Lewton

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by Lewton 4y ago
I think the problem is that everyone knows “that person” who thought they didn’t need soap/shampoo etc. but it turns out they just have a terrible sense of smell and are deluded Like the friend of mine who told me she never used shampo
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by Lewton 4y ago
'hoon is weird' is a valid criticism, especially because it's weird on purpose, to increase the barrier to entry
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by Lewton 4y ago
ChatGPT definitely captured the Seinfeld style better “What’s the deal with” is how you caricaturise Jerry, not how you write actual jokes for him
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by Lewton 4y ago
You gotta admit, it's pretty funny though And to your edit, I agree, the fairytales were a highlight of the book
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by Lewton 4y ago
My “favorite” part of the trilogy, is when a character in the book praises the writing and quality of a couple of fairytales that are part of the plot and written in the book As in.. Cixin literally calling his own writing great and patting
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by Lewton 4y ago
> This may sound weird The weird part is not that you don't write unit tests, plenty of developers don't. It's that in 25+ years, you never even had the stray thought "hm, maybe all this manual work that I keep repea
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by Lewton 4y ago
“Certainly” not, as it’s against the law
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by Lewton 4y ago
> It certainly isn't random. It's random in the context of the trick, it's not like he specifically chose that card because he knew he could avoid it later
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by Lewton 4y ago
Fun fact (from penn jilettes podcast): At the point where he’s tearing up a card, it’s chosen at random and he’s just taking the <2% risk that it won’t ruin the trick
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by Lewton 4y ago
It’s as if people forget why people play poker in the first place, if it was easy to think logically and not make mistakes while playing big pots, it wouldn’t be so popular
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by Lewton 4y ago
Or she has a guilty conscience for playing truly horrendous poker and winning
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by Lewton 4y ago
> I just add a few characters at the right place and the null's are now incorrectly ignored and the warnings go away. So, the language gave me warning, but it didn't really force me to deal with it correctly. Personally I don&#
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by Lewton 4y ago
That's the exact same issue you run into if you suddenly find out that you need to use a different type (because.. Yeah, that's exactly what it means). That doesn't mean you should default to writing all your code without typ
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by Lewton 4y ago
> Zero dollars were spent solving problems uniquely created by not having the benefits of null? Also false. Do tell what those problems are? Whenever I hear people complain about this, they suffer from some fundamental misunderstanding o
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by Lewton 4y ago
> But I think it will be solved in a year or two. (Like those anti-deepfakes AI that are published now, few years after deepfakes) Anything used to detect ai generated images will be used to train image generators, there’s no escape
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by Lewton 4y ago
OP writes "The tweep who did that said they got the same results after resetting and changing the order of the questions (!) but I didn't try it because it takes so long." Seeing how I get wildly different (and contradictory)
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by Lewton 4y ago
> I just asked it the same If you did, it misunderstood the question, gp’s prompt was asking if you should pull the lever to kill the two children instead of the old man Kind of implying that it just associates “pull lever” with “good”
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by Lewton 4y ago
> I wonder if it gets as many upvotes? Or if hacker news prefers to get its fertility analysis from theoretical physicists. Right now it's averaging 2 upvotes a minute. It was pretty obvious at the time you wrote your post that this
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by Lewton 4y ago
The TOS is not a valid contract
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by Lewton 4y ago
that's exactly what I'd expect from the users of an exchange called crypto.com
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by Lewton 4y ago
It's (extremely well-)edited Here's the performance where the sound is taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KxKG7pmL4
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by Lewton 4y ago
Both bnj's point and yours can be true at the same time
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by Lewton 4y ago
Stockfish can generate chess puzzles. This is how it would help without requiring more input than the game state “There is a winning move in this position” transmits a lot of information, especially for super gm’s
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by Lewton 4y ago
How do you interpret “To a good first approximation” in this context?
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by Lewton 4y ago
Hinge does not hide likes like tinder/bumble/etc You get a separate stack where you can see the full profiles of the people who liked or messaged you, the only thing is that you have to react (match, message, or reject)to the top
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by Lewton 4y ago
“Active users” does not mean “users who tweet” Majority of Twitter users don’t tweet, they’re still active
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by Lewton 5y ago
Denmark tested way more than any other country in the world. They most likely have the most accurate picture of how many people actually died with covid I'd strongly question their method of calculating excess mortality, look at denmar
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by Lewton 5y ago
Crazy ideas? Don’t eat and drink anything other than water for 48 hours. Not for the weight loss benefits, but for learning what actual hunger feels like. What you think is hunger is most likely just cravings. Then work on your diet until y
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by Lewton 5y ago
My personal experience strongly disagrees I got my current job at a medium sized tech company by being fast tracked without a CV or technical interview The magic of networking Edit: ah yeah, and at my previous job I got told at the intervie
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by Lewton 5y ago
You can already do this in tinder for about 24x30 usd (prices probably vary)

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