AnIrishDuck

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by AnIrishDuck 13d ago
I hate to break it to you, but you are currently still responsible for killing somebody while driving a car on cruise control, especially if you act recklessly. EDIT: to be less snarky, there are obvious exceptions if a manufacturer defect
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by AnIrishDuck 18d ago
Presumably because it's cheaper. Ours was also originally in home; the utility recently came through and replaced all of ours with exterior units, likely at great cost (horizontal drilling machines aren't cheap) I suspect the trag
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by AnIrishDuck 1mo ago
Area vs volume. If these are the temperatures on the surface, think of the depths. There is a whole additional dimension to multiply (integrate) across. The added energy is far greater than you might think simply by looking at the surface.
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by AnIrishDuck 2mo ago
Yeah that checks out too. I'm basically regurgitating what I was told when working the electronics aisles at a hardware store. After reading the wiki page more thoroughly, there were just a bunch of different issues. Goes to show what
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by AnIrishDuck 2mo ago
It is indeed the conductor of choice at utility scale. It was even briefly used in place of copper wire in construction [1], though that usage was halted when safety issues emerged (differential expansion when mated with legacy copper pulle
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by AnIrishDuck 3mo ago
> Why would Anthropic get to dictate how someone uses a "tool" (that's literally what Claude Code is... a tool in a workflow) This is a direct conflict in framing. They clearly do not see Claude Code as a "tool in a w
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by AnIrishDuck 7mo ago
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this
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by AnIrishDuck 7mo ago
There are plenty of other more recent examples in this thread. I was simply replying to the original statement that China doesn't kill protesters in the street. The notion is so risible that in hindsight it may well have been sarcasm o
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by AnIrishDuck 7mo ago
This is an especially hilarious comment given what happened in June 1989 [1]. It's the prototypical example of authoritarian crackdowns and mass slaughter of innocent protestors. Discussion or even mention of it is still forbidden in C
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by AnIrishDuck 7mo ago
> This idea that there's some kind of difference between me watching you from a park bench in public and hundreds of thousands of clones of me watching you from every street corner in public is, quite frankly, bogus To paraphrase th
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by AnIrishDuck 8mo ago
Yeah, this feels like another reincarnation of the ancient "who watches the watchmen?" problem [1]. Time and time again we see that the incentives _really really_ matter when facing this problem; subtle changes can produce entirel
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by AnIrishDuck 9mo ago
You don't have to, that's the point. EDIT: or to rephrase, this proposal is opt-in (device attests the user is a minor) not mandatory (device is required to attest the user is an adult)
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by AnIrishDuck 9mo ago
Or we have devices attest user age. On setup, the device has the option to store a root ("guardian"?) email address. Whenever "adult mode" is activated or the root email is changed, a notification must first be sent to t
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by AnIrishDuck 9mo ago
I personally have taken several road trips (1000+ miles) with an EV across the United States and have not found charging to be a "huge issue". But I (clearly) must be wrong, sorry to disagree with the spokesman of America.
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by AnIrishDuck 9mo ago
> Classic Motte and Bailey. For this to be a "classic motte and bailey" you will need to point us to instances where _the original poster_ suggested these (the "bailey", which you characterize as "rust eliminates
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by AnIrishDuck 10mo ago
As somebody that "learned" C++ (Borland C++... the aggressively blue memories...) first at a very young age, I heartily agree. Rust just feels natural now. Possibly because I was exposed to this harsh universe of problems early. M
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by AnIrishDuck 10mo ago
> the options are to build more software or to hire fewer engineers. To be cheeky, there are at least three possibilities you are writing off here: we build _less_ software, we hire _more_ engineers, or things just kinda stay the same. M
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by AnIrishDuck 10mo ago
The most critical skill in the coming era, assuming that AI follows its current trajectory and there are no research breakthroughs for e.g. continual learning is going to be delegation. The art of knowing what work to keep, what work to tos
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by AnIrishDuck 11mo ago
> Sometimes after a night’s sleep, we wake up with an insight on a topic or a solution to a problem we encountered the day before. The current crop of models do not "sleep" in any way. The associated limitations on long term ta
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by AnIrishDuck 11mo ago
Not really, no. The founders were not omniscient, but many of them publicly wrote about the problematic rise of political "factions" contrary to the general interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_N
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by AnIrishDuck 11mo ago
> One thing that's been really off putting about the technology industry is how fake-it-till-you-make-it has become so pervasive. It feels accidental, but it's definitely amusing that the models themselves are aping this ethos.
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by AnIrishDuck 11mo ago
The grid actually already has a fair number of (non-software) circular dependencies. This is why they have black start [1] procedures and run drills of those procedures. Or should, at least; there have been high profile outages recently tha
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
Sure. Create a diamond polygon and revolve it around a point. Blender has methods and tools to _approximate_ doing this. It has a revolve tool... where the key parameter is the number of steps. This is not a revolution, it's an approxi
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
An analogy is the difference between vector and bitmap graphics. CAD programs aren't just a different set of operations on the same data, they use an entirely different representation (b-rep [1] vs Blender's points, vertices, and
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
This doesn't seem right to me. From the article I believe you are referencing ("What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?"): > If investors thought all this was likely, asset prices would already be shifting acc
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> Understanding twos complement representation is an essential programming skill The field of programming has become so broad that I would argue the opposite. The vast majority of developers will never need to think about let alone under
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
What if the obstacle is not a person? What if something falls off a truck in front of the vehicle? What if wildlife spontaneously decides to cross the road (a common occurrence where I live)? I don't think these problems can just be as
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
This is an interesting question where I do not know the answer. I will not pretend to be an expert. I would suggest that "human understanding convenience" is pretty important in safety domains. The famous Brian Kernighan quote com
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> Cars can stop in quite a short distance. "Quite a short distance" is doing a lot of lifting. It's been a while since I've been to driver's school, but I remember them making a point of how long it could take
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> They don't work by merely taking a straw poll. They effectively build the joint probability distribution, which improves accuracy with any number of sensors, including two. Lots of safety critical systems actually do operate by &q

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