wiml

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by wiml 7d ago
Sure, but the basic value proposition of AI is that you don't have to care. These issues could be overcome, but they aren't, because the whole way the technology is promoted and sold guides the user away from caring.
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by wiml 8d ago
"It's all up in yo' grill, would you say?"
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by wiml 10d ago
I think "cascading failure" is the term you're looking for. Electrical power, networked servers, physical structures, etc
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by wiml 10d ago
Every technician or craftsman develops some strong opinions about which tools are good tools and which tools are bad tools.
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by wiml 15d ago
It was a failure of the justice system back then, too.
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by wiml 18d ago
And reading my own comment it has the same kinds of problems (lookit all those 3-example lists!). I wouldn't hire me for an editing job.
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by wiml 18d ago
This is a complaint I hear others voice and one I have myself. I think it comes down to the text being poorly written. Sure, LLMs are good at a lot of the surface indicators of good writing: they have a wide vocabulary, they use grammatical
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by wiml 19d ago
What binary did you start from?
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by wiml 19d ago
The TV's license agreement attempts to shift the burden onto the TV's owner. Taken at face value, it's the owner who is guilty of recording people without their consent.
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by wiml 19d ago
From TFA: > Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack [...] is widely regarded as a threat specific to compilers. We show that it is not And yet, from Reflections On Trusting Trust : > In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of
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by wiml 20d ago
I think when I hear the terms, a "dashpot" is a specific mechanism and a "snubber" is its purpose. You can use dashpots for other purposes, and you can build snubbers out of things other than dashpots.
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by wiml 22d ago
Nothing requires the wormhole "surface" to be a sphere, just like nothing requires the wormhole in the 2D analogy to be a circular hole. If you make it a sphere with one flat side, travelers won't have to traverse curved sp
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by wiml 26d ago
Futel runs a handful of non-pay payphones in and around NW Oregon, some urban and some rural. There are other regional organizations doing similar things.
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by wiml 1mo ago
I think you're getting the Declaration and the Constitution a little mixed up. Also conflating "free speech" with "the first amendment", but everyone does that so they can motte-and-bailey.
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by wiml 1mo ago
But nuclear fission was discovered by scientists working in Nazi Germany (except Meitner who had fled to Sweden by then).
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by wiml 1mo ago
I guess this is from the Bush-era usage of "regime"? It doesn't normally have a negative implication.
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by wiml 1mo ago
I've seen "possible tsunami" pre-warnings, and a sea level gauge at/near Lembar showing sea level oscillations - so I would recommend keeping a close watch on some information source that's better than HN comment th
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by wiml 1mo ago
Then reject them for being incomprehensible? Look, if you don't think code review is worthwhile, don't do it. Just give everybody unfettered permission to merge. But don't pretend to do review if you're not trying to m
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by wiml 2mo ago
News is really poorly written these days. I don't blame people for not wanting to slog through a poorly organized, superficial rehash of a press release for the half chance of finding some relevant information. It's not just tha
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by wiml 2mo ago
Ooh, and it could shift seasonally so that summer temperatures and winter temperatures can both be in the convenient range. And every locality could shift a different amount and at different times of year according to their local climate. N
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by wiml 2mo ago
Isn't it, though? A GW generated one way displaces a GW generated another way. As long as we are building and operating coal-fired power plants — which we are — it is reasonable to consider displacing those plants with fission plants.
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by wiml 2mo ago
I sometimes enjoy reading through my spam folder. I get a lot of docusign phishing (despite not being an important executive). I also get a lot of "docusing" phishing, which gives me a chuckle. Is it bardic spam?
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by wiml 2mo ago
Environmental disasters that will likely outlast human civilization? Coal does that in normal operation .
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by wiml 2mo ago
Uh, that's not how global warming works, you know.
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by wiml 2mo ago
My interpretation of TwiztidK's comment is that they could save the cost of that .5–2 MW power draw by switching to a battery chemistry with looser temperature requirements.
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by wiml 2mo ago
Civilizational collapse?
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by wiml 3mo ago
Yeah, that's an interesting question. I would expect the two to look the same once converted to SSA. You can ask the compiler to dump its intermediate representations, so it might not be too hard to answer the question.
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by wiml 3mo ago
*foo++ (and --) is an extremely common C idiom. I'd argue it's clearer than the separated version.
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by wiml 3mo ago
From the links in the article, it looks like this DC runs giant heat exchangers to dump the heat to air.
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by wiml 3mo ago
> Windows uses Philips head screws, Linux uses hex screws, and MacOS requires Torx — but a hammer works the same way with all screws. That’s Electron. Heh.

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