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9d ago
It could also draw media attention to your case, cause a shitstorm, and force somebody to actually look into it and fix the problem. The martyr strat sometimes works.
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11d ago
Does it only matter to those people when they're relying on GPS coordinates or something like that, or to anybody trying to keep things at a certain attitude in general?
The latter would be surprising to me. Like, did pilots in the 1950s have to think very carefully about Earth's exact shape?
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19d ago
I'm pretty sure the real European doctrine for cavalry units in WW2 was to use them as mounted infantry units that dismount and shoot guns during combat.
(The infamous failures of Polish cavalry charging at tanks supposedly didn't actually happen, though they did charge at some infantry formations a couple of times, to mixed results.)
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19d ago
Okay, so 'nobody' includes the very person making this story.
Isn't this a bit unfair? Earlier he said:
For one thing, almost no one is arguing total LLM incompetence; there are some neat tricks that they can consistently pull off.
From the quote, he doesn't seem to be arguing total LLM incompetence or denying that there are some neat tricks that they can pull off. He seems to be saing that they are insufficiently competent to consider the problems to which they're applied "solved by AI".
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24d ago
No eugenics, but you need to write an email to Joseph Manderley.
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1mo ago
Ok, I trust you and concede that the guy was in fact harassed by police during normal working hours.
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1mo ago
Was the Nazi-saluting pug guy calling for violence?
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4mo ago
The difference is that domestic producers you compete with will also add VAT to their final price and transfer it to the relevant tax authority, so being an importer doesn't disadvantage you.
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4mo ago
In 2025, peace broke out.
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5mo ago
Maybe general distrust of government and (healthy?) paranoia that once a government has some capability, it will eventually find a way to use it in evil ways. I'm sure all five principled libertarians that exist in the world have been doing that kind of thing long before Trump, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
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5mo ago
"Make America Great Britain Again"
I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a meme (complete with the not-yet-deceased queen) back in 2016. Life imitates art.
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5mo ago
Are you being literal here? Having your hand pinned to a table with a fork sounds like a permanently crippling injury.
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5mo ago
If the doubt over Russian Propaganda is the basis of raising questions, then you have an odd way of going about clarifying the potentially lamentable situation.
I think what the OP meant is that it would be lamentable if some people are really considering leaving over their belief that this place is full of Russian propaganda, not that the OP himself believes that the Russian propaganda is here.
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7mo ago
I don't think optics are made from cloth, and anyway they can always fall back to iron sights.
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9mo ago
Couldn't you test saliva? I assume that the virus is present in there if the bites are transmitting the disease? Or maybe cerebrospinal fluid, though that might be hard to sample from a very smol animal.
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9mo ago
Wait, you can't test an animal for rabies without killing it? Wtf?
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10mo ago
I'm afraid they just did it for the alliteration. There's nothing beyond. You have reached the apex of penis enlargement.
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11mo ago
David Friedman was a regular on SSC and is still active on one of the splinter forums, so chances are you heard about the book somewhere around these parts.
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1yr ago
(Presumably using group policy objects.)
A monarchy running on Windows? I shall fight against this travesty to my last bitter breath.
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1yr ago
OP doesn't sound very offended to me.
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1yr ago
Are you talking about the Vincent Weiguang Li guy? If so, then it seems like a very non-central example of a homeless bum. Guy had a degree, used to work steadily until his schizophrenia worsened, used to be married until his schizophrenia worsened. Wasn't on drugs. At the time of the happening was living with his ex-wife, so wasn't even homeless. And seems that he was in fact institutionalized for several years afterwards (up to nine, depending on how you count).
I'm taking those facts from Wikipedia, so grain of salt.
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1yr ago
I think prescriptivism is of vital importance, because without it language is completely incoherent. I find linguistic descriptivism to be rather vapid, actually - all you can really say as a descriptivist is "that person sure is using word X to mean Y". You can't actually say whether it is correct or incorrect.
You can say whether it's correct or incorrect, it's just that "correct" means "consistent with language norms of a particular time and place" rather than "consistent with the eternal unchanging Platonic ideal of English".
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1yr ago
How about multiple levels of Verizon customer support not being able to tell the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents? The discussion somehow reminded me of this ancient saga: https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
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1yr ago
Eh, not really? Executable files have structure in them other than raw code and still have to be parsed by a loader. A file that's all zeros should fail to load. (Yes, I know DOS had .com files with were just code blobs loaded at a fixed address and immediately executed and I'm sure there are even more ancient examples of that sort of thing, but surely Windows kernel modules can't work like that.)
Anyway, the rumors I've read said that it was actually a data file and that's why they considered it acceptable to deploy it on a Friday -- the assumption being that changing configuration without rolling out a new version of the executable wouldn't break things too badly.
Sir, you were in a coma and woke up in the future.
Checking the inclusion of an element in a hashtable is a constant-time operation, or at least constant-ish -- you still need to compare the elements so it's gonna be proportional to the size of the largest one. So the limiting factor here is memory. I suspect keeping a dictionary resident in RAM on a home PC shouldn't have been a big deal for at least 25 years if not more.
I think there should be an even longer period where it would be fine to keep the dictionary on disk and access it for every typed word, because no human could plausibly type fast enough to outpace the throughput of random reads from a hard disk. No idea how long into the past that era would stretch.
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