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by sjducb 1y ago
My EV doesn’t use the brakes in normal driving. It can pull ~ 0.3G of regen before the physical brakes engage. It will regeneratively brake all the way to a stop. The brake disks are there for emergencies and spirited driving.
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by sjducb 1y ago
Agreed parent needs to get advice from 2/3 different tyre shops. Changing tyres every 10k means something is wrong.
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by sjducb 1y ago
VS Code and local Python virtual environments. Packages managed with pip and versions pinned with pipcompile. One ML production environment forces us to use conda we inherit from the pip environment and try to have as much done by pip as po
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by sjducb 1y ago
I think count based logging works really well for batch processing jobs where each item is a fairly constant amount of work. The log shows the time you started and prints another line (with the time) for each 1% of the batch. You can see th
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by sjducb 1y ago
Cleaning your house before a party is a reasonable ask.
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by sjducb 1y ago
Lots of plants can be used as soap with minimal processing (crush the plant in your hand while rubbing it on something). It’s likely that most of our ancestors used soap and we evolved to expect it. Just like we evolved to eat cooked or gro
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by sjducb 1y ago
This isn’t about real photos of things that actually happened. This is about AI generated imagery. So it’s not a photo of a politician doing something bad. It’s an AI recreation of what they are alleged to have done. The law does have to be
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by sjducb 1y ago
I think this is great. It’s similar to the rights that brands have. Imagine I drew a Coca Cola logo in paint. Now I own the copyright to my picture of the Coca Cola logo. Next I stick it on my new brand of soda. That’s not allowed. Coca-col
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by sjducb 1y ago
How do you agree a protocol to encrypt the message to agree the protocol? This is the message that returns a list of supported ciphers and key exchange protocols. There’s no data in this first packet. Alice: I’d like to connect Bob: Sure he
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by sjducb 1y ago
Man in the middle interfering with TLS handshakes? The handshake is unencrypted so you can modify the messages to make it look like the server only supports broken ciphers. Then the man in the middle can read all of the encrypted data becau
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by sjducb 1y ago
If you’re bored of Python go for a language that has very different paradigms. Think C# / Java to learn about OOP Scala to learn functional programming Golang for concurrency and using the type system to handle exceptions. Perl is very
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by sjducb 1y ago
Most teams that “use raw SQL” end up accidentally writing ORMs anyway. You have a bunch of similar SQL queries so someone writes a SQL generator. Someone notices that if we are using one field from the account table, then we usually want th
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by sjducb 1y ago
I just tried bite sized task post it notes. It’s incredible. The gamification is like the notice boards in the Witcher 3.
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by sjducb 1y ago
The problem is that housing and health insurance are too expensive. Tech isn’t responsible for either of those problems.
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by sjducb 1y ago
When algorithms improve with exposure to more data are they still algorithms? Where is the line where they stop being algorithms?
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by sjducb 1y ago
It’s quick and free to identify someone’s race. A genetic test takes several days and costs a few hundred dollars. The patient wants the best treatment right now. If race carries useful information that helps the doctor treat the patient, t
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by sjducb 1y ago
> instead of managing browser clusters, and handling all the corner cases The cost with running a docker container is you have to manage that container. You’re paying with dev time not money.
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by sjducb 1y ago
It’s amazing how slow cars are in cities. I was recently beaten by a pedestrian over a 20 minute drive.
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by sjducb 1y ago
Incompetence? What if he was sent to El Salvador by accident? Maybe everyone is calling him a gang member to cover their own asses? Without a hearing we don’t know.
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by sjducb 1y ago
If you don’t have a title or ownership history then people think the car is stolen. That’s why scrappers won’t take it. If you have a title then people will pay you to come and pick it up.
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by sjducb 1y ago
It doesn’t matter who he is. The problem is that he hasn’t had an opportunity to plead his case. Good law enforcement officers regularly make honest mistakes. Courts are a safeguard against this. Imagine that you get caught up in an immigra
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by sjducb 1y ago
Trump wants to deport a few million people. You can’t do that while following the rule of law. The hearings and appeals take too much time and money. This is why they’re not trying to fix mistakes. Once you set a precedent of allowing appea
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by sjducb 1y ago
Well done for changing your mind. Most people would find this post impossible to write. The arguments that changed your mind are important information. If we want to change the minds of fence sitters then focusing on these arguments should
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by sjducb 1y ago
If you include our crops and livestock then our civilisation has about half the land biomass. 38% of the earths land is farmland. (We use the richest parts as farmland) https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/what-percent
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by sjducb 2y ago
Yes. 50% means that they are indistinguishable. Deviation from 50% means that the channel has information about whether the subject is human or LLM. 0% is a perfect correlation (humans always correctly identify humans). 100% is a perfect in
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by sjducb 2y ago
It’s not as involuntary as I made it sound. I think if he decided not to share the meat then he would have problems with the rest of the tribe.
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by sjducb 2y ago
Most hunter gather societies have big differences in productivity between members. I remember reading one example where one man did all of the hunting for a tribe of about 40 people. He really enjoyed both the hunting and the status of bein
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by sjducb 2y ago
I think that best paper really means best discovery, or best finding. No one really cares how well written a paper is.
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by sjducb 2y ago
Obviously I’m talking about re-creating the economic policies of the 1950s, not the equality policies.
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by sjducb 2y ago
Go back to what the western world was doing in the 50’s. High tax and high public spending. In 1950 the US had a top marginal tax rate of 91%. The 50s were great, let’s do that again. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm

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