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by malf 2y ago
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
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by malf 2y ago
If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.
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by malf 3y ago
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs
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by malf 3y ago
I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?
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by malf 3y ago
> common sense 75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
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by malf 3y ago
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
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by malf 3y ago
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
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by malf 3y ago
“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).” Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your sign
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by malf 3y ago
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
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by malf 3y ago
Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
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by malf 3y ago
strace -e open
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by malf 3y ago
I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.
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by malf 3y ago
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
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by malf 3y ago
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
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by malf 3y ago
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
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by malf 3y ago
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
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by malf 3y ago
The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
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by malf 3y ago
I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
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by malf 3y ago
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance. groan
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by malf 3y ago
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.
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by malf 4y ago
It’s not immediately clear what stops me from preparing k-1 sybils?
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by malf 4y ago
Same problem as “hash the PIN code”, an attacker can run the algorithm for Alexa-1M.csv.
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by malf 4y ago
To get the sale? It seems to have worked. Truth is orthogonal.
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by malf 4y ago
That’s odd. I remember using it in the 90s. It’s the obvious way to do things if you don’t like small objects. (Also GPUI seems to be retained, so completely unrelated.)
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by malf 4y ago
Is this a copy of libgen or just a frontend with a tip jar?
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by malf 4y ago
I assume https://xkcd.com/1958/ (2018) was in response to this.
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by malf 4y ago
> “The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up“ Higher than population average. Do you have any evidence that it is higher than people who are denied treatment?
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by malf 4y ago
type robotname = string & {_robotname_marker:true} or some variation. The marker does not actually need to exist.
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by malf 4y ago
Wait, are writers incentivized to get “scrolls” now?!
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by malf 4y ago
“If it were truly AI, then they would make more money offering their own CAPTCHA service instead of a CAPTCHA-breaking service.” Please elaborate. “workers (ie humans)” Do you know what we call a process that takes tasks from a queue?

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