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If by "ride" you mean hitch a lift to somewhere you couldn't get to otherwise, space doesn't work like that. If you want to land on an asteroid/rock, either you match speed with it…

It's a very silly point to make to AI researchers specifically. If they don't work on those projects, the AI won't advance and won't magically be able to replicate the work in "one…

> All people are not born with equally capable brains You can't write this and then object to someone also shortening this to "stupid".

In these circumstances I always say "I've seen something similar before". That has the benefits firstly, that the interviewer will probably go ahead with the question anyway while …

It was invented as a comically long fake word, but gained enough currency to be used in real writing, though in a tongue-in-cheek way. It's a Latin calque. I'm sure the spelling sh…

I was at the World Series of Poker when this change was made. The major sites had anticipated the decision not to allow sponsorship by "real money" gambling sites and had registere…

Or because there's not enough worth stealing in your house.

Ireland, like the UK, has a system of Prize Bonds that work exactly like this, administered by the state. The expected return on them is actually quite competitive, depending on yo…

Roman legions marched around 30 km/day [0], carrying their own supplies, food, weapons and armour, needing to spend time making and breaking camp each day. Modern European pilgrims…

This part is clearly nonsense: > According to the planner’s calculation, the journey would have taken 43 days to cover 1,500 Roman miles. To put that into a contemporary context: t…

My previous employer did this, and no one seemed to miss it. If you had a use case to add an exception (the most common was to send yourself a mail from your personal Gmail, to pri…

This overeggs a bit the idea that Hitler "lied about where it came from". Hitler openly admired the Roman empire and alluded to Germany being the spiritual heir to it. Look at the …

Do you need to be able to strike at a moment's notice? For a proper MAD-based nuclear deterrence, yes, you want to be able to launch a massive retaliation while your enemies' missi…

> Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Or how good their HA/failover strategy must be. Although losing one data centre from an…

It sounds like they didn't need (at the time) to separate arguments from options, but they did need to separate revisions from pathspecs. So they repurposed "--" as the most famili…

The abstract does say > limitations, principally the small number of tournaments available for validation and the risk of in-sample weight selection But I agree this model is no mo…

And the out-of-universe explanation is that the Jurassic Park production team had access to SGI "3D rendering beasts" because they needed to render some CGI dinosaurs. So these are…

I was thinking of an API key that was scoped both to a specific customer and a specific service provider (perhaps both have to do something to provision it). Billing goes to the cu…

Perhaps AI providers should support this natively: the customer supplies the API key but doesn't get access to the transcripts.

Farage can't realistically be PM in the current parliamentary session anyway. His party needs to win, or do very well in, the next general election instead. At a national level thi…

A house and a car are an enormous amount of assets for someone 7 years out of college. Leaving bankrupts with "only" enough assets to be in the top few percent of their peers is ha…

MiFID 2 does not require nanosecond accuracy. It's something like 100 microseconds in the strictest case. Some MiFID reports require microsecond or perhaps nanosecond precision , b…

They also used a practical effect for the scenes where the T-1000 needed to appear on screen at the same time as a character it had shapeshifted into. They cast identical twins for…

But Órfhlaith Begley does go to Westminster, and she has an access badge for the Houses of Parliament, and she flies over there and works in her office in the parliament buildings …

Aside from all the other objections from this: broadly speaking, if you lose your job and can't get another one, the economy will be bad and house prices will fall. Not true for ab…