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onraglanroad··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
I'm now imagining Bender's Yoga class. I suspect it would hurt.
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
If it helps, think of it less as Subsidy and more as Tribute!
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Yes, houses are expensive, but it's not out of reach. You can afford a mortgage on the average home.
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
What does the person who fixes your toilet do? Or prepares your meal? Or basically lives the Fight Club life?
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Thanks for your comment. It makes a little sense that the average person might struggle with costs in the US, but it doesn't make sense that the highest earners do.
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
To give context on my other comments, where I live in Scotland, median full time wage is around $55k.

You can live a perfectly comfortable life on that; you don't have to worry about bills or medical expenses, and you can afford to get a mortgage and buy a house (probably costing around $300k or so)

That's why I'm surprised about people from a richer nation saying they can't afford things.

onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Ok, I made my other comment before seeing this but I find it very difficult to believe you can't find something reasonable for far less.
onraglanroad··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
If your net pay is $7000 per month you absolutely can afford to own a house, you're just being fussy about the house you want.
onraglanroad··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
> I've had lots of issues with the usb-c port, it keeps spitting out cables, occasionally doesn't connect properly.

You've probably got some fluff in the port. Scrape it out with a pin and see if there's a fair bit of crap comes out.

onraglanroad··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
You owe everything to other people. What do we owe to each other is literally a joke question in things like The Good Place.
onraglanroad··on AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study
I was under the impression that it was more accepting the othodoxy of Galilean/Newtonian relativety and joining it up with Maxwell's discovery about electromagnetism.

So if the speed of propogation of EM waves is the same no matter your frame of reference (along with all the rest of physics) then the speed of light can't be relative (a conclusion that was aided by the Michaelson-Morley experiment) and what are the logical consequences of that.

If I'm incorrect in my understanding I'd appreciate any correction.

onraglanroad··on GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
It's not less accurate. As commented above, the control knew they were being tested against the machine, so made sure to be super careful.

In everyday life the human is less careful, and the machine costs 1% of the human.

onraglanroad··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
There's a massive difference between being perpetually employed and being fired for no reason at a job you've already demonstrated your ability at.
onraglanroad··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
There is so much there that could be code golfed. I'm tempted to try when I'm back. Anyone done it already though?
onraglanroad··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Then they should vote better and know who their elected representatives are.
onraglanroad··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
I'm not a worshipper of Mammon so I disagree that it basically all comes down to money.

I agree that many people are, I'm just arguing that they're wrong.

onraglanroad··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
I suppose that makes sense if you assume that people who aren't right wing must be Marxist.

I'm neither and am labelled left wing because I think everyone deserves some basic level of life and dignity.

onraglanroad··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
People who understand society care about it. When you employ someone you take on a certain responsibility. You can't negate that by pretending that you're in an equal power relationship.

That's why we have workers' rights.

onraglanroad··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Not most, maybe just one.

Consider a Schindler's List type scenario. It's a crime to help a Jew escape. Now mostly I believe in the rule of law and if I broke a law because I thought it was justified in that particular circumstance I would accept my punishment.

But in that scenario, accepting my punishment would mean I couldn't help others.

onraglanroad··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Apart from the fact it can't make decisions.

It can only propose; the decision is made by the EU parliament.

onraglanroad··on Aluminum foil (2021)
I think it's a little late to be worrying about Nitrogen in the atmosphere.

If it's any consolation I believe it's mostly harmless.

onraglanroad··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
I think I might be tempted to wait for the Butlerian market crash and pick up stuff from the firesale.

Depends how long this market can remain utterly loony though.

onraglanroad··on Europe's new climate in seven charts
These are 20 year periods, not decades. How did you think there were 13 years in the previous decade? It would be 18 vs 13 if every year up to 2039 went over 30C.
onraglanroad··on Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Yes, you can do it by MAC address instead but that can be changed so you can spoof a legitimate device.

Edit: oh wait, you mean have the applications check the certificate? Yes, but then you need support from the application. Does your printer do that, for example? You need to make sure everything does. You can of course do both.

onraglanroad··on Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Probably a RADIUS server setup.

Basically staff machines get a certificate to present to the server and the server controls the network.

So, if your machine does nothing, it's on the guest vlan and has limited access. If it presents a valid certificate that network port is reassigned to the staff vlan and you get full access.

If someone leaves, you just revoke the certificate and they have guest access again.

Not rocket science once you know it :)

onraglanroad··on Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems
The point isn't that you can't add bad data: obviously you can.

The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.

onraglanroad··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Fascists always incude left wing policies to try to appeal to the "working man".

There's a reason the Nazis included "socialist" in their name. It's not because they give a crap about the plebs.

onraglanroad··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
No-one defines what they mean by "nationalist" so it could apply to a rock.
onraglanroad··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
No, crossing a border is not in and of itself a crime.
onraglanroad··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Abolishing the European Commission would be seen as an attack on the individual countries' sovereignty as it would give more power to the EU.
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