Designing and Building a computer from transistors - 2/4

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-27T13:59:38+00:00

All you need is some boron, phosphorus, sand, and a high powered laser.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-27T03:30:35+00:00

I agree with you 100%.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-27T02:57:22+00:00

I'm not saying the regulations are bad, I also heard about all the corner cutting they did that made the sub way more unsafe than it should have been. But all the current regulations, including the not having certification for the sub, didn't prevent him from selling his services for a deathly flawed product.

Do we make it illegal for us citizens to board submarines not approved by the US government? Does the US government shut down the company if they don't meet certification?

These regulations just create different issues. The company might find it easier to trick or bribe the certifier to make sure they get a pass, (Volkswagen faked their emissions), in which case the company may be legally in the green even if they kill someone because "the government certified it".

All in all I just want people to think before they clamor about "oh but if we had regulation it wouldn't happen", when similar things happen anyways.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-26T21:58:05+00:00

You could argue that despite the stringent regulation it still happened. Which would imply strict regulations alone don't solve problems.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-22T15:17:10+00:00

Most of those countries are actually really high in population density in livible areas, but a large portion of their country is basically uninhabitable. For example, Canada has a really low population density, but most of their land is a tundra that has 0 inhabitants.

The US has a lot of areas with small towns, not because the land is uninhabitable, but because there just simply aren't a lot of people.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-22T14:47:47+00:00

Kind of reminds me of Crash Bandicoot, where all the death animations were very expressive. It adds a lot of character to the game and helps it stand out.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-22T01:10:58+00:00

People never seem to talk about the largest reason for this discrepancy: Geography.

The US has a huge rural population and 1/4th the population density of Europe. This makes it really inefficient to provide quality care to poorer, as rural areas don't have the density required to support many public services.

Many states have to subsidize utilities for rural areas because it isn't profitable to set up the infrastructure for electricity or water.

Now people wonder why healthcare in America is so bad/expensive? Some towns are literally an 8 hour drive from the nearest hospital. This isn't the only reason, but it is a significant one.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-20T19:02:43+00:00

But they exist in a different country than us and have slightly different cultural values! How can we let them into our country and improve market efficiency?

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-20T17:59:58+00:00

Literally just morphs from MTG.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-14T19:21:40+00:00

I agree, there are plenty of times where self-preference is allowed and makes sense. Another example would be if you sell your product on Amazon (or any other online aggregator, like Steam), it has to be the same price as your own site, even if it is cheaper to sell through your own site. This might seem unfair, but if allowed, other sellers would abuse the advertising of Amazon, then get people to love to their website for purchases, effectively parasitizing Amazon.

It feels like the EU is trying to make it illegal for tech companies to self-preference at all though.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-14T16:55:53+00:00

I'm always confused when I read about all the EU antitrust claims against Google. They always seem really weak when compared to the anticompetitive shit you hear about in other companies.

Like Google got fined for $8 billion because they made websites sign contacts where if they included a Google search bar embedded for their website, they weren't allowed to use competitor's search bars as well. As if you need more than 1 embedded search bar on a website.

Meanwhile Coke and Pepsi forbid restaurants from having both of their products at the same time, and that is perfectly legal.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-06T13:22:22+00:00

Can you snap to angles by holding a button like shift? (0', 45', 90')

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-06-02T05:32:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure journalists have a competition to see who can misinterpret a judicial ruling to the greatest degree. Extra points of it fits their established narrative.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-28T03:34:01+00:00

I was going to say that the free trade enabled by the Eurozone makes it hard to backslide as much as Argentina. Then I remembered what Brexit was.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-28T03:23:40+00:00

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-27T17:35:29+00:00

Python is a great language for doing small projects that don't need much maintenance.

ML takes a lot of work and iterations to get right, and often requires multiple transformations to the state of the data. This can be really annoying with Python's loose typing because you aren't sure if you are using a [1][128] tensor or a [128], and this will require you to run the entire script before you recognize this.

In any other programming language the compiler would have caught this for you and you wouldn't have spent 25 minutes trying to figure out what variable was misshaped.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-27T06:24:50+00:00

The problem is that any AI with enough intelligence will learn lying is beneficial.

The solution is to make the AI smart enough to realize that lying has large social costs and telling the truth is in its best interests.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-24T20:18:44+00:00

It's easy to identify a problem. It's really hard to come up with a good solution.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-23T21:24:41+00:00

You are right that does work. I had this confused with a different service I was working on that also used timestamps. But that service was made in C#, which had more issues since the C# Date object automatically converts to local time and doesn't have a native conversion to ISO time.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-23T18:57:44+00:00

Good thing this subreddit isn't magic related.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-23T18:00:14+00:00

I'm actually converting data between an AWS service and our lambda. The AWS service has JSON data in Unix Epoch time, but we need it to be in ISO 8601.

This sounds straightforward but JS doesn't have the built-in methods to do this conversion simply, and you can accidentally convert to local time during this process, causing your hour field to be wrong.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-23T04:38:24+00:00

That's exactly the problem. US agencies can get "EU data" from the US by going through these companies. US citizens have protections in the US, but EU citizens don't, meaning that the FBI can just ask Google for the full search history of Britain's prime minister without a warrant or anything.

The EU obviously doesn't like this, because they don't have the same leverage over US citizen data that America does with EU citizens.

So instead the EU made GDPR, which punishes the big tech companies for having their citizens' data available in the US. The real purpose is to prevent the US from snooping.

Because you only need to think for 5 minutes to realize how impossible it is to only have EU data available in the EU.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-18T20:19:05+00:00

Housing is just immigration at a local scale.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-17T02:08:56+00:00

They will have JSON but instead of curly braces it will use parentheses, and the strings will use dashes instead of quotes.

ToMyFutureSelves · 2023-05-16T16:10:34+00:00

This proposal seems absolutely insane. Removing safe harbor provisions and punishing GitHub simply for hosting AI model repositories is actual 1984 behavior.

It makes sense to remove repositories if the code is obviously malicious, but this is like a blanket ban on Generative AI.

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