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by bena 25d ago
You’d be surprised how many file formats are some flavor of “zip file containing files”. JAR/WAR, iOS apps, and others
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by bena 25d ago
This is all MS Office file formats ending in “x”; xlsx, docx, pptx, etc
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by bena 26d ago
The Supreme Court often disagrees with itself.
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by bena 26d ago
Also Jevon's Paradox: the more efficient a system becomes, the more it gets used, making it use more resources rather than less.
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by bena 26d ago
No, it means there is no general solution to the problem of proving software correct. You can prove if a specific program will halt or not given certain parameters. You cannot write an algorithm that will work to prove if any arbitrary
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by bena 26d ago
Not even a minute in. "Oh, he's protesting Cop City, got it. This is just police harassment."
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by bena 27d ago
Technically, the article isn't about the title. It's about the limits of LLMs/AI. It posits that smart people aren't happier because "living a good life" is a poorly defined problem and smart people aren't
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by bena 1mo ago
That's a bit of a wild interpretation of copyright law. I mean, Anthropic isn't going to fight it because it lets them do the thing they want to do, so I can see how this never gets beyond the court that allows them to do the thin
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by bena 1mo ago
No. A copy is still a copy even if you destroy the original.
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by bena 1mo ago
If artificial intelligence is achieved to that degree, it will be effectively alien to us. This is navel gazing at its most linty. Already, assuming the intent of other humans is fraught with problems. Even when outcomes are disastrous, w
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by bena 1mo ago
That they have the duty to vet their delivery people is why they should be on the hook for damages. > If you're trying to imply nobody gets rides from craigslist and therefore we don't need to worry about this edge case No, I
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by bena 1mo ago
You do see how that's different, right? Me, contracting a sole individual to perform a task. I do not have the means to completely vet the person I hire. To ask me to do so is a bit insane. Especially for a one-off trip. Not to mention
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by bena 1mo ago
Fair enough, I missed the exact article used. However, in that case, it's just a matter of delegation. When one city dominates the state, it will dominate everything about that state. So unless the governor of New York wants to spend m
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by bena 1mo ago
New York City has a greater population than 38 states. Why should the governor of South Dakota (pop 935,094) have more clout than the mayor of New York City (pop 8,804,190)?
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by bena 1mo ago
So if an Amazon delivery driver driving an Amazon delivery truck delivering Amazon packages causes an accident with millions of dollars of damages, Amazon should not be responsible? Also, I'm not talking about what the law says, I&#x
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by bena 1mo ago
Yeah, but this time it was. And if it is, they should be on the hook, yes?
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by bena 1mo ago
Part of the problem is that sometimes the subcontractors are small enough to play by different rules. Or they don't have the means to support the staff when things go sideways. Or sometimes they're independent drivers, in which
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by bena 1mo ago
It's probably more mundane than that. Let's say Mars sells the bars to distributors for 20 cents and it costs 10 cents a bar to make and package. A pound of milk chocolate costs $5 and you can get 250 bars out of it. Meaning, ever
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by bena 1mo ago
I forget when it was required to list ingredients. But I'd also imagine the regulations were more relaxed, you could list "Milk chocolate product" and have it pass.
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by bena 1mo ago
“You have a fever because of the ghosts in your bones”
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by bena 1mo ago
The number of Walmart workers on some form of government assistance is significant. Significant enough that Walmart couldn't operate without them. Not to mention, Walmart manages to capture those government dollars through accepting EB
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by bena 1mo ago
I would say a corporation's taxes should, at the very least, cover the tax burden generated from not paying their employees enough to make a living wage. So if their employees are on government assistance, the cost to provide that assi
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by bena 1mo ago
> You'll see this often in the social democracies of Scandinavia, like Sweden or Denmark. These are countries with strong welfare states, and yet, the corporate tax rates are often lower than the U.S., even if you look at the most r
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by bena 1mo ago
Name one that is not "one's a policy and the other is not".
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by bena 1mo ago
What's the actual difference, because you haven't actually supplied one. You've just said "They're different. One is a thing, and one is a criticism of a thing". So, does the criticism not hold value? Because a
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by bena 1mo ago
It's not. Peak homicide recently was in 2022 and it was 280 deaths for the year. While not great, it's not "dodging bullets every day". New Orleans is also experiencing their lowest rate of homicide in years.
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by bena 1mo ago
No, D2F only matters if you're trying to optimize stroke between two hot-swappable participants. And then it's really if an angle allowed by Base to Floor (B2F) and Length (L) is compatible with an angle allowed by the other parti
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by bena 1mo ago
I think that's one thing people truly forget when they ask "Why can't we do things like this anymore?" AT&T paid people to fuck around. Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory, founder of Artificial Intelligence
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by bena 1mo ago
Most of those things were invented by a company granted a government monopoly on communications and not allowed to directly profit off of any of those advances. AT&T threw money at smart people and said, "Do stuff. Then we'll
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by bena 2mo ago
If incidences of cancer of any type are 1 in 100,000 for the population at large, then generally any slice of that population will have similar odds. Which includes people with cancer. So those who already have cancer, have a chance to deve

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