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From the transponder data, right? Must have switched it off.

Thank you. This was useful to learn.

Risk.

Whenever you provide legal advice, you take on risk. And big or small, there is always the possibility that that risk might end your career and cause years of training to go up in smoke.

Lawyers are experts in risk management, which is why you see them trying to minimize risk and exposure in every way possible.

(Lawyer here.)

Are these games available on OSX? Or are you somehow booting Windows?

(Apologies if this seems like a stupid question. I've not played games for a very long time, mainly because most stuff doesn't seem to be available on Macs).

That’s news thank you. I’ll check this out.

Thank you so much. I’ll take a look at these.

My understanding is that DO VPS’ are underpowered (as are VPS offerings from most other VPS vendors). Dollar for dollar, bare metal stuff from Hetzner, OVH, etc are far more powerful.

That said, I completely agree-a $4/month DO VPS can run MySQL, and should easily handle this load; in fact I’ve handled far bigger loads in practice.

On a tangent: any recommendations for good US-based bare metal providers (with a convenience factor comparable to OVH, etc)?

I’d give the author a break-he’s just 15, after all. I was far less savvy at his age.

Sounds (Monty) Pythonesque.

Genuine question here: isn’t it a standard security practice to avoid committing keys (or other secrets) to repos?

Edit: and what’s the best practice here? Is it using a key management system of some sort? (I’m thinking of scenarios where you might need to deploy your code + secrets on a remote server, say to authenticate with a third party API)

Doctor here. Agree with this. Plus, when requesting an imaging study, we provide the patient’s history and list of differential diagnoses. The radiologist looks at the X-rays in that context.

Interpreting X-rays in isolation has little relevance to actual clinical practice.

Question: how do you know it's safe to drive over them? Wouldn't there be areas of thin ice through which the vehicle might sink?

I thank the lord for CSS grid and flexbox. Now that I think of it, I haven't used floats in a while.

My dad bought a corolla in early '90s, which he used for over 20 years without significant issues. We eventually sold it and got a new car mainly because of the much better safety measures in modern vehicles.

ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!

I second this. Affinity has a fantastic suite of tools that is great value for money.

Best benefit of all: being able to ditch the intrusive crap Adobe forces on you when you install their stuff.

Who's their PFY, I wonder?

For whatever reason, I've always associated the acronym "RMS" with Stallman. (Even though I have no idea what the "M" in his name is.) I then immediately think of the famous "Stallman Jesus" photo.

In the '90s (or early 2000's?), I remember seeing a photo of Stallman Jesus on the left arrayed against Bill Gates on the right, with Stallman being the figurehead for the open-source coalition arrayed against the might of Microsoft. I've not been able to find that photo since though.

Correct me if I'm wrong—but we don't know if GPT-4 uses the same tokenizer as GPT-3.5, right?

Fair enough, yes. If you're contracting with a third-party company that takes up the risk of hiring the employee, that does circumvent these issues.

Re: the lawsuits—yes, the barrier to initiate litigation is low (in most countries); but in my experience, most folks only start litigation when they feel significantly wronged.

Problem is, given the difference in cultures (something you pointed out earlier), an act by the company that is perfectly standard in the U.S. might be interpreted very differently by someone from another country.

Not necessarily.

Consider this situation: you hire a contractor. They work for you for several years, and then you fire them. The contractor goes to the labor court in their country and files a claim stating that, yes, their contract says that they are an independent contractor, but no, since you've employed them "full-time" for several years continuously, they are a defacto/de jure employee. (Which is a valid argument under the labor laws of certain countries)

What will you do:

- Spend the time and money refuting their claim? (You need to find a good lawyer in that foreign country; lawyers are expensive; and someone on your side needs to spend their time coordinating with them)

- Ignore the claim? (Not a good idea if you ever want to visit that country in the future)

The claim itself might be nonsense; that's immaterial. You're faced with a Hobson's choice if said contractor drags you to court.

(Addendum: this is why I made the point that labor law is local. When you hire a national of a foreign country, in general, you subject yourself to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country for labor related disputes.

I am not sure if a clause in an employment contract stating that the agreement is governed by U.S. law would be accepted by a local court; and even if it did, in litigation, you'd most likely have to represent yourself before the local court to make that objection.)

1. Labor law is local. This adds (on a per-country basis) legal risk and compliance costs, as well as operational costs (e.g., you might need to have specific policies that apply to employees in specific countries).

2. Taxation regimes. These too vary by country, and add compliance and operational costs.

3. Other laws (both U.S. and foreign) that make hiring foreign nationals complex in certain situations, e.g., ITAR.

When considered together, these costs and operational obstacles can be significant.

Thank you!

Could you point me towards Meta's reinforcement learning framework? I'd like to see how it stacks up against the OpenAI gym.

I've used PHP since the early 2000's (I started with PHP 4, I think). The language has improved vastly since then. When combined with the Laravel framework, you've got a first-class platform for building web applications.

Good point, thank you.

Got it, thank you. (And facepalm, this is something I should have remembered!)

Yup. I found this article quite enlightening:

https://espadrine.github.io/blog/posts/chinchilla-s-death.ht...

But don't you need the normal vector to define the plane? (Genuine question)

Almost sounds like a piece from the BOFH