jxcole

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by jxcole 15d ago
If many people hated their products, they wouldn't use them. If they didn't use them they would not be financially successful. Google is not dying just because you personally have a feeling the results are worse than before and th
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by jxcole 4mo ago
Have you tried it out? https://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...
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by jxcole 6mo ago
The obvious solution is to just copy paste it into Claude itself and ask it to fix. Works for almost any Claude problem
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by jxcole 8mo ago
A better analogy would be to compare it to being able to install anything from online vs only installing from an app store. If you wouldn't trust an exe from bad adhacker.com you probably shouldn't trust a skill from there either.
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by jxcole 1y ago
IANAL but I would be scared of getting sued. For example, if I try to give a perfectly good car seat to good will they refuse to take it for liability reasons. Baby safety is serious business.
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by jxcole 2y ago
He would need to fire at least 30% of the staff to make a difference. You can't fix the rot that started with the McDonald Douglas purchase by changing one person.
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by jxcole 2y ago
If you look carefully you see that they actually started with a much bigger drone and then shrunk it down. The minimum is 9 mg (that they could build) but it sounds like the design can be expanded to almost any size. A more obvious question
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by jxcole 3y ago
Each pilot can have a button they must always press, if both are released loud tritones alarms and flashing will fill the cockpit, something no one can sleep to.
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by jxcole 3y ago
Surely any one with 700 million users could just build their own?
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by jxcole 3y ago
I disagree completely. Facebook was just Myspace without the terrible UX. Google was just Yahoo but better. Tech businesses can easily move in over each other if there is a way to make it noticeably better.
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by jxcole 4y ago
I think it's possible that some generous person determines a sequence of prompts that generate, say novels, and then pipes these prompts into a program causing thousands or even millions of wholly varied novels to be generated in the p
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by jxcole 4y ago
Why would that make it less reversible? Honestly it's not like it was ever easy to reverse DNA damage. Reversing other kinds of damage might be harder, but unless you have more information it's not clear that it _must_ be.
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by jxcole 4y ago
This seems to be Hinton's MO though. A few years back he ripped out convolutions for capsules and while he claims it's better and some people might claim it "has potential", no one really uses it for much because, as wit
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by jxcole 4y ago
"everyone depends on their particular bolt, and we are all screwed." I love clever puns.
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by jxcole 4y ago
For the curious: it's not intentionally NSFW but the filters aren't very good (if there are any) so you do see occasionally inappropriate images.
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by jxcole 4y ago
Really? https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbel... (Yes I get it's not technically a watermark, but it certainly qualifies as a trade mark in a similar fashion)
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by jxcole 4y ago
Apple's stance on air tags is ridiculous. For one thing, you will only know if someone is criminally tracking you if you are an apple user. Android users have no luck. Secondly if this is true and you stole a bag, all you need to find
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by jxcole 4y ago
This article misses the point completely. Fundamentally the question is, if some technology has made us twice as productive, why don't we work half as much? This will never happen because capitalism and economics are completely psychol
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by jxcole 4y ago
I bet it was a co worker who wanted to leak but also didn't want to be blamed. Or maybe even a coworker who had a grudge against the defendant and didn't care about the leaks at all. It would be pretty easy to set up. If you work
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by jxcole 4y ago
Having been on a jury in the US one time (attempted murder), the purpose of this system is probably not at all obvious. The idea is to put 12 people in a room and force them to agree to the same thing. You can deliberate almost any amount o
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by jxcole 4y ago
If you're going to cheat why not all the way: document.querySelector(".time").innerHTML = '<b>Time:</b> 0.0001'; Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".theSport input[type='check
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by jxcole 4y ago
We used almost this exact scheme for app id indices and the curious problem we had to design against was inadvertent profanity. At some point we decided to just never use vowels to avoid ever having a complaint about 12f*ck if in the URL
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by jxcole 5y ago
I feel like you are very defensive here and I want to be sure we take time to recognize this as a real accomplishment. Seriously though, I do doubt I can be fully replaced by a robot any time soon, it may be the case that soon enough I can
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by jxcole 5y ago
IIUC most of the mass required to build plants comes out of the air (CO2). Of course, any astronauts wanting to utilize these fungi will have to take some amount of other resources with them. The most important measure for any radiation shi
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by jxcole 5y ago
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job. I've found the opposite is true. If you are extremely competent at your job your manager is moti
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by jxcole 5y ago
The actual paper is https://openreview.net/pdf?id=RQUl8gZnN7O and the title is "Learning to see by looking at noise". I think a lot of the negative reactions here are from the rather ridiculous and inaccurate re-i
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by jxcole 5y ago
I certainly self censor like this on a different subject: I'm one of the only people who thinks the tech interview process is actually pretty good (I'm also very good at it, so that could be why). But anyway, only an idiot wouldn&
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by jxcole 5y ago
Maybe it's a recent change, but I typed in mullvad and got this: https://seekvpn.com/review/mullvad-vpn?keyword=mullvad It has a fairly high rating overall.
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by jxcole 5y ago
I've been to a lot of interviews and this seems like terrible advice. Besides a few behavioral questions the vast majority of interviews are algorithm and data structures questions. Memorizing a bunch of obscure, unpopular object orien
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by jxcole 5y ago
Why? This comment is not about Berlin or Paris, it is mentioning then as examples of non English speaking cities. Is the author supposed to mention every city in Europe?

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