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Engineering message appends for AI transport: three vignettes(ably.com)
1 points by SEMW 4mo ago|0 comments
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by SEMW 5mo ago
This is a good argument, but it has a flaw here, which is that a systemic fever during illness may still be an evolutionarily beneficial adaption on average if there are a some situations where it can be the difference between life and de
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by SEMW 6mo ago
There's no shortage of benchmarks (coding or otherwise) that any competent coding model will now pass with ~100%. But no-one quotes those any more because if everyone passes them, they don't serve any useful purpose in discriminat
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by SEMW 9mo ago
> Cable does not matter, tried with many of them including ones providing power from other chargers. That might not necessarily be the right conclusion. My understanding is: almost all USB-C power cables you will enounter day to day supp
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by SEMW 1y ago
GP clearly meant "trademark not copyright". It's perfectly coherent to be in favour of strong protection of trademarks but also weaker copyright laws. They have very different purposes (broadly, consumer protection as a mark
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by SEMW 2y ago
> That morass makes it difficult for the public to cleanly digest when something is blatantly unconstitutional I'm not convinced that's a relevant issue here. For some parts of EU treaty law, sure, but here the context here is
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by SEMW 2y ago
What problem here would be solved by ratifying a constitution? Like -- ISTM that the relevant property here is the ability of the courts to overturn ordinary legislation for incompatibility with basic human rights provisions. But the EU alr
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by SEMW 3y ago
...No...? If someone puts paint on a 280 million year old rock, that doesn't change the age of the rock.
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by SEMW 3y ago
It's glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC). Very much doubt it's heat-reactive, suspect it's just oil & dirt on a somewhat porous surface (so cleaning properly is labour-intensive, stickers are cheaper)
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by SEMW 3y ago
I'm a reasonably new go programmer, I've only been doing it full-time for a few months. But "great concurrency ergonomics" has.. not been my experience. What I've been finding is that primitives it gives you are eas
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by SEMW 3y ago
> If the intervals overlap, the difference is not statistically significant. Demonstrably false. Obvious counterexample: the study in the OP, which has overlapping confidence intervals and a statistically significant difference. Proof: j
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by SEMW 3y ago
The fact that the 95% confidence intervals of two variables have some overlap doesn't mean there's a >5% chance that the expected values of the two variables are the same. Consider two independent random variables X and Y; the
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by SEMW 3y ago
..No, not wanting to indefinitely maintain arbitrarily-old versions of a free and open-source security library is not "planned obsolesence".
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CRDTs are simpler and more common than you think(ably.com)
5 points by SEMW 4y ago|0 comments
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by SEMW 4y ago
The monarch is theoretically above the law, yes. But theory is not practice. In practice, if King Charles shivved someone in Trafalgar Square tomorrow, crowing about how he can't be prosecuted, what would happen would probably be somet
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by SEMW 4y ago
Charles I tried that argument, it didn't go well for him.
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by SEMW 4y ago
> It reminds me of how lawyers are happy to accept signatures by fax The purpose of a lot of these sorts of requirements is not authentication. It's ensuring that if you do do it, you trigger the statutory requirement for some parti
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by SEMW 4y ago
Many possible reasons. Eg Ryanair operates a completely uniform fleet, 100% 737s, and their current operating model relies on all of their pilots and crew being able to operate whatever aircraft is available. Adding a few airbuses means a s
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by SEMW 4y ago
Look up Grice's Maxims sometime. Conversations have context. The context here is a comment section for an article about a nation state requesting chats from Telegram. The only relevant kind of encryption that would be able to prevent
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Global decoupling: discovering active regions without central coordination(ably.com)
1 points by SEMW 5y ago|0 comments
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by SEMW 5y ago
No idea, we don't use it. These were websocket connections to processes on ec2, via NLB and cloudfront. Not sure exactly what part of that chain was broken yet.
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by SEMW 5y ago
Definitely not just the console. We had hundreds of thousands of websocket connections to us-east-1 drop at 15:40, and new websocket connections to that region are still failing. (Luckily not a huge impact on our service cause we run in 6 o
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by SEMW 5y ago
> Only in America! This is... not really true. The US is indeed in the lead in COVAX donations at 45 doses pledged per million dollars of GDP, and that's laudable. But it's not like no other country is close; France follows clo
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by SEMW 5y ago
The problem is that that's not how the patent system works. If the Sonos patent is upheld, it doesn't just stop google from making speakers that synchronize their clocks with each other over a local area network.[0] It stops liter
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by SEMW 5y ago
> I don’t get why engineers would think this is. This claim that "AI" only means artificial general / human-equivalent intelligence completely ignores the long history of how that term has been used, by computer science re
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by SEMW 5y ago
...Or, just maybe, from the English word "proctor", meaning someone who invigilates an exam. Which is from the Latin "procurator" meaning overseer, unrelated to the Greek procto-
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by SEMW 6y ago
That was the European Court of Human Rights. It's not a 'top EU court', or an EU court of any sort. It's a body of the Council of Europe, which is an entirely different institution (with a much larger international membe
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by SEMW 6y ago
> But this is beyond ridiculous, so many years of R&D for 8 minutes of sustained acticivty activity? That sound like a joke ...You know the duration of the plasma pulse being 8 minutes doesn't mean they do it once and then the w
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by SEMW 7y ago
> The very phrase 'herd immunity' says a lot about what they think of people ...You know they didn't invent the phrase, right? It's a term of art, and has been the standard term for that epidemiological concept for ma
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by SEMW 7y ago
You may be interested in Harberger tax, which is a proposal for a kind of property tax that incentivizes the owner to declare its true value. https://academic.oup.com/jla/article/9/1/51/3572441

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