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by thfuran 1y ago
NYC metro area has fewer than 400 skyscrapers, so a hundred is quite a lot.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I'd assume that floorspace close to the ground would be worth more than floorspace that takes a half hour commute by elevator to reach.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I have tinnitus, and this thread is probably the first time I've thought about it this week.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>I take it you have tests in your product repos that test your compiler behaviour, including optimisations that you enable while building binaries, and all third party dependencies you use. Is that accurate? Are you asking whether I writ
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by thfuran 1y ago
>You are responsible for testing the code you write, not the one that actually runs That's a bizarre claim. The source code isn't the product, and the product is what has to work. If a compiler or OS bug causes your product to
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by thfuran 1y ago
If you say "run this http request, which will return json containing a list of numbers. Reply with only those numbers, in ascending order and separated by commas, with no additional characters" and it exploits an RCE to modify the
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Laptops and desktops are for work, But that's mostly email, SaaS, web meetings, and spreadsheets. Most people have never in their lives run "cargo build" or launched Cyberpunk 2077. The actual market for sustained high lo
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by thfuran 1y ago
That’s only two code paths if it also uses WiFi.
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by thfuran 1y ago
What about them? It's possible for the question to unambiguously specify the required notational convention.
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by thfuran 1y ago
"More often than not" is zero 9s.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Age is not evenly distributed across the population But luckily, unlike wealth inequality, age inequality is decreasing. Fewer people have little of it and more people have more of it than ever before in this country.
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by thfuran 1y ago
He didn't posit that it was a manual action, only that the kill command came over the network.
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by thfuran 1y ago
How is that reasonable? What about loss of network access makes vacuuming less safe?
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by thfuran 1y ago
>This (1) definitely requires some connectivity, and (2) has to go via central server if the phone is not on same subnet Why couldn't that just be over Bluetooth?
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by thfuran 1y ago
I think the extra step should be enough to technically constitute hacking and destruction of property.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>I began to feel like I was losing my mind. How could a simple IP block disable a vacuum cleaner that is supposed to work offline as well? It sure sounds like they were aware of the relation, just not how or why one thing led to the othe
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by thfuran 1y ago
Haven't cars been substantially computer controlled for decades? Electronic fuel injection has been common since at least the'90s.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Consoles don't have that problem, because not providing perfect backwards compatibility for 20+ years of games isn't a dealbreaker there. I'm not sure that's actually true for Sony. You can currently play several gen
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by thfuran 1y ago
There are materials that do what you're looking for surprisingly effectively, staying many degrees sub-ambient even in direct sunlight. (See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eom2.12284 fo
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by thfuran 1y ago
There are certain materials that aren't just white but also specifically radiate heavily in IR bands that the atmosphere is particularly transparent to and so can actually stay sub-ambient temperature while in sunlight. See, for exampl
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by thfuran 1y ago
>If you spend it surfing TikTok that's almost certainly going to do nothing for you. On the contrary, it's likely to substantially misinform you and wreck your attention span. That's not very helpful though.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Unless the population is growing, the steady state is that one prof can only mint one prof-descendant in their lifetime on average. That means, maybe some can create more, but then some will not have any mentees that ever become profess
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by thfuran 1y ago
>metrics that are superseded altogether in this scenario. For instance miniaturization suddenly won't be necessary for mining companies wishing to send gear to asteroids Nothing in the near future is superceding the tyranny of the r
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by thfuran 1y ago
>You can download a LLM, can't download a Google or Meta. You can download a model. That doesn't necessarily mean you can download the best model and all the ancillary systems attached to it by whatever service. Just like you
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by thfuran 1y ago
The cost is in transportation (aside from the cost of developing and producing all those automated systems). Where do you expect extra-terrestrial mining to occur and why do you think what's mined there would be used on Earth? The near
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by thfuran 1y ago
A few million dollars would probably cover months in the ICU, so not exactly common. A few tens of thousands would be a more plausible ambulance ride to ER followed by emergency surgery and a few days in the hospital, which still isn’t very
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by thfuran 1y ago
If they're not making money from ads, they don't have incentive to manipulate you into spending as much time as possible watching ads. Maybe if it's some kind of micropayment based model, but if it's subscription the pro
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by thfuran 1y ago
> putting even the slightest barrier between the user and the content drives away vast numbers of people That's precisely why it should be done statutorily. People are known to be irrational about free things, so it's a fundame
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by thfuran 1y ago
How is the length of the postdoc a factor? Next year there's going to be another graduating class and again the year after.
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by thfuran 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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