marshray

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by marshray 19d ago
A scapegoat is a goat driven into the wilderness to misdirect from the sins of the villagers. It's a canonical example of cruelty being the point - both as a distraction and as a lesson to observers.
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by marshray 19d ago
I can't believe they left out Gothi and Gethli in Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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by marshray 19d ago
"Most users" are not who choose business software.
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by marshray 19d ago
I think it probably has more to do with Mac's lack of adoption by the US Government and large corporations. Microsoft took accessibility of Windows and apps as a basic requirement. The fact that Windows is the daily driver desktop for
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by marshray 19d ago
The scam here is presenting average occupational accident rates as a measure of "safety" when the obvious risk of nuclear power is the rare large-scale events which render large areas of land uninhabitable for generations while pr
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by marshray 19d ago
Data centers are only 5-10% of all US electric power demand. A significant fraction of that load is responsive to spot market price. DCs incorporate their own battery storage infrastructure for backup purposes and some even sell stored ener
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by marshray 19d ago
Most of the reactors we have in the US today are the result of building many of a few models per year during the late 1960's - early 1970's. In 1974, 12 reactors entered commercial operation and 13 more were begun. https:/&#
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by marshray 19d ago
Not the core measurably, but my understanding is that it can very slowly cool the volume of earth immediately around the heat extraction site. I have full faith in modern engineers' ability to account for these effects in the plant des
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by marshray 19d ago
Enormous amounts of storage is awesome and overproduction is a good thing when its marginal cost is ~zero.
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by marshray 1mo ago
Cosmograph looks really interesting, but it's not open source. CC-BY-NC-4.0. This is not necessarily a criticism, I just thought others might have the same question.
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by marshray 1mo ago
So I'm supposed to set up PKI before I can open a remote console connection? Please just make it work seamlessly with my existing SSH credentials. Like SFTP.
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by marshray 2mo ago
Not using either. Just my US-based home ISP that works for everything else.
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by marshray 2mo ago
It says I've been "blocked by network security". MSIE on Windows. Reddit must really be circling the drain.
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by marshray 2mo ago
There's a whole spectrum of things built into phone cameras these days like color correction and edge/sharpness enhancement where whether or not it's advertised as "AI" comes down to marketing.
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by marshray 2mo ago
Nice article. Looking at the ONSemi datasheet for the BS170, it is very clear that the "Drain−Source Breakdown Voltage" spec only applies at "VGS = 0, ID = 100 uA DC". Doesn't it cause problems for designers if the
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by marshray 2mo ago
Well, if it's not an advertised spec on the datasheet, and constrained in the direction you're using it, then all guarantees are off and it's on you to qualify the parts on a batch-by-batch basis. I think that counts as &quot
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by marshray 2mo ago
Well, only if Clone/Copy is compatible with the semantics of the API. I.e., the called function doesn't need to modify anything. No &mut params (or data members) except perhaps `&mut self` (which would refer to definitions
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by marshray 2mo ago
Do they really not have any kind of sub-block dynamic allocator? Does the program handle character data? It is indeed a rare server app which never handles strings.
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by marshray 2mo ago
Whose fault is it if a manufacturer sells a car that begins accelerating as soon as it's turned on? It's the manufacturer's fault. Because that's not a reasonable thing for a car to do.
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by marshray 2mo ago
OK, so I asked ChatGPT "How do I prevent Spotify from automatically playing every time I get in my car?" The answer looks entirely reasonable. I can't check the Android settings, but I was able to confirm that all of the sugg
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by marshray 2mo ago
Such an inspection capability might also be used to target ads to LLMs, which would then be more likely to mention or recommend those products and services.
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by marshray 2mo ago
Your comment seems to have little to do with the article? Don't get me wrong - I personally "trust" an LLM as a source of facts about as far as I could throw a rack of GPUs. But this article you linked takes a whole lot of wo
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by marshray 2mo ago
If dirt-simple type operations like copy-paste yield useful improvements with even a small probability that would seem to open things up for adaptive reconfiguration and whole other classes of optimizations like genetic algorithms.
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by marshray 2mo ago
It's going to be hard to explain to future generations that the demand for computer-speakers was once such that sometimes they could even decide the language in which they spoke to the computer, and that really was a big deal back then
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by marshray 2mo ago
Never underestimate the power of a catchy title that resonates with the intuitions and preconceptions of people who will never read the paper. Cf. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...
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by marshray 2mo ago
What is " real understanding", and what question can we ask ChatGPT to determine whether it has it?
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by marshray 2mo ago
Naming things using qualifiers like "large" has never aged well when transistors were involved. For example, consider the term "short wave" radio which refers to wavelengths of at least 10 meters. Today's mobile com
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by marshray 3mo ago
The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder... Imagine growing up in Cairo.
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by marshray 3mo ago
I'm seeing the phrases "tremendous amount of homework", "substantial amount", and "few hours". Does anyone have an actual estimated time we can discuss?
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by marshray 3mo ago
Well, it turned out the affiliate code linked as "the author's" actually belongs to the publisher anyway.

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