AlotOfReading

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by AlotOfReading 4d ago
It's the problem of the banality of evil. Stopping someone from dramatically pressing a big red button doesn't solve humanity's largest problems because that's not what caused them. We need to stop millions "boring&
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by AlotOfReading 6d ago
If the buttons are incompatible with the absence of the feature, I'd expect the buttons not to exist when the feature is disabled. Anything else seems like a straight up footgun. I guess it'd also be acceptable to pop up a scary w
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by AlotOfReading 7d ago
You could have looked up the collisions instead of making vague accusations of bad faith. In one, a Tesla going 98MPH collided with a line of vehicles (including a Waymo) stopped at a light. In the other, a motorcyclist hit a Waymo from beh
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by AlotOfReading 7d ago
There's no legislated standard in the US, nor pre-sale verification that a vehicle has met most of the other automotive standards. That's just not how the US regulatory environment works. There's the beginnings of a standard
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by AlotOfReading 7d ago
An ADAS would be L4 if it was designed to be truly autonomous. If it's not designed to be truly autonomous, you have to somehow address the attention problem. Even a good attention monitoring system isn't sufficient, because peopl
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by AlotOfReading 8d ago
using C safely is 99% just using Valgrind and some specific GCC or llvm flags and you’re done I wish that were the case, but it's not. Dynamic analyzers are fantastic and everyone should be using them constantly, but they d
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by AlotOfReading 9d ago
Your house has walls to attenuate photons.
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by AlotOfReading 10d ago
I don’t even know what “see the file system” means. It just means they want to see the hierarchy that the filesystem exposes. Here's a useful diagram [0] from the Wikipedia page on hierarchial file systems [1]. There are ways
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by AlotOfReading 10d ago
My understanding is that many of the classical-heavy orchestra schedules are driven by donor expectations.
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by AlotOfReading 10d ago
Also worth pointing out that when the census can't collect individualized data, they estimate it based on existing government data. The quality of data varies significantly depending on the local government, and pretty much all governm
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by AlotOfReading 11d ago
You can constrain the plane it goes on because there's only a small number of flights between city pairs with a given carrier. You also can't buy a plane ticket for an anonymous person. It has to be for a legal person, which the g
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by AlotOfReading 11d ago
How is ensuring checked bags have boarded passengers not also theater? Airlines openly sell unattended cargo space on passenger flights and it's screened the same way as checked luggage.
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by AlotOfReading 13d ago
It helps avoid the happy path effect. You're always handling something and there's no hidden control flow from the program runtime creeping in because of the cases you missed.
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by AlotOfReading 13d ago
Someone recently made the point to me that a lot of dynamic situations can be rewritten as locally static allocations with proper continuations. The idea being that you re-enter the continuation with more memory when you've exhausted y
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by AlotOfReading 14d ago
Even things like fast food or Walmart are a testament to the abundance the US has You can get similarly fatty foods in most corners of the world. Doesn't matter if you're deep in central Asia or Africa, any urban settlem
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by AlotOfReading 14d ago
I suspect you'd have fewer downvotes if you had simply said "everything is political" instead of bringing up a contentious topic that isn't obviously related.
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by AlotOfReading 14d ago
It's pretty easy to see how it happens. People don't intuitively understand compound interest and defer. You're supposed to start saving during the most financially constrained portion of your life, and those are the dollars
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by AlotOfReading 15d ago
It’s America First, not America Only. "America first, not only" was Obama's policy [0], not Trump's. The US wouldn't be starting trade wars with its oldest, closest allies if the current executive believed
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by AlotOfReading 16d ago
What's the purpose of a map if not to reflect how people actually refer to and interact with these features? Disputed borders are handled that way because people inside those countries have understandings of "their" borders (
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by AlotOfReading 16d ago
GMaps can be extremely slow when it comes to responding to user reports, or updating regional info like road networks or new subdivisions. A lot of that comes down to the fact that Google relies on government entities for authoritative info
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by AlotOfReading 16d ago
It's partially a product of the widespread availability of LLMs. Criminal organizations that would previously have been limited by the language fluency, scale, or technical competence of the labor available to them can now use LLMs to
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
It's less specified than rust. For example, you can bind references to individual collection elements here. It doesn't seem to prohibit borrowing a dynamically indexed element either, which is one hell of a static analysis lift. S
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
Can you point out where? Looking at the METR report, the only place I see discussion of humans being involved in the sequence of events is two short paragraphs on page 30 where a security investigation into the artifactory issues led to a p
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by AlotOfReading 17d ago
I think both the OpenAI and METR discussions, while interesting, miss the more important context: what were the humans doing in all this? This was a structural failure of a human organization, but the analysis focuses almost exclusively on
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by AlotOfReading 18d ago
I've noticed exactly the opposite with other kinds of lenders. Refinancing and renegotiation is optimized to the hilt, but the payments system seems to have an SLA of zero 9s.
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by AlotOfReading 18d ago
How do you trust the results of a black box that are hard to verify? Most of us use proxies that are easier to check, like historical competence and maturity. For example, it's difficult to verify my compiler produces a binary that cor
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by AlotOfReading 18d ago
"Just do multi-cloud" is burying the lede a bit. Monzo is a bank, so it's not a given that they can easily partition all their operations into fully independent cells. I'm reasonably confident that teams of average compe
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by AlotOfReading 18d ago
Why should it be a joke? Fire saga is beloved in Húsavík. My sister has this whole tour she does when we bring friends up.
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by AlotOfReading 19d ago
0.8% at the size of the EU economy is a huge win. It's slightly smaller than Denmark's fossil fuel emissions. Though, the savings are presumably calculated over several years while Denmark produces it every single year.
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by AlotOfReading 19d ago
First if you us the convention center, you place the housing center off of where most of the housing actually is. Convention centers are usually downtown. Mean population centers reflect the surrounding geography and can drift pre

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