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by tsbinz 3y ago
I'm in Europe too and at least obvious finance scams turn up on Instagram pretty regularly ("completely safe" investments with astronomical returns if you invest at least ~$10k, etc ...)
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by tsbinz 3y ago
Fun :) The point of esoteric languages isn't to be practical, another example of a "strange" language is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#... / https://esolangs
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by tsbinz 3y ago
Look at some overall browser/os usage stats and say again that the web isn't relevant on mobile, and look at browser usage stats for desktop and android and claim again that firefox would have a relevant market share on ios if bro
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by tsbinz 3y ago
As absurd as it is, Apple forcing people to use Webkit/Safari is, at the moment, good for the browser landscape. You already have websites that say browsers that aren't chromium aren't supported, if iOS didn't force Safa
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by tsbinz 3y ago
Big employers (at least the ones I know) aren't regarding work, I guess with smaller ones it maybe is, especially with BYOD? I think the issue probably isn't uncommon for freelancers/contractors too. Hobby and personal stuff
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by tsbinz 3y ago
> We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way. This is often quoted and either comes out of ignorance or is intentionally misleading. Assuming it's the former, M1 in the US is not a go
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by tsbinz 3y ago
That is a questionable statement, as there were phones with removable batteries and phones without them on the market for quite some time and the phones with removable batteries were simply not successful enough.
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by tsbinz 3y ago
even more amusingly, it is a computer program demanding that of another computer program
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by tsbinz 3y ago
That is not the only time you use passwords over ssh, e.g. I don't use a password to remote into my desktop from my laptop, but I do use one when using sudo on the desktop.
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by tsbinz 3y ago
If the company is big enough (e.g. not using whatsapp is not an option for a lot of people), or if the app comes from a state that can force you to install it by law, yes it can be.
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by tsbinz 4y ago
If you own the rights to software, you previously releasing something under the GPL does not mean you have to make derived versions of the thing you released under the GPL available under the GPL too. If you take someone else's code un
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by tsbinz 4y ago
His speech also came after Europe already realized that in 2014 when the Crimea was annexed [0], and countries didn't want to go too hard with sanctions cause of the dependency. The obvious motive for the speech was a desire to sell US
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by tsbinz 4y ago
That is not how copyright law works. If someone uploads an image as public domain, or code as a BSD license, without having the right to do so, that doesn't give others the right to use those things.
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by tsbinz 4y ago
And yet, every time GitHub Copilot comes up, people on HN are in arms about their code being used to train a model.
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by tsbinz 5y ago
I obviously read it, otherwise I wouldn't have known which version they are using. They are banking on others, that do just skim the figures and tables, not noticing their usage of outdated baselines.
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by tsbinz 5y ago
It does have the option to use a neural network (nnue) in its evaluation, but it is very different from what AlphaZero/Lc0 do. You can choose not to use it, so you still could have a "traditional" evaluation (which would stil
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by tsbinz 5y ago
Comparing against Stockfish 8 in a paper released today and labeling it as "Stockfish" is bordering on being dishonest. The current stockfish version (14) would make AlphaZero look bad, so they don't include it ...
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by tsbinz 5y ago
If you have "contractors" in Germany, what you are describing is social insurance fraud. I would be surprised if France doesn't have rules like that.
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by tsbinz 5y ago
Uh, it has plenty of methods for more compact encodings? https://github.com/nlohmann/json#binary-formats-bson-cbor-me...
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by tsbinz 5y ago
Death rate considerably lags behind infection rates especially at the start of a wave, for multiple reasons (for example, it does take take a while until people get admitted to the hospital, where they are often for multiple weeks before th
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by tsbinz 5y ago
> Excel doesn't alter data without being asked either. What it does do by default is try to change how the data is displayed. This is easily falsifiable. In a "general" cell, when I enter 0002, it gets changed into 2, not
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by tsbinz 5y ago
How is it loose? Both in the colloquial sense and in the sense it is used in machine learning it is fitting. https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2020/12/20/lmmem/ is a post demonstrating it.
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by tsbinz 5y ago
And it was released almost a month ago with the CVEs saying "these fixes will be backported to previous branches that are still supported" but releases for those branches haven't happened yet, so if you're on an older ve
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by tsbinz 5y ago
Enforce consistent formatting, e.g. with black ( https://github.com/psf/black ) this gets formatted to [0xF or x in (1, 2, 3)].
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by tsbinz 5y ago
> Rails used a gem by a different developer, a gem that had its own MIT license. The Rails project and all others using Rails can not be expected that they ought to have known the license is invalid, so usually the GPL does not count for
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by tsbinz 5y ago
USB 3 is also what kills your wifi if things aren't properly done (e.g. https://medium.com/ghostbar/your-usb-3-0-hub-is-killing-your... - and it's not only a mac problem), so it's not just 2.0 but faster
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by tsbinz 6y ago
So you say spending time on this topic is wasted time, and your solution is to spend more time on pushing back?
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by tsbinz 6y ago
I extended the deadline for my 2020 tax declaration today (Zurich). I did so by scanning a QR code, entering my email address for the confirmation, and clicking send.
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by tsbinz 6y ago
Seemingly "small" investments were enough to strong-arm the NBA and Blizzard into punishing people speaking out for Hong Kong, so it appears it gives them enough.
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by tsbinz 6y ago
Desktop motherboard manufacturers definitely do it, and they have FAQs of how to disable it: https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1043788/

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