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by spindle 4y ago
> In 2008 the iPhone (original) was just out and had potato for camera, so everyone was still using SLR's and "normal cameras". But yet... people still got upset. Yes. It seems the social memory of this is being lost, but
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by spindle 4y ago
There is some literature on this, yes. I don't know quite how general it gets. See for example several books by Elwyn Berlekamp. One outcome of this work was Berlekamp (IIRC) solving a small class of endgame problem that has eluded pr
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by spindle 4y ago
Yes. It's a good place to look for Chinese government policy - it's not all propaganda in the "pack of lies" sense - but it's a very very bad place to look for science.
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by spindle 4y ago
summary quotes: > The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entere
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by spindle 4y ago
In all the countries in which I've worked at universities (the USA, Australia, and the UK), governments have introduced vastly more formal accountability requirements over time. (The article mentions the Presidential Task Force on Inc
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by spindle 4y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think phone camera sensors really are that different from camera camera sensors, presumably (going out on a limb) because of tradeoffs they make to get good quality from small sensors. The sensors in top phone
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by spindle 4y ago
This is a great resource for finding out which ISO ranges various cameras are linear over: https://photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm
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by spindle 4y ago
You can see how fast they're moving away from us by their colour. As for how fast they're moving sideways, nobody knows! But it's slow compared to how fast they're moving away from us. (Except for a very very small num
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by spindle 4y ago
Yes, awesome. I used to use that when teaching cosmology.
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by spindle 4y ago
I believe the main point is the assets (about which I agree with you). The PE selloff playbook works when the investor is ruthless enough to both (a) load the company with debt and (b) sell off assets that were previously (they believe) not
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by spindle 4y ago
Winning Ways For Your Mathematical Plays by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy
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by spindle 4y ago
The Foundations of Statistical Inference by L.J. Savage
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by spindle 4y ago
Agreed, especially since it's a well known topic in the philosophy literature and one generally agreed to be contentious. See Frank Ramsey's famous rejoinder to Wittgenstein, "What you can't say you can't say, and
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by spindle 4y ago
I agree with you about Singer. And about hypocrisy. If you got pushback, then I guess it must be controversial what "EA" refers to at the moment. I hope it shakes out in a sensible way.
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by spindle 4y ago
This certainly isn't true for some of the founders of effective altruism, like Peter Singer, who gives away money as he earns it (as opposed to promising to give it away in the future) and isn't rich (by First World standards).
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by spindle 4y ago
The standard polyamory t-shirt: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/44/11/ad/4411ad8a699ac3f58d8e697a6...
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by spindle 4y ago
> the smaller Fujifilm interchangeable cameras I bought an X-T2 this morning :-) Since they're interchangeable, can I swap it with your XPro3?
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by spindle 4y ago
I've been amazed by the extent of the problems, but as for the fact that he doesn't know what he's doing ... well, this is the person who explicitly declined the opportunity to do the due diligence process on his $44bn purcha
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by spindle 4y ago
There've been no problems at all on the small Mastodon servers I interact with.
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by spindle 4y ago
I've used several of them. I wouldn't like to use any of them now except Lisp, which of course is still going strong. Two that I loved at the time were Algol68 and SNOBOL. Algol68 was so sophisticated for its time but I'm n
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by spindle 4y ago
Ah! That makes sense, and was not what I was expecting at all. Thank you for explaining!
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by spindle 4y ago
Moreover, I think (and have done a quick check to try to confirm, although I haven't checked thorougly) that KataGo has won the example game even in the rule set it was trained with, which was Chinese rules. See https://sen
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by spindle 4y ago
Eh. It depends on the rule set - go has many sets of rules, all very similar and developed in different countries and for different tournaments. In most of them, KataGo not only thinks it's won the example game, it HAS won the exampl
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by spindle 4y ago
Right - I use echolocation (although rarely) and I can't work out why it's contentious to think that humans do.
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by spindle 4y ago
NixOS for busy developers ain't for the faint of heart. But I am extremely faint of heart, and I love NixOS. The trick is that I'm not a developer, and I happen not to need to ask it to do anything complicated or non-standard. I
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by spindle 4y ago
Wow. So many half-substantiated opinions per square metre. I agree with some of them, but my main feeling about this is <grabs popcorn>.
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by spindle 4y ago
Please do. I get the impression that not many people use --profile-name, and I live in fear of them taking it away. It needs critical mass. Two of us should be enough!
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by spindle 4y ago
> In practice, this involves remembering which generations have known-good boots. Another option is to use named profiles for this: nixos-rebuild switch --profile-name whatever The profile names show up in your boot menu.
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by spindle 4y ago
non-paywalled copy: https://archive.ph/drUqJ
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by spindle 4y ago
The comments in the linked thread are shocking. One person says they lost a job because of email lost by ProtonMail.

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