romanows

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by romanows 7d ago
The probability calculator doesn't really help, since the core question for me is how one arrives at its "Probability that misalignment leads to an unrecoverable global catastrophe.".
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by romanows 7d ago
I'd like to know how these people arrive at their estimates. Why 10% and not 1% or 50%?
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by romanows 14d ago
I don't think it's particularly unusual for a company to spin off another company?
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by romanows 1mo ago
I wonder if the better approach would have been to lead engineering with a similar reliance on bending rules and "what you can get away with". This is where multiplying estimates by PI comes in, I think. And possibly some creativ
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by romanows 1mo ago
I find this anecdote fascinating because, while I identify completely with the new head of engineering, his requirement really only makes sense if you interpret it as a commitment to build at a certain level of quality, business be damned.
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by romanows 1mo ago
I agree in general, but this article claims that the unionized tech workers now have pay increases, cheaper health benefits, and layoff protections. There is also a discussion about the process. This article at least is not just "uni
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by romanows 1mo ago
"own" in the sense of "be responsible for the consequences". Not in the sense of "be able to grant reproduction rights".
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by romanows 2mo ago
Your link talks about how hard it is to define science fiction, so in some ways, I'm just putting my opinion out here on the internet as a data point. I'd say the Left Hand of Darkness is more science fiction than Little Women, b
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by romanows 2mo ago
Having something like another planet or alien biology is necessary but not sufficient to make something science fiction. There is some fuzzy amount of focus on science/technology, style, and tropes that are needed to make something mo
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by romanows 2mo ago
It's great that works for you but there is a reason we have these labels. I've definitely had the experience where I want to escape into some hard sci-fi, and so there's a reason I pick a book from that genre over Anna Karen
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by romanows 2mo ago
I've only read "The Left Hand of Darkness". It's a very well written book, but it didn't emphasize enough technology/science/engineering for me to consider it even soft science fiction. I guess she'
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by romanows 2mo ago
Excessive amounts of emojis in generated README.md and sometimes in printed/logging outputs. I don't whether this is still an issue because I have a "Never use emojis" instruction in the context.
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by romanows 3mo ago
I'm actually pretty thankful that the GP 5000 is a solid consensus recommendation for general road racing. I see some others being mentioned though, I think Pirelli Zeros? Contrast that with gravel tires, where there is zero consensus.
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by romanows 4mo ago
NPR/public radio has been doing a decent job without much obtrusive third-party advertising.
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by romanows 4mo ago
Lol, the description text is so dramatic.
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by romanows 5mo ago
It also really bugs me when I've put more time into reporting an issue or setting someone up for success than they've spent working on a solution. You would know best, but it struck me that one reason to skip parts of a take-home
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by romanows 7mo ago
I had it process a photo of my D&D character sheet and help me debug it as I'm a n00b at the game. Also did a decent, although not perfect, job of adding up a handwritten bowling score sheet.
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by romanows 7mo ago
Obviously. The point is that settling a lawsuit in this way is also a worthless indicator of wrongdoing.
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by romanows 7mo ago
The next sentence under the headline is "Tech company denied illegally recording and circulating private conversations to send phone users targeted ads".
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by romanows 8mo ago
As long as you hold the copyright to your "validate" project, you can dual license it. So can release it under the (A)GPL and also use it in your closed-source commercial project. I think you would need to make contributors sign
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by romanows 8mo ago
Ah, you meant "sharing my e-mail addresses". Not the actual emails (the email contents) themselves.
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by romanows 8mo ago
I gotta say I'm skeptical of Gmail sharing emails with third parties without permission. Was there a breach? Govt court order?
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by romanows 9mo ago
Any idea if there is an argument for moving it if it obstructs sidewalk traffic, whether or not it sustains damage in the process? I feel like you can't just leave a washing machine blocking the sidewalk unattended and sue anyone who s
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by romanows 9mo ago
I've seen a few in Lakeview but my experience hasn't been entirely the same as yours. I haven't noticed blinding lights at night. They seem to move relatively slowly and cautiously. I came upon one as I was jogging last night
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by romanows 11mo ago
I use Firefox Mobile Nightly on Android and appreciate it for the dark mode extension and ad blocking. There are some issues but the benefits outweigh them for me. I don't even have a Home button that I can see, I must have turned it o
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by romanows 1y ago
Kinda related, I wish there was an easy way to exclude dependencies at pip-install time and mock them at runtime so an import doesn't cause an exception. Basically a way for me to approximate "extras" when the author isn&#x27
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by romanows 1y ago
I "open image in a new tab" and can then pinch to zoom in the new tab, too.
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by romanows 1y ago
"Yes, coffee is mostly water, with standard black coffee consisting of about 98% to 99% water..."
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by romanows 1y ago
Yes, but also "An... entity may not provide... therapy... to the public unless the therapy... services are conducted by... a licensed professional". It's not obvious to me as a non-lawyer whether a chat history could be decid
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by romanows 1y ago
In another comment I wondered whether a general chatbot producing text that was later determined in a courtroom to be "therapy" would be a violation. I can read the bill that way, but IANAL.

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