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> I think the internet has "GitHub Derangement Syndrome" right now. It's an outlet for people's frustration.

I would argue that the open source people aren't the only ones paying attention right now.

If you are hosting proprietary code on Github, it has become clear that Microsoft is going to feed that into their AI training set. If you don't want that, you don't have a choice but to leave Github.


you just disable the setting

By the same company who admits that disabling telemetry does not in fact disable telemetry and refuse to fix it.

...and trust naively that that does anything

> Thus it makes sense to not participate at all, unless YOU are the one doing the cheating.

Um, exactly?

You don't have a legal system to hold the companies accountable for any payout. You don't have published odds with a regulator ensuring those odds are enforced. You have zero transparency whatsoever. You have systems where if you start winning, they will effectively cut you off.

Everything about online betting screams "SCAM!" from the rooftops. Everything about online betting has always screamed "SCAM!" from the rooftops.

What part of this aren't people getting? The house always wins.


> Are pit bulls known for being docile?

Not really. Even "old school" working catch dogs in this breed may require a break stick to get the dog to release game. In addition, the dogs are strong.

And that's really the crux of the problem.

Dogs will be dogs. They can be the nicest animal on the planet, but at some point a dog will bite you--maybe you did something stupid, maybe the dog accidentally got underfoot and got kicked, maybe the dog is just sick, maybe something agitated the dog, whatever. A bite will happen. The problem with pit bulls is that when they bite the damage is much more problematic than with other breeds.

And this is the real issue. Because of their strength, pit bulls (and a small number of other breeds) account for a disproportionate amount of deaths and hospitalizations relative to other breeds.

It also doesn't help that these types of dogs are disproportionately owned by jackasses.


Wanna try a rotweiler ?

All dogs can be dangerous, even small ones can bite a finger out of your hand.

Either kill all the dogs or get people who own them to be responsible.


> get people who own them to be responsible.

Because getting people to be responsible has worked as a solution for anything ...

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Ah. Exactly ... Never.

This is a breed that should be allowed to die out. They were bred specifically for fighting, and there is no good reason for them to exist. There are plenty of other dog breeds with equivalent characteristics that aren't such a danger to people.


Almost all dogs were bread to fight or hunt. There is some exceptions of course, but it’s the majority. If we were to kill every single one of them, we’d be left with chihuahua.

My dog bit me accidentally while playing, a few times. Every time, he apologized. (That is: he stopped playing, made a characteristic sound, and licked me to make sure I was OK.)

I remember when I was a kid one of the cats we had - who at that point was very much not a kitten and blind to boot - had gotten into a tussle with some strange cat. I just reached in to the melee and grabbed our cat. He promptly bit my and - or rather he started to. Didn't even break the skin. Just immediately stopped and I swear to God if a cat could say, "Oh, I'm sorry I thought you were someone else" that's what he would have said.

I miss that dumb cat.


Was it a pit bull?

English Bull Terrier - closely related to a pit bull

Pit bulls are more likely to bite and when they do, they hold the bite much longer than basically any other dog breed and they often require outside intervention to stop the second bite.

Once the dog has demonstrated itself to be dangerous, there is not much you can do other than euthanasia. The worst thing you can do is bring it to a shelter and let an unsuspecting family take the dangerous dog in. A lot of trouble would be saved by choosing a similar looking dog breed that isn't as aggressive or dangerous.


You talking like a bite must happen. No it's not. Source: myself, we ve had a dozen of dogs. Among them : rotweiler, new foundlands, montagne de pyrénées, terrier, and dozens of chihuahua and spitzs

Katalin Karikó and her work on mRNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3

Her advisor, Suhadolnik, was a gigantic asshole and paid no price whatsoever for it. University of Pennsylvania demoted her and denied her tenure and nobody involved paid any price for that. etc.


> As someone who values a liberal society, I hope we’d be exceedingly careful in what we label “addictive” in the same bucket as oxy or nicotine.

The problem is that this runs directly into the evidence that is mounting from GLP-1 agonists.

A lot more things are tied to the pathways we associate with "addiction" than we thought.


> i am recommending to my kids that they avoid post-secondary

Certainly I'd avoid an expensive standard university to start unless they have an obvious path. I'd recommend the local community college for 2 years to get an Associate's Degree of some form though with an eye on heading to a university for the last bits.


Emulating the RPI PIOs instead of the TI PRUs is really a miss.

The PRUs really get a bunch right. Very specifically, the ability to broadside dump the ENTIRE register file in a single cycle from one PRU to the other is gigantic. It's the single thing that allows you to transition the data from a hard real-time domain to a soft real-time domain and enables things like the industrial Ethernet protocols or the BeagleLogic, for example.


Tooling for the RPI PIO design is probably a bit more accessible than the TI PRU situation. I'd say its not really a miss - more of a necessity given bennies' proclivity towards open/available tools. Getting access to architecture details of the TI PRU would necessitate an NDA, would it not?

> Getting access to architecture details of the TI PRU would necessitate an NDA, would it not?

Nope. All the information is right in the publicly available architecture manuals. However, you don't need to copy the PRUs, per se. All this can be done with RISC-V.

The important parts are deterministic execution, the register file sideload between paired processors, and, possibly, single cycle instruction execution. None of these are precluded by using RISC-V.

And, given how large his PIO stuff is, I'd argue it would be better to do this with RISC-V.


> I'm wondering why california isn't investing in more desalination for SoCal, especially for LA.

Because California has plenty of water for residents. What California doesn't have is plenty of water for agribusiness.

And the agribusinesses do NOT want people paying close attention as all the valid solutions to water problems are basically "shut down agribusinesses in arid areas".


people are always trying to conserve water, and droughts have been a plague for the past few decades. Even if the agriculture is taking up all the water, it doesn't change how water scarcity is a a very real part of socal life. You don't have to shutdown agriculture elsewhere, and it is a vital part of california's economy, that's just a lazy solution. I can get behind getting the agriculture industry to finance partly the desalination plants so they can free up the fresh water via the aqueduct.

In the unlikely event california becomes independent, water rights will be a big deal too, those natural water sources won't be so reliable without nevada's cooperation.


> You don't have to shutdown agriculture elsewhere, and it is a vital part of california's economy, that's just a lazy solution.

Agribusiness is under 2% of the California economy and an even smaller employer. You could wipe it completely out and the state would barely notice.

And nobody is saying to wipe out actual food production. Mostly people want to stomp on things like growing and exporting alfalfa (which is effectively exporting water for all intents and purposes).

> droughts have been a plague for the past few decades

Droughts have been a plague forever. Quoting Steinbeck from East of Eden:

“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”


> In the unlikely event california becomes independent, water rights will be a big deal too

This is all hypothetical of course but the logical eastern border of an independent state centered in what's now California would be near Denver for precisely this reason.


In yet another great cosmic irony, one of the things that is notorious for making it difficult for a woman to get pregnant is the stress of trying to get pregnant.

Placebo or not, anything which reduces the stress of the mother-to-be can be extremely helpful.


What was the upside to making the "No LLM" declaration?

I don't personally use LLMs for this kind of stuff, but I'll certainly not sign a "No LLM" pledge unless you give me some kind of benefit.


The other commenter explained that the policy was applied as reciprocal, "The declaration of no-LLM was done so you are not judged yourself by an LLM." Basically, they didn't want LLM near their own paper's review.

Ah, that makes more sense.

Although, a bunch of LLM researchers basically saying with their actions "Don't judge me with an LLM" is particularly ironic. Doubly so when caught using the LLM for the task they, themselves, want to opt out of.


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