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Re:CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone” on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:03PM (#29897026)
Really good videos on color spaces and gradients from Chrome Dev:

https://youtu.be/cGyLHxn16pE https://youtu.be/Uh95jZPTDfw

Re:The Amazon 'Personal Games' Policy on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:43AM (#27784850)
Am employee is not a slave. You owe your employer the work for which they have hired you, and no more. These kinds of employee agreements should be illegal; what I do with my own time and resources is none of my employer's business.
We need software to tell us when we should be outraged by a tweet.
Why the hell isn't Google challenging these sweeping untargetted searches? This is akin to giving law enforcement all of our location data without reasonable suspicion.
Re:Can we rule out near-term AGI? [video] on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:52AM (#18407644)
It does seem he is conflating "progress" with "investment". Yes, the world is spending exponentially more compute each year since 2012 on training networks. The marvel is that neural architectures are scaling to more complex problems without much architectural change. But this is not an argument that AI is getting more efficient or productive over time and hence we can expect exponential performance improvements (like Moore's law).
Re:The war to sell you a mattress on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:48AM (#15490452)
Felt about right for the complexity of the story and the thoroughness of the research. I think we should be encouraging long form journalism, not falling back to click-bait news.
Re:Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:58AM (#15155348)
Huh? The article title makes a claim of 8x speed up in disaster recovery through drone use, but the text of the article says the government has restricted all civilian drone use for a month in the Houston area (to deconflict with military aircraft). These two things don't seem to jibe.
Take the report with a grain of salt. It appears to be sourced by an investment firm with an interest in selling real estate securities. There are no details given about how their sample of 10,000 renters was created; the data also seems self reported by the renters, so I would have accuracy concerns.

The figure seems dubious given most landlords would balk at extending a lease to a tenant who's major share of income would be going to rent (high credit risk).

Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:47AM (#14743030)
I can't imagine any scenario where this is not pilot error (unless you had a power failure of the airport lighting systems).
Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:44AM (#14743018)
Making an aircraft go-around can never cause an accident - the missed approach path for any landing aircraft is always kept clear.
Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:38AM (#14742984)
Controllers in the tower do not have a good visual perspective to see runway alignment. I don't think they would have caught this.

At night, there are many visual cues to see the runway environment - it sounds to me like this complacent pilot ignored many red flags and was about to drive his plane on top of those on the taxiway.

A big heavy airliner can't just stop its decent instantly; it's a good thing that pilot on the ground chimed in when he did.

I betcha the landing pilot won't have a job pretty soon.

Re:California's beaches belong to the public on Saturday July 01, 2017 @07:12PM (#14679629)
Contempt of court is.
Re:Garry Kasparov: Learning to Love Intelligent Machines on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:23AM (#14124643)
Or just ban the links from HN. Paywall articles have no business showing up on a site meant to engage in community discussion. There are plenty of other things for us to share.
Re:Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (2012) on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:41PM (#13932397)
Wow. Based on the number of responses here, we should start a club - "56 and still doing it".

Those of us born around 1960 came of age during the earliest days of personal computing. I guess a lot of us got hooked and are still at it!

Re:A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:06AM (#13791153)
Read more (page 2) - there is a considerable discussion of channel congestion and interference due to over powered zones and large number of devices.
Re:Announcing the first SHA-1 collision on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:30AM (#13713664)
Computing a collision today costs about $100K from my reading of the paper. So most uses of SHA1 are protecting documents of far lower value, and would not be likely attack targets (today).
Re:We have broken SHA-1 in practice on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:28AM (#13713653)
Computing a collision today costs about $100K from my reading of the paper. So most uses of SHA1 are protecting documents of far lower value, and would not be likely attack targets (today).
Re:Hans Rosling has died on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:50AM (#13596342)
One of great humans that will be missed by millions. It's a shock that he is no longer a part of our world.
Re:Blockchain Demo [video] on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:54AM (#13572884)
Nice job.

Nit - it would be nice not to use the term "signed" for a block that has a sufficiently small hash. The term "valid" is more commonly used for this attribute of a block, and less confusing with signed transactions.

Re:Box Breathing on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:25PM (#13508961)
You might want to see a doctor about that.
If you have a subscription (or come back in 1 year).
Re:Research papers in the .NET source on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:09AM (#13336803)
Has anyone done the same thing for the patents? They won't be as readable, but I would assume there are far more disclosed inventions developed by the .NET teams than academic papers (and you'd have to search the USPTO database instead of the .NET sources).
Re:This Pizzeria Is Not a Child-Trafficking Site on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:32AM (#13012074)
Libel does not require that the writer knows what he is saying is false (though doing so will increase the amount of damages you can collect). You can successfully sue for libel by only showing that the statements made against you were false, and that you were damaged by them.
Re:Time to Dump Time Zones on Sunday November 06, 2016 @07:08PM (#12887875)
I don't think people could easily adjust to having the date and day of the week change every day at, say 2pm (for those on PST).
Why doesn't bitly block obvious phishing domains - like ones that contain popular domains as a prefix?
Re:The ‘Dyson Sphere’ mystery deepens: Star keeps dimming on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:45AM (#12635916)
Why not just a binary dwarf sucking material (somewhat chaotically) out of its more luminous twin?
Re:How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:39AM (#12635859)
Loved the Trump-ism buried in the middle of the dialog.
Make the counties pay for the cost of sending their offenders to (state) prison and you'd see this "overconsumption" of an expensive resource self correct.

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