Herbstluft

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by Herbstluft 4y ago
What does that even mean? Is that just your gut feeling, as in typical "bright people doing amazing things, surely they would succeed doing x" (which ultimately means nothing, that's just PR speak), or are you saying that bas
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
The only artists that benefit from Spotify are the top of the top, as in Beyoncé/Lady Gaga level. I always suspected that the falloff is pretty steep as soon as you step away from let's say the top n artists at a time. This conf
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
I experienced firsthand how this system breeds a new kind of system gamers that would not come to fruition otherwise. Honestly stack ranking can only be described as a fetish, it offers no gain and really only exists because certain people
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
The number of people who actually regret having children is notable [1]. [1]: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34288933
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> allowing new sellers to have vast reach Right now new sellers do not stand a chance unless they work in a niche (and even then you can't find anything on Amazon anymore unless you already know brand name + model name). These fake&
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
No, seems broken.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
This statement only makes sense on a philosophical level.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
The title here on HN should get corrected to at least include the quotation marks. Those mail responses sound like they actually care a lot, maybe not about doing proper work or research, but certainly about getting caught red handed. What
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Oh I agree. Gmail is basically a daily lottery for account lockout. Still important to raise awareness, these posts certainly help and make it harder for google apologists to deny it (a few years ago there was a lot more victim blaming in t
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Losing access to your mail account causes significant and critical damage without ever considering the existence of backups. Backups don't help with the painful (and sometimes barely possible) migration of your accounts to a new addres
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> isn't too far out of reach If you are referring to the recent ChatGPT developments, it can't even solve these very basic exercises.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
This sentiment probably stems from an incredibly privileged place. Mathematicians and people who are/were good at math are always quick to disregard the "boring" math. First I'd like so make it clear that I agree with yo
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Clown shoes behaviour.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Will do! Certainly looking forward to it.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
As someone who has written a lot of Haskell in the past I would love to take a closer look at Lean (as a functional programming language rather than as a proof assistant) but the documentation and information on that end seems very poor. Th
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Musk is not a trustworthy source of information.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Musk is free to do what he wants. And everyone is just as free to criticize him for his behaviour. You are presenting these two things as if they were mutually exclusive. They are not.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
How is that relevant except that it demonstrates even further hypocrisy from Musk? Which is not surprising. Also Musk isn't really trustworthy so unless this is confirmed by am independent third party there is no reason to believe the
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
He barely made it a month before his (already very brittle) mask fell off.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> They'd strongly object to being called racist as well. Every racist objects to being called a racist.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
For those 200M I'd like to see an independent source before I believe it. Or are you trying to claim 1 wallet = 1 user or something? When it comes to money moved: the top 1% in the US possess more wealth than the whole middle 60% of in
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> because you have to This is a blurred line in the industry. Rarely does your superior walk up to you and tell you that you have to stay long hours or else. Instead crunching in the games industry is much more passive aggressive. "
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> which clearly is not true Is it clear? Given the incredibly high turnover rate at any point of time in the games industry it does not sound like the worst assumption to make, true or not. (And having worked in the industry myself not t
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> you are mindlessly complaining about something you’d rather not understand Why are slight variations of this sentence the new mantra of every single hyped piece of tech? Fanboys said the exact same thing when the first oculus dev kits
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> No ads necessary Spoken as if a sustainable and profitable business model prevents ads from being shoved into a product. It does not.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
> Elon seems so paranoid. Honestly, I would just call him malicious, not paranoid. He has made it clear that he hates public transport, as in the idea of using it (in that it is crowded and such...). This is of course funny because we al
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Honestly a pet peeve of mine is how everyone in math tends to pretend that it is easy, at least once they cleared their own personal hurdles. This is, I guess, a side product of the fact that the world of math harbours almost exclusively pe
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
People have done (and are still doing) amazing work in Fortran too. Why should we use C or C++ when Fortran was already perfectly fine?
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Aside from the fact that Google likes to randomly lock longtime users out of their accounts too sometimes, yes. Those cases happen unprompted.
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by Herbstluft 4y ago
Law enforcement personnel are not the law . The police makes "unlawful" requests and demands all the time, it's common for investigations. The desire to not cooperate unless forced to (by law) does not make you a criminal, t

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