SilasX

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by SilasX 3y ago
Pet peeve: This shouldn't be called computers. Doing so blurs the difference between what they and <the natural conceptspace cluster normally called "computers"> do. This is a calculator : a machine cable of doing a on
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by SilasX 3y ago
Then you're ignorant of how the tone of that comment comes off.
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by SilasX 3y ago
If "no big deal, it happens all time" is your answer, then you can just say "yes, I am trivializing it" -- that's what the term means.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Slow down: are you seriously trivializing the fact that the food industry was able to very expensively sue someone over criticizing their product ... when she turned out to be correct ... just because she eventually won?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Ah, okay, I missed that one. But, to be pedantic, it says that's technically not part of the Orange Juice Test: >>If your price had been too high, we would have eliminated you, too. But that’s a different test.
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by SilasX 3y ago
tldr: It's a test for whether the consultant will take the request seriously and give a legit estimate (which will be a huge number). You can fail it in a number of ways: 1) Reject it outright as impossible. (shows unwillingness to con
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by SilasX 3y ago
Okay sure. I’ll grant you that calling Clint Eastwood “virtue signaling” is misguided. But you were criticizing the use of the term in general, including for calling out ineffective actions that accomplish nothing substantive but make a bra
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by SilasX 3y ago
So then it sounds like you agree that an identifiable subset of advocacy is only faking virtue, you just disagree with the scammers on which subset that is.
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by SilasX 3y ago
“Virtue signaling” absolutely designates a natural, useful category that, in no way, rejects the need for real virtue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474142
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by SilasX 3y ago
Except that reasoning also "explains" non-events such as the halting of the Tesla S, 3, X, and Y models.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Not the $240k/year store managers, no.
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by SilasX 3y ago
>he would always say something to the effect of: "as you know, you can't discuss your compensation with coworkers." I knew it was illegal for him to say that but, if it's not in writing then there's basically no
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by SilasX 3y ago
Correct. But not this one.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Confession: The 3-point seat belt always feels like an eyeroller to me. It's not complicated, and the kind of thing that many others would have come up with soon enough anyway. The real injustice was in classing it as the kind of deep,
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yep, there was the South Park episode from 2002 (Asspen) that does a shot of the housing development, and the sign for it says, "A time-share community." -- even then it was a long-recognized trend of how the ski towns turned out.
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by SilasX 3y ago
It looks like the general trend of truncating nouns down to the verb they're based on instead of requiring the noun-ified form. You may have seen these: 1) an invitation to the party -> an invite to the party 2) I like that quotatio
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by SilasX 3y ago
>The decision to put fluoride in municipal water supplies is based on its effect on dental health, not a priori reasoning about elemental weights. Yes, and the decision to put lithium in municipal water supplies would be based on its eff
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by SilasX 3y ago
Because nature doesn’t care that one is intended for (m)ental health and one is intended for (d)ental health. They both are major interventions whose side effects are hard to isolate and reason about. What a difference an atomic number
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yes. Imagine if they put lithium in the water based on the evidence that microdosing it calms the population and reduces violence and overall mental health issues. That atomic number is a lot more controversial!
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha exactly. Same thing for military drone strikes. I've noticed way too much of the debate focused on the "drone" part and not the "hey do you have an adequate process for target selection, civilian review, and consequ
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yes, you can absolutely play god of the gaps.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yes, a user-swappable would be even better, but even limiting it to banker's hours allows you a five minute complete fill-up, which is still 100x than what it actually takes to fully charge via outlet, or even the 15 minutes you would
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yep, and even with it being possible, no one's bothered to make it usable for email hyperlinks, hence the problem. The (attempt at an) RFC I linked avoids depending on the other side tracking the MessageID, assuming only things they wo
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by SilasX 3y ago
You can tune AI output.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Still scratching my head at why they couldn't make EV batteries hot-swappable, at least with a technician and specialized equipment assumed. (You'd need to changing the finance model a bit, of course, so that the batter replacemen
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by SilasX 3y ago
Well, getting enough uptake is difficult because email standards are hard to change. We still don't have support for hyperlinking emails, though I tried to fix that recently: https://pastebin.com/kHQs50xm
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by SilasX 3y ago
I think, regardless of the specifics, using a HN discussion as a pretense to push your tangentially-related pet issue is immoral.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Just like we're all sad because we don't know the names of the people whose work or interactions influenced Stephen King's writing.
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by SilasX 3y ago
That's generally referred to as a Prisoner's Dilemma situation, where locally the incentives are to do something that makes it worse for everyone. The SlateStarCodex author generalized the concept into Moloch: https://s
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RFC 9869: Parsable Mail Pointer Email Protocol (Pmpep): Hyperlinks to Emails(pastebin.com)
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