AcerbicZero

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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
At the very least it was such an obvious connection that ruling it out should have been an early step; when the PRC clammed up, and stopped letting any data out that should have been seen as the attempt at a cover-up that it likely was. May
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I like how were still re-living the classic MS 'every other OS is kinda ok' pattern. 95? Pretty ok. Idk, I didn't use it, I just watched my dad install it via like 25 floppy disks so we could play Tom Clancys SSN game. Worth
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I wouldn't mind going back, but I can't re-live the horrors of windows 8 or 8.1 ever again.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Hah, Tim Cook decision pretty much sums it up; its the kind of thing that wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds when placed in front of Jobs (although there is a strong chance Jobs would have demanded his own nonsensical addition/subtrac
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Those are some impressive maps, with tons of foreshadowing, barely 9 days into the conflict.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I mean, bold of you to assume that delisting a game from steam would stop me from acquiring it, if I wanted to, but ok.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Probably this; I wonder if they're all going to Epic for a few years before coming back.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Sure, just ctrl-z the last ~60 years of population growth around the world; should be easy to get those chicken numbers under control then.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
One of my personal favorite reasons to yell at the sky is the legions of managers who style themselves as "leaders", who show up to provide exactly zero leadership (at best), and actively derail projects led by anyone other than t
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
The truth about latchkey kids is that they're not a monolith; Shocking, I know, especially in such a small world of 8 billion people.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I think were missing some key pieces of data to evaluate the claims made in this article; and I think the authors of this article know that and are actively trying to avoid looking at that data. A fairly obvious example, imo - if police kno
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
What a lovely facepalm moment; anyone whos driven a car in the last decade could have told them this.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I don't mean this in a bad way, but seriously, about time. This was the best use case for LLMs on day one, imo.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
The fertility rate trends are missing the core point here. Your obesity and hunger examples actually reinforce the Jevons paradox - when a resource becomes cheap enough, we find ways to use it even beyond what seems rational. But more impor
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I wonder what happened to fruit of the poisoned tree? Seems a lot more liberty oriented than "good faith exception" when police don't think they need a warrant (because police never seem to "think" they need a warra
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I think you're missing the broader analogy here; Cheap LLMs == LLMs everywhere. Cheap food == People everywhere. I'm no Malthusian, but the paradox holds here pretty well.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
From my limited experience with Apple TV (Master of the Air and whatever that terrible Nasa one was) they seem to suffer from the same problem as most throw away TV shows on the streaming services - They lack writers who know anything abou
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
This would be nice, but my preferred method is simply to cancel the virtual card I used for the subscription and let them bill the void until they figure it out themselves.
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Out of all the devices where having a physical airplane mode switch would be nice, I'd put the kindle pretty high up. Kinda sucks having a battery that lasts ~45 days in airplane mode, and like a week and a half when I forget to turn i
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Did we get real buttons again? I can't see myself buying another one of these touchscreen versions....and apparently no real buttons :(
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I'll have to check it out! :)
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I have been "advocating" (i.e. complaining) for better REPLs basically the entire time I've been writing code - One of my favorite pasttimes is getting all flustered and trying to throw enough extensions and custom code to ge
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I had 2-3 sleep paralysis events over a short period of time; seemed mostly self inflicted due to poor sleep hygiene and lots of travel, but the first time was very disconcerting. I was "90%" awake, but unable to get my body to do
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Hah, this is me :) Half the time I start by just writing comments explaining what I'm about to try and do, then I go back and add comments about how things did not go as expected, and what I had to do to get it to actually work. Super
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I have learned to enjoy narrating my struggles in the comments, probably to excess; but it certainly makes it much easier to pick up a task again after I leave it alone for a week or two. People rarely touch what I write, but if they do, an
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I wonder how legit it would be to have an AI scan over the copy, re-write it (as minimally as possible) in its own words, and then just distribute that. Probably not all that legit, but arguably thats where we're headed anyway :/
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
I remember running into the old version of these super early in my little IT life, back when I was just at AIT; All that time playing with FCBC2's and Blue Force trackers ended up giving me an addiction to very graphically boring milit
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
My big complaint with claude is that it burns up all its credits as fast as possible and then gives up; We'll get about half way through a problem and claude will be trying to rewrite its not very good code for the 8th time without bei
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
An overly sensitive speed alert system that triggers warnings for even 1 km/h over the limit is a misguided approach to road safety. It fails to account for minor fluctuations in speed that naturally occur during normal driving, potent
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by AcerbicZero 2y ago
Its also a problem on the roads for cars/motorcycles; 4+ lanes wide, with a car in each lane going 3mph under the speed limit totally oblivious to the world around them, as traffic piles up behind them. Common courtesy should be a more

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