Edman274

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by Edman274 2y ago
If the benefits and wages were so much better than "boring office jobs" then why would there be a teacher shortage in the absence of onerous requirements for entry? Why is there a teacher shortage if the pay and benefits are so go
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by Edman274 3y ago
What people have historically called a "gay lisp" is actually a hyper-articulation of /s/ or /z/, and as you might expect, /s/ and /z/ have a lot of high frequency sounds in them. Weird as i
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by Edman274 3y ago
> Unless you're arguing that Covid had ramifications for everyone's brain "Covid" can refer to either the worldwide pandemic, or the specific disease. "Covid", the event which was a world wide pandemic, did
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by Edman274 3y ago
I don't disagree that a calculator and a car are different things, but the important thing for the analogy is that the wider society expects the same thing of them. When John Q Public thinks about self-driving cars, he thinks to hims
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by Edman274 3y ago
I think a way to think about it is that we (at a societal level) wouldn't accept a desk calculator to be sold as a consumer product if it did correct arithmetic almost all of the time but then would spit out a close but wrong answer 1
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by Edman274 3y ago
> Really the bar for humans to legally operate a vehicle is whatever licensing process is in place in a given state. We don't make them pinky swear to not do anything dangerous or illegal. That is not sufficient for self-driving veh
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by Edman274 3y ago
Yeah, I should clarify that my response is in anticipation of the comment sections I often see on hackernews about self driving cars, rather than arguments from the self driving car companies themselves. Waymo won't say "we'r
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by Edman274 3y ago
I think that if you were reading my comment charitably you could infer that I meant "under all conditions where a car is legally allowed to operate." I don't think you actually believed that I was saying that a truck should h
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by Edman274 3y ago
I often see logic along the lines of "if autonomous vehicles are safer than people, then let's deploy them" and that logic straight-up does not fly in the real world. In the real world, among the techno-pessimists, that is an
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by Edman274 3y ago
He may believe that people can't be held "morally" responsible for it but that doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks that we can't punish people or censure them. Like, you might not think that a 4 year old is mora
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by Edman274 3y ago
I feel like until SBF has actually been diagnosed as having autism, it's not a good idea to treat his open disregard for the decorum in a court of law as being the result of autism.
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by Edman274 3y ago
Wiring the stuff to do it yourself isn't the worst in the world. When the pandemic started and I was cloistered inside and cabin-feverish, I found a blog post that had a link to the following: https://github.com/Dhole&#
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by Edman274 3y ago
No one gets killed by a car or sued by a pedestrian if an AI generated episode of "Love Death and Robots" underwhelms the 17 year olds that put it on while looking at something on their phone. This will spur studios to try to make
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by Edman274 3y ago
People dismissed smartphones and tablets because they have bad text input, which isn't exactly the same, but the purpose of their statement is not to say "the literally exact same criticism was leveled at phones" but rather &
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by Edman274 3y ago
It just feel wild to me that using something which would be in offices today would be so ridiculous as to not even be usable for text. The article has to take for granted that any display with a resolution below 4K is not sufficient for
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by Edman274 3y ago
"The original XGA monitor, considered “high resolution” at the time, had a 16” diagonal and 82ppi, which translated 36 to 45 pixels per degree (ppd) from 0.5 meters to 0.8 meters (typical monitor viewing distance), respectively. Factor
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by Edman274 4y ago
When I was 17 I interpreted the song Zero Sum by Nine Inch Nails to be about the danger of global thermonuclear war along with global warming; it's interesting to go back in 2023 and re-evaluate it as being about humans destroyed not p
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by Edman274 4y ago
What was the pragmatic purpose of saying "A person pulled me aside and told me he was an alien" if not to cast doubt on me talking to a Google employee? You didn't hurt my feelings but you were clearly trying to express doubt
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by Edman274 4y ago
Your perception is that the probability of seeing someone that works at Google in the United States is as low as seeing an extraterrestrial capable of speaking English? What justification do you have for believing that I would be incapable
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by Edman274 4y ago
I recognize that I should've been more clear but the person who pulled me aside was a random customer waiting in line who pulled me aside when I told the T-Mobile guy that I was planning on getting a Pixel, which they didn't have
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by Edman274 4y ago
I went to buy a phone maybe two months ago. Before I had my current Google Pixel 6, I used a OnePlus 3T for six years, and even then I only stopped because I sat in a hot tub with it on. At the T-Mobile store, I announced to the salesman th
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by Edman274 4y ago
The purpose of the article was to detail the ways that the true visceral horror of world war two was sanitized or censored for public consumption. The contributions of individual nations in the Allied victory was immaterial for the purpose
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by Edman274 4y ago
> Why is the system to give a replacement phone every 12 weeks instead of investing in a dedicated device that's much harder to damage or lose? Why is keeping the same number a hassle? If you're homeless, you're getting ro
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by Edman274 4y ago
What would prevent a city from raising an army to go capture another city's natural resources by force?
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by Edman274 4y ago
Does the NT kernel get the same accommodation, where we admit that despite its shortcomings, it's a marvel of software engineering?
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by Edman274 4y ago
Porting the game in the first place was 5 months of wasted dev time. By the time they had fully committed to the decision to port a game to Google Stadia, they had then taken the time, money, and resources of developers and put it in a burn
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by Edman274 4y ago
Why would they mine it at a loss relative to the market when they could just buy it at whatever the current market price is, if they think it's going to go up in the future?
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by Edman274 4y ago
A digital recording has to be mastered with the understanding that it could end up getting played on a car stereo, on a bluetooth boombox, on cell phone speakers, in bluetooth earbuds, at a dance party with a DJ or on a hi-fi stereo setup t
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by Edman274 4y ago
The specific anger towards Google comes from the fact that they're an overwhelmingly popular email provider, and email is what a lot of paperless processes (including account resets) assume the existence of. If you get locked out of A
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by Edman274 4y ago
So what? What are they going to do - start using Bing and only watching videos on Vimeo and Nebula? Google can keep doing this for eternity as long as it doesn't result in people getting ads served from someone else.

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