sterlind

30 ms·

481.
by sterlind 3y ago
Especially considering what the author's been through with vindictive council busybodies making her live even that much more difficult out of sheer spite - like when they cut off her bennies before her first check even came in because
482.
by sterlind 3y ago
I drive a 2006 diesel VW Beetle. I've had it for 7 years and aside from some electrical weirdness I've only had to change the oil. It cost me $6500. the infotainment system is a CD player with an aux cable. Amazing value. (this ca
483.
by sterlind 3y ago
I do wonder about the CAN bus. there's no access control on the CAN network, there's one shared bus for the whole car, and any controller can starve the bus by spamming with a high address, unless that's changed. you'd h
484.
by sterlind 3y ago
Amazing, I had no idea illusory pain existed. I've actually been looking for a safe way to induce pain, and this seems promising. I would have thought the BDSM community would make use of this, but a quick googling doesn't turn up
485.
by sterlind 3y ago
Right, I know Windows isn't free. My point is, it's the same situation with OS X, and with iMessage. Just because OS X is made by the hardwae developers doesn't change it. Windows still isn't free on Surface laptops, bel
486.
by sterlind 3y ago
Is Windows free because it comes pre-installed on your laptop when you buy it?
487.
by sterlind 3y ago
The study in your first link seems fatally flawed. They should compare photos of Android vs. iPhone users with their phones in the frame vs. photos without phones. It could just be that iPhone users are more likely to be fashionistas, and A
488.
by sterlind 3y ago
I love them too. I'm hopeful LLMs may eventually help fill in the details and lead to complex generative mechanics like this.
489.
by sterlind 3y ago
The jail mechanic is not too complex to implement, depending on the kind of game. It sounds pretty similar to the Keystone Kops in Nethack. Like Dwarf Fortress, it exchanges graphical detail for complexity.
490.
by sterlind 3y ago
*she. I focused on religion because it's how eligibility for Aliyah is defined. you're Jewish if your mom was Jewish, either because her mom was Jewish or because she converted. there are Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi and Ethiopia
491.
by sterlind 3y ago
Japan isn't an officially Shinto state, afaik. And it wouldn't be wrong to criticize its subjugation of the indigenous Ainu people. I think that calling for a multi-ethnic, secular Japanese state is fair.
492.
by sterlind 3y ago
that's less extreme than seeing a psychiatrist? interesting. the paranoia was part of why I suggested the psych, though. tampering with a submitted CL would require access to the SCM's database, then to rewrite history, as well as
493.
by sterlind 3y ago
Are we sure this is limited to Drive? The Ars article mentions that some users reportedly lost data without using the desktop app at all, which seems to imply that (one of?) the bugs was inside Google's infra. I wonder if they might ha
494.
by sterlind 3y ago
that's the plot of Home Alone 2 if memory serves (except with an RC car instead of a Furbie.)
495.
by sterlind 3y ago
I just realized I don't know traceroute as well as I thought I did. apparently Unix systems send UDP packets, while Windows sends ICMP. which maybe explains why I've had such a miserable experience with traceroute on the modern In
496.
by sterlind 3y ago
fwiw, networking wasn't a required class at my school. neither was databases, weirdly, nor anything web-adjacent (no JS, no HTML or CSS.) ...huh. I'm realizing my CS department was pretty weak. but tbf I knew how traceroute worked
497.
by sterlind 3y ago
yes! so many times I reach for Prolog because it's a perfect fit for a problem. like modeling constraints, or generating a plan, or working out a type system. it's relatively easy to switch between functional and imperative styles
498.
by sterlind 3y ago
a major accident would trip geiger counters. that's what happened with Chernobyl. so either you'll detect it, or it won't affect you.
499.
by sterlind 3y ago
the safest form of travel is flying. even though you're strapping people into a pressurized metal tube next to 50 tons of jet fuel and hurtling them at hundreds of miles per hour through the elements, governed by a complex web of thous
500.
by sterlind 3y ago
don't both of them breathe fire, though?
501.
by sterlind 3y ago
Cops mostly use lidar these days. The cybertruck would need to be made out of mirrors.
502.
by sterlind 3y ago
I recognized the presenter's name - Natalie Silvanovich - and sure enough, she's a member of Project Zero, and I've read posts by her before. I guess Tamagochis were her gateway drug into reversing!
503.
by sterlind 3y ago
Use LLMs to package libraries for Lisp, then! Ecosystem size won't be Lisp's barrier to adoption anymore.
504.
by sterlind 3y ago
I don't think domain expertise is a competitive bottleneck. These LLMs started with the sum total of human knowledge in their training data, but (currently) lack the ability to synthesize that knowledge, to reason and plan to achieve g
505.
by sterlind 3y ago
why do people digitize old books? why do archaeologists use CT scanners to painstakingly read fragile rolled-up scrolls from thousands of years ago?
506.
by sterlind 3y ago
Yes, but in quadriplegics that connection is severed, and while it results in a lot of unpleasant medical issues, spinal cord injury doesn't alter cognition (other than the depression from coping with a severe disability.)
507.
by sterlind 3y ago
isn't that an absolute too, though?
508.
by sterlind 3y ago
That's an interesting reframing, but the adult is scary because he's physically present, in a larger and stronger body, one with hands. A fairer comparison would be an adult messaging a child over the internet. A lot of evil can b
509.
by sterlind 3y ago
The hard part of AGI is the self-training and few examples. Your parents didn't attach strings to your body and puppeteer you through a few hundred thousand games of baseball. And the humans that invented baseball had zero training dat
510.
by sterlind 3y ago
If reinforcement learning were farther along, you could have it learn to reproduce scenes as 3D models. Each episode's task is to mimic an image, each step is a command mutating the scene (adding a polygon, or rotating the camera, etc.

More ›