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Since this signs you up for their ID protection, doesn't this count as fraud?

Jesus man, I'm in my early 20's and even I don't make sure to put my phone in my pocket just to go pick up the mail. What could possibly be so important that it couldn't wait a whole 120 seconds?

I've had the misfortune of listening to Fresco on a podcast, and he came right out and stated that

1. Humans don't have a capacity for reason

2. If reason existed it couldn't lead to any truth

3. That people only find scientific discoveries via chance

So I wouldn't expect him to be dissuaded by a rational argument.

He also believes in the blank slate theory, so not exactly up to date in the science world.

This is a nice sentiment, but this rarely plays out in practice in my experience.

People use Python all the time to manipulate data sets >= 100G in size despite its speed failings at that size. Why? Because Pandas is just so damn convenient. It would take me a grand total of 30 seconds to write Pandas code which read a TSV and gave me the sum of two multiplied together columns grouped by the day of a timestamp column. Doing that in C would take several orders of magnitude more time.

It's an optimization of people's time problem. You could probably spend several hours (or days) writing a C program for a specific problem. But if you can spend only 40% of the time writing the program and have it only 20% slower, then that's a definite win (these numbers are just an example).

> Non-reflective film has since been added, but not before the building earned a new nicknames like “Walkie-Scorchie”

You can always count on the Brits for coming up with great names for things.

Because unless you go with a metal roof that's a pipe dream.

Not really surprising since the Core M is ostensibly designed as a tablet processor.

Right, but Catholics don't know who are the saved. So, they pray to God and the saints for their ancestors because they might not be saved.

That's not quite true. Catholics pray for their ancestors and pray to the saints when not praying straight to God.

First off, this isn't AI, it's machine learning.

> The idea of AI picking up the biases within the language texts it trained on may not sound like an earth-shattering revelation

That's an understatement.

> But the study helps put the nail in the coffin of the old argument about AI automatically being more objective than humans

Again, this isn't AI, and anyone with knowledge on the subject has always known that a traditional machine learning algorithm is only as good as its training data.

This also seems like a case where the researchers are simply unhappy with the results they received, rather than being able to show that the results are wrong.

People on embedded systems use a custom runtime, and people who want to avoid the GC use the compiler to disallow GC usage in their entire program by using the @nogc annotation.

There are other less extreme solutions, such as the ability to have some threads be registered with the GC and others not. Also, you can just find your bottle-necks and mark those specific functions as @nogc. Some people also turn off automatic collections and manually trigger them only when it's ok to pause.