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by wnoise 1y ago
Oh, yes, highly unusual. So are startup founders. Many of these fail, precisely because they too did not have rational plans that would get them to their end goals.
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by wnoise 1y ago
"Criminally insane" and "psychosis of maniac" are incredible hyperbole. The only reasonable word there is "criminally". Of course assassinations are criminal. One doesn't have to be insane, psychotic, or
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by wnoise 1y ago
> not the government protecting people from each other. That's literally the purpose of both criminal and civil laws.
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by wnoise 2y ago
The DoSes are AI-for-training-data, not AI-for-automation. AI-for-automation is for the time being going to be the same order of magnitude as standard activity.
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by wnoise 2y ago
He also created the Githzerai/Githyanki, so other ways of creating cults seem easier.
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by wnoise 2y ago
Though the Deus Ex Machina is indeed a Deus Ex Machina, even when signposted.
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by wnoise 2y ago
New job limits the damage a lot though. Until tenure is overstating things.
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by wnoise 2y ago
Yes, but k-token lookup was already a thing with markov chains. Transformers are indeed better, but just because they model language distributions better than mostly-empty arrays of (token-count)^(context).
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by wnoise 2y ago
Got it, I should use Rankine.
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by wnoise 2y ago
False dichotomy. Yes, you can broadly split people who find vulnerabilities into those who want to use or sell them, and those who want to get them fixed. And those who want to use or sell them will never tell the victim. But those who no
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by wnoise 2y ago
Perhaps. But I think we can agree that this is indeed not the usual case. The majority of what he's doing is "merely" unheard of norm violations. But much of the authority he's exercising do not clearly appear to be le
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by wnoise 2y ago
Yes. It would be completely paralyzing were the executive largely staffed with those that wanted to paralyze it. Usually that's not the case. I don't think that'd be case unless the orders were completely outrageous, in whic
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by wnoise 2y ago
See, the thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
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by wnoise 2y ago
The "gunshow" loophole is really a "private sellers" exemption. If you don't regularly sell guns, then you don't need an FFL to merely sell a small number, and don't have to do background checks (indeed t
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by wnoise 2y ago
Normally to be covered under "incitement", it has to be a call for imminent unlawful behavior.
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by wnoise 2y ago
This is true, but only by definition of murder as a wrongful killing. There are plenty of killings that aren't murder.
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by wnoise 2y ago
You're not wrong. But in theory, agreement and buy-in is a one-time thing, while actually writing the code and reviewing the PRs are constant things.
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by wnoise 2y ago
Depends how far east or west you are...
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by wnoise 2y ago
Nah. It's just the natural semantics -- he added stuff to C, but returned something that wasn't actually more advanced...
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by wnoise 2y ago
Dying of BBS and XMODEM fame sounds painful. Can dang or another mod move the parenthetical modifier?
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by wnoise 2y ago
That merely makes them stupid AIs.
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by wnoise 2y ago
You're never going to win a suit against policemen not doing their duty. * https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=910846825412517... * https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/
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by wnoise 2y ago
It has allowed that for a long, long time.
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by wnoise 2y ago
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dtach
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by wnoise 2y ago
Also known as the Kzinti Lesson, from Niven's "Known Space". https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedExhaus...
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by wnoise 2y ago
> "surge protector" is what Americans call a passive device that splits one outlet into several, yeah? Technically different, but often combined functions. The splitting bit is a "power strip", or sometimes a "p
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by wnoise 2y ago
But are they at all discoverable from the code base? Those PR messages, jira tickets, and slack history ought to be linked to in the commit message, and that requirements document checked in. (None of those links help when you switch to di
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by wnoise 2y ago
Peanut Butter and Radishes?
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by wnoise 2y ago
It is the formula for an exponentially weighted moving average. Which is not appropriate here...
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by wnoise 2y ago
> when the mechanisms used to ensure privacy actually work most of the time. Privacy was indeed preserved -- at the cost of communication.

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