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In my experience with winter-storm-related power outages, the core problem is often _wind_ rather than precipitation.

Such a tool would violate the Discord Terms of Service, so the selection is limited and they don't tend to be very good unfortunately.

I'm sure it varies, but personally I have a very prosaic reason that I would still drive myself in most scenarios: If someone else is driving I tend to get motion sickness.

Confirm or deny my suspicion: your post and your comments in this thread are substantially written by ChatGPT?

I think Google basically _is_ the standards committees, at this point. Not in the sense of having majority control just by themselves, but in the sense of (1) the cartel being argu…

> Aren’t coding copilots based on tokenizing programming language keywords and syntax? No, they use the same tokenization as everyone else. There was one major change from early to…

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Quanta's version of the algorithm is not only confusing, it's also wrong. I think the pseudocode in the paper is very hard to beat.

Merging like that doesn't work -- it will tend to overestimate the number of distinct elements. This is fairly easy to see, if you consider a stream with some N distinct elements, …

Robbery/burglary? SWATing? The possibilities are delightful and endless. The former is a major concern for people who are known to be rich; the latter for people who are infamous o…

Thanks for linking the graph, that's kind of wild. I agree with you that the lowest datapoint seems crazy. I can think of a few explanations. - Random bad luck. - As you say, faili…

I'm not a statistician, but I think there's a bit in your excerpt that is actually a concerning display of poor statistical literacy. If you're fitting a function which grows asymp…

As I understand it, Schnorr signatures are the "natural" (and simplest) construction for a digital signature in elliptic curve cryptography. The reason ECDSA exists is simply https…

Hah, yes, I had the exact same reaction. "Looks like Pittsburgh, but not quite. Also kind of looks like Virginia... let's split the difference."

According to the comments, the author has only just today learned that Substack added this new popup without asking him, after he got them to disable the previous popup. So hopeful…

It is a great question, the answer is nobody really knows for sure.

I got something like that not long ago, and it was diagnosed as acute macular neuroretinopathy. Luckily, in many cases it apparently resolves on its own, and mine did. Was the spot…

Their docs say (somewhat recently updated, I think) that even 0 is not perfectly deterministic in all cases (though it's very close). Some people had previously observed this and s…

Beware -- command -v does not have the same semantics as which, and is not a substitute for it in shell scripts. There is no direct substitute. See: https://github.com/koalaman/she…

"Tinfoil wrapped around complications" is definitely going in my quotes file. Reads like James Mickens! (If that's what you were going for, well done. If not, go read his stuff imm…

As far as I'm aware/recall, European privacy laws consider any connection back to a telemetry server to count as "collecting" IP addresses, since the telemetry server learns it (ev…

As noted by a couple people in this thread, the anti-phishing footer is new. PayPal presumably added it in response to this scam.

I definitely wish you guys had advertised that earlier / better. I feel like I got lucky because I put off migrating until just before the sunset, at which point I discovered eco d…

Moxie has made his decision; now let him enforce it.

x86 at one time had a single-byte instruction that would trap if the overflow bit was set, INTO. It doesn't exist in 64-bit mode, I believe, and it was never widely used as far as …

Why get rid of the next button? Stop that. Has any actual user ever asked to get rid of the next button?