ago
I’m interested in presentation detection and enhancement in general. For example, if a person is standing in front of a mostly static chalkboard for an hour, there is a ton of information there about the writing on the board. The frames cou
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by sagebird 7y ago
I can't believe no one at his company stopped him from posting this video/blog. I respect the founder’s rights to think whatever he wants, but this can't be good for business. Maybe I’m wrong though- perhaps it will become vi
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by sagebird 7y ago
This founder thinks his customers are experiencing Mandela Effects when they think their customer data changed: Here is a youtube video of him explaining this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUPxDLMCUKM It does not appear
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Quantum Physics, the Mandela Effect and perceived changes to your entree data(necs.com)
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by sagebird 7y ago
Lotus 1-2-3 had for loops from the beginning, version one even, far before notes, domino, lotusscript, Windows or OLE/DDE existed. Here is a manual for version two, page 126 describes the {for} loop. This wasn’t some hidden feature, lo
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by sagebird 7y ago
The timing thing is always at play, I agree but I’m not buying the narrative that Slack had less work to do because of work done by Socialtext, Jive, Atlassian and others. Whatever desktop technology they use to bundle chrome (eg Electron),
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by sagebird 7y ago
It's disgusting that you had to raise a shitstorm on their internal support, then on twitter and then hacker news to get your chargeback. Will others be savvy enough to raise this attention? I would rather that a regulator went to bat
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by sagebird 7y ago
Re: In 2012, when Butterfield was convinced he’d failed, Braccia was steadfast, said Bradley Horowitz, who put some of his own money in the game company. That’s probably because Braccia recalled what happened the last time Butterfield made
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by sagebird 7y ago
If I ask someone to place a diamond in a safe at Fort Knox, and then publish the name and password to retrieve the diamond on a billboard, is the diamond safe?
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by sagebird 7y ago
What if I made a web server that returns a file that has the same content as the base64 encoded requested name? For example Echo.com/SGVsbG8.txt would return a utf8 text file with the content “hello”. If a smart ass sent a certain link
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by sagebird 7y ago
Re: Even when given free tools to access anything they wanted, less than 5% of the subjects actually accessed uncensored content. I am not particularly concerned by a low interest in general( if we ignore the other flaws and accept this stu
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by sagebird 7y ago
It’s disgusting how little freedom there is in this area. Even if a doctor wanted to do this for you, they would face criticism from their peers. It’s a form of doublespeak when the messaging is “early detection is key” but you can’t actual
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by sagebird 7y ago
I seek to help Qiu Zhanxuan achieve freedom again. I think it is somewhat unlikely, but I have decided that the best thing I can do is petition US Universities to put Chinese student applications to US universities on hold until Qiu Zhanxua
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by sagebird 7y ago
My joke about what an honest cookie prompt would read: “We use cookies to remember that one time you accidentally accepted our cookies.”
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by sagebird 7y ago
Perhaps the halting problem being solved would imply that a time machine, if possible, would be solved as well? EG.. Imagine a program that halts if a program that iterates over every possible combination of a machines includes a time machi
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by sagebird 7y ago
When I was helping to translate Playboy articles into Braille (around 2010) I only ever translated articles that generally had nothing to do with sex. The articles are not too much different than you would find in a normal mag. I don’t thin
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by sagebird 7y ago
I used to volunteer with an organization in Philadelphia for the blind and vision impaired. I read Playboy articles to a blind co-worker who entered it as Braille into a computer program. They had a press as well, to produce Braille documen
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by sagebird 7y ago
Re: complete IBM-PC-to-browser- I am not sure about that. I think that the Holy C compiler only emits a small subset of all of the x86/64 Instruction set.
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by sagebird 7y ago
I don't like running TempleOS on hardware or in a full fledged VM(Seems like overkill). I would like to make an alternate virtual machine to run TempleOs programs on, in Javascript using a Canvas element for UI. I am unsure if there ar
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by sagebird 7y ago
This is exactly what I am getting at. For the most extreme example, consider a swarm of nano bots hovering in the atmosphere that implement a computer that can understand and directly execute algorithms spoken in human speech transmitted th
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by sagebird 7y ago
What if you managed a non-EOL OS, like Windows 10, but you had inside information that there were multiple active ongoing exploits? You might say you would disconnect them from the internet. But I think it comes down to blame. No one would
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by sagebird 7y ago
It seems like a cute and irrelevant distinction that electronic software would be published in a book. If researchers created a computer that processed information using proteins in plant cells instead of electrons, and such a computer coul
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by sagebird 7y ago
I would not be shocked if Windows XP had less vulnerabilities than Windows 10. Also, who cares? How would your behavior change if you learned one was more or less vulnerable than the other?
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by sagebird 7y ago
You should care if it “too good” because it could be a sign of overfitting or tampering with data during analysis to reach a desired conclusion. Replication should shed some light here.
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by sagebird 7y ago
The use of machine learning needs to be explained. I’m half expecting it to boil down to “we evolved the neural nets until it perfectly separated the two groups” — overfitting “learning”.
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by sagebird 7y ago
I would like to see controls that make an attempt to differentiate psychogenic causes. IE if you paid 20 people who do not claim to have chronic fatigue syndrome but have depression to fake having chronic fatigue syndrome for two months- eg
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by sagebird 7y ago
The effects may be due to irrelevant artifacts: 1.) Pairs or more of people working on a task may declare themselves to be an organization and call themselves founders earlier than an individual. An individual may be more likely to wait un

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