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by timmaxw 3y ago
> pushed back hard on pretty much any sort of regulation and oversight I think there's a selection effect going on here: If tech and politicians agree that some policy is a good idea, then tech does it voluntarily, so no regulation
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by timmaxw 3y ago
For people (like me) who are wondering why a kernel needs to boot in under 28ms: It's for virtual machines that get launched on-demand in services like AWS Lambda. https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBS
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by timmaxw 3y ago
Summarizing: > In teaching hospitals, mortality was lower among high-risk patients with heart failure or cardiac arrest admitted during meeting dates (P < .001) No mortality differences existed for low-risk patients in teaching hospit
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by timmaxw 3y ago
It allows the attacker to eavesdrop on the data going through operations like strcmp(), memcpy(), and strlen(). (These are the standard functions in C for working with strings; and many higher-level languages use them under the hood.) It wo
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by timmaxw 3y ago
It's neat that they've added a Qwiic-compatible connector. I've been impressed with how many Qwiic peripherals Sparkfun has released, so I'm glad to see it getting more traction.
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by timmaxw 3y ago
Scott Aaronson has worked on this with OpenAI. Ctrl-F for "watermarking" in https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823 . I don't know if they've actually deployed it in ChatGPT or not.
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by timmaxw 3y ago
In 2018, the SF median household income was $97k [1], which suggests a median individual income of about $76k [2]. An average private-sector employee receives benefits worth 42% of their wages/salary [3]. So a hypothetical median SF wo
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by timmaxw 3y ago
The specific rule applied by the Supreme Court was: > The National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] has long taken the position—which the parties accept—that the NLRA [National Labor Relations Act] does not shield strikers who fail to take “
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by timmaxw 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification -- I updated my comment. (I am not a lawyer!)
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by timmaxw 3y ago
A few quotes from the Supreme Court documents ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1449_d9eh.pdf ): > The National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] has long taken the position—which the parties accept—tha
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by timmaxw 3y ago
Yes, it's disabled. Evidently the two options are "ask me each time" and "ask me intermittently"; there doesn't seem to be an option for "don't ask again".
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by timmaxw 3y ago
Yep. I use GMail and Safari on iOS. When I open links from GMail, every so often it shows a popup saying "would you like to install Chrome and open this link with Chrome instead of Safari"? It only appears intermittently, not on e
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by timmaxw 4y ago
> I feel like we are headed towards a split between Electron for end user applications and TUI for portable tools Another common hack is for a tool to serve a web UI on localhost, like Jupyter or Datasette. If you need to run the tool on
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I think it's important to be able to receive emergency broadcasts, including in areas with no cell service. Could those emergency broadcasts be moved to FM, though? Or is there something about AM that makes it more suitable for emergen
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by timmaxw 4y ago
The Uno is one of the best boards for beginners due to its huge ecosystem of tutorials, accessories, etc. But for a long time the Uno was stuck on the same 8-bit core for backwards-compatibility reasons, even as alternative boards offered m
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by timmaxw 4y ago
Yep, it lands safely now!
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I think you misread the article. What they did was: 1. Use Photoshop to blur a photo of the moon, destroying detail 2. Use a Samsung camera to take a photo of the blurred photo of the moon 3. The camera somehow emits a crisp photo of the mo
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I wanted to go for a record of as many flips as possible. So I boosted up to 25,000 feet; started spinning until it was doing about one flip per second; waited a few minutes; then turned on the autopilot to come into a landing. The autopilo
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by timmaxw 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see human artists doing the form of attribution you're describing. When people post artwork online, or when artwork is displayed in museums, it's normal to credit the artist who d
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I agree it makes it less likely that people will create novel manual art techniques. By analogy -- when cameras were invented, artists stopped focusing as much on realism. But I don't think that was any great loss. Also, there are some
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by timmaxw 4y ago
In a world where Stable Diffusion wins the copyright lawsuits, I don't think "artist" would cease to be a profession. Rather, I think the equilibrium would be artists using Stable Diffusion as a tool to automate the labor-int
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by timmaxw 4y ago
> No one is necessarily saying that you owe Van Gogh a cut. But the controversy over Stable Diffusion is whether they owe the human artists a cut or not, right? > What they _are_ saying is not to claim that you didn't train on Va
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by timmaxw 4y ago
> As for energy and light needs. Yes, it would need lots of energy but nowhere near what you think. Your back of the envelope math is talking about acres which isn't that useful of a metric for your energy needs. It's true that
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by timmaxw 4y ago
Sorry, but I'm still quite skeptical; I'm going to need you to make a specific case, not just ask me to trust you because you're in the vertical farming industry. > so can say with quite a lot of certainty that you can saf
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by timmaxw 4y ago
But if you stack six layers, each layer needs its own set of LEDs, or else the lower layers wouldn't get any light; so the energy usage per unit of wheat is the same. (In fact, if you look at the photos and video on https://
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I just can't see how this can replace conventional farming at scale. Currently, outdoor farming uses 4.62 billion acres [1]. The article says indoor farming has 25x the yield per acre. So that would be 177 million acres. Today, there a
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I like this distinction, and it makes a lot of sense to me. I'm probably closer to the status-quo-ist end of the spectrum. From what I've seen on the Internet, a common failure mode of brokenism is to focus on the "tearing do
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by timmaxw 4y ago
Personally, I found Ruby's symbols to be a source of bugs because they can easily get mixed up with strings. The article gives the example of dict[:employee_id]. But what happens if you serialize "dict" as JSON, then parse it
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by timmaxw 4y ago
Following the chain of links, I think this article is the original source: https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-idling-your-car-i... It's a much more detailed article, including some specific claims about the sci
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by timmaxw 4y ago
I wonder if you could apply a simpler version of this to ordinary C/C++ programs? If you allocate a chunk on the heap with 8-byte alignment, then you can throw away the lowest 3 bits of precision, and then you can address 32GB with a 3

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