HankStallone

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by HankStallone 1y ago
I've noticed the same thing with Grok. One time it predicted a X% chance that something would happen by July 31. On August 1, it was still predicting the thing would happen by July 31, just with lower (but non-zero) odds. Their grasp o
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Some people, yes. Go on a dating subreddit and ask where to meet people, and a lot of them will say "on the apps," and that they don't want to be bothered on the occasions when they go out in public. That's the always-on
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by HankStallone 1y ago
If that's the case, then he is attractive to women. He's just not what we're told is attractive to women.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right, nothing's stopped offshoring for a few decades, especially since the Internet became global. That's why I say what can be offshored pretty much has been. I even know some companies who did it years ago and reversed the poli
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by HankStallone 1y ago
There's a good video series called "Programming Paradigms" by Jerry Cain, taken from his class at Stanford. I'm not sure how long ago it was, but it was before whiteboards, when they were still using chalk. He just start
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It'd be a good zinger, except isn't it commonly known that Rand had an affair with her lead follower, and basically announced to her husband and her lover's wife that they were in open marriages from then on? It seems like fo
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Governments are always looking for better ways to track (and control) their subjects. The idea of a national ID[1] has been floated by various US politicians since before it would have been digital. Many Americans oppose it because they fea
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It doesn't surprise me either, because I'd never be able to use a phrase like "the principles and know-how of the EU" with a straight face. (To be fair, you could replace "the EU" with almost any large bureaucr
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Some do, and those who are able to make the move to patronage or subscriber monetization seem much happier for it. But that's most viable for creators who have already built up a viable customer base, which usually started on YouTube.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It was. At the time, they felt like they were doing the right thing -- the heroic thing, even -- in keeping dangerous disinformation away from the public view. They weren't shy about their position that censorship in that case was good
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by HankStallone 1y ago
True, only the first part is odd. But is anyone going to believe the Biden administration had to strong-arm them into censoring dissenting opinions about Covid? They did it because they were goodthinkers, and all goodthinkers at the time ag
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Odd that they're admitting this now, and pretending that they weren't happy to do it at the time.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, offshoring has been going on for three decades. What could be profitably offshored has been, and then some, because some executives just like the idea a lot. There are reasons that companies have been abusing guest worker visas and cl
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Last year, YouTube removed a video I posted in 2017, supposedly for "medical misinformation." When I watched my copy to see what the heck they were talking about, I had to laugh, because I wasn't sharing a medical opinion at
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I'd imagine all the borders are fuzzy, but maybe that's the only spot where a broad enough area was that way to note it. I live pretty much on the border between two regions on the map, and you can definitely see a difference just
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I've thought trains are cool ever since I was a kid reading about the Silver Streak and the Orient Express, so every now and then I look into travelling by train. Unfortunately, Amtrak is like someone was tasked with making train trave
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I find that following a few rules helps to keep my heterodox views from hurting my karma too much. 1) Keep them to myself most of the time. Pick my spots, in other words, and don't just toss off quick replies every time I disagree (who
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Good point. I was kind of itching to upgrade that box anyway, but maybe I should repaste it and make it a backup server.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I'm actually replacing the FX-8350 in my fileserver next week, because I was running ffmpeg on it and it kept crashing about a minute into the job, so I assume it was overheating either the CPU or something on the motherboard. It'
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Kind of like how on the Salesforce support forums, there are a lot of incorrect answers from people who don't appear to have understood the question, but they all have "Please mark my answer as helpful" at the bottom. (And th
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Heh, just yesterday I drove past some roadkill and wondered what a self-driving car would make of that. Then I started wondering how it would handle deer crossing the road 50 years ahead, or running alongside the vehicle as they sometimes d
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by HankStallone 1y ago
There's also a false equivalence, because when the government is on the same team as all the big tech and media companies, it doesn't have to threaten anyone into silencing speech the team doesn't like. It just happens, and t
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It's different when they do it.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yes, much of the anger is coming from the petard-hoisting nature of this, and people who spent 2017-2024 trying to silence (or worse) everyone who disagreed with them and cheering on governments that tried to suppress "disinformation&q
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, I'd think if an LLM's instructions are sufficient, one would have used a written tutorial in the past and not watched a video.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Being born to a human, growing up and living as one of them, and letting himself be tortured and killed by his own creation isn't humble? You don't have to believe it, of course, but God humbling himself is pretty much the definin
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by HankStallone 1y ago
In Illinois, how property is valued and taxed seems pretty obscure, and may involve witchcraft. The rate on my tax bill is 6.03%. But that's on a "net taxable value" that's about 40% of what I paid for the place 15 years
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by HankStallone 1y ago
No, because that started before 2025.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
> Was the assumption that the left would own the cultural zeitgeist forever? Yes, that was clearly the assumption. It's hard to blame them; that had been the case for 50+ years, and the early 2020s suggested that they had the system
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, this is the first time most people have thought about Jimmy Kimmel in years.

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