tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well, refurbishment is often cheaper than buying new.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> They don’t care about the regime, they only want it to be aligned with the US and Israel. So they want to either change the regime or change the regime, and don't much care which one?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Pretty sure the claim this time wasn't that they had them, but that they could make them too quickly if they wanted to.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
My understanding is that actually making a bomb once you have the material for it just isn't that hard. Her statements are only contradictory if it is hard (and slow).
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> But so far Iran has been the only rational actor in this region. Iran has been attacked with justification. Anytime someone says "preemptive strike" they mean "attack without justification". Their responses have be
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Another unrelated point, a significant number of Iranian civil engineering graduates are women. A somewhat dichotomous economy, when you consider the theocratic restrictions on costume and behaviour. I thought it was generally known
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> And sometimes we would attempt to socialize with whatever person happened to be nearby, even a complete stranger. I don’t have any evidence or studies or anything. But I am beginning to wonder if there is a hidden consequence not from
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The author provides as counterexamples MacOS and Windows, but that's a silly comparison. Apple nor Microsoft never coordinated with anybody else on their APIs. No, but each of those two systems is ruled by one dictator and has o
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The underlying force there is the absence of one unified baseline set of APIs for writing desktop programs. It's called the Common Desktop Environment.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Now, I actively avoid anywhere much hotter than about 80F. It is currently - well after sunset - 82°F outside. A couple days ago it was mid-90s in the afternoon, and it should get back to that after the current weather passes in anot
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> When 42 of the participants came back to the laboratory weeks, months and even two years later, to take part in another 24-hour measurement, the trained algorithm could identify them from their breath patterns. Data from periods when
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
What were the error rates for the various groups with the old process? Was the new process that included the model actually worse for any group, or was it just uneven in how much better it was?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
There are multiple different ways to measure performance. If different groups have different rates of whatever you're predicting, it is not possible to have all of the different ways of measuring performance agree on whether your model
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> But the model designers were aware that features could be correlated with demographic groups in a way that would make them proxies. There's a huge problem with people trying to use umbrella usage to predict flooding. Some people
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Does "here are the most useful things to find out next" really need that complex of a user experience?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
"They don't care because it's doesn't affect them personally" requires "they don't care about other people". My general impression from half recalling whatever stories about new medical discoveries, i
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> so they can collect premiums and never pay out That's not actually a thing. A very high portion of premiums always has to be paid out. Not just because the regulators said so (IIRC the requirement is a 90% or 95% loss ratio?), b
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> There's a bias here, but its not about how common the disease is, but who it affects and how. This worldview requires believing that doctors dgaf about their family members.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Yep this is something that only AI can solve. How? I'd expect them to already have standardized lists of the most useful next thing to investigate given what's already known, and a modern "AI" would actually be w
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
So it's no longer the case that the slowdown came from covid and pervasive wfh leading to everything being outsourced to people in cheaper countries?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Simplicity of implementation?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Similarly of new vs current password is simple enough by just requiring the current password as part of the password change call. Which is a good idea anyway so someone can't just walk up and change your password if you forget to lock
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Sensible modern democracies will have those features, but they're no more part of the definition than having seatbelts and airbags is part of the definition of what a car is (I guess the model t is the equivalent of ancient Athens here
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Site won't load so I can't see if it's advocating no choices or a different mechanism or granularity for choices. But, say, itsec banning some tls1.2 "for compatibility reasons" options is less drastic than itsec ju
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
We actually had one back in the 1800's: https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-joshua-norton-emperor...
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Is there an individual-scale tree with skills and jobs?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> But in some plausible alternate history the Roman legions were using explosives and cannons to conquer the world a millennium before that. IIRC early cannons were pretty severely limited by the state of metallurgy at the time.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The plans scale down far enough that they can't possibly cover the cost of a private model-loaded-to-vram instance at the low end.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Side note: Be aware that baseless concerns like this echo propaganda against Right to Repair. You might have been infected by some Apple follower talking points there. "How dare you be anything less than blindly enthusiastic abo
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I've seen science (the process, not just the results of that process) denounced as an aspect or tool of Western colonialism / imperialism. And there's that related "indigenous ways of knowing" thing that Canada has

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