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> Zip code 94107 is located in San Francisco, California, specifically in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. It is part of San Francisco County. There are approximately 163 homes for s…

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No. It goes back to the 1990s when we used Data Entry Operators to key mail details that could not be read by OCR. This is all so the mail goes into the truck sorted. That is the m…

Why didn't they just rewrite it in Rust?

People who pay Anthropic you mean. There is no benefit. And only the owner can make more books. Fake altruistic mindset. Super sociopathic.

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> then everyone benefits from cheaper widgets and you get paid for it. Ah, but the original widget manufacturer bought a Senator, and so now there are onerous widget regulations th…

More directly if the game engine only updates player state every 60 seconds (tick rate) then is this 4ms advantage actually present for the 240Hz case? Further if your network has …

There's billions upon billions of dollars on the table. I'm a simple man. I'd suggest overt manipulation.

really missed a chance to write this up into "three acts."

You also want to set a marker so that when you come back later you can set your theodolite up in the exact same position as you did 20 years ago. There's a lot of surveyors marks h…

In two months they've doubled MAUs? Without an explanation of that specific outcome I don't believe it. Also: > As per SimilarWeb data 61.05% of ChatGPT's traffic comes from YouTub…

You have "social anxiety." You are not in a "moat of low status." The status is purely in your own mind and not something calculated and assigned to you by the world. Another CEO f…

> I don't think so? The disk is going to report an uncorrected error for one of them.

> it can find a correct copy elsewhere. Which implies you can already correct errors through a simple majority mechanism. > or it could be rebuilt through ECC. So just by having th…

How would they know to volunteer? Are you saying I can perform a hostile volunteering to take over for a maintainer who does not want to give up the project? I don't think you unde…

Is that raw error rate or uncorrected error rate?

> a lot of our technology is sheer accident , serendipity, the way the cards happened to fall What an absurd ahistorical fallacy. > but thanks to mindwarping science fictional yell…

> some sort of data error detection (and ideally correction). That's pretty much built into most mass storage devices already. > If a disk bitflips one of my files The likelihood a…

Presumably there would be an open call where people would nominate themselves for consideration. These are problems that have come up and been solved in human organizations for hun…

Corruption has been compounding. Malicious business interests don't actually care which party has power. Just that they have access. It's telling that you have to reach back 30 yea…

> the dollar has been insanely overvalued post-COVID. That's an odd way of saying the US doubled it's federal budget from $3T to $6T in response to COVID and has now ensconced this…

So when someone is actively losing their rights you feel the need to go out of your way to say you're unsympathetic. What did you /intend/ to convey with this? You support them, bu…

If our rights are contingent on taste then we have no rights at all.