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by saulrh 11y ago
This failure mode is correct and very real. It's actually one of the reasons why we're starting to see significant pushback against p-values. https://xkcd.com/882/
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by saulrh 11y ago
> Your computer power supply has a ~400 volt rail in it. Are you unwilling to ever open a desktop computer? If it's plugged in and turned on - yeah, sure, I don't want to muck around in there. The thing is, my computer power su
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by saulrh 11y ago
> Unless Microsoft rebuilds Skype for the ground up, I don't see us leaving Slack for it. They had their chance, and they dropped the ball. The funny thing is, they didn't just have a chance, they had a huge chance. My comp
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by saulrh 11y ago
Exactly. As a demonstration, compare our current production situation to the production situation as of, I don't know, a thousand years ago. It used to be the case that 90% or more of the population was dedicated to food production. Ri
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by saulrh 11y ago
My SO is one of the women who are better off because they got through a CS degree instead of an alternate. She could have been a good molecular biologist or teacher, but she's a spectacular software engineer, especially for those hig
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by saulrh 11y ago
The problem is services and non-ABI/non-library APIs. The way I suspect that this is set up is that there is precisely one KDE widget displayer service at any given time, running as part of the desktop environment and presenting an IPC
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by saulrh 11y ago
If the monopoly on violence applies to information technology as well as physics technology, then the second amendment and similar doctrines also apply. The whole Apple case could also be interpreted as the US government attempting to get a
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by saulrh 11y ago
Use of force requires transparency and regulation to avoid corruption. That's why we have things like a separate judiciary, warrants, publicly available court documents, freedom of information requests, and so on and so forth. The use
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by saulrh 11y ago
This is the only reasonable question to ask regarding the veracity of the result. Tripling/halving the post-injection/implantation/course lifespan of a sample of thirty-ish rats is nowhere near bullshit, so the next questio
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by saulrh 11y ago
...Yes, those don't seem to be persuasive, especially when the laws prevent the defendant from properly conducting their investigation by denying them large and important classes of information, and even more so when the police are r
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by saulrh 11y ago
So, the immediate followup: drugs out there that I could preemptively condition myself for that would be particularly useful in the future. Like, could I condition an epinephrine response so I have a more reliable response to an unknown all
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by saulrh 11y ago
What is the reasoning behind attourneys being unable to direct the police in particular directions? The same failure mode you demonstrate here should be present in many cases that don't involve electronics. It seems to me like the co
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by saulrh 11y ago
headdesk
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by saulrh 11y ago
Also, the movie would end anticlimactically about thirty minutes after the discovery as the offending satellite orbits too close to a US Navy missile cruiser and gets blown out of the sky. :P
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by saulrh 11y ago
The complaints about undercutting real photographers actually kind of amused me. The big political parties spend literally half a billion dollars a year on advertising. If they find a photo good enough to go on the front page of their websi
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by saulrh 11y ago
This is an interesting idea. Maybe we should be looking at this as an optimization problem where drivers have a limited budget for attention and we want to concentrate it in the parts where it's most useful by varying the quality of UI
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by saulrh 11y ago
Which is why the turing test is a liiiiittle bit iffy as a specification for "intelligence". It's actually pretty good as a test for behaving-like-a-human, but it's actually not very good for intelligence because humans
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by saulrh 11y ago
They don't. They're much better at estimating their future fuel usage and routing/scheduling a refill. That refill will probably be at some kind of base station for a while, yes, but you'd probably want to run the car th
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by saulrh 11y ago
> When did it become my responsibility to work harder so that they can do that? That's the thing - it isn't and won't be. Basic Income is designed for, and in fact only works in , civilizations with enough excess producti
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by saulrh 11y ago
A lot of these objections to abstraction sound like the objections to abstraction that we had back when we first invented interpreters and compilers. Are you sure that you want to be objecting to abstraction itself, rather than to our curre
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by saulrh 11y ago
Right, chip fabrication pipelines. Your lithography setup costs $15B, but once you have it set up you can manufacture anything. Ouch.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Nah, there are lots of markets that have natural incentives against monopolies. For example, classic web hosting type things will probably never consolidate for a number of reasons ranging from the size and difficulty of the configuration s
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by saulrh 11y ago
waves hand Knee problems here. I can walk up the escalator, but I really don't want to. There's a reason I'm on the escalator instead of the stairs next to them.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Active balancing is actually really cheap, if I'm remembering correctly. In an ideal situation the cost should be zero as the corrections required would be infinitesimal. That case isn't really reached, but the robot I worked on m
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by saulrh 11y ago
Don't need the extra move step. Just put every download in its own directory. Or give every source (domain? something else?) its own directory. There's something in here that feels like cookies and cross-site conventions.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Testing is an issue, yes. Making sure my tests are comprehensive, making sure my environment is set up in a way that makes the tests valid (that is, that I'm going through the right code paths) and verifying such, remembering where all
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by saulrh 11y ago
Sorry! It's possible that I missed some context, yes. I kind of skimmed this thread and fixated on your post because it seemed like it was making a rather extreme claim. If you're already a good engineer, then it's much more
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by saulrh 11y ago
Tell that to a chimpanzee. Then tell that to someone with down's syndrome. Then tell that to someone who was malnourished as a child and whose brain just plain doesn't work as well as yours. It would astound me to find that ther
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by saulrh 11y ago
Yes, in theory an offline supervised learner should never beat an online reinforcement learner. Adding a set of actions A that can be used to bias future examples in a predictable manner is certainly an advantage that will yield better conv
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by saulrh 11y ago
Even worse because 1 star and 5 stars mean different things to different people, or even sometimes to the same person under different circumstances. If you asked me to rate my interview performance without first defining some objective crit

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