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by worik 3mo ago
In my country (New Zealand) this would be very illegal You cannot detain someone because you do not like their behavior, in almost all situations. In civilised countries It is called kidnapping
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by worik 3mo ago
That entire business sector is a cess pit of SEO slop. Good riddence
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by worik 3mo ago
> outside the Americas So very wrong, not "mostly right" South America is a big place, lots of people live there
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by worik 3mo ago
> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time. No, that is incorrect
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by worik 3mo ago
> Which european dictatorship left their country better off? If monarchs count as dictators, and monarchic states as dictatorship, then almost all economic progress in Europe upto the 1840s
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by worik 3mo ago
> yet we still trust them with our code and data Who's we, eh?
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by worik 3mo ago
Meanwhile their software, most software in wide use, continues to be unreliable and insecure Share holder returns are doing OK tho
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by worik 3mo ago
Yes But how important?
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by worik 3mo ago
> The era of building websites solely for Google traffic and monetizing them through ads and affiliate marketing has ended. Yay! Quite an assertion, I hope it is true
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by worik 3mo ago
Interesting I have noticed this too, but have a different problem The "flow state" has never been where I want to be, it is where I make my worst mistakes and where the details swamp the bigger picture. A "cannot see the wood
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by worik 3mo ago
> The main bottleneck at this point is the cost of all of the token Are you using Chinese models? Quite a bit cheaper, but maybe still too expensive?
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by worik 3mo ago
> You don't need the world's stolen information to run a small project containing locally trained data you collected. Local training? Is that feasible?
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by worik 3mo ago
> chinese models without safety filters (it could be used to create software exploits) Any decent coding setup can create software exploits. That bird has flown.
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by worik 3mo ago
I loved it. Different tastes
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Scientists Make Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by worik 3mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 3mo ago
This is good work. Ethical consumption in a capitalist economy is unachievable...but we can optimise
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When the power of love beats the love of power(theguardian.com)
3 points by worik 3mo ago|0 comments
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by worik 4mo ago
The only thing I use Amazon for is price guidance - is that hardware $1, $2, $10 or $100? I have not bought from them since 2005. There is no need
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by worik 4mo ago
> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4 Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not Listen to those who have done this. Use intege
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by worik 4mo ago
> JS engines treat numbers as 53 bit signed floats Please do not use Javascript for finance applications. Just do not do it Save it for user interface elements and dancing whizzimagigs, where it will do less harm.
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by worik 4mo ago
Never use floats for financial calculations. Because hard won experience. "Floats" are simulations of Real Numbers, and Reals are uncountable. Not what you want for finance, where everything is counted.
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by worik 4mo ago
In a cot. Not a double bed, in its on room
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by worik 4mo ago
> Hopefully the book has something more damning than that. Hopefully? Buy it, or borrow it, and read it. Remove doubt
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by worik 4mo ago
I am confused. What is this about?
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Elon Musk denies Tesla's Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother(arstechnica.com)
13 points by worik 4mo ago|5 comments
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by worik 4mo ago
Yes, very true But in the long term, we are all dead
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FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama(arstechnica.com)
236 points by worik 4mo ago|146 comments
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by worik 4mo ago
Until they scantion Brazil It can happen to anyone
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by worik 4mo ago
Damn, USA, you being foolish. The world economy is not a zero sum gain, we all do better when we do better Cooperate with China, love and cherish them. Unlike us of European heritage, they are not imperialistic Get over yourselves!
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by worik 4mo ago
> It's been a few years since I worked on a large rust project with tons of deps, but I don't recall there being a big problem. The problem was ignored, perhaps? Not every project is vulnerable, but many systems programming tas

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