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by znfi 6y ago
I remember someone giving a lecture on software engineering methodologies who gave a pretty good summary by saying that "The methods are there to help your brain, not to replace your brain."
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by znfi 6y ago
I guess everything is relative, but I'm not sure I would say the economic damage is minimal. Maybe in comparison with other countries, but I'm not sure how clear that is. Especially if other countries can go South Korean style and
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by znfi 6y ago
IANAL but I think the GDPR does not just look at the data in isolation, but considers the data and what it is used for. Thus if I give a company access to my data it does not give them a carte blanche to use it however they see fit, instead
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by znfi 7y ago
I guess I could have been more clear. I was not primarily discussing this particular case of what Discord is doing. Instead of I was against the notion that I cannot have any expectations because something is free. If you want to argue that
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by znfi 7y ago
I find this notion that you should be absolved of all responsibilities just because you give it away for free to be completely wrong. They should still be transparent about what they are doing. This notion also does not translate very well
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by znfi 7y ago
This case reminds me a bit about the US embassy in Moscow, where the US let the Soviet provide them with premade concrete pieces for the construction [1]. The idea was that it would be enough to inspect them to detect if any bugs had been i
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by znfi 7y ago
I'm not sure why you do not just provide a citation for this claim that Swedish law prevented the investigation from proceeding. The claim which seems to be the closest to this seems to be "In 2010, the prosecutor in charge of the
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by znfi 7y ago
As explained in the answer to a sibling post, the question of if he is "locked" in the embassy or not seems mostly a philosophical one. Just imagine I used a different word if you do not like it. The point I tired to make when I w
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by znfi 7y ago
Firstly, I was replying to a post which asked for in which concrete ways Assange was being treated differently from other people in similar situations. I have a bit of a hard time understanding why this phrasing of mine which is not terribl
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by znfi 7y ago
There is an article from a Swedish tabloid which could be of interest [1], unfortunately only available in Swedish AFAIK. The reason this article is of interest is mainly that it shows that the Swedish prosecutors seem to be extremely reluc
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by znfi 7y ago
Having been forced to dabble in the Microsoft world I have in general found documentation to, at least in some cases, be very sparse. Or maybe I've just not found the right resources? For example, I was looking for some documentation o
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by znfi 7y ago
So, OK, taking a step back and thinking about this. So my impression from the public debate and so on in the western world is that discrimination is seen as unacceptable and really not at all OK. From the impression I get it is probably som
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by znfi 7y ago
Not the person you were talking to, but to me this just feels like a MASSIVE straw man. If you can show that some company prefers men and actually discriminates against women, I think most people would agree with taking action against this.
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by znfi 8y ago
Any chance you could elaborate on this, because I dont really understand how it answers my original question. I have not checked recently, but last I saw, the database libraries for rust did not use async IO. Looking at (what I presume is)
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by znfi 8y ago
Not sure if I'm missing something, but for the Techempower Bencharks [1] I had the impression that the bottleneck for other rust libraries were in accessing the database rather than handling http requests. However, looking at the code
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by znfi 9y ago
Well, the data does not just appear on strava all by itself. I made an assumption that a non-neglible fraction of the data uploaded was from Garmins/fitness trackers or similar devices (like watch for tracking your running etc). I gues
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by znfi 9y ago
In this particular case I'm not sure that blocking internet access at the base will solve much since the data is stored on the device, and it's enough to bring the device to a location with internet access? Basically people go hom
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by znfi 9y ago
One thing I find rather odd is how noone raises an eyebrow that apparently the US happily admitts to having some enormous spy network in China. It is especially puzzeling if one compares it with the reaction to foreign countries supposedly
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by znfi 9y ago
Not really a mathematician, so take this with a grain of salt. I would guess there are probably several different reasons for "looking down" on proof assistants. On the one hand we have something like the 4-colour theorem where th
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by znfi 9y ago
My understanding of cryptocurrencies is rather limited, so maybe I'm wrong, but I dont see how this is possible. If you create a "fork" it will either include the transaction or not, how is it possible for them to somehow dou
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by znfi 9y ago
One thing with all of this which puzzles me as a non-American, how does the "acceptance" of people getting killed by the police fit together with the whole anti-gorvernment thing which seems fairly common in the US as well? One wo
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by znfi 9y ago
I'm not sure I can provide an actual quote on this and was more my understanding of what people are arguing, I could be mistaken, I'm not sure. But it would seem to me that accepting something of that form as true would be necessa
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by znfi 9y ago
If I understand things correctly the argument by feminists etc is something along the lines of "there are no differences between men and women, and thus any difference in outcome must be due to discrimination". Firstly, even if th
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by znfi 9y ago
Firstly, you somehow did not even consider my whole point, which was that being a "geek"/"dork"/"nerd"/whatever is not exactly something men are encouraged to be. And based on this I questioned t
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by znfi 9y ago
Firstly I think that Bittorrent-style techniques are or have been used in some places even though it may not have been advertised very clearly. For example until a few years ago Spotify used to use something like Bittorrent to reduce the lo
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by znfi 9y ago
I feel that one critical thing that have been missed by many is that on the meta-level this manifesto largely acts as a defence. Feminists/whatever have come with far-reaching accusations of discrimination. Often backed by very flimsy
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by znfi 9y ago
Honestly, I have a hard time understanding much of these "biases having affected women their entire lives", maybe you could expand on what you mean by the points you bring up. I attempt to clarify why I have a hard time understand
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by znfi 9y ago
I have a bit of a hard time understanding why so many people think this is written by Russians. Obviously the grammar is not correct, but it would seem very strange to think this has any significance, and it seems more plausible that it was
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by znfi 10y ago
Just randomly googling "ternarization deep learning" lead me to this article from ICLR 2017 https://openreview.net/pdf?id=r1fYuytex which in turn seem to reference further work in the area.
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by znfi 10y ago
The Titan X(P) does not support 16-bit floats, or, well, it is supported but at 1/64th the speed of 32-bit floats. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(microarchitecture) section 2.4 Chips claims the Tita

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