pardoned_turkey

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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
The thing is, within normal, stable households, most of good hygiene practices - including hand-washing after using the restroom - are unnecessary. You already share all the microflora, and if one person brings in something contagious, you&
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Well, yes and no. You're correct that ZX Spectrum is a lot slower than the author estimates, but there's also a software-side performance bottleneck: the code is written in the built-in BASIC language, which on ZX Spectrum, was no
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
They had looong waiting lists in most places in the Bay Area, though.
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that (but no less reprehensible). The government obtained a warrant to seize the business and, as a part of that, to do a routine inventory of what's inside the boxes. After securing the warrant, t
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
The author wasn't asking you to write code, but to analyze some existing snippets. And it wasn't about "intuition about how compilers work", because not all of these deal with undefined behavior. Some are merely unspecif
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
It's even worse: for example, the first one isn't undefined, it's merely unspecified - i.e., "depends on the system in a well-known and predictable way," not "you're doing something very wrong and the resu
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
In private life, we probably do more "dumb things" than we used to. The number of people dying in car accidents or due to drug overdoses is absolutely staggering and is a fairly recent phenomenon. The gains from banning lawn darts
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
People made the same arguments about violent video games (a major panic in the 1990s), about youth literature, about Dungeons and Dragons, and so on. All about depraving children and getting them hooked on smut for profit. Social media is &
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Nobody is arguing that you should feel sorry for short-sellers. It's just a mildly interesting fact, although it's less meaningful than implied in the article, because Tesla is also one of the most-heavily traded companies on the
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
It's easy to get hung up on specific examples you can't connect with, but our entire lifestyles are centered around preferences, not needs - and I'm sure it's also true for you. All you need is a 3 x 3 x 8 ft sleeping
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
> how great was a community to begin with if as the only thing keeping it from becoming a hotbed of fake content is that the users didn't have the tools to fake it. Do online communities need to be great by some HN metric in order t
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Oh come on. Copyright is a fairly ancient concept that benefits normal people as much as it benefits big corporations. Most book authors, songwriters, and so on aren't fat cats, and they would be harmed if we had zero protections for t
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Rick Hartley's content is fantastic, but I think it caused collateral damage by making hobbyists who work with 8-bit microcontrollers and I2C believe they need to follow the same rules that must be followed for GPUs and PC motherboards
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Well, on the flip side: the whole reason these are sold is that the FDA is preventing the substance from being sold OTC. This is not an example of a manufacturer putting something unwanted in the product. It's all just a wink-wink-nu
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Mozilla has been diversifying itself away from Firefox for 15 years. They're still pouring money into SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, on top of a range of more recent projects that have no realistic chance of ever generating serious revenue
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
At first, I figured that's the explanation, but you're ignoring a more puzzling statement in the article: > To explain how an AI-generated story written by an AI-generated person was published despite this policy, B&H says
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
It's a bit weird because electricity delivered to your home is generally more expensive than fossil fuels. What currently makes EVs cheaper to operate is that at the pump, you pay hefty taxes that go toward road maintenance and related
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Is there any article explaining what they actually did, or are alleged to have done? With the VW scandal, there was a fairly in-depth discussion of the technical aspects of it. But all the articles about Cummins seem exceedingly vague. IIRC
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to works, which are specific, complete expressions of ideas. The problem artists have with LLMs is not that they routinely output copyrighted works (it can happen, but isn't common), bu
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
It's unfortunate, but also not surprising. These cropped up in some of the most expensive real estate markets on the planet with no particularly good prospect for long-term sustainability. At first, you have an influx of excited member
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Yeah, that'd be my guess. People who have been driving the same vehicle for 20 years are probably not in it for the thrills. In contrast, Teslas are fashionable and probably disproportionately owned by younger drivers who like to &quot
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
The substantive claim against PFAS is that they're very persistent in the environment, can bioaccumulate, and end up in places we didn't anticipate (e.g., in the rain). This is a good argument for scaling back. Separately from thi
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
The embarrassing part is how they have been allocating subsidies to ISPs that don't provide rural connectivity improvements nearly as significant as what Starlink managed to actually pull off. A competent agency would do whatever they
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
I'm in a rural location. Not that rural, about five minutes away from a town of 10,000 people. I have exactly three internet choices: old-school satellite (with 600 ms latency), unreliable 10 Mbit DSL for $150/month, or Starlink f
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
All the no-name $6 extension cords from Amazon that we have in our homes are far more likely to burn your place down than this project. It's surprising that we have such cavalier attitudes when it comes to our own field, but so much fe
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Why does it depress you that we as a species fared well thus far? Is there intrinsically higher value to a planet where humans struggle but the quagga dominates on all continents? I'm not taking the position that the negative impacts o
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Despite some misleading pictures shared on social media, if you do an apples-to-apples comparison (e.g., a 1972 F-150 and a 2023 model with the same bed size), they are about the same length. The differences are vastly better driver safety
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
Right, but the article doesn't make that point. It is full of magical thinking that openness is the one hurdle we need to clear. I wouldn't feel any more comfortable getting diagnosed by an open-source LLM than I would be by a pro
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
How does open source improve safety if we simply don't have the analytical tools to intuitively reason about LLMs? You can't use this to prove that the model will always behave correctly (or desirably). At best, you can build test
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by pardoned_turkey 3y ago
I think the idea is just to have it lose "train of thought" because there aren't any high-probability completions to a long run of repeated words. So the next time there's a bit of entropy thrown in (the "temperatur

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