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by lmkg 3mo ago
Godot's recent announcement spelled something out clearly: when a mid-tier rando contributes, you can provide feedback to that person and possibly help them grow into being a senior contributor or even a maintainer. That possibility
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by lmkg 4mo ago
I mean that's still basically what they tried to do at the time. They were trying to get them through web standards committees and everything. IIRC a big reason it didn't end up working was because NaCl was such a "big"
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by lmkg 4mo ago
This is why we're clear-cutting forests to build new data centers? Not even for "real" productivity gains, but just for the sake of using the tokens.
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by lmkg 5mo ago
The difference is that early-bird pricing is transparent and predictable. There is a written, known policy of $X discount during specific hours. You can plan for it. It's never a surprise . Dynamic pricing means sometimes you go the
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by lmkg 5mo ago
> which seems to directly oppose the CCPA. I have some background in data privacy compliance. It sounds like they are claiming to be a Service Provider under CCPA, which is similar to a Processor under GDPR. Long story short, a Controlle
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by lmkg 5mo ago
My personal conspiracy theory is that in some cases, the "loser" is in on the graft to. It's a way to launder bribes.
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by lmkg 6mo ago
That still begs the question though: There are existing tools and solutions that do this. Why not, and would this being AI make a difference? "My boss would be more likely to approve it" is a cynical but valid answer.
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by lmkg 7mo ago
That type of experimental set-up is forbidden due to ethical concerns. It goes against medical ethics to give patients treatment that you think might be worse.
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by lmkg 7mo ago
The Gaussian integers usually aren't considered interesting enough to have disagreements about. They're in a weird spot because the integer restriction is almost contradictory with considering complex numbers: complex numbers are
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by lmkg 1y ago
They weren't "just" raw dumps of internal C structures. It takes careful design work to dump raw memory in a usable fashion. Consider: You can't just write a pointer to disk and then read it back next week. Binary MS Off
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by lmkg 1y ago
HIPAA is not a privacy law, nor even a healthcare law. It's an insurance law. It does not cover medical records generally. It deals strictly with how doctors bill insurance companies, and mandates security for health information being
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by lmkg 1y ago
> If it only exists in some hardware, how should the standard deal with that? Generally seems to me the C standard makes things like that UB. Signed integer overflow, for example. Implemented as wrapping two's-complement on modern a
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by lmkg 1y ago
It very much is something that exists in hardware. One of the major reasons why people finally discovered the provenance UB lurking in the standard is because of the CHERI architecture.
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by lmkg 1y ago
GDPR does not currently have explicit business size thresholds. Its provisions are all framed as personal rights of the data subject, so its provisions are always in effect. By contrast, CCPA in California is framed as a consumer protecti
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by lmkg 1y ago
Yes it does. If a user can say "here's my IP address, what data do you have on me?" and you can answer that question, then that's personal data under GDPR. It's pseudynomized, but not anonymized, and pseudynomous da
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by lmkg 1y ago
We passed the tipping point where bot traffic outnumbered human traffic fifteen years ago . LLMs are an order of magnitude worse by most first-hand accounts, but it's just a continuation of a very long trend.
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by lmkg 1y ago
> You also have to remember that individual countries fining on global revenue runs the risk of fines "duplicating" each other for the same or similar behavior, again bankrupting a corporation when the goal should be to change
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by lmkg 1y ago
Per a reddit comment, modules are allowed to have circular dependencies while crates are not.
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by lmkg 1y ago
That website is not authoritative and should not be given more credence than your median tech blog.
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by lmkg 1y ago
GP are wrong about which law applies, but they are applying that law correctly. The ePrivacy Directive requires consent to read or write from the user's terminal device, except when strictly required for the functionality the user requ
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by lmkg 1y ago
It depends on the jurisdiction and law, but a "data breach" is when data is accessed by a party who is not authorized, or who should not be authorized. It's not just hackers. Sending data to the wrong recipient is a form of d
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by lmkg 1y ago
I have some sympathy for people who are blindsided by surprising difference between a new tool and their old one. This post is not eliciting sympathy. They're data consultants, who don't understand a very basic and fundamental a
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by lmkg 2y ago
At least you're using the actual months. I've recently had to deal with 4-5-4 Retail Calendars. Explaining to my coworkers why the data for September includes dates from both August and October, and that's Working As Intended
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by lmkg 2y ago
GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF ISOPERIMETRIC AND SOBOLEV-TYPE INEQUALITIES Suspected to be flagged for the trigger word "inequality."
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by lmkg 2y ago
PageRank relies on pages from one domain linking to pages on another domain as the main signal of quality. But no one does that anymore, because of PageRank . Most cross-domain links are from "partnerships" made under the explici
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by lmkg 2y ago
Check out the CLP(ℤ) library by Markus Triska, who is also the author of Scryer Prolog. It defines new comparison predicates that lets you use bidirectional logical programming on standard integers with standard math operations. https:&#x2
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by lmkg 2y ago
> - The reuters article says "Issue was disclosed voluntarily to the regulator." but the actual source [1] announces a breach of GDPR Article 33(1), for failing to notify. GDPR mandates the regulator be informed within 72 hour
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by lmkg 2y ago
> If you have accrued vacation, you "earned" your vacation and they can't take it away from you without compensation... If they fire you, they should even have to pay you your salary for those vacation days. This is the l
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by lmkg 2y ago
Regarding point 1: The timeline in the linked article describes some communications as "pressure emails." I've heard the theory, but haven't seen solid evidence, that the pressure emails weren't just regular impatie
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by lmkg 3y ago
> Unless they had a better reason for restricting the maximum city size. They did! EA wanted you to play the game online. They encouraged you to connect your city with other players by making it difficult for cities to be self-sufficient

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