One major problem with the phrase "if it saves just one life" is that *anything* can conceivably save one life. But it might cost lives in ways people conveniently ignore (especially if they ignore second-order effects).
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David
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This is actually a reasonable position and a good explanation. Saying things like "I blame the Russians" is not the same as saying "I blame Putin and his cronies". Saying "I blame the Russians" implies that Russians are an undifferentiated mass that are all on one page.
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We deleted an earlier tweet because of an inappropriate reference to French people. We did not intend to offend.
Writing French people, French citizens, etc., is good. But "the" terms for any people can sound dehumanizing and imply a monolith rather than diverse individuals.
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I don't really see a problem with some of this. When people say "the Americans', they're often referring to the American public, the American federal government, the American military, or something else. It's just vague, but I guess some writers like to be deliberately vague. twitter.com/APStylebook/st
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I don't need to raise shields, because I'm Captain Simpso-
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New post from me today. Did you know Microsoft knows about your hacked/custom hard-drive? Plus some fun with custom logos on the dashboard!
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Researchers trained a quadruped robot to learn how to walk directly in the physical world without simulators. Learning from scratch in only 1 hour was possible by using the Dreamer algorithm to continuously learn a world model and plan inside of it.
Link: danijar.com/project/daydre
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Mathematics.
A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the slip of paper below, and says "In the expression shown here, do you think y is greater than zero? Do you think y actually equals 1?" What is your response?
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If you want to see a 2D version of fluid dynamics, give this a try.
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One of these days, I'd like to make a cell phone version of this that uses the accelerometers to determine the phone orientation and movement. It would need a reasonably accurate fluid dynamics simulation of the water currents as you push the button.
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Believe it or not, most countries have the voting and drinking ages at 18. I do think that letting people vote in local elections at 16 would be an interesting experiment and would remind kids that not everything is federal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_ag
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The voting age should be the same as the drinking age.
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#つぶやきGLSL
vec3 P=vec3(sin(t*PI/4.-.7)*.7,0,t*.5),Q,U;U+=1.;float i,d=1.,a;for(;i++<99.&&d>1e-4;){d=min(length(fract(P.xz)-.5)-.2,.3-abs(P.y-.2));a=1.;for(int j;j++<9;a+=a)Q=P*a*9.,Q.yz*=rotate2D(a),d+=abs(dot(sin(Q),U))/a*.02;P+=normalize(vec3(FC.xy-r*.5,r.y))*d*.6;}o+=15./i;
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POV you are a small insect or other invertebrate
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Skyscrapers used to be Art Deco and neo-Gothic, so what happened?
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Bridges represent some of the greatest achievements of human engineering and architecture. Here are 12 of the most extraordinary:
1. Millau Viaduct, France (2004) - the world's tallest bridge.
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1/ We recently had a case where a TA compromised an Azure Global Admin account.
The TA used the compromised account to spun up over 200 VMs to mine cryptos with it. The compromise was only noticed due to skyrocketing Azure costs. 💸
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#CyberSecurity
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Bypass read-out protection (RDP) of STMicroelectronics STM32F1 series.
Cool write up for anyone into microcontrollers hacking.
(credits Marc Schink and Johannes Obermaier)
blog.zapb.de/stm32f1-except
#stm #hacking #microcontroller #infosec #cybersecurity #iot #embedded
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“You don’t talk much do you?”
Me: *tries to talk*
- gets interrupted
- nobody cares
- gets talked over
- gets ignored
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So it looks like a bunch of the #Resistance people left Twitter for Post (which is fine, as they seem to prefer an echo chamber). Some of the technology communities migrated to Mastodon. They still post here, but not as much. And the brand/corporate accounts are still here.
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Twitter, find me more of these!
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