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y2kenny commented on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water   news.mit.edu/2023/desalin... · Posted by u/abathur
p1mrx · 2 years ago
I don't think running saltwater through a toilet is straightforward. You would need higher quality parts, more frequent valve maintenance, and downstream waste processing equipped to handle the salt.
y2kenny · 2 years ago
Just as a reference, 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
y2kenny commented on Keep your AI claims in check   ftc.gov/business-guidance... · Posted by u/deepwaters
yccs27 · 3 years ago
The big difference is that data scientists only work on the model architecture and data sources, whereas expert systems need people who have expertise in the subject matter itself. One of the biggest changes from 'old AI' to modern ML is that we no longer try to use human domain knowledge as much, instead getting the model itself to see the same pattern from data.
y2kenny · 3 years ago
Isn't labeling still an important part of modern AI?
y2kenny commented on “I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”   breached.vc/Thread-Sellin... · Posted by u/prakhar897
hanklazard · 3 years ago
Interesting solution! I’ve never heard of this but it makes sense, like a captcha for phone calls. I’m in the US and have had to stop answering my phone thanks to 2-3 spam calls per day.

The real answer is for the phone companies to use a protocol that doesn’t allow easy spoofing of any phone number (I believe one has been proposed but not adopted). Hilariously, I even have a medical provider app called Doximity that abuses this network ‘feature’ to disguise a doctor’s personal cell phone as the phone number of their medical clinic.

y2kenny · 3 years ago
Some VoIP provider may offer IVR service and one can setup similar mechanism using IVR. I know voip.ms offers IVR.
y2kenny commented on Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”   mastodon.social/@danluu/1... · Posted by u/luu
cactusplant7374 · 3 years ago
A lot people on Twitter seem to believe he is enrolled in PIA.
y2kenny · 3 years ago
Probably because he was at one point. Even Sweeney bragged about getting around it: http://web.archive.org/web/20220204202539/https://twitter.co...
y2kenny commented on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty   axios.com/theranos-elizab... · Posted by u/sdan
sharkweek · 4 years ago
This will sound weird but I am a collector of swag from large companies that have collapsed due to anything from mismanagement to outright fraud. While we're a rare breed there are others like me out there. Still, even with this oddly specific marketplace being small, let me tell you, the Theranos swag market is hot right now (check eBay if you're curious).

Wish I had gone big on this one earlier, because I have a feeling this verdict is going to spice things up in the short term.

All that to be said, if you've got any authentic Theranos gear hiding in storage please do let me know, I'm a motivated buyer.

For those curious as one example: Nothing raises a few eyebrows more than a note written on Lehman Brothers letterhead with a Purdue Pharma OxyContin pen with the dosage pullout.

y2kenny · 4 years ago
This reminds me of the Black Mirror's "Black Museum" episode...
y2kenny commented on Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster   graphite.dev/blog/post/DT... · Posted by u/tomasreimers
jeblair · 4 years ago
Zuul is an open-source CI/CD/project-gating-system that implements this for Github, GitLab, Gerrit, and pagure. It actually lets you stack dependencies between any of those systems. Just say "Depends-On: <url>" in the PR.

See https://zuul-ci.org/ and https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/discussion/gating.html#cross-p...

y2kenny · 4 years ago
Zuul is great. After using it for about a year in production, I must say Zuul is everything I hoped for and more (coming from a Jenkins deployment previously.) Some of the concepts take a bit of effort to wrap my head around but once I understood them they make a lot of sense. Leveraging of Ansible is great. Making jobs cheap and inheritable is awesome.
y2kenny commented on Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted   nytimes.com/2021/06/23/sc... · Posted by u/gumby
raffraffraff · 4 years ago
It's social media. These days we aren't allowed to discuss anything philosophical or scientific, without having it called a "dogwhistle for <something_bad>", and then a few thousand people pile on you, and someone posts a death threat because you're some type of racist or bigot. And some of these people work for organisations that are supposed to promote scientific enquiry, skepticism and rational thought.
y2kenny · 4 years ago
I think we should start adopting the term 'tinnitus' when people argue with 'dogwhistle'. Just because a person calling X a dogwhistle of Y doesn't make it so.
y2kenny commented on Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever   bbc.co.uk/news/business-5... · Posted by u/kasperni
shatnersbassoon · 4 years ago
Tube amplifiers are still where it's at for guitars. Still not beaten despite the attempts of digital signal processing. The reason is that the same thing that makes it a bad general amplifier makes it an excellent guitar amp.
y2kenny · 4 years ago
Can you elaborate more? What are the things that are bad for general amp but good for guitar amp? Is the amplification non-linear in some specific ways and how does it help with guitar music? (I know nothing about guitar except what it looks like.)

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