BobaFloutist

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by BobaFloutist 7d ago
None of those are primarily marketing tools, they're things you use after you've already decided you want to use the product. They don't need to grab and hold attention and convince you that they have what you want, they just
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by BobaFloutist 10d ago
Yeah, if I use a credit card in person, isn't it merchant's responsibility to verify my identity to their satisfaction for each and every purchase, and they let someone else (that's not an authorized user) use my card, I&#x27
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by BobaFloutist 12d ago
Right, but choosing to troll the company you own because the board fired you for repeatedly, extremely publicly "Having a normal one", looks a lot like a mental breakdown of some sort.
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by BobaFloutist 12d ago
I mean it's basically identical to a signature in terms of identification value, and, by the sounds of it, usage. The only difference is that demonstrated in the described case, that the stamp is expected to be passed on to whomever is
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by BobaFloutist 12d ago
Also because most of the investors, by ownership, are Matt.
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by BobaFloutist 12d ago
I'm with you, but there's a bit of an arms race where the more people have SUVs, the more unsafe people in non-SUVs feel (due to collision characteristics, but also because they can't see past the damn things).
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by BobaFloutist 14d ago
The construction is cheap, overcoming the obstruction is not.
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by BobaFloutist 15d ago
Once again, you're writing up nicely formal formulae with zero justification. It's fine to eyeball it and give your gut feeling, but it's disingenuous to present that as probabilistic fact. Edit: Also, you've downgraded
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by BobaFloutist 15d ago
> Even if there's just a 1% likelihood This is like me saying "Even if there's just a 1% likelihood of me getting struck by lightning..." You're implying that 1% likelihood is the floor, because 1 is the lowest n
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by BobaFloutist 15d ago
If the evil AI wants to take over the world one thought every 18 months at at time on my consumer laptop, the fan whirring and the laptop refusing to do anything else the whole time, it's welcome to try.
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by BobaFloutist 15d ago
They're not bad for note-taking in STEM courses.
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by BobaFloutist 16d ago
They didn't know that the product they were using was one of their opponents. That's the entire complaint, that it represents a conflict of interest to engage in direct competition with your customers, who aren't competing wi
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by BobaFloutist 16d ago
Possibly the content is (or was) all broadcast on free TV, and the donation lets you access it on-demand through streaming?
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by BobaFloutist 16d ago
Relativity fixes that a little, you don't need to go light speed to make it all over the place within your lifetime, it's the observers who sent you off that will never reap the fruits of their effort.
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by BobaFloutist 16d ago
I think they're kind of saying that's the problem, that intuitively having a screen inches from your face displaying things that are further away in decent detail, with things like contrast and saturation and brightness color pale
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by BobaFloutist 17d ago
>was very nearly been rear-ended twice due to false positives To be fair, if the cars behind you had automatic emergency braking you would be at much lower risk of getting rear-ended when there's a false positive.
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by BobaFloutist 23d ago
The comment you're responding to doesn't appear to have been edited, so you might benefit from rereading the sentence you quoted a snippet from.
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by BobaFloutist 25d ago
You kind of have it backwards. Cities that overbuild commercial space and underbuild housing get to reap the sales taxes without having to provide the same level of services. And then the residents complain that people keep commuting to wor
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by BobaFloutist 29d ago
>The moment these LLM brains are given access to natural selection and evolution in the hardware space Ok, but that's still sci-fi. We've made a huge advancement in automation of knowledge work, but hardware still has no clear
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
They wouldn't do that if there weren't market demand. Competitive games lose their appeal when cheating becomes too prevalent. Similarly, payment processors lose their appeal if they can't prevent people stealing your money,
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
Harris rose over twice as much money as Trump in 2024.
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
Because it doesn't benefit the state to hav corrupt cops?
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
You misunderstand what you're calling an excuse.
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
My experience was that the visuals were a cool distraction from familiarity with the rules/identities. People always want a shortcut to comfort, and they often want it to be that a thorough exploration of motivating examples, often wit
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
My wife and I just habitually empty our hands and pockets into the bin. Most recent flight we took, she couldn't find her passport for the extra security check right before the gate. It took us about half an hour to get around to havin
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
The children and elderly should simply learn how to bike 45mph in the road.
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by BobaFloutist 1mo ago
I don't think skillfully translating into idiomatic, grammatical, well written text is meaningfully easier then composing the text yourself in the first place. If your goal is to defeat an AI detector for kicks, this might work. If you
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
I don't have any numbers handy, but my impression is that the vast majority of rice people eat is white rice.
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
Where do the people working the retail live? Up or down the corridor I assume?
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by BobaFloutist 2mo ago
If you shoot something back at the same speed you're traveling to keep it "stationary", that's just called propulsion!

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