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> If the officer can't articulate the reasonable suspicion at the 20 minute mark Wouldn't the suspicion -- the observed fact and presumed implication -- need to be recorded before the traffic stop?
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It may be that some media or some alcohol is more toxic than others, but it's still fair to test whether the mode of administration has an independent or enhancing effect. E.g., crack cocaine is more addictive than nasal, and extended
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> More useful words are "negligible" and "problematic". Yes, thank you! Worth emulating. By comparison: > A characteristic of these systems spanning so many orders of magnitude is that it is very frequently the ca
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11mo ago
TLDR: [AI promises] a future where we prize instant answers over teaching and understanding But what this article and the comments don't say: open-source is mainly a quality metric. I re-use code from popular open-source repo's i
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1y ago
Seems great: I looked at two largish code bases I'm familiar with, and learned something each time. But is this just a summary for the impatient, or can it reduce the effort for developers writing docs? Docs have always been the mirror
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1y ago
It's worth highlighting the conditions under which this can help: > in domains where the taxonomy drifts, the data is scarce, or the requirements shift faster than you can annotate It's not actually clear if warranty claims rea
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1y ago
An independent Europe is easier for China to dominate. Now that NATO is in question, you'll start to hear about US manipulation of the SWIFT banking system, so Europe will start pushing for an international one, which China will eventu
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1y ago
Another factor is economic inter-dependence. Heck, Europe has been buying energy from Russia to fund the war in Ukraine. China has contained the US not through war or diplomacy but through US economic dependency (yet having enough of thei
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1y ago
> that one thing that could help is making them easier to build That means anyone can build them. Be wary of advances that benefit your enemy as much as you, and make more of your enemies capable of war.
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> this is definitely going to get out own people killed. But the key feature making this a horrible decision is that the people responsible for getting our people killed will not be discoverable, and they will never face the consequences
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1y ago
Don't let hatred of bureaucracy blind you. Russia and China definitely love this: choosing time over features or quality is a recipe for failed products and corrupted contractors who specialize in defrauding the government. This turned
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1y ago
TLDR: Current system rewards price manipulation, resulting in vertical integration to inflate list price & reduce competition. This blog post pulls together data showing how the largest does it. This issue has been so well-known that i
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1y ago
> It is structured such that if the cops improperly accessed your voice mails that can't be used against you in court Yes, it's true that illegally obtained evidence can be excluded. But warrants -- prior authorization -- are r
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1y ago
Policy is a decent filter for consensual candidates, but mostly ineffective against incentives and automation. The issue is exported costs: whether submitters make reviewers work too hard for the contribution value. The policy/practice
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1y ago
With rising ADHD awareness and corresponding academic waivers and medications used to enhance academic performance, I'm surprised the results are not much higher among students. I'm disappointed the paper failed to address the li
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1990's C practice was to document whether initialization values were copied or adopted. I'm curious why the concept became "move" rather than "adopt", since move gives the parameter/data agency instead of
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1y ago
Yes, new frameworks will have a harder time getting uptake. Worse, with LLM's easily generating boilerplate, there's less pressure to make old framework code concise or clear, and the superior usability of a new framework won'
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1y ago
Given the technical achievements and industry impact, I'm struck that his emphasis is on the people, and in particular growing people to take on challenges. His influence might lie as much in what they do. The connection linking them
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1y ago
> Memory protection no nonexsistant Exclusivity is guaranteed by the compiler, and Apple has integrated tagged pointers on arm while Linux/x86 is still thinking about it.
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1y ago
Call it Memento Mori? I find life goals and wishes to be mostly regressive projections. To me the real value is understanding people's regrets -- typically for lacking courage. When everything, including yourself, is against you, it&#x
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1y ago
Light, open, and hence not crashworthy. I'd hesitate to recommend such a sexy way to end one's enduring boredom...
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> Thanks to all the entrepreneurs and engineers over the past decades Hat tip also to China's ideological commitment to independence from external oil supplies, as nicely coupled to reducing pollution and greenwashing their image.
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TLDR: dirty fuel is being displaced by clean electricity for 500M+ Africans beyond the grid via combination of cheap solar panels + batteries, microfinancing, electronic payments, and a carbon-credit kicker. Two main players captured most
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1y ago
tell them they're making lots of sandwiches and they can work together in a line or they can work in parallel
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I read this announcement mainly as proving the success of the new support for SDK's. Previously, supporting another platform required invasive hodge-podge of CMake tangles at best. Swift SDK's are a way for anyone to support any
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1y ago
> I'd pay them substantially Pay for Kagi Ultimate: private search, and your selection of multiple models.
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> it's largely locked in the apple walled garden with tokens given to the outside So, the compiler, stdlib and runtime, core libraries, build system ... not enough? What else would you want? I feel the problem is not what's in
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OP objections to scripting in Swift are (1) requires a build step; and (2) subprocess API requires wrapping for each tool -- both are true. The Swift team did just release Subprocess, but it doesn't break hugely new ground. Swift has
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It's great to help people understand that AI can be both surprisingly good and disappointing, and that testing is the only way to know, but it's impossible to test everything. That sets expectations. I think that means savvy cust
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Sorry, but the rectangular eyebrow and nose could just as well be a construction feature - a notch for stabilizing a wall or a beam to the next pillar. Any mouth is too faint.
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