alboy

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Bat-friendly lighting in Gladsaxe, Denmark(dailygalaxy.com)
2 points by alboy 7mo ago|0 comments
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India’s population has already overtaken China’s, analysts estimate(japantimes.co.jp)
2 points by alboy 4y ago|6 comments
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by alboy 4y ago
>If Immigram has a customer base primarily composed of people who support Russia's war against Ukraine I don't see anything mentioned in the article that would make one think it has such customer base. Do you?
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Slush revokes $1M pitch prize from Russian founders after industry outcry(techcrunch.com)
10 points by alboy 4y ago|7 comments
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Can eyes on self-driving cars reduce accidents?(u-tokyo.ac.jp)
1 points by alboy 4y ago|0 comments
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by alboy 5y ago
>Why did you only quote the one? Because it is the part that is the most misleading about this statistic.
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by alboy 5y ago
The USDA defines[1] food insecurity to include the following: >Food Insecurity >Low food security (old label=Food insecurity without hunger): reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of red
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by alboy 5y ago
Itty-bitty Cog.
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by alboy 5y ago
>I believe the more common proposal is to resolve the contradiction the other way: remove taxes on corporations, as the individuals comprising the corporations generally already pay taxes. Without a wealth tax that would just make tax ev
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by alboy 5y ago
Unspecified behavior[1] is used in programming language standards for a very similar reason: to provide the freedom to interpret in the, uh, spirit of the code, rather than the letter, when it would be overall beneficial. [1] https:/&
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by alboy 5y ago
I take it the processing model was trained on a dataset of Magritte’s paintings?
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by alboy 5y ago
>Even if you limit it to the most egregious cases that just shifts the problem. What's egregious and what isn't? It implicitly shifts the undertone of everything that isn't fact-checked on the platform from neutral to true
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by alboy 5y ago
You market to your customer, the purchase of their product will be approved by a C-suite Yama, not the mortals stuck in Samsara.
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by alboy 5y ago
It depends on how much control the host system has over the output (can consciously drown out the signal). Suppose you just show YES and NO in big flashing letters while asking your subject the questions you already know the answers to and
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by alboy 5y ago
Maybe you could even do supervised by force-feeding known stimuli a la Clockwork Orange.
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by alboy 5y ago
Not mentioned there that >France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security. Government policy is to reduce this to 50% by 2035. [1] according to the target set in the
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Scammer Convinced Instagram That Its Top Executive Was Dead(vice.com)
2 points by alboy 5y ago|0 comments
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by alboy 5y ago
>you end up in situations where it's suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they're "fun" and "interesting" to use and keeping them happy means they'r
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by alboy 5y ago
>Any large HashTable in Java starts to yield the problem of duplicate keys, it's just a weird situation, like you can 99.999% trust something ... but can't ever fully trust it so that over time, you're guaranteed to have s
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by alboy 5y ago
>but they might become say 50% more likely to die in a motorcycle crash Or launch a startup.
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by alboy 5y ago
This thread is clearly about comparing the probabilities of getting into FAANG vs getting into the Olympics. The situation with varying relative competitiveness of the local "scene" in a particular country is the same in both case
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by alboy 5y ago
>If you're looking at NCAA athletes, lots of those sports are not represented in the Olympics. Not really, just football and lacrosse. On the other hand, there're many Olympic events that are not a part of the NCAA. >Also, b
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by alboy 5y ago
The whole Olympic roster for the US is ~500 people. There's half a million people who are current NCAA athletes, that's an order of magnitude off right there, even after excluding football and before counting in the actual pros.
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by alboy 5y ago
This seems way off. The number of engineers working at FAANG is in the hundreds of thousands, an athlete that is 100000th best in the world is basically a hobbyist rando.
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by alboy 5y ago
>But by definition, “engineering” has traditionally entailed the completion of an Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)-approved 4-year degree. >Engineerwashing entails a shift from the noun to the verbal sense of
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by alboy 5y ago
Exactly, nobody makes a fuss about packaging engineers because the milk cartons they design cannot stop shrapnel. Making a design that is good enough for the users' expectations while being significantly faster and cheaper to manufactu
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by alboy 5y ago
I don't see how it is ridiculous. Can you get a great body with hard work and intelligent programming without anabolic steroids? Yes. Can you get it without hard work and with anabolic steroids? No [cue that one study where they gave
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by alboy 5y ago
You can get somewhat faster results using steroids (provided you are a decent responder and don't experience strong sides), sure. However, the overwhelming majority of people complaining about (often hypothetical) drug users are not pu
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by alboy 5y ago
>But it's important that we're at least honest about it because of the effect it has on people's (especially men's) own body images and ideas about transformations. Steroids are mostly there to aid recovery from the o
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by alboy 5y ago
Let's allow people you've blocked to anonymously send you "U HAZ AIDS" friendly notifications, what could possibly go wrong.

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