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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> What free refill at a fast food have to do with homelessness? The tweet implies that lack of RFID chips attracts homeless people who get free drinks. So in a way the tweet actually justifies the RFID chip. Which kind of services wants
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
I don't know why we need to speculate and pretend to know more about McDonald's than they do, given they have made those decisions based on data, not speculation. Also soft drink/water sales are not "close to zero".
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
A coke is one dollar. So paying 10 cents to get back a missed dollar suddenly makes a whole lot of sense, doesn't it? I know it's not 1:1, but they have the data, and apparently it's still more profitable/preferable for
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Why don't you give folks water? It's not simply a matter of the water bill, but also what culture it promotes around their service, what customers (or "customers" in quotes) this attracts, how this affects other actual c
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
And RFID chip is less than 10 cents. The rest is amortized rather quickly. When you calculate McDonald's losses, don't assume the base cost of water, or soda, but the opportunity loss of missed sales, which are significantly large
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Well if all we need is just some bald confidence, I'll respond with a "Definitely nope".
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Knowing the popular protocols is an advantage you wouldn't have with "alien communication". Encryption in general doesn't try to hide itself, it just tries to hide the payload, so things like packet/frame structure,
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
It seems like a wild and possibly inaccurate speculation on the use of quantum effects for communication. Before we start speculating how aliens communicate, we need to have some idea how WE can communicate via the same means, even in a mos
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Our own encrypted communication is indistinguishable from noise, save for the initial handshake, which represents a detectable pattern, but mostly because we happen to already have the full specification of the protocol handy. Additionally,
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> Nikola is probably at the same stage - if not ahead - of Tesla when it comes to trucks. See, this level of misinformation is a big reason the company even exists yet. Tesla has been selling EVs for years now, and has prototyped their o
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Any test that uses mocks is therefore "bad testing".
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The very problem is that tests failing is not necessarily due to behavior changing but implementation details not affecting behavior changing. This is especially the case when tests rely on mocks, which don't really implement the BEHAV
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Those who took $100 million aren't the mad ones, though.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Command-line interface isn't simply text, it's a conversational UI. People who claimed GUI lost something were right, and that's why what was lost keeps coming back and it's still with us. Google Search, Siri / Goog
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years? It's a basic error of attribution. We need complex systems, and we build them typically by text source, which is the most e
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
We keep doing this, every time with the same outcome.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Caching should be a by-product of the data flow design in an app. When we start focusing on the cache, as in how much we cache, when we cache and where we put the cache, we're losing the main point which is data flow. There are two way
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
3D modeling and novel UI implies there's a new way to interact with the content on the display. Aside from the shallow depth effect, the input is still perfectly 2D. You can't touch and manipulate a 3D object here any more than yo
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Unit testing has become a bit like a diploma. Something society requires to acknowledge your quality, but that is mostly pro-forma and very poorly correlated with domain skills or intelligence. Those are systems that have firmly crossed fro
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> They should have just gotten a voice actor who could do a convincing impression of De Niro in the 70s and dubbbed him in. The director's focus was on the most genuine De Niro expression, not on the most impressive young De Niro im
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
There's some potential in making a web-driven GUI with legit application repository, I can imagine offices using this for real work.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The comment I was replying to can serve as evidence.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Building "on top of the original one" is not an asset in the deepfake process, it's a hindrance, because then the deepfake inherits the unnatural 3D facial animation, which is most of the reason why traditional VFX 3D facial
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
I wish Intel all the success, but we already know they're excellent at writing roadmaps. They just suck at executing them.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The problem isn't Safari as much, which pioneered HTML5, and is the most power-efficient browser on any platform I've seen. The problem is web devs. Web developers have increasingly the attitude of "I don't want to learn
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Non-locality is not just a problem of the classic world. There's no notion of it in the quantum mechanics world either. There's nothing in the math that suggests how can particles kilometers away can be connected "outside&quo
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The wave function collapse is quite real in that before measurement a particle interferes with itself and exists in a superposition, and after measurement it doesn't interfere with itself and is not in a superposition (from our perspec
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The issue of waveform collapse is fundamentally different than "it collapses". The fact it collapses is the easy part. The hard part is why it collapses simultaneously for two particles which can't communicate at the same(ish
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
It seems it's some arbitrary strawman, so the overall point is my question about how we interpret the apparent waveform collapse is stupid by implication.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Accepting the non-local option is not an ultimatum, given there are multiple competing interpretations of these mechanics, and non-locality is just ONE of them. You continue to insist the world has agreed in unison with the interpretation y

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