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by SilasX 3y ago
I didn't ask to remove controls. I referred to customizing controls to the level you could as of Firefox 2016. Or like you could do in Super Metroid (1992). For example, if I want shift-J to move to the left tab, and shift+K to move to
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by SilasX 3y ago
>I can customize pretty much everything about the browser UI using CSS. Not the controls, though. For that you’d need Firefox 2016.
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by SilasX 3y ago
The only problem I have is when I use the search (which, I know, is not HN itself but a separate service), it won't pick up the dropdown options as clickable.
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by SilasX 3y ago
haha I was in a similar situation myself. A manager asked me for an estimate to do a certain project involving software system S, and I replied back that I wasn't familiar with the deep inner workings I'd need to know, but if he g
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by SilasX 3y ago
>"in what world are you senior if I'm better at everything that you do? I can learn nothing from you." Whoa, sounds like they are better than you at some things! Marketing themselves, excuse-making, getting others to do
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by SilasX 3y ago
Their competitors are only just starting too.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Similar unforced error: I got emails from healthcare.gov for required actions on the site's marketplace. But the links used the lnks.gd shortener, hiding what domain you were actually going to end up at! They're encouraging peopl
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by SilasX 3y ago
Reminds me of that South Park episode where they go to Mexican counterpart to NASA and get quoted $200 to haul something to the moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_1jqgCjxA&t=40s
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by SilasX 3y ago
Hah, that was in my archetypal description of the fake 10xer, that somehow they are able to swoop in and fix their spaghetti code, come what may, while no one else can make sense of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by SilasX 3y ago
Not ... sure that's the best reductio, since many governments do make broad-based equity investments, via Sovereign Wealth Funds, and it does bolster their long-term financial outlook. To bring it back to the specifics of the origina
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by SilasX 3y ago
Okay but the Collatz conjecture is a little different in that there can't just be a one-off counterexample: it's a statement about a sequence. The counterexample would have to be either a cycle (that excludes 4/2/1), or
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by SilasX 3y ago
All I see for that in the article is this part: >>The woman behind the thick glass window raised her eyebrows, disappeared into a back room, came back with a large metal box of $100 bills, and counted them out with a machine. Then she
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by SilasX 3y ago
There’s the distinction between correctness and fitness for purpose which I think is helpful for clarifying the issues here. Correctness bug: it didn’t do what the spec says it should do. Fitness for purpose bug: it does what the spec says
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yeah, it immediately stood out to me how the final film leans so much more toward “show, don’t tell”. Vader doesn’t have to tell you how powerful he is! He just quips “Impressive” and goes on give Luke a smackdown. “All too easy.”
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by SilasX 3y ago
I think that's the joke behind FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition, where FizzBuzz is implemented with rigid adherence to Java-encouraged abstractions: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by SilasX 3y ago
If the web server is following RFC 8969, it will treat "referrer" as "referer" and throw a 397 TOLERATING to let you know you should change it to the latter on your end. See Section 3. https://pastebin.com&#x2
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by SilasX 3y ago
Cynical answer: a big key is less scary to the soccer moms buying this stuff for their kids (than a sword).
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by SilasX 3y ago
Reminds me of an exchange from Stranger Things (S4E3): School counselor: Max, I'm… I'm sorry, I… I really can't discuss this. You wouldn't want me talking to any other students about you , right? Max: If I were dead and
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by SilasX 3y ago
>Incidentally, the SJ management was quite unhappy when they found out that the trainee program brochures had been sent out to both male and female students! There weren't many women who got accepted into the program, but we were
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yeah wait till you learn how much goes to taxes.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Um doesn’t balloon assistance become increasingly effective in that case? Use your plentiful surface energy blow up a balloon and float it up past the upper atmosphere. But they explicitly exclude that from this question: >For our purpos
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by SilasX 3y ago
You also said: >For the PE to be 20 the stock [Meta] would have to more than double and that’s not going to happen in this environment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33367276
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by SilasX 3y ago
So you're saying that the word2vec king/queen result was the result of feeding the verbatim text "king+man-woman", and that text being continued as "queen"? I assumed that was more the result of doing math o
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by SilasX 3y ago
Did read the part about king - man + woman = queen? How is that a next-token predictor?
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Thanks, but can you clarify which confusion in my comment you're untangling there?
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>However, explaining that a LLMs are really just iterated next-word prediction based on a statistical model of the preceding words is something that most people can grok, and in a useful way: in my experience, it actually helps give peop
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by SilasX 3y ago
Note that deaths per vehicle mile traveled (VMT) went up during Covid. Reducing commuting time doesn't necessarily reduce deaths under that metric -- just the opposite! Commuter trips are probably the safest per VMT since they'r
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by SilasX 3y ago
Long-form journalism did too, where I have to wade through long physical descriptions of all the relevant parties before I begin to get inklings of what actually happened that's supposed to be so interesting.
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by SilasX 3y ago
“But I did even better than owning zero airline stock. I own a negative amount!”
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by SilasX 3y ago
I'd say it should be more like, "Trust the science, while also being aware of what model and assumptions drive the conclusion, and which inference the science is supporting vs agnostic on." Doesn't fit as well on a t-shi

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