treesprite82

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by treesprite82 5y ago
The user's post history (now purged by the user) was almost entirely shilling for "dogebonk" cryptocurrency, often in disingenuous ways. Like this from the last two days: https://i.imgur.com/VvuRBTZ.png Askin
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by treesprite82 5y ago
I note "some kind of audio input" for that case. Notifying of audio-recording billboards/etc. is a separate case signalled by the dot (which I think could theoretically be a positive, but isn't practically achieved with
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by treesprite82 5y ago
For a lot of the examples being given in this thread, like billboards and movies, I'd actually welcome an orange dot notifying me that audio is being recorded - since that's not an expectation I'd otherwise have. Though this
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> This isn't even redeemable from a technical perspective as Disney has been doing this same thing on their cruise ships -in the Animator's Palate dining hall- for at least a decade. The main interesting part about Facebook&#x2
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> I don't really get the original argument. I never thought "todays AI isn't smart, but if it could play Go, that would be an intelligent agent!" I think the "AI effect" primarily refers to how practical suc
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> completely shit (Skyrim VR etc) Definitely agree for the vanilla game. Patching it up with a few mods (functioning hands that collide with the environment, ability to smash containers, attacks impacting enemies, HL:A-like gravity glove
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> So? Wheelerof5te said Rust is becoming the "world's best *compiled, safe* language". You objected to this, but then only listed alternative languages which aren't in that group. You responded as if Wheelerof5te had
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by treesprite82 5y ago
I'm fine with that, but I don't see how the proposed idea improves vehicle safety.
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by treesprite82 5y ago
I got access to Copilot technical preview earlier today, here's the completion you wanted to try: // Computes the index of them item. map_index(int item, int *array, int size) { int i; for (i = 0; i &l
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> It lists all It lists 14 deaths for 2020, when around 500 would be expected. The note at the top clears up that it's not all deaths of US citizen deaths in Japan, so may not include Near's death depending on how it was clas
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> the US report claiming no citizens died in Japan during those months There are 50k US citizens in Japan - none dying for months seems impossible. More likely that whatever source you're citing is only about some small subset of de
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> Where did it come from then? And what license did the original have? From what I read, the code has been altered and iterated on as it was passed down. The magic number constant is claimed to have been derived by Cleve Moler and Gregor
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> With the exact same comments? Yep: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=evil+floating+point+bit+leve... > Quite sure the FSF would be perfectly fine with that. I believe the person republishing GCC code under MIT wou
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> This means that Google was careful to not make a large amount of copy-righted works publically accessible. Such is not the case for GitHub Copilot in particular Armin Ronacher’s tweet [19] The fast inverse square root algorithm referen
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Can't insurance rates already take into account vehicle safety features? All that I can see this doing is reducing customer choice when it comes to insurance for their autonomous vehicles.
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by treesprite82 5y ago
If the customer covers the insurance then I'm not sure what is being accomplished. Seems pretty much like the existing situation. I think the main problem with lolc's idea is setting the baseline at perfection rather than the base
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Being liable for any mistake an autonomous vehicle makes would likely be infeasible even if the vehicle is many times safer than the average human driver.
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by treesprite82 5y ago
`git fetch` is included - note that you have to click the other columns to see commands relating to them.
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> I get a ton of email, so I use a special filtering service that routes my mail to different boxes -- including sending certain PR emails straight into the trash. As I read this bill, that would no longer be allowed in Texas. > And t
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by treesprite82 5y ago
I don't know enough about Ravelry to say whether it'd be infeasible for them to take on the liabilities they'd have if they weren't a digital service, but I think we're on the same page now. As mentioned, I personal
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Vast majority of the screen-shotted tweets don't seem any worse than what the author was dishing out (e.g: https://i.imgur.com/ysm7yxp.png - or more often calling them assholes/grifters/immoral). At the same
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> That would be an explicit rejection of supporting 'all user content' and thus avoid regulations meant for a 'publisher/carrier dichotomy'. Under the intended changes, this would give them the same liabilities a
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> If hosting means being a common carrier, then GNU must be forced to host non-free software, yes? If you take the most extreme interpretation, then you could even claim that m0zg wants any random person to be able to publish freely on
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> The phone company is a common carrier, under the Communications Act of 1934, which is why it can't cancel your line in the scenario you gave. > GoDaddy is not regulated under common carrier laws. > In the absence of any law
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Assume we're starting with a 1% prior of some person being the the perpetrator of a crime. Consider some completely static characteristic. If the suspect is the perpetrator then there's an 100% chance they still have this characte
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by treesprite82 5y ago
> Black compared the left thumb in the picture with the Hogmanay image and found matching details, including an unusually shaped lunule, the white area at the base of the nail. "This time, I was able to go back to my database and pu
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by treesprite82 5y ago
It sounds like the random selection of machines for the parallel "mock election" is intended to help with that issue.
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Apple did once plan to allow encrypting backups, but dropped the plan when the FBI complained: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51207744 I don't think whoknowswhat11's account (that there was a period wh
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by treesprite82 5y ago
If you asked me to pass on a letter then I tell you that I've done so, you'd be annoyed if you found out that I actually just threw it away. If I told you up front that I wasn't willing to pass it on then you could find someo
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by treesprite82 5y ago
Jacob Preston (ex-Apple Firmware Engineer), Ashley Gjøvik (Apple Senior Engineering Program Manager) and Zoë Schiffer (Verge senior reporter) in the linked Twitter thread all seem to be claiming that Apple tells employees to merge their acc

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