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by zdragnar 2mo ago
The wasn't a single opinion presented in that very short article. It was largely quoting and restating what happened- the judge isn't personally liable via civil suit. Other articles by volokh might be intentionally incendiary (I
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Orienteering is a good skill to have. My wife and one of my best friends could both get lost trying to get out of a cardboard box. With that said, in the days before GPS, I recall wandering off my planned route for a bit in a new to me city
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
I've been considered borderline or obese by the standard BMI index for 20 years at least, but for a lot of that had very little to no visible extra weight. A lot of that was just plain having more muscle than the average the standards
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Maybe this is just my lack of experience thinking, but that seems really unlikely to scale without retraining. The context will balloon with updated syntax for languages and APIs for libraries and so forth. Imagine if, for example, somethin
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Is there any hope that something like unsloth studio will let people retrain models continually so that, when the day comes that there are no good open models being released, something like the final generation of qwen whatever can continue
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It's worth pointing out at least that there is a qualitative difference between silence in isolation, and being around people who are intentionally being silent. I live in a rural area and don't get much noise at all other than wi
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State capacity is a common good though, and AI makes abusing it much easier.
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
30 or so years here, still 5/10 after all these years. I don't let it bother me for the most part, but it'll certainly never be anything but a negative thing. I'll be honest, this is the first time I'm hearing &quot
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The job requires methods more akin to restoring a painting after a knobhead splashes it with ketchup than a pressure washer, as it is a historically preserved building.
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There are distinctive patterns of language use that can be powerful when used sparingly. LLMs trained on a massive copus of human communication, picked effective patterns, and overuses those patterns to the point that it feels both artifici
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
> Btw. how do you crack your wrist (you mean sudden movement to left/right/up/down) Apply a bit of tension to your wrist by closing your fist and squeezing gently as if you were gripping something in your hand, then rotate
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
I think shoulder height and arm length relative to desk height must play an important role in this. I went the opposite direction- mechanical keyboard, large trackball- and my pain cleared up. The lack of feedback of the flat keyboard was t
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
If your string needs to be presented in multiple locales, you probably want to go a step further and use something like the ICU syntax and a proper parser and formatter rather than rely on manually formatting things yourself. Otherwise, tha
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At least in the good ol' days politicians had to set up fake charities and foundations to rake in the dough. Now we've got Biden bragging on air that he was withholding already approved funds for Ukraine back when he was VP unless
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I read it in your earlier post, but it didn't really address OP's arguments. It's basically an enforced mediator pattern. Even the article summary points out the language design doesn't provide sufficient security to avo
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
I've read this a few times, and it still sounds like you're trying to re-invent an operating system. You describe things like "access the file system" but what even is that? In Linux, if you write to a "file" i
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by zdragnar 2mo ago
What is a capability in terms of programming language design? It sounds more like the sort of thing that would belong at the standard library level, where builtin APIs are guarded by flags. Deno has something vaguely built in with permissio
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A company is made up of people, and makes products. Products can come and go for many reasons (or any reason) but the company will always have people.
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> “I know that others (politicians and commissioners) are dumb/lack smarts/gullable but I’m not since I’m so wise Not at all. I'm saying that there are competing interests in placing these projects, and the people speaking
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Not all sites are equally suited for a data center. This is especially true when you look at plans that allow data centers to operate off of on-site generators prior to full grid connection. There's no reason data centers should be exe
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A big part of an engineering performing requirements analysis is owning the technical understanding of the requirements and identifying areas where the requirements are not technically feasible, can be done with less expense with adjustment
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Two points of disagreement: "Code monkey" absolutely was and still is a thing. I was hired by Big Name Co originally to be staff but a reorg had me do typical senior position duties for around a year, and it was hell. Every decisi
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> One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. The canonical example was RMS needing to fix a printer driver bug back before software updates were
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Code switching between registers is a fact of life in America. Nobody speaks corporate natively, and it's more extreme if you grow up or live in an ethnic minority enclave. What Americans tend to not "get" is how dry British
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Back when angularjs was first becoming popular and wide adoption of data- attributes through HTML 5 were being discovered, everyone and their dog wrote their own lightweight version of angularjs, which looks a lot like htmx / datastar.
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There's no "national infrastructure" for water. Aside from what the EPA does, it isn't within the remit of the federal government to manage municipality water systems.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Broadly speaking, I agree with your frustration, but I think this specific case is different. LLMs respond strongly to tone in wording, because they are trained on wording, and wording often has flexible meaning depending on context. It&#x2
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Counter anecdote, I've had gas mowers survive decades and EV electrical equipment (in this case, a chainsaw and a battery pack for a mower) both die within 14 months of purchase.
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I would presume that if their results end up being more impactful or interesting, you end up being a footnote and lose the spotlight.
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In the US, HIPAA requires companies to sign a BAA to handle any protected information. That's pretty much the only thing stopping data from being shared. That is why, for example, a company website might use Freshpaint or a similar ser

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