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by thu2111 5y ago
That's probably the closest but it's not AI related. They just tweaked how often certain posts appeared based on the smileys attached to it, which doesn't involve AI or even statistics really. Also, even if you consider the e
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Pointing out what you see as bad regulation, doesn’t imply that all regulation is inherently bad, or that less regulation is inherently good. Well, this is a post about Bayesian inference, so technically pointing out bad regulation should
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EU regulation 2257/94 covers the abnormal curvature of bananas. There is no myth here, the EU does indeed regulate the straightness of bananas and has done for a long time. As for this law, it is going to be heavily criticised and this
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I suspect you'll have a new perspective when you try and obtain a block of IP addresses and compare the prices...
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Ah great, so now smartphones never happen at all because regulations say general purpose computers must allow windowed applications? You seem to have a remarkable faith in government regulations! All the attempts to regulate tech I've
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For better or worse, yes other malls exist. Firstly, there's the web. Secondly, Android allows you to create alternative app stores and install them, or install apps entirely outside app stores. Thirdly, there were and still are compet
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Of course they cry foul, those two things aren't comparable at all. Cost of switching to Android from Apple: walking down the street and buying a new phone. Cost of switching from the EU to some other jurisdiction: move to another cont
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They could have a convenient command line submission process for new versions without requiring every such change to be an actual PR. A simple web server that takes a POST request and converts it into a PR behind the scenes would be simpl
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Well, it's also just bad engineering tbh. What they're trying to do here is take a workflow intended for humans to make arbitrary code changes and other humans to review those changes, then restrict it to be a workflow for machine
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They are not real lakes, as far as I know. They might have been once but Skylake and Ice Lake are just made up.
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It sounds like they are sharing memory and the shared memory is getting accounted to whatever tab was opened first until it closes.
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Fisher next placed a small, weighted chain on the steering wheel, to simulate the weight of a driver’s hand, and slid over into the front passenger seat without opening any of the vehicle’s doors, because that would disengage Autopilot I
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Hardware encoding is nothing new, is it? Digital TV channels were encoded via hardware VCUs in the MPEG2 era at least. I think all that's new here is the specific capabilities and maybe the tuning for the modern Google specific codecs.
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Thanks! This is super helpful! I knew about and use exa and fzf but the others are new to me.
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Yeah. This is a ridiculous story by the BBC - it says the car can easily be tricked and then doesn't explain how. Surely that is the primary set of facts that are needed to evaluate the story?
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I wonder if in future someone could write a competitor to these C based media libraries in Java. Today it wouldn't really be ideal, but the combination of Graal native image, such can build standalone native libraries with C ABI interf
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That seems optimistic. Scientific fraud is caught all the time and basically never results in anything happening. The university here repeatedly signed off on this so it's institutionally culpable. Normally when bad stuff happens in re
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How do you know? These people already attempted to manipulate the kernel maintainers repeatedly, even after being caught. Nothing they claim about their own work can be trusted.
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If a company that sold static analysis products did this as part of a marketing campaign, would you likewise have so many reservations about blacklisting contributions from that company, or would you still be insisting on picking out indivi
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It obviously qualifies and the guy just quoted the law at you to prove it. Frankly universities and academics need to be taken to court far more often. Our society routinely turns a blind eye to all sorts of fraudulent and unethical practic
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Um, academics aren't allowed to assemble bombs and then try and sneak them onto planes with the excuse that it's not a human trial. That'd be absurd. It's easy to think of studies that don't involve humans so that s
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by thu2111 6y ago
Some engineers wrote a couple of insightful internal post-mortems about Google Video after the YouTube acquisition. It's telling, I think, that the deep analysis of what went wrong came from front-line engineers rather than the executi
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Honestly I wonder if they even noticed. Based on reading comments under op-eds in newspapers I don't believe the executive or media class actually ever look at prole-feed like comments and like counts. The only YouTubers who might have
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Wojcicki is not an engineer. Her background is marketing.
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And not only sister in law. Executive leader of that highly successful project, Google Video, which ended with Wojcicki being so beaten that she had to tell Google management to buy her only competitor for over a billion dollars.
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Mens rea is subtly different, I think. It is intended to allow a defense that you really didn't want to break the law and did so unintentionally. It isn't quite about the self-perceived goodness of your intentions. That is, statin
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Could you justify that claim a bit more? I downloaded the report and the phrase New York Times doesn't seem to appear in it. The whole report is actually a bit odd. It talks about the "five core values of journalism" and clai
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Surely something being misconduct or not is independent of someone's intentions? All kinds of people do bad things with good intentions.
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OK, so there are multiple things to break down here. Firstly, no such lobby exists anymore, if it ever did. All the supposed oil majors have reinvented themselves as energy companies a long time ago and have big investments in solar, wind,
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, there are threads like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m78lk2/github_...

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