jdmichal

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by jdmichal 4mo ago
> Are people just that easily overcome by confident voices? Back in high school, my AP calculus class did some experiments with our teacher's blessing. We'd send a kid out to walk around during class and see how long it took fo
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
I live in Tampa Bay, so I'm quite familiar. It's pretty rare to have a V rating, precisely for many of the reasons you mentioned. But, at the same time, handwaving it away as unimportant is also silly. It's an immensely mo
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
> The storm surge goes up (and a whole bunch of water falls on top of it). The storm surge goes down. This isn't some river bursting it's banks. FEMA has a flood rating specifically for exactly this situation: V. They have th
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
Your very same link also has a huge yellow banner at the top of the page stating: "The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026."
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
Continuing the pattern of existing examples (in this case, as present in the article) is a perfectly normal thing to do. I think everyone can make the mental leap that a proper account ID would be used instead of the owner's name in a
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
It requires the assumption that these models are misaligned, aka actively working against us. In order to be misaligned, they must also be able to form their own goals, and be able to plan and execute those goals. If you take those assumpti
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by jdmichal 4mo ago
> ... not being a core product Technically true, because Google's core product is ads. Also fundamentally wrong, because Gmail serves as a massive source of ad targeting information, in addition to being a high-engagement canvas to
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by jdmichal 5mo ago
> To me, militant atheists often resemble religious fanatics more than they realize. I consider myself agnostic. And I'll provide my definition of what that means to me, since there's several in existence. I take as an axiom th
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by jdmichal 5mo ago
I always assumed the "interesting!" markers were actual markers. A kind of tag for the system to annotate its context.
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by jdmichal 5mo ago
Apologies. I think there was a confusion of terms. There's only one church in my county I know of that even offers traditional mass, and it is in Latin. I admit to only having attended once, because I felt too disconnected. My only poi
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by jdmichal 5mo ago
Even with vernacular liturgy, the goal is internal contemplation and ideally application. What's even the point of going if you're intending to just be talked to? No one is keeping attendance.
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by jdmichal 7mo ago
It's about fitting your utilization to the model that best serves you. If you can keep 4 "Java boxes" fed with work 80%+ of the time, then sure EC2 is a good fit. We do a lot of batch processing and save money over having EC2
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by jdmichal 7mo ago
Something seems broken with the Tampa, FL map. I get an unauthorized page: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/map/YK41FR And this shows no volumes available: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/tampa-fl
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by jdmichal 8mo ago
They don't need a reason to fire you. They need a reason to fire you and not pay unemployment benefits.
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by jdmichal 8mo ago
C uses `|` for bitwise OR and `||` for logical OR. I'm assuming this inherited the same operator paradigm since it compiles to C.
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by jdmichal 9mo ago
> the voting record proves it. Putting on my tin-foil, devils-advocate hat... AKA I don't necessarily believe this but I also have no counter-argument: Mostly performative. When it's decided that something actually needs to p
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by jdmichal 11mo ago
It's like bike shedding. It's a side effect of mixed expertise (and confidence) working together on things that are only partially understood by all. When something is clearly outside one's expertise, they are content to le
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by jdmichal 1y ago
I use Square Home. Because I still miss my Lumia 920, and this makes me feel a little better about it.
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by jdmichal 1y ago
I was part of an ACM programming team in college. We would review classes of problems based on the type of solution necessary, and learn those techniques for solving them. We were permitted a notebook, and ours was full of the general out
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by jdmichal 1y ago
> That egg has long since hatched. I imagine there's entire companies in existence now, whose entire value proposition is clean human-generated data. At this point, the Internet as a data source is entirely and irrevokably polluted
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by jdmichal 1y ago
My guess would be lack of actuators. For instance, this robot looks like it has an ankle that can only go up and down, but not roll like a human's. Also, I wonder if there's a center of gravity issue, as it almost always appears
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by jdmichal 1y ago
LTT did a video with the SG10 a couple months ago. Really neat concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLHC2_gByQ8
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by jdmichal 1y ago
I'm not familiar with any of these communities. Is there also a general bias towards one side between "the most important thing gets the * most* resources" and "the most important thing gets * all* the resources"
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by jdmichal 2y ago
Hello fellow ex-employee of that bank. I was in a segment governed by PCI, and they wouldn't even let us touch Gaia in fear of the whole thing being declared in scope
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by jdmichal 2y ago
That only works if the external API is handing off the entire subscription to Apple, up to and including payments. But the entire premise is to move away from being forced to use Apple for these elements, which makes it a non-sensical inte
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by jdmichal 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the design. Does the Cybertruck have a trunk, or are you referring to the truck bed? And if the latter, is it not intended that the bed is open-weather?
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by jdmichal 2y ago
This is classic correlation is not causation. The thing about correlation is that it could be a causative relationship, or there could be another set of untracked variables that's causing some or all the effects, or it could be unrela
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by jdmichal 2y ago
You probably want to look into the following attributes: * spellcheck * autocorrect (Safari non-standard) * autocapitalize * autocomplete
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by jdmichal 3y ago
> less the non-heat work. Doesn't all the non-heat work eventually just become heat? Or am I misunderstanding your usage? Like a car with a solar panel still ends up radiating work as heat, by either air resistance (heat) or brake
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by jdmichal 3y ago
I mostly agree, but wanted to nit on this point: > hell even big operations like a heart transplant or C-section are rarely done "in the moment." Agree on the plannability, but not on the predictability. Once you are on that t

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