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by sxp 5y ago
> you can add your own symbols (that can optionaly expand to words) > it can display graphics such as graphs, plots, diagrams, images or even interactive ball-and-stick model of a chemical compound > it is programmable, i.e. you ca
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by sxp 5y ago
Another pair of data points: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey AMD has gone from 20% to 30% in the past 18 months among PC gamers.
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by sxp 5y ago
Johnson was on the Lex Fridman podcast recent and discussed the helmet there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbcB6b4A2U The most interesting thing is that one of their helmets, Flow, is using IR backscatter sensing rather
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by sxp 5y ago
They did after the first attempt to dock by just winging it failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous#First_attempt...
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by sxp 5y ago
The key bit is "The hackers then requested a multifactor authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA's corporate network. The representative said this was successful two times." So this was primarily a social
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by sxp 5y ago
Accessible link: https://archive.is/TepJB tl;dr: Tesla's recent earnings report used a JPG to hide information about their Bitcoin sale from text scrappers.
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Tesla and the Obscure Earnings JPEG(ft.com)
13 points by sxp 5y ago|5 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
> ... so which task is the final step to reach singularity? From Vinge's essay where I first heard of the term: I. J. Good2 wrote: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellec
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by sxp 5y ago
It's not /that/ good. Due to the high supply of lawyers, the compensation is heavily bimodal: https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/
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Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation(blog.coinbase.com)
3 points by sxp 5y ago|0 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
tl;dr: As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has “coalesced around two likely scenarios” but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question. Here is their current position: “while two elements in the IC leans toward [human
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Statement by President Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of Covid-19(whitehouse.gov)
7 points by sxp 5y ago|2 comments
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by sxp 5y ago
You can see the details at https://www.tesla.com/models/design#overview : >Basic Autopilot ...Included with every new Tesla, Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically for other vehicles
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by sxp 5y ago
http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/index.html has more details directly from the designer.
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by sxp 5y ago
The bill is https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00316I... It's going to be a fun game of whackamole as Beyond Meat starts producing "steak", "fillets", "ba
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by sxp 5y ago
I thought this was going to be about adding spatial audio processing [1] to recorded music. One of the reasons recorded music is uncanny is that the act of listening to something with stereo channels piped directly into your ears is vastly
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by sxp 5y ago
If you're new to SCP, I suggest starting with qntm's Antimemetics stories. They're well written and self-contained. You can read them for free online or buy the ebook: https://qntm.org/scp
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by sxp 5y ago
> I "depleted my brain of dopamine and glucose" causing "Functional Neurological Disorder" (FND - DSM-5 code 300.11) Is this a real thing? I can't find any evidence of Google about this and the author didn't
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by sxp 5y ago
Key quote: > “The authors never intended to publish this as a final document to the whole company," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. "They inadvertently published it to a broad audience and they simply restricted it
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by sxp 6y ago
https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d... had a greate take on this. > We’re going to change the branch name because it could be seen as offensive but we’re still going to sell police facial recogni
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by sxp 6y ago
10GB/$ is the approximate price for bandwidth on EC2/GCE/Azure. Bandwidth is probably the most expensive item on those cloud services compared to other places.
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.fovotec.com/architectural has a more useful demo than the basic GIFs on that page.
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by sxp 6y ago
From what I can tell, this is due to designers cargo culting low contrast UIs. Whenever I've asked designers for citations that grey-on-gray UIs are better than black/white or white/black, I haven't gotten any good respo
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by sxp 6y ago
Does the law apply here? https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/facts-on-news-reports-abou... says the breach was in 2019. What was the CA law at that time?
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by sxp 6y ago
The minified version is broken for me with "VM9:2 WebGL: too many errors, no more errors will be reported to the console for this context" and the source is unreadable. But the dev build at https://fms-cat.com/cond
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by sxp 6y ago
I'm always amazed about the amount of data leakage that happens due to binaries including full paths. I'm shocked whenever I see a crash and the error message mentioned `f:/username...`. There are also stories about computer
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by sxp 6y ago
How did this even get to the Supreme Court? This was a 9-0 decision because it was such a clear cut case. > Noah Duguid sued Facebook under the act because he received several text messages from the company, alerting him that someone had
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by sxp 6y ago
This has a lot of words, but not enough content. I recommend 3Blue1Brown's neural net videos instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U
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by sxp 6y ago
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ covers this to some extent. There is a pretty wide distribution to SWE salaries. SWEs who really want those 10x salaries can aggressively pursue high salaries and get 10x the me
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by sxp 6y ago
https://knuckleheads.club/the-googlebot-monopoly/ has actual details. > Let’s take a look at the robots.txt for census.gov from October of 2018 as a specific example to see how robots.txt files typically work. This

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