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If you have an endless pattern of ..., -1, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1, ... and run box blur with a window of 2 or 4, you get ..., 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... too. Other than that, you're not wrong …

I think the US is markedly better for people in certain professions who want to become rich. This is obviously not true for the general population, but the amount of cash that's ch…

They don't. I'm using Cloudflare and 90%+ of the traffic I'm getting are still broken scrapers, a lot of them coming through residential proxies. I don't know what they block, but …

Maybe I'm getting hung up on words, but my beef is with the parent saying they find real numbers "completely natural". It's a reasonable assumption that the universe is computable.…

35 years ago, a good chunk of the current EU was under a Soviet-imposed totalitarian rule. Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. And it's been just 80 years since WWII. It always bo…

> I believe real numbers to be completely natural, Most of real numbers are not even computable. Doesn't that give you a pause?

Because inexplicably, there's random pixel-level noise baked into the blue area. You can't see it unless you crank up contrast, but it makes the bitmap hard to compress losslessly.…

Meh. The room-temperature endurance of modern EEPROMs (e.g., ST M95256) is something like 4 million cycles. If you use a simple ring buffer (reset on overflow, otherwise just appen…

The history of journalism is written by journalists, often in a self-serving way. You'll be hard-pressed to pinpoint the purported golden age of impartial truth-seeking. Early news…

> But gcc is part of it's training data so of course it spit out an autocomplete of a working compiler /s Why the sarcasm tag? It is almost certainly trained on several compiler co…

They're not coming from anywhere. It's an LLM-written article, and given how non-specific it is, I imagine the prompt wasn't much more than "write an article about how OpenClaw is …

It's common for compilers to generate mildly unusual code because they translate high-level code into an abstract intermediate notation, run a variety optimization steps on that no…

Gun frames can be made out of plastic or aluminum, and there are fixtures for benchtop CNC machines that can be used to make them. This is not nearly as complicated as you make it …

There is a database. The insurance covers things that aren't in the database. Claims are exceptionally rare, so it's pretty cheap.

Different people understand "theft of identity" in different ways. If someone is impersonating you on the internet, or steals your credit card info and makes purchases on your beha…

First, you're getting upset at a random person on the internet for expressing their political views. Second, your objection almost certainly has nothing to do with this attack. It …

That's the most honest assessment you can expect from any small-scale developer. What do you expect them to say or do? Their adversary is presumably a national intelligence agency …

> Is this materially different than giving all files on your system 777 permissions? Yes, because I can't read or modify your files over the internet just because you chmod'ed them…

It might be an interesting LLM benchmark: how many can they list without breaking the rules (repetition or non-animals). Although I bet that big bucks would be then thrown at point…

That's not what I'm saying. I mean citations that aren't citations: a "source" that doesn't discuss the topic at all or makes a different claim.

FWIW, this is a fairly common problem on Wikipedia in political articles, predating AI. I encourage you to give it a try and verify some citations. A lot of them turn out to be mor…

> Silver has plenty of industrial uses. About one third of this demand (photographic film and paper) more or less evaporated in the 2000s. You don't see that on the price chart, so…