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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Whatever the users of the internet prioritized as important showed up first. There is no lying. Google search results and now ChatGPT/AI responses are pretty much a reflection of the information base provided to it. Biases, inaccu
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I have something to tell you that will help you solve your problem, but you should sit down first, because it's probably going to make you sad... I think you are responding to this sentence read literally: > The first results p
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I think the parent was agreeing with you, but saying that the number of edges on the fully connected (usually called complete) graph on n vertices is 1 + 2 + 3 + … + n = n(n + 1)/2.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Man, people are so bad at communicating. I don't mean to say anything about you, but, as a saying with a different word in it goes, if you meet one person who's bad at communicating, then they're bad at communicating; bu
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> (To me the most interesting thing about the concept is that you can immediately tell from people's reaction to it which category they personally fall into.) It reveals things about other people, but also about oneself. For exampl
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by JadeNB 3y ago
It's correct in the linked article; probably the title mangler got to it.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> i mean what's the point of fighting so hard to make up an interpretation of this word that doesn't exist when the obvious interpretation clearly fits: this person is happy that the type theory isn't relevant anymore. I a
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> how does it make sense to utter the sentence "this has been abstracted [away]" when the `this` is itself the essence of abstraction. I think that you and I are reading this sentence ( https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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> let me give you an example sentence and you tell me if the word "abstracted" makes sense, in context: > "the accounting spreadsheet abstracts away all of the calculus because all the numbers are written down exhaustiv
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It seems clear enough to me what the GP might have meant, at least clear enough that it need not be responded to with remarks like "Like what do you think the word "abstracted" actually means?" that reads to me as saying
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I would put it more towards Apple’s general philosophy of “the user shouldn’t have to care about that” than trying to uphold an image from a (extremely popular) 15 year old ad campaign. Apple's general philosophy has always been &
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I mean, it's pretty much by definition, right? The ones that don't want to be mothers aren't because they had the option of an abortion or used effective contraception. I doubt that not wanting to be a mother automatical
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> You seem very surprised that any girl may want a baby as a teenager, but I assure you they exist. I think there is a big difference between being surprised, and doubtful, that many /most teenage mothers want to be mothers—a posit
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I could have sworn that there used to be a site, not < https://tosback.org >, that provided diffs between old and new ToS for major companies. Something like < https://tosdiff.org > is the obvious candidate,
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Similarly, 'factitious' sounds like it should be an antonym to 'fictitious', but it very much isn't. And 'factious' is another thing entirely.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Thank you, Bram Moolenaar, for literally changing the way that I interact with my text editor, and hence with my computer. I remember seeing a vim user for the first time, and just being in so much awe of what he could accomplish that I sa
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> * I'm sorry I didn't reply to your email at the time. I'm not sure that I received it. But I just checked, and I did get at least two messages on the topic that I didn't reply to, one from someone named Briggs and o
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by JadeNB 3y ago
So it does, thanks and sorry. I got so puzzled wondering what special case I was missing that would handle this correctly that I couldn't move on until I realized why what I was sure was wrong wasn't, even though, as you say, mov
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Case sensitivity is unnatural and weird; we don’t think by default of readme, Readme, and README as being 3 different things. I believe you don't, but I certainly do.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> for i in *.jpeg; do > mv "$i" $(suf "$i").jpg # two sets of quotes > done Doesn't this need another set of quotes, `mv "$i" "$(suf "$i")".jpg`, or else it'll just f
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by JadeNB 3y ago
No, please no! Let's first figure out what it means to work with whitespace properly, then update our tools to do it. Behind-the-scenes mangling to work around flawed tools seems to be the macOS favored solution, with .DS_Store files
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> It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering. > It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up. I don't think that these are really perfectly a
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> I'm not sure it would that's like going "he owns a car he could have used it to speed" I think these and other rebuttals fall into the category of completely logical arguments that should , but won't, convince
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> You're not more "in the bin" as with some fellow knife users who stick them into humans Except that the law has come to terms (outside the UK) with the possibility of peaceful knife ownership, whereas the law around Tor
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> I'm sure that 20W the whole panel generates every few days for an hour or two will offset the cost You can—and it's usually safe to, in the translation from actual researchers to PR departments—ceertainly doubt the viability
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> The corporate apparatus tends to view these things as a challenge to The Way We Do Things Here, so a blog post or side project might even be a red flag. I know I'm coming at this from the idealistic position of someone who's
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> When writing people needs just a small subset of the language. Lets say that with the 10% of the language you can express most ideas in a simple way, and be understood. When you read you face a different subset, maybe a much more wide
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> > a world that is set up for people like me > The anglosphere, not the world. I assure you there are many parts of the world not set up for people like you. My phrasing was sloppy. I meant the scientific world in which I operate
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> It should have an article (the) in such a case. I'm not quite sure what you mean. tetris11's meaning is clear, and I was just making a whimsical observation, but I think it is possible (though clearly wrong in context) to p
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For a moment I didn't parse that as the name of a journal, but as a statement about the natural world, and it sounded wise but I couldn't figure out what it meant.

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