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by scratcheee 9d ago
Depends, if the only id checks are performed by trained officials/administrators for legally significant purposes then yeah I’d agree. But if you need to be ID checked entering a club or just buying a beer… they’re not training for tha
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by scratcheee 10d ago
Which is why work on fixing contrails is so important, it’d be insane to leave 50% improvement at a tiny cost unresolved whilst clawing back small percentage efficiency gains in co2 release from incremental and hideously expensive engine im
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by scratcheee 19d ago
It was in parentheses, that does usually imply irrelevant sideband information. Perhaps more importantly, the “handsome and talented” sidebar was actually a tongue in cheek acknowledgment that the author himself was speaking, I suspect, com
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by scratcheee 26d ago
I don’t think it has anything to do with their gaming specific capabilities, just their general philosophy matches poorly with the games industry. Apple insist on having their own apis and they don’t maintain compatibility for older softwar
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by scratcheee 1mo ago
Describing something in less detail doesn’t in fact make it simpler. It’s nice you’ve done this before, so have I, but until git history it remained weirdly lacking in user friendly support infrastructure compared to most “common” tasks. Gi
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by scratcheee 2mo ago
Easier to haul my luggage on a train designed for that purpose than take a car and spend longer parking it than the entire train journey. I live 10 minutes from Gatwick, have never driven there, and don’t understand why anyone would want to
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by scratcheee 2mo ago
When it comes to fluff/slop/etc, worse can be measured by word count, so there’s your answer.
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by scratcheee 3mo ago
That’s going a bit far. I’m in the games industry and have used opus regularly, it’s a great codec for games, often the hardware decoding is so restricted that we’re using software regardless so we might as well use something like opus. The
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by scratcheee 3mo ago
MRIs are fundamentally expensive. Yes we can bring the price down a bit, and we can set more money aside for them, but they’ll always be limited by their price. Even if this technique is much worse (I can certainly believe it is) the price
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by scratcheee 3mo ago
You’re both imagining different scenarios. Scenario 1: 20% of staff tested failed. Individual targeting is pointless because the issue is systemic. This has happened in aviation, it’s common for accident investigators to conclude that the e
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by scratcheee 4mo ago
Disagree, though you’re right it’s a little bit similar to the eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with more similar flags. Flags don’t exist for the period where they’re gaining recognition. Compromising the significance
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by scratcheee 4mo ago
This is true, but since you always need a bit of hope in all the bad news, worth noting that if you focus solely on electricity generation, the fossil fuels from generation decreased last year. That’s the first time it’s happened when deman
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by scratcheee 6mo ago
They already tried pushing back against c-sections, turns out giving overly opinionated options to women that discourages things that are medically beneficial in a large portion of cases is not helpful and caused a lot of unnecessary suffer
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by scratcheee 6mo ago
That’s pretty flawed argument on the face of it, very few things win a cost benefit analysis if you disregard the benefit and thus require exactly zero cost. The real question is whether detransitioning or other negative outcomes are greate
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by scratcheee 6mo ago
Yes, and I think that’s actually intentional, they’re rewarding renewables way over the odds without needing to give politically controversial benefits. The rewards are just an inherent result of the existing system. This is why renewables
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by scratcheee 6mo ago
The implied part is “within common conditions” it’s a law limited to a specific regime, much like Newtonian physics. We know it’s not universally true but we can see it’s often true in common scenarios. In the extreme case, as road coverage
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by scratcheee 8mo ago
I know the thread is about tvs, but since gaming has come up, worth noting that at computer viewing distances the differences between 1080p/1440p and 4k really are very visible (though in my case I have a 4k monitor for media and a 144
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by scratcheee 10mo ago
The obvious use-case for unsafe is to implement alternative memory regimes that don’t exist in rust already, so you can write safe abstractions over them. Rust doesn’t have the kind of high performance garbage collection you’d want for this
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by scratcheee 11mo ago
You make a strong case for voice, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate their argument, they never said voice should be replaced. Here’s some ideas: 1. A data side channel 2. Use it to send originator for each message, have unique note on
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by scratcheee 11mo ago
The article explains the weaknesses of the password-centric approach: > whether by phishing or exploiting the fact the passwords are weak or have been reused 1. Phishing is harder when you only ever enter your password into 1 place, and
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by scratcheee 1y ago
Not disputing the obvious advantages, but since you asked: Being forced to maintain compatibility for all previously written apis (and quite a large array of private details or undocumented features that applications ended up depending on)
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by scratcheee 1y ago
There’s a classic yes minister skit on how dubious polls can be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks&t=45s
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by scratcheee 1y ago
Easy: provide high quality output when being tested for a new task, The moment you are done outperforming the competition in the tests and have hit production you slowly ramp down quality, perhaps with exceptions when the queries look like
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by scratcheee 1y ago
I assume they’re referring to ag-gag laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag Gives a reasonable background by the looks.
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by scratcheee 1y ago
And yet their statement makes perfect sense to me. Caching and lower level calls are generic solutions that work everywhere, but are also generally the last and worst way to optimise (thus why they need such careful analysis since they so o
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by scratcheee 2y ago
Given the web’s much wider remit than pdf, it has support for accessibility tools and much better non-visual handling than pdf, so the comparison isn’t entirely fair I think. If a website doesn’t handle lynx well, there’s a good chance it d
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by scratcheee 2y ago
“Newfound”? People have been fighting this debate for decades. I remember having this exact debate at school 20 years ago, except the price arguments back then were bullshit, but people didn’t care enough about the environment so there wasn
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by scratcheee 2y ago
Only everyone who goes bankrupt, and their creditors. Rather the opposite for their customers. I’m sure there’s a few cases where this would excessively hurt a company’s prospects (perhaps where a company has an innovative software product
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by scratcheee 2y ago
I’ve met humans who do that too
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by scratcheee 2y ago
That argument works pretty well for any bad api design (assuming sufficient documentation somewhere). Yet I assume we can agree that regardless of how you can work around bad apis, good api design that prevents misuse is always better. The

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