oxw

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My Willing Complicity in "Human Rights Abuse"(ussri.substack.com)
4 points by oxw 6mo ago|0 comments
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More cows, more wives(worksinprogress.news)
100 points by oxw 7mo ago|71 comments
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by oxw 7mo ago
Permacomputing meeting in SF March 1st https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html
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by oxw 8mo ago
> I've long thought that every restaurant/bakery/etc could publish their full internal cookbooks and not see a drop in sales. Absolutely. Chad Robertson of Tartine bakery has written books detailing how to make their bread
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by oxw 9mo ago
Very small apertures reduce image quality due to diffraction, which this avoids Last page in the paper has a comparison between their approach and f/32 https://imaging.cs.cmu.edu/svaf/static/pdfs/Spatiall
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by oxw 10mo ago
> “I’d love to take those next steps and see if our trash pandas in our backyard are really friendlier than those out in the countryside,” she says. Would they have to measure "biological" friendliness, comparing lab raised cou
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by oxw 10mo ago
The article is more critical of the idea of an AI cult than the title suggests. Worth a read.
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by oxw 10mo ago
It's inaccurate to say that dutched cocoa is less flavorful. Chocolate flavor is composed of multiple notes / experiences. Dutched cocoa has less acidic or fruity notes, but more dark rich, fudgy notes. Different, not less flavorf
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by oxw 10mo ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837
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by oxw 10mo ago
Is there any way to sign an image/photo with the exact time/location it was taken in a way that can't be forged? Time + location are measurements that can be fooled.
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by oxw 10mo ago
Chip stacking today is limited by thermal management. Can't stack multiple high TDP (e.g. logic) chips together, can only do one + low power chips (e.g. memory). Wonder if this is something DARPA is trying to solve here.
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by oxw 1y ago
Enterprise has an exemption granted by the judge > When we appeared before the Magistrate Judge on May 27, the Court clarified that ChatGPT Enterprise is excluded from preservation.
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Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility: R/sysadmin(old.reddit.com)
3 points by oxw 2y ago|0 comments
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by oxw 2y ago
Budget and finance tools as a class operate under the idea that money is fungible. One of those differences between how economists believe people operate vs how they really do The people I know who could benefit most from budgeting do not t
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by oxw 3y ago
I’m surprised the first result today for “how to cut a pineapple” isn’t an SEO optimized recipe with a wall of nonsense to scroll past before the actual instructions How much tuning did Google need to do for that?
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by oxw 3y ago
This anecdote and some others are covered here: https://fs.blog/bias-incentives-reinforcement/
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by oxw 3y ago
“OK, this is my belated April Fool’s Day post[...]” The $1.5 million number is a joke
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Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish?(bustle.com)
30 points by oxw 3y ago|22 comments
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by oxw 4y ago
https://archive.is/9wBts
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Fans Search for Coveted Film Merch–Five Decades After a Movie’s Release(wsj.com)
1 points by oxw 4y ago|1 comments
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Storyliving by Disney(storylivingbydisney.com)
2 points by oxw 4y ago|0 comments
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MiniCO2 Houses: experimental homes reduce building carbon emissions by 45%(realdaniabyogbyg.org)
1 points by oxw 5y ago|0 comments
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by oxw 5y ago
> ...it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. What are they helping the intern through? Hopefully creating a better testing process.
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by oxw 5y ago
A quick search suggests that people looking for roommates (like this) can choose their roommates using any criteria they want even if it would otherwise violate the Fair Housing Act.
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by oxw 6y ago
archive.org mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20210126173020/https://thecrow.u...
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by oxw 6y ago
How do you mean 'robust'? Taxes are dodged but that's not a good argument against tax law.
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by oxw 6y ago
https://blogs.akamai.com/2020/06/largest-ever-recorded-packe... Akamai's blog post about this attack.
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by oxw 7y ago
Excerpt from the article: "It turns out there’s also not much evidence to support a popular theory that the increasing secularization of Western societies — where religion is seen as a traditional route for people to regularly come to
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by oxw 8y ago
Patterns and paradigms can be taught easily on the job, and can be overly specific. The "advanced programming" course teaches genuine problem solving. Breaking down a problem into it's mathematical components to develop an op
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by oxw 8y ago
Agreed. The steps that he's taking are too drastic. I really like the steps that you're taking. I feel like the issue that the author fell into is that he... cares too much about too many things? I know that sounds selfish, but by

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