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by nerdo 7d ago
There's a better way to do this, you use inverse CDF to avoid all the RNG calls. Generate a random number, then skip items until you reach that number: selectRandomFromIteratorOptimized(iterator) { if (!iterator.moveNext()) {
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by nerdo 5mo ago
The EFF has long been a skin suit my dude, they're just here to dissipate and confuse opposition.
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by nerdo 9mo ago
What is TSLA's valuation based on anymore? Maybe next week it'll be the moon colony they’ll have up and running in 2028.
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by nerdo 1y ago
https://archive.is/xe77F
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by nerdo 2y ago
The escalation of commitment scam, interesting to see it so effective when applied to AI.
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Big Tech Think Tank Pushes for a Post-Election Crackdown on Online Speech(reclaimthenet.org)
1 points by nerdo 2y ago|0 comments
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by nerdo 2y ago
For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...
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by nerdo 2y ago
https://archive.ph/iDMXO
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by nerdo 2y ago
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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by nerdo 3y ago
They’re burning 30 million dollars a year on a site that’s torched over a billion since its inception. Just give the product manager one signup for their kpi before they/them are put out on the street.
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by nerdo 3y ago
You can't, it's very expensive and controlled now: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...
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by nerdo 3y ago
What's the deal with bash history on macos anyway? It absolutely refuses to persist, no matter which combination of incantations are entered.
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by nerdo 3y ago
What “kinds of things” are “we” really worried about? Representative government, public referendums? Very much on what table?
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ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)(icann.org)
69 points by nerdo 3y ago|14 comments
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Mounting research shows that Covid-19 significantly lowers IQ(theconversation.com)
27 points by nerdo 3y ago|11 comments
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by nerdo 3y ago
No, perfectly sane. The party says there are five fingers.
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by nerdo 3y ago
> Phind-70B is also less "lazy" than GPT-4 Turbo and doesn't hesistate to generate detailed code examples. OpenAI's leaked prompt literally encourages it to try harder[1]: > Use high effort; only tell the user that
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by nerdo 3y ago
The regime doesn’t want people saying or thinking things they aren’t being currently told to say and think. The regime is technically not allowed to use the legal system directly to punish people for this quasi-crime but is very happy to ru
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by nerdo 3y ago
Porn can be an understandable concern because of the amount of chargebacks it can create for processors, though the excessive chargebacks should be the rule not the porn. Hate speech they never tried to explain afaik. FWIW repealing fair ba
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by nerdo 3y ago
In the US the receiver gets unbanked without warning or explanation and permanently loses the ability to accept money through any service via systems like MATCH.
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by nerdo 3y ago
What if money gets sent to websites that host hate speech?
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by nerdo 3y ago
Incredible effort. Text of scroll is essentially "drink more Ovaltine" which is on theme.
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by nerdo 3y ago
Did they ever explain the logo thing? https://longform.asmartbear.com/logo/
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ChatNoir Common Crawl Search(chatnoir.eu)
1 points by nerdo 3y ago|0 comments
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by nerdo 3y ago
What lawsuits? They send updated terms of service ahead of it so it’s all totally legal.
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by nerdo 3y ago
No, Tesla already sold these cars and took people's money. They continue to sell cars the same. This is about charging the existing and new customers $100/mo because it's a number Tesla thought of. It's not for extras it
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by nerdo 3y ago
How would it collapse? People will pay $100/mo instead of buying a new car and even then what would they buy? Other car companies will see Tesla getting free money and push their own updates the same.
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by nerdo 3y ago
Context: I recently had a set of lightbulbs lose all functionality a couple nights ago, now insisting I had to get an account, sign in with 15 character password with certain symbols and mixed case, receive constant marketing emails whether
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Tesla disable all features unless you pay them?
2 points by nerdo 3y ago|9 comments
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Why Macs are a terrible platform for gaming(old.reddit.com)
2 points by nerdo 3y ago|1 comments

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