bumholio

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by bumholio 2y ago
Location: Romania Remote: yes Willing to relocate: not in the next year or so (toddler duty), but open in principle and available to travel frequently in Europe Technologies: Python, JS, Rust, Bash, DevOps, Linux, embedded C, PyTorch, elect
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by bumholio 4y ago
Instead of banning proof of work they should firewall crypto assets from the traditional financial system. "Let crypto burn" as they say, both figuratively and in the practical sense, let them burn resources but only it they can p
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by bumholio 4y ago
Expecting Galactica to produce truthful academic papers is just about as sensible as expecting to find a significant other among your kitchen appliances. Language models are a way to emulate the writing style of human produced content, only
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by bumholio 4y ago
If one could reliably detect this DLL injection in the process address space, then the correct "fix" is to crash immediately. Authors of such tools should seek another way of accomplishing their goal, preferably one that does not
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by bumholio 8y ago
Google flights already has an "access to the overhead bins" tick box, but yes, there is space to improve the comparison.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Weight is largely irrelevant. The difference between a airliner full of 45Kg people versus 90Kg people constitutes about 5% of the total plane weight. Some fuel savings but would not be worth the aggravation, client humiliation, lawsuits et
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by bumholio 8y ago
You aren't going without any luggage, but just what you can fit behind the seat in front - and you can fit multiple change of clothes there, I assure you.
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by bumholio 8y ago
>So how far and for how long do you think someone can fly with a luggage that fits under their seat? In any 1 week vacation to any destination around the world? People are diverse and you shouldn't presume everything about yourself
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by bumholio 8y ago
Firstly, travelers are consenting adults that should understand and accept the baggage policy - or use a different airline. The market is extremely competitive. Secondly, as a person who has traveled backpack for years, I find the whole &qu
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by bumholio 8y ago
This industry can only exist because labels and artists are not willing to sell tickets at the market clearing price, since they would be seen as exploitative by their own fans. So they sell the tickets are significantly discounted prices,
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think a solution that actually helps the commons is to time-bomb the "Commons Clause" for a 3-5 year period, after which the software reverts to full open source (similar to the GPL Time bomb discussed some time ago: https:&#x2
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by bumholio 8y ago
Wikipedia quickly gets political. Even in technical articles, there is an incentive to impose one's own perspective for his field as the "authoritative" version. An important part of contributors, it turns out, are academics
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by bumholio 8y ago
Again, if we can't conserve it, it's impossible to waste it. It's a logical contradiction. It's like wind power, you either tap it and use it or not, either way it's gone. The fact that it's difficult (impossib
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by bumholio 8y ago
> If one's account is suspended they cannot - by definition - access Trump's tweets. Since that is clearly not true, one practical effect is that it's setting a very low bar the difficulty one should overcome before claimi
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by bumholio 8y ago
So if mr. Trump declares his Twitter account "not a public forum, but a section dedicated to publishing official supportive replies, that by default publishes all replies and selectively deletes those who aren't supportive",
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by bumholio 8y ago
Well, that discrimination exists on the current White House site. I just went there and on the front page I found this article, that quotes some people friendly to Trump's policies, many of them (ironically) sourced from tweets: https
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by bumholio 8y ago
Then... how do you propose to conserve it? If you can't speculate it, then by definition you can't ration it. (By the way, if you read the article, it nicely explains how the US Helium reserve works and how it has been dismantled
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by bumholio 8y ago
> Trump could “mute” users, meaning he would not see their tweets while they could still respond to his, she said, without violating their free speech rights. Herein lies the problem: Trump does not want to block his critics from express
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by bumholio 8y ago
Markets can predict future shortages and rise prices in anticipation. Nobody wants to sell cheaply today if they can get more than the prevailing interest rate by sitting on the resource. And if we are talking about really long time frames
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's a good example of the same underlying economic incentives. An EDA title is used by a few tens of thousands of professionals, at best. Large investments into making it more user-friendly and stable is not really worth it in the gra
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's just incredible how complex and advanced the hardware got, but at the same time, how crappy and inefficient the software on top of it is. I know it's simple economics and the chip foundry has an economy of scale that the Elec
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think I've cracked it: it does not work in Firefox Private mode.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Can't really figure it out. I try to login and put mastodon.social in the Add instance field, but I get an error: > Error: undefined. Is this a valid Mastodon instance? Is a browser extension blocking the request?
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by bumholio 8y ago
10 times the distance to the Moon at an average speed of 0.1c takes about two minutes. So you would launch thousands of these crafts in the general direction of the target system and hope that at least one survives the micrometeorite onslau
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by bumholio 8y ago
I'm not sure that's an advantage. It adds a strong political component to something that's unlikely to be a cost effective weapon. So foreign powers will contest it and domestic powers will be unlikely to put their weight beh
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by bumholio 8y ago
The problem with that approach is that the company must commit. You can't embed 100 candidates into your team but you can easily send 100 identical homeworks and then only bother to analyze those that make it to the face to face interv
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by bumholio 8y ago
This century, it will not. We are very far from a technology capable of achieving what Starshot proposes. Accelerating the spacecraft to a fraction of the speed of light using a laser would require power densities that would instantanously
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by bumholio 8y ago
> Rule of thumb says you shouldn't spend more than three times your income on housing Is this a rural rule of thumb? Looking around me, I see people routinely paying 5-10 times their annual income to get a crappy city apartment and
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by bumholio 8y ago
It's also like the difference between poverty and ignorance.
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by bumholio 8y ago
If you can't decide beforehand if you can support an open source project or if you should go for a commercial product, I think a solution is to time-bomb the "Commons Clause" for a 3-5 year period, after which the software re

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