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by saulrh 9y ago
To be sure, is this [1] the part of the regulation that's being invoked by that letter? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Fund_Transfer_Act#E...
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by saulrh 9y ago
Actually, seeing the diagonal stripes in the examples [1], maybe it'd be useful to have a mode that lets you rescale the axes to line the stripes up? If you're using this to inspect patterns, it seems to me that the most useful ti
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by saulrh 9y ago
If you make the sign red and octagonal you could even kill human drivers too! Or maybe if you slapped an illusory-motion pattern over something that looked like a dog, then people might swerve into the opposite lane to avoid it, double kill
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by saulrh 9y ago
The point is that the human brain is just as vulnerable to the adversarial attacks that people are claiming will be the downfall of ML. It's like the people that scream about people shining lasers into the cameras of autonomous vehicle
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by saulrh 9y ago
p(benefit) is an awful way of looking at these medications. Yes, if you pull a random medication off the shelf and try it on someone at random, of course you'll have a terrible result! Go ahead, walk into the pharmacy and try a random
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by saulrh 9y ago
That's fair. It's certainly the case that none of the numbers people have been providing are useful because you can't disentangle causes well enough to use them to support any particular position.
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by saulrh 9y ago
> From the link provided, only 5 people die. How many would have died if they weren't treated? Like, to a first approximation, nobody dies of measles any more, but you're not going to see me saying that that means that we don&#
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by saulrh 9y ago
I dunno, have you ever seen someone decide to burn a really dry christmas tree? If I'm lighting a big bonfire I'd definitely prefer to have as much distance as possible between me and the fire.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Grades in primary and secondary school jump significantly if you push start times back from 8 AM to more like 10 AM. It may be the biological default to wake up in the morning, but there's absolutely nothing that says that peak perfo
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by saulrh 9y ago
I've given up on running emacs on win. These days I run an X server, use bash-on-windows for SSH, and then forward X from a headless tower in a closet or a virtual machine to my desktop.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Yes, if you're not using emacs you don't get much from the format itself. Which is why everyone talks about org- mode , not the file format. That said, available libraries matter when you're choosing a programming language, a
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by saulrh 9y ago
Install the `tabbar` package using `M-x package-list-packages` or by adding `(use-package tabbar :ensure t)` to your init file and evaling it. To change what buffers show in a bar you can point `tabbar-buffer-groups-function` at a function
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by saulrh 9y ago
If you're looking at it purely as an interchange format for pretty documents, no. However, once you think about actually using it, the tooling for the format is fantastically more powerful. A small selection of some of the standouts:
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by saulrh 9y ago
> for normal people Sure is a good No True Scotsman you've got there. And I'm not even sure you'd be right ignoring that; recall that sports like boxing and MMA separate people into weight classes that are ten pounds wide
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by saulrh 9y ago
Not a problem. You didn't dismiss it as "easily distracted" or try to condemn me for some kind of moral failure, which puts you ahead of quite a few of the users in this thread.
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by saulrh 9y ago
On the one hand, that's how I feel about literally everything about myself. There is something wrong with my entire body. I do only use it because I have no better choice. To quote Eliezer Yudkowsky, "I'm sure Einstein wa
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by saulrh 9y ago
Fair point. If I could get this kind of thing as a paid service I do think that I'd happily pay for it.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Sure. I'm all for the transhumanist aspect of this, letting the machines take care of everything they can so I can focus my intellect on the things that machines can't do, and I'll admit that (for example) I lean hard on Goog
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm going to be completely honest here: If these things were behind a configuration option and defaulted to off, I'd have gone into my phone and turned that option on. I want to leave reviews for restaurants as I'm walking
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by saulrh 9y ago
They're cheating on the screenshots in the survey. The "current thunderbird" screenshot is taken at half the resolution (or twice the font size) of the "thunderbird redesign" screenshot, giving their redesign twice
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by saulrh 9y ago
If it can be shot down, I think that it's probably safe to assume that it won't be able to see anything particularly interesting. I'd expect something like Groom Lake to be surrounded by an impenetrable wall of interceptors a
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by saulrh 9y ago
On the one hand, langsec specifically handles these problems. A program for searching through a file will produce the same results whether it runs in a tenth of a second or ten seconds, and as such doesn't need to - in langsec, shouldn
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by saulrh 9y ago
> 2) today many of our passenger rides are 95+% autonomous Do you mind if I ask what portion of your rides are ~100% autonomous? I feel like that's a more interesting metric for progress toward removing human operators.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Motivational essays are this are great for some people. Others, on the other hand, are persuaded to avoid seeking help for medical (mental health, hormonal, etc) problems that are wrecking their lives. Overmedication is a problem, yes, but
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by saulrh 9y ago
Dunno; I don't have any apple devices. Might ask a coworker to try to repro it on monday. :P (I suspect that recursive makes do enough compute in between invocations to slow down and avoid this bug. If the OS was dying in everyday comp
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by saulrh 9y ago
1. By creating and closing process very rapidly, one could easily reproduce this problem. I used something like `while true; do sh -c "exit 0"; done`. The entire OS dying to rapidly spawned/exited processes permits
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by saulrh 9y ago
That does make it a bit less... totally horrifying. I imagine that there're still plenty of normal people in the "witnesses and complainants" category, so I can't imagine that this only affects DHS employees, but if no
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by saulrh 9y ago
Investigative Data: Individuals associated with DHS OIG investigations from 2002 through 2014, which includes subjects, witnesses and complainants who were both DHS employees and non-DHS employees. The PII contained in this da
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm not sure that'd help - as someone else observed in another thread, loading anything into a cache requires evicting something else, and that eviction can be measured. You could do something like maintaining a full duplicate of
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by saulrh 9y ago
Qualifier: I'm working off articles and a few computer-architecture courses from college, so don't trust me too much here. Taht said... Branch prediction and TLBs have been ubiquitous since about 1975. We're seeing vulnerabil

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