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by themafia 6mo ago
> So we’re going to see a price and by the time we get to the register all the prices will have changed? I think the design of the system entails that the price you see and the price you pay would be the same. It's just that differ
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by themafia 6mo ago
> probably no one would notice. It probably wouldn't have risen to this level. People always notice but don't always react in ways you can measure.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> There’s hundreds of people in the store. Where are you shopping? I get groceries the most I've seen is 30 people at a time. > How will the can of peas know which price to display People are talking about facial recognition and
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by themafia 6mo ago
I find it hard to call this a "scathing rebuke:" https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373 It also didn't just happen out of the blue. It's also true that Alan had already been working on
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by themafia 6mo ago
push now. this is our race.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> If your kernel was built between 2017 and the patch This is why I compile my own kernel. I disable things I don't use. If it's not present it can't hurt you. > block AF_ALG socket creation via seccomp regardless of
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by themafia 6mo ago
> scathing rebukes Would you be able to point one out? > to well-intentioned contributors This is a system used and relied upon by billions of people around the world. Your intentions, while good, are not material to the problem.
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by themafia 6mo ago
If you use a unit of length that is 1e33 plank lengths, and a unit of time that is 1e42 plank time, and a unit of mass that is 1e6 plank masses then big G is just 1e-9 length^3/mass*time and the speed of light is 1e9 length/time
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by themafia 6mo ago
You've just described the role of a senior engineer.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> or just straight up drunk people Waymo. Slightly better than an irresponsible alcoholic. As long as the maps are up to date.
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by themafia 6mo ago
The models are so terrible you have to think ahead of them so they don't make mistakes. This is not an upgrade. This is coping behavior.
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by themafia 6mo ago
How about: The pentagon can have "AI" once it completes a single successful audit.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> This question has been answered several times on the thread already Yet you continue to respond. So why mention it? > because glyphosate is more benign, and relatively more inert, than other herbicides Except for the fact you have
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by themafia 6mo ago
The first time I saw a complex number used with units of resistance, I was like, huh?
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by themafia 6mo ago
Why is using Glyphosate worth defending? Does it make food taste better, or grow larger, or become more nutruitious? If the only value is to increase the value of crops, by planting patent seeds, and then dousing the land in weed kille
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by themafia 6mo ago
> since everything resolves to an axiom This isn't true. There are solutions that are beyond apparent reason and logic. This is what a "breakthrough" is. > The order and combination is what makes it special. Given an
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by themafia 6mo ago
Your quip follows a trope: "There's a weird reason the public wants this and it has little to do with the thing itself." Very often the implication being: "Therefore the public is wrong and should be ignored."
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by themafia 6mo ago
The desired outcome is simply not using Glyphosate. I'm not seeing how "reasonability" of this idea impacts it's implementation. If you find someone using it you severely fine them and/or put them in jail.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> I really don't get it. One of the largest employers publicly engaging in a project which has the outcome of depressing wages. It's easier to "get" if you don't take the trillion dollar gorilla at face value.
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by themafia 6mo ago
We can't even get slop delivery worked out. So use SlopAggregator instead.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> a weird backstory to public opposition to glyphosate which has very little to do with glyphosate itself Is it required that the public have a "good reason" for wanting something? > glyphosate is relatively benign and relat
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by themafia 6mo ago
I can run Android on Apple hardware? I have freedom to purchase. There is no choice.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> Yes this is only probabilistic, but so is a human learning from mistakes. Yet, since I'm also a Human being, and can work to understand the mistake myself, the probability that I can expect a correction of the behavior is much
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by themafia 6mo ago
It should probably be "would initially struggle to be as efficient without them." This is not a binary.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Yes. A lot of brute force methods are the most inefficient means of solving a problem. Language Models are a sign that our current human information infrastructure and access methods are completely wrong.
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by themafia 6mo ago
How many hand-crafted amateur proofs do you read in a month? If the answer is close to zero then what are your expectations actually driven by?
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by themafia 6mo ago
There should be zero expectation that the solution is "novel." It could not have produced any of it were it not in it's training data set. This is simply evidence that our search tools and academic publishing are completely
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by themafia 6mo ago
You're comparing the actions of individuals with the actions of a for-profit company. These are not compatible. The expectations are that if you are driving for profit then you are held to a higher standard. Waymo wants to publicly e
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by themafia 6mo ago
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-to... https://thegrayzone.com/2026/01/12/western-media-riots-iran-...
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by themafia 6mo ago
Where possible I prefer to implement signed policy objects. Then I can constrain access based on source IP and other request parameters. You can also easily implement an expiration date if you feel any particular application requires it,

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