int3

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by int3 6mo ago
the difference is that one of them is actually justified!
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by int3 1y ago
well, maybe we can spend some of the money we save not subsidizing the third world on better border security
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by int3 1y ago
oh so that's what my elementary school classmate had
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by int3 2y ago
The car is following a process chosen by Mercedes' engineers (to go forward when the user presses the accelerator.) The newsfeed is likewise following a mechanistic process driven by user input (they wouldn't be showing misinforma
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by int3 2y ago
Does the algorithm "decide" to show something, or is it operating mechanically, driven by the inputs of the user?
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by int3 2y ago
people can do things for more than one reason
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by int3 2y ago
Shouldn't all sites have some kind of bandwidth / cost limiting in place? Not to say that AI crawlers shouldn't be more careful, but there are always malicious actors on the internet, seems foolish not to have some kind of de
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by int3 2y ago
Nope. Assume you have insurance with a one-time fee of $X. It insures against a single kind of event that happens with 60% probability, and pays out $1.6X. So the majority of people are likely to have the event happen to them. The EV of the
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by int3 2y ago
> People can develop allergies during their lifetime, it's not just something that you're born with. Sure, but the likelihood of that is low enough that insuring against that isn't worth it for most people > But my mess
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by int3 2y ago
People generally don't develop allergies randomly in life. There's no insurance value here.
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by int3 2y ago
I think one difference is that there isn't a great alternative option in the case of commercial buildings -- if you have a job in a given building that doesn't accommodate your disability, you can't just go find a different b
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by int3 2y ago
unironically. would love to have those berkeley lectures back online
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by int3 2y ago
whether it is smart or not depends on the likelihood of it. do you have numbers?
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by int3 2y ago
even if it were 10%, we shouldn't expect 90% of consumers to subsidize the other 10%
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by int3 2y ago
oh please, there are plenty of first world countries without as many retarded regulations
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by int3 2y ago
seems like crackers could just patch the app code that detects this, no?
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by int3 3y ago
Increased precision typically costs more economically, so I think it's a pretty good analogy... precise physical measurements require specialized equipment, precise floating-point calculations require more computational power, etc
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by int3 3y ago
Housing would depreciate too if we didn't have artificial scarcity policies designed to make it an investment. Saying that housing should be an investment because we've designed it to be an investment is circular reasoning. Re #2:
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by int3 3y ago
Uh, none of that means housing has to be an investment. The point of a mortgage is that it helps you buy a house and pay it off over time, nothing more. We don't talk about cars being an investment just because people take out 7-year a
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by int3 3y ago
software does all of the above
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by int3 3y ago
The fact that they won't use AGPL software isn't propaganda lol. They literally won't use it. You may disagree about whether that's good or bad for the ecosystem, but it's a fact that most serous internet-based comp
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by int3 3y ago
eh, Taiwan is a functional democracy and yet it has had parliamentary brawls too
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by int3 3y ago
While you're not wrong I want to point out that you generally don't get the opportunities to practice staff-like skills until you've proven you can do the 'boring' work too. The system does incentivize performative
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by int3 3y ago
This is just a standard FAANG package lol. The gaming industry just pays devs poorly
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by int3 4y ago
The fact that there isn't a causal relationship from wealth to biological superiority is the cause of so many of our problems! Imagine if all the people who got positions via nepotism were actually good at their jobs...
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by int3 4y ago
It was a great experience! Thanks for your code reviews and mentorship :) Not sure I'll have much time to work on OSS in the foreseeable future, but it would certainly be nice to work together again.
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by int3 4y ago
Vimium was my introduction to software engineering :) I contributed a bunch of code to it back in 2011-2012. Glad to see it still being in use! I'm quite proud of the little test I wrote to figure out which DOM APIs could be used to de
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by int3 4y ago
Relevant paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01142.pdf
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by int3 4y ago
I'm skeptical that most people's short-term memory is queue-like. More likely that they are better at remembering earlier stack entries, or that they are simply less neurotic when forgetting about them.
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by int3 4y ago
Thanks for the answers! And the push vs pull link is a great explanation indeed :)

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