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peeters commented on FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime reason.com/2025/07/28/the... · Posted by u/fortran77

Etheryte · 23 days ago

The title doesn't say nor imply anything about her getting it back though? It says her assets were seized which is correct.

peeters · 23 days ago

The article itself has the title:

> The FBI Seized Her $40,000 Without Explaining Why. She Fought Back Against That Practice—and Lost

I think it's decent, but still a bit ambiguous. Less ambiguous than if it just said "She Fought Back and Lost". My initial assumption formed by the title was still that she didn't get her money back.

peeters commented on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills hadid.dev/posts/living-co... · Posted by u/mustaphah

djtango · 24 days ago

I've seen people give weak in person coding interviews then done perfectly fine on a take home and went on to be fine on the job.

To date, I've never gone on to regret hiring someone who blitzed the in person coding exercise.

peeters · 24 days ago

Yeah and I think that's the core of the issue here. In a lot of hiring markets, the cost of letting in a bad hire is higher than the cost of filtering out a good hire.

peeters commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016) magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz

arrowsmith · a month ago

I don't know about the US, but in the UK you can definitely say "D-Day" to mean "an anniversary of the original D-Day", not strictly 6/6/1944. It's not wrong.

Just like you can say "Independence Day" to mean July 4th of any year, not only the specific historical date on which the US declared independence.

peeters · a month ago

Hmm I'll take your word for it that that's true, but I would say the examples are very different. Independence Day is a title/holiday retroactively created to commemorate the event (which apparently might not have even happened on July 4).

Whereas D-Day was something soldiers used to describe that specific day even before it happened. And you would hear things like "D-Day plus 23" to describe points in time, you wouldn't have to specify the year

So to me the Independence Day analogy is a little weak.

peeters commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016) magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz

smnrchrds · a month ago

Semi-related:

"Passports please! British paratroopers met by French customs after D-Day airdrop

British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officials at a makeshift border checkpost.

Moments after the paratroopers had hit the ground and gathered up their chutes, they formed an orderly queue and handed over their passports for inspection by waiting French customs officials in a Normandy field."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/passports-please-britis...

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZY4rlAQus

peeters · a month ago

> Passports please! British paratroopers met by French customs after D-Day airdrop

Err, D-Day anniversary airdrop. That headline has only one correct literal interpretation, and it's wrong (not ambiguous, wrong).

peeters commented on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs addxorrol.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/zdw

peeters · 2 months ago

> The moment that people ascribe properties such as "consciousness" or "ethics" or "values" or "morals" to these learnt mappings is where I tend to get lost. We are speaking about a big recurrence equation that produces a new word, and that stops producing words if we don't crank the shaft.

If that's the argument, then in my mind the more pertinent question is should you be anthropomorphizing humans, Larry Ellison or not.

peeters commented on Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) ednamode.xyz/blogs/2.html... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott

banana_giraffe · 2 months ago

The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.

peeters · 2 months ago

Yeah that's a very bad idea.

peeters commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston

peeters · 2 months ago

It's a meaningless distinction. A solid is defined by a 3D shape enclosed by a surface. It doesn't require uniform density. Just imagine that the sides of this surface are infinitesimally thin so as to be invisible and porous to air, and you've filled the definition. Don't like this answer, then just imagine the same thing but with an actual thin shell like mylar. It makes no difference.

peeters · 2 months ago

Oops disregard this, by "has to be identical" I thought you were objecting to the non uniformity of the surface, not the incongruity of the sides' shapes, so that's where my comment was coming from.

The incongruity of the sides certainly makes it not a Platonic Solid, though the article doesn't actually assert that it is. It just uses some terrible phrasing that's bound to mislead. Their words with my clarification for how it could be parsed in a factually accurate way: "A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid (when it's a regular tetrahedron). Mathematicians have now made one (a tetrahedron, not a Platonic solid)...".

It's a dumb phrasing, it's like saying "Tesla makes the world's fastest accelerating sports car. I bought one" and then revealing that the "one" refers to a Tesla Model 3, not the fastest accelerating sports car.

peeters commented on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up quantamagazine.org/a-new-... · Posted by u/robinhouston

lynnharry · 2 months ago

Yeah. I tried to google what's Platonic solid and each face of a platonic solid has to be identical.

peeters · 2 months ago

It's a meaningless distinction. A solid is defined by a 3D shape enclosed by a surface. It doesn't require uniform density. Just imagine that the sides of this surface are infinitesimally thin so as to be invisible and porous to air, and you've filled the definition. Don't like this answer, then just imagine the same thing but with an actual thin shell like mylar. It makes no difference.

peeters commented on World Curling tightens sweeping rules, bans firmer broom foams ahead of Olympics cbc.ca/sports/olympics/wi... · Posted by u/emptybits

peeters · 2 months ago

In some ways it's a shame because I love the finesse game as a counterbalance to the focus on power that seemed to peak around the time Brad Jacob's crew was dominating the scene. I don't follow curling quite enough to know what the impact will be on the meta game though. More guards? Fewer? More takeout attempts? It's interesting because finesse and power both have critical roles in both scoring and defending so it's not obvious to me where the negative/positive impacts to the game will be.

peeters commented on When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa? space.com/astronomy/when-... · Posted by u/amichail

beAbU · 3 months ago

You reach up and pull jupiter down while pulling yourself up?

Not an orbital mechanicist though.

peeters · 3 months ago

Pulling an object "down" (ie towards the gravitational focus) doesn't lower the energy of its orbit, it just changes the eccentricity. To lower its orbit you have to slow it down.