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by sesqu 6mo ago
Did you just forget about the mobilization drive Russia had in 2022, where they grabbed young men off streets and from their houses? It was very unpopular, lead to people fleeing the country, and was pushed out of the public eye as soon as
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by sesqu 7mo ago
I'm not sure if I'd go down to zero, but he did get fired from OpenAI for lying.
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by sesqu 1y ago
I know the this isn't the thrust, but the "jagged pac-man" is actually supposed to be a puzzle piece, and symbolizes plugins. The three dots at the right, for some reason, is the menu. It's labelled "Settings and mo
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by sesqu 2y ago
I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers. That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively. Regulators seem to be staffed by skeleton crews allowing them to take on one case a year, and the Google-tier customer su
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by sesqu 3y ago
Your math is wrong. 5W/user * 200e6 user * 4h/24h = 167 MW 11 MWh/a/home = 0.00125 MW/home 167 MW / (0.00125 MW/home) = 133 000 home
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by sesqu 5y ago
Here's a reference to the term from 1987: https://archive.org/details/ParalanguageInElectronicMail-ACa...
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by sesqu 6y ago
A few weeks after I got my first touchscreen phone, I had to google for how to answer it. I had assumed you'd just tap the "answer" button, but that failed more often than not. It never would have occurred to me to swipe a mi
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by sesqu 6y ago
That's not so much a problem for the people who want to leave a meeting, but it is very much a problem for people who frequently toggle their mic on and off.
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by sesqu 6y ago
Shannon did not use the word intelligence to describe the mouse in this demonstration - instead, he talked about learning. That's why the second run was considered more important than whatever algorithm was used to solve the maze. To t
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by sesqu 6y ago
This was explicitly gone over in the announcement. The short of it is that they validate further attacks by promising Trump's allegiance, assistance, and a target.
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by sesqu 6y ago
Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonet
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by sesqu 7y ago
Weight is a weaker condition, since you can construct a polynomial weight sequence that results in linear height. In general, height is the easiest thing to restrict, but doing so restricts dynamic performance optimizations - you can't
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by sesqu 7y ago
Log-height is a sufficient but not necessary condition. There are a few other ways generalize balanced trees, notably logit-weight.
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by sesqu 8y ago
Fixing the percentile seems akin to the gambler's fallacy: since losses below a certain point don't matter, you just have to bet everything when you fall off, like you would if you thought after a big loss streak you were "ow
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by sesqu 8y ago
Limiting their size would cut down on the clickjacking annotations, but wouldn't deal with the hated "buy our merch!" annotations that were damaging to the video content and led to people turning annotations off. I think simp
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by sesqu 8y ago
My understanding of the argument is that you have to assume you keep playing after you lose, so your stake is dictated by the risk. For the example in the article, the potential upside is 110% profit and the potential downside is 100% loss,
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by sesqu 8y ago
Right. I was making the comparison that mobile games are like horse races, and WoW was like payday loans. Now, I don't really have a solid base of experience to form these generalizations with, so a lot of it is just being judgmental.
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by sesqu 8y ago
It was definitely less abusive, but I think it was more malevolent - like payday loans instead of horse racing. Both prey on the destitute, but one builds itself into your life (like a need), the other is merely novelty (like opportunity).
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by sesqu 8y ago
WoW had an absurdly high recurring fee that it tried to make you renew again and again and again. Because there was no micropayment infrastructure, it didn't use "pay to throw dice", it used "pay to retain your investmen
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by sesqu 8y ago
The article does briefly discuss a slightly more accurate version of that definition, and why it's bad (it's convoluted and relies on the poorly-defined kilogram).
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by sesqu 8y ago
The cloud isn't there to meet processing needs, it's there to meet tech support needs. Everyone gets handed the same keys, so if something's wonky you just get a replacement. No debugging and repair costs, no standards adhere
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by sesqu 8y ago
That depends on what you use Office for - which is why I qualified my statement. I wouldn't recommend them as general replacements, but they exceed my documentation needs.
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by sesqu 8y ago
And if you're willing to consider LaTeX, I'd definitely recommend LyX.
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by sesqu 8y ago
The claim is that there may be a market for AI-powered technologies, but that market is suppressed by non-AI competitors exploiting information asymmetry.
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by sesqu 8y ago
I paid attention to the part of the article that mentioned that the pizza slice comes packaged with a protein shake. That sounds just like veggie crackers to me.
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by sesqu 8y ago
> as a dev I've had a number of devs, when receiving feedback, tell me that I should instead seek out their bug tracker, register with their feedback system, open a support ticket, give detailed instructions about how to identify a
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by sesqu 8y ago
R and Matlab are definitely array-oriented in that sense (though not fully). Here's how you might do it in R: prod(1:x)
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by sesqu 8y ago
That screen is mounted high in Uber's cars. The driver was looking low.
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by sesqu 8y ago
Here's a picture of the Uber car from inside. No FLIR, just GPS: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Front-_-... A different picture from that article shows that under the GPS is the
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by sesqu 9y ago
I'd say I'm an evening person, but I like waking up before the sunrise. I suppose that makes me also a night person. I'm constantly either a morning person or an evening person. Quiet daytime is nice too, sometimes.

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