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by sterlind 3y ago
The tiny house they have a gallery of is aggressively ugly, with lots of bizarre curved walls seemingly just to demo their method. And the shelves and fixtures look precarious and unsafe, straight out of Arrested Development. Given the buil
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by sterlind 3y ago
The examples in Fast aren't breakthroughs, they're just big engineering projects. AlphaGo's design is quite simple, the estimate of decades was prior to the discovery of the unexpected power of deep neural networks.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think removing "master" is probably just virtue signaling, but so what? It's trivial for me to switch my projects to "main", and then I can get back to my life. It's a weird hill to die on.
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by sterlind 3y ago
marked images can be excluded from training data in the future, so that it doesn't eat its own output, which is known to cause model quality to degenerate (an issue likely to plague training LLMs on post-2022 datasets.) as for training
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by sterlind 3y ago
now that you've outed yourself as an IOS-XR dev I have to ask: why does Cisco have so many darn OSes? at work I built a system to run Python scripts on various network devices, with a HAL abstracting the APIs. supporting IOS-XR, IOS-XE
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by sterlind 3y ago
blame both. corporate leadership doesn't care about accessibility, so it's not funded, and it (probably) doesn't show up as an OKR. dev managers were almost certainly clueless about accessibility. but managers can learn, and
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by sterlind 3y ago
and when the porn site gets hacked, your ID photo will be in the leak alongside every video you watched.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I wasn't comparing MDMA's effects to Wellbutrin. I was using the example of Wellbutrin to illustrate that not all amphetamines are like amphetamine. I'm also not sure you can claim that Wellbutrin isn't a stimulant, sinc
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by sterlind 3y ago
calling MDMA an amphetamine is technically (i.e. structurally) correct but also misleading. it's structurally an amphetamine, but so are DOB, Sudafed and Wellbutrin. it's stimulating, but in a different way from regular amphetamin
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by sterlind 3y ago
it's less about money and more about time. you take the plea deal and go away for 2 years tops, or you try your luck with a trial and risk 10 if convicted.
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by sterlind 3y ago
The most surprising bit of this for me was nuclear winter. I thought the idea fell out of favor, but they cite a recent Nature paper claiming up to 99% of the population of the global North would starve. Do any governments stockpile food? A
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by sterlind 3y ago
I was assuming there'd be a study of convicted pedophiles and recidivism rates or something. Like, the scientists would study the people who are already on some list.
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by sterlind 3y ago
is there any evidence for or against this? re: CP, not video games. I'd search the literature myself, but searching anything about it is too sketchy for me.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I caution against relying on your own senses when designing for accessibility. I can tell the red and green buttons apart just fine, but I'm not colorblind. And even if I were, there's multiple kinds of colorblindness - and of vis
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by sterlind 3y ago
I took spaceship, then virus, under the idea that what I was keeping "alive" was some sort of soul - at least potentially - and that I could be sure of the soul's continuity as long as I took the ship, and then that the virus
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by sterlind 3y ago
what does "irreversible" mean in this context? the population hasn't been sterilized, French people are perfectly capable of making more of themselves. there may be economic or cultural reasons why they choose not to, but tha
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by sterlind 3y ago
how did the prediction turn out to wrong? like, that quote seems to imply that there was insufficient agriculture to sustain the current generation of humans, not just the next (since sufficiently brutal "crash programs" could kee
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by sterlind 3y ago
I built a distributed system once on two principles: 1. let it crash, 2. make everything deterministic. obviously, this resulted in crashes being invisible and transient (good) or an infinite crash loop (bad.) I haven't used Erlang, bu
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by sterlind 3y ago
is it.. safe to burn leaded fuel on your camping stove?
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by sterlind 3y ago
thank you for your detailed explanation, and all the sources you provided. I feel less confused now.
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by sterlind 3y ago
The link for "Connections" (I've been calling them geo-graphs or network maps) seems to be broken, which is a shame. I've had a hard time finding good libraries for them, and they're hard to get right for a few reas
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by sterlind 3y ago
if we keep the number of states equal we don't have to reprint all our flags.
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by sterlind 3y ago
I feel like that's itching for a challenge on First Amendment grounds. Banning the study of a major world religion seems beyond the pail.
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by sterlind 3y ago
it's the "United States Institute of Peace," which is a government institution, somewhere between a think-tank and propaganda division, evidently. think Voice of America, or Radio Free Europe. like, it's literally fully
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by sterlind 3y ago
but filesystem perf on WSL1 is horrible in general. Windows is much, much slower at touching a bunch of files than Linux, due to the filesystem filter driver architecture and NT's deep understanding of paths, the way NT does file locki
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by sterlind 3y ago
Ethiopian food is delicious, yet a quarter of the country is starving. Russia's problem has never been talent - I know many brilliant Russian programmers - it's corruption and mismanagement making those talented people starve and
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by sterlind 3y ago
it's much easier to live without Russian software than to live without non-Russian software. I'm not criticizing their paranoia - the West can and will infiltrate their systems - but it's so much easier for America to black
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by sterlind 3y ago
Some US Senators were already giving Meta a hard time about releasing LLaMA to researchers, saying that centralization is "safer" to control and regulate. I couldn't help but think of the "We have no moat" leak, and
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by sterlind 3y ago
in contrast, the Supermicro story was strongly and vehemently denied by all players - not just refusals to comment, but CEOs outright saying that the story was false. the reaction this time is more in line with the story being accurate.
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by sterlind 3y ago
even if human nature is transactional, I like having a weekly tab at the bar more than putting nickels into toilet paper dispensers.

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