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foolswisdom··on Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial
No, it's about a party's right to demand a jury trial.
foolswisdom··on The United States of Avocado
You don't ever eat salads that have avocado in them?
foolswisdom··on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
It refers to a document (or documents?) making the case why someone (themselves) should be promoted.
foolswisdom··on Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
Thanks.
foolswisdom··on Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
> we’re talking a mere 19 to 30 nanoseconds to get the time elapsed since a reference date and compare it to a threshold.

The table shows 19 or 30 milliseconds for Date / NSDate. Or am I misunderstanding something?

foolswisdom··on U.S. vs. Google: As landmark monopoly trial closes, here's what to look for
By that logic, price fixing is okay, because you yourself don't have the power to price fix, you need to coordinate with others to do so!

The fact that they spend money in order to abuse market power, rather than already having all of that market power (without paying another party) and misusing it shouldn't be relevant.

foolswisdom··on Volcker's Announcement of Anti-Inflation Measures
I understand why it would increase the cost versus when interest rates are low, but I don't see why high interest rates should cause continuing inflation?
foolswisdom··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
> For example, the justification for nuking Nagasaki was "well, there's a factory nearby, so that's a valid military target".

Erm, what? The justification for nuking nagasaki was that demonstrating overwhelming might would swiftly end the war (it did) while continuing conventional war would cause many more casualties over time.

Maybe you mean to say that because a lot of ships, bombs and military equipment were made there (though it wasn't merely "a factory nearby") they dropped the bomb there rather than somewhere else.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

foolswisdom··on Google surpasses $2T market cap
Future cash flows is usually pretty strongly related to the current state of things, but adjusted based on expectations of how it will play out in the future.
foolswisdom··on FDNY Arrests E-Bike Shop Owner for Allegedly Selling Illegal Batteries
I don't know about the FDNY in particular, but lots of agencies beyond FBI / police have jurisdiction to arrest people.
foolswisdom··on Financial market applications of LLMs
To be clear, that would mean that all stocks would be perfectly priced based on available information. But available information presumably includes uncertainties, and some companies will do better or worse than expected. It would mean that there'd be no gain in purchasing one company over another, or that there's no "cheap deals", but it wouldn't mean that money in the market wouldn't grow, nor change the fact that the S&P is likely your best option.

It might be that's all you meant by the above, in which this is merely an elaboration.

foolswisdom··on Blog posts, sorted by sleep
> That said I find my effectiveness at decision making deteriorates, so it would only be good for tasks where the right path is obvious. For important complex decisions I think I am still better off well rested.

My experience is the same. Sadly it's not just specific decision making, but all the important parts of my life depend on me having good executive function or they might happen even if I know the way forward.

foolswisdom··on Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit
I think the point was about the wasting, not the loan (for which the GP helpfully provided a link).
foolswisdom··on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Antitrust has almost never been applied to big tech, in part because antitrust enforcement in general is only given lip service for many decades. This environment means it's also very difficult for antitrust enforcers to win even if they wanted to. This has been changing recently though. https://www.thebignewsletter.com is a great resource on these things.
foolswisdom··on Behavioral Programming (2018)
This seems to be like state machines, aside from

> As new ideas and requirements are discovered, we can forbid certain things from happening by simply adding new b-threads; without having to dig and figure out how earlier-written code works!

Which I'm not really sure is a step up from state machines?

foolswisdom··on Deep Learning in JavaScript
Because there is nothing to make assumptions about. In the example code, both multiplication and division have a scalar on one side, there's no possible ambiguity of behavior. But there is the eternal question of terminology: do you specify dimensions by "axis" or "dim" and does your API actually use both terms in different places?

(that's what I think the GP meant, anyway).

foolswisdom··on In B-Flat (2009)
B# == C.

I assume B# was intentional in that comment.

foolswisdom··on Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound
No "so what". I read the comment as purely informational.
foolswisdom··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
It matters though because they didn't change their designation before acting differently, which would make them liable. Not sure to whom they'd be liable though, other than the IRS.
foolswisdom··on Oneirocritica
What if I almost never remember having dreamt once I woke up (and thus can't keep a journal), is it there any mechanism to make remembering dreams more likely?
foolswisdom··on The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk
What? 13*28=364 So, missing ~1.25 days every year (instead of ~0.25 days each year with a 365 day calendar). How does this solve leap years?
foolswisdom··on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
Is it not "a" business model, or not Boeing's business model? The latter is exactly what the FAA is saying :-).
foolswisdom··on The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
Yes, because the merchants raise prices because people pay with credit cards (which take fees), you take back a little (though of course not all) of extra markup via points, assuming you use a 2% cashback card (at least) on your purchase (which assuredly many people don't).
foolswisdom··on Cve-rs: Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in safe Rust
What a wonderful license! https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/blob/main/LICENSE
foolswisdom··on How to make a better default Firefox UI
The space where tabs go (when horizontal) isn't removed in vertical tabs mode. So using vertical tabs doesn't save any extra on vertical space, only uses additional horizontal space.
foolswisdom··on GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation
Currently, if a repo is on github, and you develop a patch on a fork on gitlab, you can't just click a button to open a pr, the way you could of both upstream and fork were using the same provider. Federated PRs would be the capability for one provider to "talk" to another to be able to pull your patch from the other provider.
foolswisdom··on How to make a better default Firefox UI
I know edge at least supports vertical tabs? I don't like them though (I don't have enough horizontal screen space, plus it doesn't free up the top bar space). If I start to have many open tabs I start cutting them down anyway.
foolswisdom··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
I wonder the same, I can definitely see the karma of users who have only double digit (and I think I have seen single digit) karma.
foolswisdom··on Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now?
Not really, he's saying that the solution is to not have the entire process in a single model, it's better to have the model work on specific pieces that you broke down, rather than feeding the whole thing and expecting the model to be able to break it down and generate correctly by itself.
foolswisdom··on Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
I really like this idea.
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