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mminer237 commented on A visual introduction to big O notation   samwho.dev/big-o/... · Posted by u/samwho
samwho · 2 days ago
It’s okay, you’re not the first to point it out to me!

I’d be interested to hear how you would explain it when you’re at a more appropriate device.

mminer237 · 2 days ago
I would just say "almost always" to cut off the pedants. You do use the same notation to describe the best-case and average-case as well; people just don't care about those as often.
mminer237 commented on US influencer stranded in Antarctica after landing plane without permission   independent.co.uk/travel/... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
SketchySeaBeast · 15 days ago
Imagine a foreign small aircraft landing on an American air base without permission.
mminer237 · 15 days ago
It's happened many times. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YGdNJqbO0
mminer237 commented on The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month   rozab.dev/blog/emoji-sear... · Posted by u/rozab
mminer237 · 19 days ago
It's so much worse on Windows 11 too. There is a noticeable lag in opening the picker, and—unlike 10 where you could immediately start typing to search—on Windows 11 if you start typing before it's fully open, it just types your search text in the focused window and never opens the emoji picker. It just totally cancels it if you type too fast.
mminer237 commented on Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager   danfabulich.medium.com/pa... · Posted by u/dfabulich
shmerl · 22 days ago
They aren't passwords, they are just glorified private / public keys that are hard to manage due to all kind of attached requirements. But it's somewhat better now with tools like keepassxc.
mminer237 · 22 days ago
Private keys themselves are essentially just glorified passwords.
mminer237 commented on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sxv
HPsquared · a month ago
For extra distraction, make the facts incorrect. Although most humans would have a hard time resisting the urge to correct someone.
mminer237 · a month ago
You just need to make it so incorrect that human would know and merely be amused while a bot would eat it up like delicious glue-based pizza. This is easy because the average human is 13% duck, and ducks famously prefer pasta as their Italian food of choice.
mminer237 commented on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sxv
daveguy · a month ago
Nope. The human neural network runs on about 20 watts of power. The LLM is vastly less efficient than the human version. And that's just the inference -- if you consider training it's much worse.
mminer237 · a month ago
Humans are more than just brains. The average American human costs about $50,000/year to run.
mminer237 commented on Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations   wikimediafoundation.org/n... · Posted by u/Nurw
bawolff · a month ago
I think most Wikimedia users would consider it inapropriate to mix fundraising and public policy initiatives.
mminer237 · a month ago
I believe public policy initiatives are already Wikimedia's second-biggest expenses, after salaries, so I don't see how that would be much more different than usual fundraising except for making it more transparent.
mminer237 commented on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default   brave.com/privacy-updates... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
IG_Semmelweiss · a month ago
I'm on Brave 1.80.122 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium: 138.0.7204.157

I can't find this option under brave://settings/privacy

Why is that ?

mminer237 · a month ago
It's starting in 1.81.
mminer237 commented on Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court   nypost.com/2025/07/15/bus... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
newsclues · a month ago
Is this fiduciary duty to make as much money as possible (who gets to decide what the max is), or just not to scam or steal from your investors?
mminer237 · a month ago
Essentially, yes, it's to increase stock value, but generally the courts are to defer to executives' judgment on such decisions as long as the executive is acting in good faith. So in practice you don't have to, like, exploit people or anything as long as you say not exploiting people is good for the long-term health of the company's good will or something.
mminer237 commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized   nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri
rixed · a month ago
I don't know what impress me the most: that you run every single day for 10 years, or that you manage to have a data point for each of those. Not a single day did you forget your phone/watch/wtv? Not a single data loss? Not a single account hijaking/locked out/revoken token? Do you have your personnal SRE team?
mminer237 · a month ago
It's all stored on Strava. You just push a button when you start running and when you stop. If it's habit, you notice pretty fast if you don't have your phone, especially if you listen to music or something when you run.

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