Sophistifunk

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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
I don't know what this article is trying to say? Sure they all look hilariously "70s future" like they've escaped the set of Logan's Run, but the actual silly content is still everywhere on the main platform. It&#x2
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
That seems hella useful, I'm going to grab some next time I'm down picking up a snag sanga.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Things don't become less true simply because you heard them from a douchebag.
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It's a good habit. The only time you can feel bad about it is when the pain you feel from "not finishing things" exceeds the pain from not finishing this particular thing, which means finishing this particular thing wasn&#x
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
This isn't a "syndrome" it's normal adaptive behaviour. Like everything you encounter in the real world, 80% of everything you decide to start doesn't actually need to be finished. Sometimes you need to start someth
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Or kickstart a team of black-ops mofos.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
They're chasing the rich-guy helicopter market (think trips to/from/airports) due to the energy density issues of current battery tech, which is going to be much easier without the noise of supersonic blade tips.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
If HN can sink the economy it was going down either way
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
So do I. As such, what we watch doesn't make much difference to their bottom line, so they're certainly not going to write a second, just-as-expensive-to-maintain recommender engine just for the three of us.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
This is not an acceptable situation, but I have NFI what individual nobodies can do about it :(
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Why is everybody pretending the recommendation system is designed to show you what you want to see, rather than to maximise ad revenue?
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Yes, it really is storing all those images inside it, as well as an evolved NN compression algorithm specific to that dataset.
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Because those systems are orders of magnitude simpler, without all the copy-protection and control-plane "features" in modern display systems.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Twitter isn't a community, it's a platform. There's nothing at all wrong with community engangement. Platform engagement and the advertising model that requires it are the problems.
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I clicked thinking this was some sort of client-proof-of-work access protocol, boy was I wrong!
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
I've got some hooks rivnutted onto my pool fence to hold skimmer poles, they've been living outside in the queensland weather for a couple of years with no problems.
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Yup, they are a car-hacker's best friend, and once you've got the gadget you'll be surprised how often the solution to a random problem around the house turns out to be more rivnuts :)
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This is rad.
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And don't flip out too much when you catch them learning to avoid the control. That's an important lesson for them to learn, because once they're grown and out of the nest, the people trying to control, monitor, and limit the
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
Yup. YNAB says my "software subscriptions" averages out to $92 a month, and that doesn't include Apple music, Spotify, Audible, Kayo, Prime, and Stan, which would be around $90 a month also, off the top of my head. Not sure i
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
There's nothing lower than those asshole scripts that mess with highlighting, copying, and pasting text.
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Absolutely nothing about the historical bad behaviour of the US in Central and South America has any bearing on the threat the CCP poses to a billion Chinese and the world today. Nothing.
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When the people in charge believe that "x only works if everybody does it" and x is some drastic power grab, we end up with tyranny worse than plague, and worse than meters of sea-level rise, and a global war because the people of
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
That's not consciousness. Consciousness is the space in which your brain tells a story pretending that "you" are in charge a lot more often than you are.
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Network administration skills are not an acceptable pre-requisite for a consumer product like a TV.
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The problem with all these arguments is that if consciousness is not an inherent side effect of computation, then it must have evolved, which means it have once given a very simple animal a competitive advantage. But we have no theory, ev
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Why do we need a good user interface for editing dependency graphs which are generated, not drawn?
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
The fact that the baabaa/keekee effect is not cultural is very well documented.
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
God I hate drivel like this. There's no insight to be found here. These people can only exist in fiction and have no information with which to adjust the bearing on our moral compasses, which have evolved to function only in a universe
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by Sophistifunk 4y ago
It seems obvious to me that there exists something like this shared across all homo sapiens. What we see now as complex language allowing for the broadcast of abstract thoughts and memes, as well as human culture, must both have evolved alo

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