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by JadeNB 4mo ago
> Sounds like The Flavor Bible - it's a great reference book to find pairings of ingredients. I think fpshero says exactly that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294459 ): > I have a wonderful book that ex
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by JadeNB 4mo ago
> LLMs would post solutions to the issues that they've discovered after doing a lot of research. How do you envision the correctness of these solutions being judged? If by other LLMs, then we run into a problem of infinite descent.
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by JadeNB 4mo ago
I think it probably depends on what communities you frequent. I am not familiar with the culture at stats.SE, but math.SE has a (semi-?) explicit mission of being more friendly to beginners than MO. I think that many communities aren&#x27
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by JadeNB 4mo ago
> Why are we having computer programs generate source code in the first place? Shouldn't they generate something lower level, like an AST or some computational graph or something? Source code is made to be written and read by humans
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by JadeNB 4mo ago
What is that?
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
Not to be flip, but, depending on what "fully" means, we haven't fully understood much of anything about the real world.
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
> So, nothing new? > The cosmic ray hypothesis has been dominant for a few years now. > This magazine… I think saying "This magazine…" as if the flaws of Quanta are well understood and agreed may need additional elaborati
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
Your reading of my comment seems perfectly charitable, but it also seems to find more in my comment than what I said. > > anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood t
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
> “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an upcoming Nature article based on a few layperson-targeted paragraphs summarizing the paper from a very high level. Nor is "this p
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
That seems awfully like an appeal to authority. Your parent comment doesn't just vaguely snipe, but points out reasons this should have been expected. Those reasons could potentially not be valid, or not present the whole picture, but
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
I didn't know that! Is it announced somewhere, even buried deep in release notes, or just one of those things that they decided silently to enshittify?
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
The current actual title and subtitle are: I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their stresser honeypot How I stumbled across a fake booter site run by international police, and how they panicked when I started digging
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
> Only two of these companies actually needs your location data to function, it's Uber and Lyft. I disagree that they need my location data. I am perfectly capable of telling them the location where I want a pick-up, and they are p
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by JadeNB 5mo ago
You expressed your opinion once. I think that there's no need to shit on the post again.
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by JadeNB 6mo ago
> How do you get familiar with the software, if the manual expects you to be an expert in it already? It's surely to the detriment of the manual if the first sentence on the first page assumes you already know the software, but, if
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by JadeNB 6mo ago
There's a difference between "I am the creator of this content [that I actually didn't create]" and "I am enjoying this content that I did not create." One could argue that it matters, in the latter case, wheth
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by JadeNB 6mo ago
> This weird command is presented with such a benevolent innocence as if it's the simplest thing in the world. I think it's a question of context and familiarity. To a vim user, like me and, I assume, ahmedfromtunis, their exa
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by JadeNB 6mo ago
> Same thing as using a word processor and printer rather than handwriting a note. Inexcusable. There is no confusion, when in receipt of something written using a word processor, that it was so written, and people are free to respond ac
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
You can find the answers to both of your questions on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> To the extent the author’s point relies on the incorrect definition, it cannot be consistent or correct. I don't think that a point based on an incorrect definition is automatically inconsistent or itself incorrect. It might be
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Why is clipboard on every OS/tool I've used single item? The wonderful Flycut ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flycut-clipboard-manager/id442... ) fixes this on macOS.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Unfortunately it's kind of random what makes it to the front page. Sounds fortunate to me. If it were predictable then it woud be predicted, and then gamed.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
In case they hallucinate? There's no point having content in a wide variety of languages if it's unpredictably different from the original-language content.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
I think my favorite part of that comment is "documenting" that 10^(-15) is not negative by appealing to Wolfram Alpha.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Even MacOS is still pretty bad at it. What problems do you see with multiple users on macOS? I don't use it intensively, but I've never noticed issues.
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Give x < y, it's easy to construct x + (y-x)(sqrt(2))/2. That's only obviously irrational if x and y are rational. (But maybe you meant that, given an arbitrary interval a < b, you first shrink it to a rational int
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
The original title made clear that this was about sizing for women's clothes. I'm not sure why that was removed; it wasn't clickbaity, and made the title more informative. In fact, I'd argue that just "Sizing chaos&
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> The keychain system is so hidden from users it was hard to even get to for myself. These days, keychain access is under /System/Library/Core Services/Applications/Keychain Access.app. That's not intuitive
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
Wait, I know Mayer–Vietoris as a tool for computing homology. What does it mean to compute it on vector spaces or on modules?
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by JadeNB 7mo ago
> Well thats because objc and ruby are cousins. Both are sort of the only two smalltalk based languages out there I'm sure you can trace connections, at least in ideas, but I think Ruby is way more Perl-based than Smalltalk-based.

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