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by themafia 8mo ago
> How is this the fault of AI? It could be the fault of the company that's selling this service. They often make wildly inaccurate claims about the utility and accuracy of their systems. [0] > There's a reason why we don&#x
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Apparently "Software Creations" BBS, which ran PCBoard BBS software and was operated in cooperation with Apogee games. https://x.com/ScottApogee/status/1593729387106512896
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> "it is not known whether these numbers equal each other" Equality, among other operations, are not defined for these inputs. NaN's really are a separate type of object embedded inside another objects value space. So yo
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by themafia 8mo ago
> payload propagation isn't guaranteed Yes and no: `If an operation has a single NaN input and propagates it to the output, the result NaN's payload should be that of the input NaN (this is not always possible for binary format
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> started growing much faster than the tax base So you have two unaddressed problems. > A better solution would have been to fund education more equitably at the state level Which could only work if the state was "richer" th
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by themafia 8mo ago
IPv6 is fine. The advice on ULAs is garbage. The purpose of a protocol is to provide utility, not proscription.
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You're thinking of TCP or UDP. IP does not have ports.
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> This is a huge waste of time/money Right. And when you see someone so dedicated do it there is almost certainly a hidden variable which causes this to occur. I imagine the nature of funding of these schools and the distribution
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> are betting that their AI business will be profitable It could be. The idea that a business built on this framework won't immediately be picked apart by every competitor under the sun is entirely beyond me. > and need to cut c
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In the US it's just called a "bench trial." You can ask for one. It's often advantageous to do so.
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It's significantly ruined by automated royal assent. The balance that's meant to protect the realm has not functioned for decades.
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> If your system takes longer than that, it's a bad system. Why? > which can take effect more or less immediately. In our jurisdictions they're usually reserved. Courts can be used to challenge laws as unconstitutional. An
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The government needs different levels of distractions at different times. For example, when they're stuck in a boondoggle of a war with Iran that's not going nearly as well as they hoped or projected. I'm sure RF weapons ex
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I'm not sure having a microbiologist on to talk about RF energy weapons was a good choice. I also have significant doubts about this "black market Russian RF weapon" storyline. Just because you found an item on the black ma
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by themafia 8mo ago
So more populated countries have more potential poll workers to choose from. Isn't this a linear relationship? What does size have to do with anything?
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What is the rush to tally the ballots? Do we need an _instant_ count? Isn't that actually a negative attribute as far as security is concerned? The distance between the election and the taking of the office is often months. I just d
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by themafia 8mo ago
I'm a programmer. I'm a human. Perhaps we should also allow for some "human theory" inside our understanding.
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I have a scheduling system that allows users to specify recurring events. "Every Monday at 2pm." Which needs to be understood in the native timezone of that user and needs to be capable of being displayed in that timezone for al
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The traditional Bloomberg money worship. > But the platform’s more successful game makers say they don’t have complaints. Imagine being a journalist and just accepting this and ending a paragraph with it. > “In Amsterdam we did get a
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by themafia 8mo ago
ffmpeg has great http input and output support. I've been using this quite a bit recently. Wrapping ffmpeg with node.js and using the built in http server and client to interact with it. It's even reduced load considerably becau
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by themafia 8mo ago
You and Stephen Wolfram. Ironically when I ask Mathematica "what is the mass of Stephen Wolfram" it cannot tell me. I'm honestly not trying to pick on him but I wanted to calculate his average density. What a rip off.
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by themafia 8mo ago
So the objective evidence indicates that yellow light timing is the most important factor in reducing accidents. Why are we discussing cameras?
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When people are done being disgusted by it. It would probably help if Meta admitted it did wrong and wasn't fighting it in court.
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The purest form of nostalgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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If your goal is to help allay the fears of people who hold that view, then obviously, yes! If your goal is constantly punch down and find a class of people you're "allowed" to bully for thinking differently, then by all me
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Previously it played pong. Rather poorly. Then they added a "python programming layer." Now it "plays" doom. I agree with your suspicions.
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> Or that everyone in a region agrees on what time it is. And how does the existence of the tzdb solve this problem in any way? > Or that ccTLDs are sufficient to unambiguously cover the entire earths surface. The user can still pick
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You need it to encode or decode past dates to unix time or other time standards. You do not need it to "interpret" past dates. Even then the tzdb only covers _offsets_ within a day. So even without it you can get an answer that
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> but not the human documentation of time. And a single database maintained by a volunteer and accountable to no one is the best way to achieve this? > say from "US/Pacific" to "USA/Pacific" Did the US as
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> the Time Zone Database also contains a surprising amount of whimsy. Which I would find "cute" if the database contained an equal amount of reason. I am perennially irritated that "US/Pacific" which is an _offi

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