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Sometimes, I just wanna remind myself how to use xargs for some command text replacement in a random one-liner on the terminal. If I tried to do that with man... I'd have to read (…

Yes, of course. We're all reasonable adults who are capable of acknowledging that services of value cost money. It just so happens that weather is a phenomenon which affects all pe…

I rarely feel this way about someone of Pope Francis' age and social position, but I've genuinely admired Francis as a thinker. He was a bona fide Jesuit, through and through. The …

The "Experts" in MoE is less like a panel of doctors and more like having different brain regions with interlinked yet specialized functions. The models get trained largely the sam…

There actually is an outcome worse than a missed click: if too many viewers are abandoning your video within the first few minutes (i.e. before midrolls), you'll experience substan…

Gaming was becoming less and less the domain of the tech-savvy crowd, strongly curbing the public's appetite for such host-it-yourself services. Teamspeak/Mumble were already dying…

It's funny that you mention eggs because there's actually been a recent paper regarding sous vide, soft-boiling, and achieving the "ideal" egg texture through a novel boiling proce…

> Kids are almost teens now, but she gets zero support from them or her husband This is a good analogy. Children are the people who they've been raised to become, so it stands to r…

Not what people are asking for. What you're ruling out is the equivalent of expecting cryostasis subscribers to sue if there's ever a service interruption. Conventional business mo…

Neither solution is really tenable. People vote where their money is and non-homeowners -- a minority in the U.S. -- are subject to externalities which prevent them from forming ef…

Whoa... I might've actually tinkered with some of this guy's code back in my modding days. What a strange contradiction it is to think that we can unknowingly interact with so many…

A rich person certainly does not. Rich people as a collective class, however? You're kidding yourself if you claim that the people who make the laws and run our institutions aren't…

It's the legal equivalent of a firing squad. No execution requires a squad, but you'll certainly need one if you value the health and safety of your executioners.

How does a king existing affect you if you live in a monarchy? One does not need begrudge the king his power to live in fear of it.

And how would you say that these two solutions are incompatible? How does delaying the replacement rate issue with immigration prevent solving the core problem, or are you just adv…

Many are arguing the case for the net economic value of immigrant labor which I agree is a fairly compelling case. I'd like to offer an alternate avenue of attack, however: populat…

The current U.S. position towards Cuba continues to puzzle me. Their geopolitical stance is nowhere near being on the same level as North Korea or Iran. Given Cuba's proximity and …

I don't have any data. I'm speaking strictly with the knowledge that Tegra X1 powers the Nintendo Switch and that the Nintendo Switch has a broad base of engine support. Normally, …

I'm not surprised the Adreno numbers didn't hold up as well as the rest of the Snapdragon benchmarks. Back in 2013 the Dolphin team blogged about their terrible experiences with th…

I think what the parent comment meant was that you could force the model to divert its attention elsewhere if you removed race as a variable by making the training data uniform in …

Rumor has it that Sony axed OtherOS in response to Geohot using it to exploit & compromise the PS3 hypervisor.

> Economic "models" make assumptions like markets being efficient. Meanwhile in the business classes next door they teach how to avoid competition because it's a race to the bottom…

Fun fact: Mitch McConnell was born in 1942