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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Generally mathematicians treat vacuous statements as true. I believe it doesn't make any difference to any meaningful result. It merely makes it easier to write theorems without specifying exceptions.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
I think for ebooks this isn't for me. I like to focus when reading ebooks so quickly whipping it out when I have only a few minutes (the way I do with my phone) isn't for me. I'm wondering what other uses this could have ot
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
As someone who actually started reading more with bigger screen sizes[1], this article is really not jiving with me and is light on details. I still don't understand why I'd prefer this to a Kobo. Other than the size, what is th
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
What does a pediatric hospital have to do with aging...?
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Most likely an error. Some time after he wrote that margin note, he wrote a document proving a special case of the FLT (i.e. it's true for n satisfying some property). Why would he do that if he had already proved it?
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
"I was given £1M to run my project over 5 years; Anthropic took only 11 days but I do wonder if they spent more money…" Gives you an idea of the scale...
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
It's been over an hour, Simon! Where's the Pelican?
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Indeed. I was once an Andreesen fan (many years ago). I've been trying to like him despite all the negatives for many years, but reading this I just can't any more.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> But it doesn't, really. Because you get diluted. At this day and age, if you don't understand dilution before you join, it's entirely on you. This isn't a new concept - it was the case decades ago. Even when I left
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
As several people have pointed out, the original submission is not saying what you think it is. It is implicit that there are some things he has to do. He says: > have a boring job. do nothing after work. why do you have to do somethin
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Leading cause of death: dysentry Had to laugh.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Again, your comment only highlights the original post. Cleaning the (exterior) of the car is something so many people do primarily because of judgmental folks like yourself. They don't care about a lot of dust on their cars, but they
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
It's telling that you include totally unnecessary things like yard and car stuff. I mean, sure, I wash the car every so many months because I take a road trip and can't get stuff off my windshield. Washing cars is one of those abs
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
The discussion isn't about what one person should do, but on what is appropriate in general for depicting such graphs. What he did do is in line with current and long standing recommendations.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. This word keeps coming up, coupled with things unrelated. The OP isn't saying "do nothing". He's saying "do what you want to do". If he wants to st
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Not when rendered via POV-Ray: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-rayt... I plan to update it with more pelicans from all the models released since. (Spoiler alert: They haven't impr
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
You win this thread's prize: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538333
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Eh no. Expecting a non-programmer to be able to generate this is very elitist. A static image is still the standard.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Well, my LLM is a "he". > Using male or female pronouns risks anthropomorphizing them which can lead to unhealthy outcomes. Ditto for pets.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
And if you do a 3rd pass with an LLM, people will accuse of you not reading your own comment...
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> So we can say the same about the authors "AA’s plot is misleading" claim, he is "not schooled in reading graphs"? Oh absolutely - as other commenters have pointed out. > When building a chart is good practice to
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> It gives you a wrong perspective, especially if you are distracted, on model capabilities Only if you aren't schooled in reading graphs. It's a given that you always have to look at the axes when interpreting a graph. How exa
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Not at all, as long as it's labeled as such. Coming from engineering/science, this is common. What is bad is starting at 0, showing an indicator of a gap, and suddenly starting at 30 or whatever after the gap.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
1. That's a wild conclusion from his comment! Understand that it's not an "either/or". 2. I'd wager the majority of HN commenters don't read their own comment before posting (pre-LLM days).
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> When people stop referring to Pluto as a planet, it will cease to be one. I'm not disagreeing. What I'm saying is that compared to most other planets, people are going to stop referring to Pluto as a planet, by the mere fac
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Academic writing (as in journals) is pretty bad. This is way better. Asimov joked that when it was time to write his thesis, he worried that he wouldn't be able to write as poorly as is expected in academia given that he had spent most
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Oh yes. Addons did slow things down. I think that's why I was skeptical about speed comparisons. When I ran FF on a brand new profile, it didn't feel that much slower than Chrome. The thing is - I was happy to sacrifice speed to
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
When I was in grad school at a top tier university, academics never spent time writing anything but grants (or, occasionally, lecture notes). If they really felt they needed to (e.g. pressure to publish in IEEE Spectrum), they got an und
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Telling me that quite a few of Zitron's predictions turned out to be accurate, while many others were completely off base, means he's throwing darts on a dartboard. Why should I listen to him? I'm sure I can make a lot of acc
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
One of the best heuristics I've seen on whether there will be a fruitful outcome in taking someone seriously is how often they invoke labels (name calling, etc). Hasn't failed - both in real life and online.

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