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Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI(elidedbranches.com)
8 points by ruds 4mo ago|2 comments
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by ruds 1y ago
In most of the world, "liberal" doesn't mean the left half of the political spectrum. In many places it's the centerish part and in a few places it's the rightish part. In the US, until recently, almost all mainstre
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by ruds 1y ago
The security concerns were not addressed by not accepting new links. As the post you replied to said, > The play was to scrape the web for old goo.gl links that went to expired domains, register the domain, and then you have a goo.gl URL
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by ruds 2y ago
You are mistaken. Discretionary spending is spending that Congress allocates during the annual appropriation process, while mandatory spending is spending that is required by prior law. See https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/am
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by ruds 2y ago
Antitrust suits were filed against these four companies in November, alleging that they conspired to fix prices: https://archive.is/fp44d
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by ruds 2y ago
I don't think this sort of communication from guessers to clue giver is in the spirit of the game (at least in my play group). However, inflating later clues is a reasonable approach! It's just that I don't think you're
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by ruds 2y ago
You would like to slice (half) an onion in a way that minimizes the variance in volume of the pieces. The problem is then simplified to slicing half an onion in a way that minimizes the variance in cross-sectional area of the pieces at the
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by ruds 2y ago
But the immunity is only presumptive for acts within the outer perimiter of the president's official responsibility. For core constitutional powers, like giving orders to the military, the immunity is absolute.
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by ruds 2y ago
Note -- AIUI the js and wasmgc are both produced from the same Java codebase. The problem here is that the developers on the Java codebase had started making changes based on their performance when transpiled to javascript (which is only na
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by ruds 3y ago
Not only that, but a code reader can rely on this too. If you only use a raw for loop when you're skipping around, then the reviewer / future reader can slow down to understand what's happening here. If you use raw for loops
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by ruds 3y ago
A clean history is one where there is a single commit, "big feature commit", that produces a worktree that is the same as the one produced by "fix 3" in the "unclean" history.
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by ruds 3y ago
In many of these bank failures, the problem has been that they are holding very safe loans at an interest rate that is too low for today's environment. In practice, if they are allowed to survive until the loans mature, they will get a
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by ruds 3y ago
Here's what's balancing: I've traded assets worth X dollars for a company with Y dollars of tangible assets plus G, the fudge factor that makes both sides equal. I've traded X dollars of assets for X dollars of assets, w
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by ruds 3y ago
The monetary number is not made up out of whole cloth. It's the difference between the book value of the tangible assets of a company as an accountant understands them, and the amount paid for the company. An income stream arising from
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by ruds 4y ago
I suspect that it's "Adding Scheduler Activations to Mach 3.0", presented at the Usenix Mach III Symposium in 1993. https://dada.cs.washington.edu/research/tr/1992/08/UW-CSE-92...
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by ruds 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Bock
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by ruds 5y ago
Coming in late, but I think you're misunderstanding the suggestion, which was to make pedestrian avoidance standard equipment on all new cars , not just autonomous vehicles.
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Tz database community up in arms over time zone merges(theregister.com)
1 points by ruds 5y ago|0 comments
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by ruds 5y ago
I still remember the mnemonic my 9th grade Spanish teacher gave for this: DONT BE LOCO DONT: Ser is for Description, Origin, Nationality, and Time. BE: these verbs mean "to be" LOCO: Estar is for Location and Condition. Determinin
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by ruds 6y ago
A large component of the time value of money is the rate of return that a dollar today brings in vs a dollar in the future. With super-low interest rates, the time value of money is relatively low and future income is valued relatively high
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It's Time to Replace the Public Corporation(hbr.org)
3 points by ruds 6y ago|0 comments
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by ruds 6y ago
If you're in New York City, this may be related to rules on rent stabilization. Rent stabilized apartments can only raise their rent by a small percentage each year. These landlords likely want to be able to raise rents quickly if the
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by ruds 6y ago
http://www.cppgm.org/ was a sort of experiment called "C++ Grand Master Certification." It seems to have died out, but the goal was to produce a self-hosted C++-11 compiler and standard library implementation. It
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by ruds 6y ago
How does this differ from gold-backed currency?
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by ruds 7y ago
It's subseqence. For instance, in ABXCDYEFGZ QARBCSTDEFG You want to find [Q]A[R]B(X)C[ST]D(Y)EFG(Z) ABCDEFG is the longest common subsequence, QRST are the additions and XYZ are the deletions.
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by ruds 7y ago
New York requires that you get a license from the Taxi and Limousine Commission in order to drive for Uber. https://www.uber.com/drive/new-york/resources/ https://www.uber.com/drive/new-y
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by ruds 7y ago
I think the question is: given a 3-body system with objects A, B, and C, is C's gravitational effect on A altered in any way by the position of B, or are B's and C's effects on A independent? The reason for the question, I th
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by ruds 8y ago
I find that rule nowhere in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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by ruds 8y ago
The complaint is about the text in the article, which reads "The hardware interprets a float as having the value: value = (-1)^sign * 2^(exponent-127) * 1.fraction". "1.fraction" is nonsense that doesn't re
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by ruds 11y ago
I think the cruel error is to (1) make something (nearly) necessary for a prosperous life, (2) make it ruinously expensive, and (3) offer to loan money to people who have little choice or financial sophistication (4) at terms that are highl

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