JackFr

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by JackFr 5d ago
My wife was from Reno, I was from NY. The week before we got married (in 1996) we were out there and her sister lent us a 1979 F150 at about 2O0k miles —- 3-on-the-tree, no air, AM radio, lap belts. The passenger door would fly open on lef
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by JackFr 5d ago
Can we stop pretending that this is not intentional behavior by OpenAI? We don’t need new regulation, we need to enforce existing law.
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by JackFr 9d ago
I don’t know. This reads more like a “Clojure is great” post, and Clojure is great. But the author takes a swing and a miss on the Rich Hickey magic. The UNIX example is contrived (the number of occurrences in the order they occur?), and
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by JackFr 10d ago
This was a district court.
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by JackFr 10d ago
The argument is the choice of the plaintiff. It’s not the role of the judge to argue the plaintiff’s case and find the most compelling argument.
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by JackFr 13d ago
Article was really poor in stating this clearlly, to the extent it made no sense to me. Thank you.
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by JackFr 13d ago
Obvious answer is it's the AI singularity. Been nice run for humanity. So long everyone.
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by JackFr 15d ago
And knobs are a useless control on in any mouse/pointer based interface.
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by JackFr 15d ago
It's cool, no doubt, but why precisely is it important? I find the engineering that went into late steam locomotives fascinating and much more complex and scientifically designed than the casual observer notices. But building one woul
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by JackFr 16d ago
I don't know if it's causative, but that seems to coincide with the move from Southland Corp to being run by the Japanese parent Seven & i Holdings.
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by JackFr 26d ago
It’s no different than “a big ask” or a “tough sell”.
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by JackFr 26d ago
If what we think we know about the brain is true, then what we call reality is contingent on the majority of brains agreeing on it. That is, we'll call reality what my brain and your brain can come to believe independently. But that
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by JackFr 27d ago
Congress (and state legislatures) pass laws, but don’t necessarily authorize the resources to prosecute all offenders, so prosecutors are given some latitude who to target. IANAL, but my understanding is this: Malicious prosecution is a def
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by JackFr 27d ago
I enjoy, when arguing with friends, dumping an AI wall of text supporting my position and immediately following up with "What, no response? Argument over, I win."
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by JackFr 1mo ago
I used CarPlay yesterday with Siri disabled. Am I missing something?
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by JackFr 1mo ago
That is not my experience at all. To be clear, that is they were bad and they have gotten better. I’m also pretty strict about plan-then-code, so maybe that helps. I realize it’s one anecdotal datapoint.
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by JackFr 1mo ago
Imagine a city where the schools woefully underserve minority students. Despite equal budgets etc. there is a persistent gap, probably due to income gaps but that’s not the point. Within the education system there is no one institutional fa
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by JackFr 1mo ago
GWB got heat for extralegal extraordinary renditions. Obama solved it by just killing them. I guess we can’t ask the dead guys if they’d prefer to go to Guantanamo.
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by JackFr 1mo ago
For a large compulsory survey course, a well written multiple choice test should suffice. If the test is well constructed, teaching to the test should cover exactly the required material and be no impediment.
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by JackFr 1mo ago
Give the author a break he is hopefully coming to the realization that your job is not where you should find meaning. If your in a role where it might, some doctors, some teachers, etc. great for you -- that is a perk much of the world doe
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by JackFr 1mo ago
Yeah - I kept looking for the meat of the argument. The graph of random data looks a little correlated and I’d love to know why. That being said I loved the mercury/Glasgow explanation. Anecdotally I see that all the time.
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by JackFr 2mo ago
If that’s truly the case, why aren’t they offering to be absorbed by national labs. That’s what we do for dangerous biological and nuclear work. Oh wait they want options and shares and to get rich. And there’s no natural moat. Which Federa
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by JackFr 2mo ago
What’s the point though? To save prospective renters time? I’ve lived here for 30+ years, rented for more than 20 and why would anyone ever rent an apartment without seeing it in person? That being said, IANAL but I imagine the rule is full
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by JackFr 2mo ago
Honestly my takeaway from this is that simple experiments like this are very important in identifying how brains work. I am admittedly a fanboy of Feynman, but I believe these kinds of questions are worth a dozen EEGs or fMRIs asserting ho
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Physicists Have Argued over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved(nytimes.com)
4 points by JackFr 2mo ago|1 comments
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by JackFr 2mo ago
The Visible V-8. That made it well into the 70s.
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by JackFr 2mo ago
When I was a kid, my friend's dad was an engineer at Grumman, and he took us to see a test in their supersonic wind tunnel. The most prominent memory, is how unbelievably loud it was, and the next most prominent memory was that all th
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by JackFr 3mo ago
“What can I do to resolve this?” “Hmmm. I cannot go back in time, but if you’d like I can sit quietly with a contrite look while you spew abuse at me for 10 minutes. Does that work?”
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by JackFr 3mo ago
“Are there any ambiguities, open questions, or hidden assumptions in spec? Please think deeply.”
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by JackFr 3mo ago
The aggravating factor is that in the event of an incident there’s simply not a feasible means of evacuation.

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