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Comment · 27 days ago
Fair enough, my mistake.
Comment · 29 days ago
1. you can definitely get electrocuted snipping a single wire with insulated ppe, just brushing up against a wall can form a circuit.

2. You are thinking of survivorship bias, selection bias is a different thing.

Comment · 2 months ago
AI is trained off a massive corpus of internet exchanges. If you tell people youre going to thoroughly inspect their work or are able to check if theyre right, only people with high confidence will respond. I imagine exchanges where the OP is more involved in fact checking have a higher proportion of thoughtful and honest answers.
Comment · 4 months ago
The person being sentenced was not involved in any way based on this information.
Comment · 8 months ago
That would honestly be an incredible performance art piece, like a distilled waste of a human life just to prove a point. Then even after all that you could ask the question "Is the art inferior, did it prove the point effectively.". I think there's a real argument to be made that it didn't, becuase just having the argument surfaces some very interesting points about worth.
Comment · 8 months ago
Obviously people know, but theres no impulse to introspect on why or how. Knowing that someone else knows you had a hard braking event taps in to our social brains to provide a much stronger response to the event. When we know people are watching we're more likely to try and justify our behaviour.
Comment · 9 months ago
In the current social climate I would absolutely not trust public media to understand general consensus. Ask specific people you trust or seek out their opinions.
Comment · 9 months ago
If the 16 performs worse in the power efficiency department, that is not great, but it doesnt make my machine run any worse. Calling it heavy is crazy to me, the thing is tiny. If you think it's heavy you'd have trouble using an iPad. The screen thing was a shitty manufacturing issue, they released a kit to fix it, which I luckily didnt need since mine came after they fixed it in production.
Comment · 9 months ago
You mean the framework Ive been running for the past 4 years or so?
Comment · 10 months ago
why do you have to do what people on this website tell you? Write the fun thing.
Comment · 11 months ago
How do you plan on defending those rights if you dont vote.
Comment · 11 months ago
If you read first and write last isnt that the opposite of committing and then reading to see what is comitted?
Comment · 1 year ago
None of the shadows you can physically see in the photos have 0 area because the construction of the fractal isn't perfect. What a perfect construction would look like and if it's ever theoretically possible to make physical are complicated questions. Beyond me for sure, how would an infinitely thin object even interact with light?

I would assume the problem with the idea is in the fractal physics rather than the definition of area, which has been solidly useful for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
It only worked on undirected graphs in 2023. This article is about the newest breakthrough that works on directed graphs as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Belief is not binary and can change with new evidence. You may believe it is likely someone is innocent, but should still witness all the evidence to update your beliefs. In the rare case that there is concrete and infallible evidence that the accused IS innocent, they are typically not prosecuted, or it wraps up very quickly.

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