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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews a
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
With you on the other things (we wouldn't be in this position if the Biden admin had had any interest in enforcing laws), but, other than his purely symbolic nomination, what role did Merrick Garland have in the Obama administration th
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
I don't know, it would take quite a subtle prompt to get an LLM to write the sub-edited slop in the latter part of the article: > We are now again in a new inflatory phase, and this time the difference is that it does not only impac
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
That level of risk aversion has been burned into policymakers, especially at the local level. Wasting taxpayer money by letting an inefficient system continue to degrade makes less news than doing so by investing in a risk that failed, and
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by InitialLastName 7mo ago
Why might you wear a life jacket on a boat, even though you're 99.9% likely not to have the boat flip over?
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
I don't know what of this is the prompt and what was the output, but that's a pretty bad schematic (for both aesthetic and circuit-design reasons).
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
What am I missing? Spain is still a monarchy [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
The word "lied" has a lot of layers[0] other than "knowingly said an outright falsehood". He may not have told an outright, provable falsehood (although some of these examples are close). He certainly has a long histor
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
It's worth noting that their argument isn't "Mark Zuckerberg perjured himself and needs to be jailed for it" because he said something strictly and knowingly false. It's "we shouldn't trust Mark Zuckerber
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Often, the same ones with limited punctuation also have length limits, so maximizing the character options is the only way to maximize entropy.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
My favorite is when it must have punctuation, but certain punctuation is silently banned, so I have to keep refreshing my password generator until it gives me an acceptable combination.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
In fact, the last mayor I can find who served in a superior political office after their mayoralty was John T Hoffman, who was mayor from 1866-1868 and then NY Governor from 1869-1872.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
> But regardless of power, what the NYC mayor does is widely reported and it's often a political stepping stone (if not always successful) to something greater. The only "greater" things any recent NYC mayors have done are
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Many of the software developers whose end users are their revenue source return to calling them customers.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
GP's question was about perception, not reality.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
This is the "LLM as junior engineer (/support representative/whatever)" strategy. If you wouldn't equip a junior engineer to delete your entire user database, or a support representative to offer "100% off ever
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Anthropic seems to be chasing that angle (c.f. their run of "AI that doesn't advertise to you" commercials).
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Virtually none of the Bible was written in a currently-dead language. Only small bits were written in Aramaic, and Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew are pretty much comprehensible to modern Greek and Hebrew speakers. Even the Christian era o
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
> Gaming HW is going to suck for many years. Not just gaming hardware, everything where the electronics are a predominant part of the unit cost (read: all gadgets) is going to be seeing a big crunch in the next ~2 years (optimistically).
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
The global freight carrier storefronts around me all have notary services. I used them to notarize the documents from my last home sale; they glanced at my ID to the extent that they checked it matched the name on the paperwork, and signed
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Border entry at airports is concerned with a) smuggling and b) immigration control. Passport control may have been all you saw but there was almost certainly heavy profiling and background checking going on behind the scenes. If you had m
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Enabling and incentivizing able-bodied people to do things other than drive reduces traffic and parking pressure, expanding access for the people who are unable to function without cars (and long-term will, contrary to your concerns, reduce
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Meaningful or not, that's a lot of work and money for a pay cut, fewer options, and worse job prospects [0]. [0] Most of the new EE Grads I see go into software engineering.
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
The force required to stop on an inclined plane is proportional to the sine of the angle. At angles less than 10 degrees (~17% slope, far steeper than the FAA would allow for an airport), the small angle approximation of sine is within 0.5
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by InitialLastName 8mo ago
Everything old is new again. This is called Payola and it's illegal in the radio industry.
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
My mother went down this road (she, fortunately, had enough resources that it wasn't a catastrophe), but last year was forced to downsize due to a medical condition. I filled 2 20-yard dumpsters with the trash, donated another trucklo
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
Including on HN?
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
It assuredly did. For example, the first Trump administration is responsible for ~25% of the current money supply, with the second Trump term only contributing about 6%.
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
> You also almost double your odds of success by not using violence. Admittedly having not read the 400-page study, I don't think that's a causation that is necessarily supported by the correlation. It would be extremely surpr
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by InitialLastName 9mo ago
I can't show up at the grocery store with a pick-up truck full of lettuce and say, "This is Dole lettuce, just put this on the Dole pile and give me the money". Grocery stores have distribution trains from trusted vendors, wi

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