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Comment · 7 months ago
Did you just forget about the mobilization drive Russia had in 2022, where they grabbed young men off streets and from their houses?

It was very unpopular, lead to people fleeing the country, and was pushed out of the public eye as soon as they figured out how to forcefully volunteer people instead.

Comment · 8 months ago
I'm not sure if I'd go down to zero, but he did get fired from OpenAI for lying.
Comment · 1 year ago
I know the this isn't the thrust, but the "jagged pac-man" is actually supposed to be a puzzle piece, and symbolizes plugins.

The three dots at the right, for some reason, is the menu. It's labelled "Settings and more", and contains the gear icon you were thinking of, but also all of the normal menu items like new window and print. It also contains "Save page", but befuddlingly that one is hidden under another flyout menu called "More tools".

When opening a PDF file in Edge, it loads up some kind of Acrobat embedding for me, and that one has its very own "save file" button, though with identical iconography to Edge's. Thankfully, the button is visible without any further menu diving, but is also placed at the top right, with an extremely faint border delineating it from the Edge chrome.

Comment · 1 year ago
I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers. That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively. Regulators seem to be staffed by skeleton crews allowing them to take on one case a year, and the Google-tier customer support that entails.
Comment · 3 years ago
Your math is wrong.

  5W/user * 200e6 user * 4h/24h = 167 MW
  11 MWh/a/home = 0.00125 MW/home
  167 MW / (0.00125 MW/home) = 133 000 home
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
A few weeks after I got my first touchscreen phone, I had to google for how to answer it.

I had assumed you'd just tap the "answer" button, but that failed more often than not. It never would have occurred to me to swipe a minimum of 3cm, starting with the answer button, and I must assume this knowledge has spread to users by osmosis rather than discovery.

Comment · 5 years ago
That's not so much a problem for the people who want to leave a meeting, but it is very much a problem for people who frequently toggle their mic on and off.
Comment · 5 years ago
Shannon did not use the word intelligence to describe the mouse in this demonstration - instead, he talked about learning. That's why the second run was considered more important than whatever algorithm was used to solve the maze.

To that end, I'm curious about their cache invalidation solution. Are there timestamps, or is it a flag system?

Comment · 5 years ago
This was explicitly gone over in the announcement. The short of it is that they validate further attacks by promising Trump's allegiance, assistance, and a target.
Comment · 6 years ago
Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonetheless.
Comment · 7 years ago
Weight is a weaker condition, since you can construct a polynomial weight sequence that results in linear height.

In general, height is the easiest thing to restrict, but doing so restricts dynamic performance optimizations - you can't use splay trees, for instance

Comment · 7 years ago
Log-height is a sufficient but not necessary condition. There are a few other ways generalize balanced trees, notably logit-weight.
Comment · 8 years ago
Fixing the percentile seems akin to the gambler's fallacy: since losses below a certain point don't matter, you just have to bet everything when you fall off, like you would if you thought after a big loss streak you were "owed" a win.
Comment · 8 years ago
Limiting their size would cut down on the clickjacking annotations, but wouldn't deal with the hated "buy our merch!" annotations that were damaging to the video content and led to people turning annotations off. I think simply removing all links would be clear and effective, without damaging the error-correction use.

The third common use that I've seen is linking to other videos, and that's the one that YouTube's replacements systems tackle.

Another somewhat noteworthy thing is that the annotation system is tied to YouTube's channel logo overlay. Once the annotations go, it's likely that the logo will not be hideable anymore.

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