BobbyJo

34 ms·

691.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
This is something I come back to frequently in my life. It's like that moment when something your parents told you over and over again as a child suddenly makes sense. I think the distinction is process vs initiative. You can teach peo
692.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Sure, but it's not not a disagreement of some tenet either. Is the ethnic makeup of the Caribbean such that we should not believe so? Are Rastafarians ethnically coherent enough that it could be interpreted as such a prejudice?
693.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Isn't antisemitism more of an ethnic prejudice than a religious prejudice? I don't think people are antisemitic because they disagree with some tenet of Judaism. Generally, saying a religion, or any belief really, isn't cultu
694.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
The plot you posted shows a clear growth over the last 20 years. > Also, do you really find that study credible? I just looked for a local study. In either case, South Florida just this year had "once in 100 year" floods. At th
695.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
I think, to parent's point, that still gives companies a 'freebie' to try. If you don't get caught, you win. If you do, well, you can't try for free money again, no big deal.
696.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
And yet the frequency of floods has increased in the past decade due to high tide events, e.g. rising oceans waters. https://climate.miami.edu/the-complex-climate/flooding-event...
697.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
The frosts the last few years have been from arctic cold blasting south, which is directly attributable to the weakening Polar vortex [0], which is directly linked to higher global ocean temperatures and sea ice loss [1]. [0] https:/&#
698.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> Farms that stop surviving winter due to it being warmer? Is that all you think climate change does? Make the whole planet uniformly a degree or two warmer? It changes climates in a variety of ways, commonly making wet areas dryer, dry
699.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Long term, I don't think this will matter though. If your house is underwater, your farm stops surviving winter, or your heating/cooling costs become untenable, you'll be force to change how you live regardless of what you be
700.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
That seems like the kind of thing you'd want to wrap and panic on rather than ignore. If fmt.Print doesn't work, you should probably just kill the process.
701.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> Now you’re changing the goalpost to “reason”. My god. There’s a reason for everything. What goalpost? > Who cares what “well-adjusted” people think? I imagine the person claiming universal knowledge of the human condition would care
702.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> You could easily have no reason to live and yet continue living. I guess I’m gonna be forced to say the s-word: living is something that happens while not living (your question: why live?) takes deliberate action, i.e. suicide. But som
703.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
I honestly was unable to parse a single claim or counterclaim from this other than "I disagree". > An answer to that could easily be “no reason”. Then where does your argument go? Nowhere. Well yeah. Generally, when people&#x27
704.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> Thinking that most things in life (that you have to do) sucks is perfectly viable. Plenty of people could be of that opinion. I share this opinion. This, again, isn't what I'm arguing against. I'm arguing against the not
705.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Thread parent posited an axiom. I'm just interested how far people are willing to carry it before they admit it isn't viable. "Work sucks" is great as a relatively common shared experience. It is not, however, a great pr
706.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
What would the difference be?
707.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> The sort of tasks we must to at work are usually not those which we're adapted to find innately enjoyable, and the link between them and outcomes we do want is often indirect enough that we know it only intellectually. So you agre
708.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> I don’t think “why live” is a valid refutal. Why not? If your argument relies on life being a near uniformly horrible experience, yet you choose to live, aren't you in essence invalidating your own argument? > Just because life
709.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Profit being pointless is a weird take. You realize that generating profit generally means people are willing to forgo other things in order to obtain good or services you're providing, right? If anything, I see profit as a signal that
710.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> Doing shit because you have no choice but to do it sucks, period. Isn't life composed almost entirely of this? Cooking, eating, sleeping, using the toilet, taking care of love ones... If every responsibility you have in life is au
711.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
When it comes to substance abuse, there is literally nothing a third party can legally do. Short of arresting you for committing a crime, or commiting you as a self harm risk (a worse experience than jail) your rights under the US constitut
712.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Isn't that fine though? I mean, if you've created a popular product, and make margin on every sale, why would only making 100 million dollars instead of 400 million dollars in profit push you into bankruptcy? Did they take out a t
713.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
I do think that LLMs have emergent properties that do some interesting things, however I would like to point out simple next token prediction would work on your example quite well. <numbers>0 + 1 -> <numbers>1 Even simple att
714.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
In situations where I need to sort a list of large objects, I normally create an separate "OrderedView" or "Ordering" which holds either two lists [comparable_value] and [index] like you describe, or a single list of [co
715.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
That's effectively how bankruptcy works but with more paperwork. You take assets (whether it's the deeds to the equipment or ownership of the whole company via stock) and you give the value of that (in the form of money or assets)
716.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> God forbid poor people feel a sense of place, community, and pride in their hometown. I agree with a majority of your comment, but I don't think this is what parent meant here. I have a similar gripe with a lot of the "this i
717.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
When you say "normal", does that mean "common"? As in, if I buy lacquered wood, can I expect it to be synthetic or biological? Is there a way to tell, or do you just have to trust the source?
718.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
So no little green men then?
719.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
Is your argument that governments have kept the secret well? That's just not true. There have been claimants from the USSR and France (you can find documents about either on theblackvault). Materials have been claimed to have been reco
720.
by BobbyJo 3y ago
But claiming it definitely isn't is just as absurd as claiming it definitely is. Maybe even more so.

More ›