Willish42

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by Willish42 3y ago
#2 seems like a ludicrous misalignment / conflict of interest. Why would I as a taxpayer/voter want CO2 emissions to decrease if I'm essentially getting a monthly bonus for their existence?
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by Willish42 3y ago
Regarding #1: > You lost a lot of time and energy dealing with issues like: Using vim; copying files back and forth with scp; losing the network connection; the college shared machine is slow and yucky. Sometimes struggling with the tool
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by Willish42 3y ago
While this is practically the best-case scenario for enforcing RTO (generous severance if you answer "no" and plenty of time to plan and get relocation support for "yes"), I can't help but feel like this is yet anot
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by Willish42 3y ago
upvotes and downvotes help, and I'd argue HN does a good enough job at preventing new accounts from being able to do disproportionate damage (discouraging bots, astroterfing, etc.) Another thing is user friendliness and maximizing enga
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by Willish42 3y ago
IMO, clock accuracy is less important for 3D games than it was for the handful of games that made me prefer the Analogue Pocket (Mother 3 for critical hits, etc.) I imagine they will be hard-pressed to garner a ton of interest over existing
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by Willish42 3y ago
Pretty much. "Lawyers as a Service" for any AI related copyright claims. I also find it interesting that generative AI for images seems missing? I wonder if this is intentionally selective. Also possible I'm misunderstanding
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by Willish42 3y ago
"doubling down" indeed... One possible interpretation of events is that he was ousted not for the initial proposal and backlash but precisely for how he backtracked after the fact -- perhaps the board gave a clear mandate and Ricc
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by Willish42 3y ago
Largely agree with this analysis, however your claim about nvidia: > There is no way the nVidia monopoly will last more than another two years tops. I feel as if I've heard paraphrases of this sentiment for at least the last ~6 year
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by Willish42 3y ago
Because using space that could be permanently lived in by somebody to instead seek profits as a luxury vacation rental, along with bad housing and tax policies in CA, is exactly the reason we have so many homeless. 1. Too many homeless peop
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by Willish42 3y ago
I totally agree about folks needing to pay rent, and that this is a bad situation for the landlord. I do find the slant in defending homeowners' side of things in a place with as much homelessness as LA to be an ... interesting editori
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by Willish42 3y ago
As sad as this news makes me for the preservation of eShop stuff, the modding community tends to rally around Nintendo products and I have pretty high faith that things will be preserved one way or another by the awesome work of modders and
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by Willish42 3y ago
> Chomsky explained that he was not only referring to the fact that Russia is fighting in Ukraine in a more humane way than the US in Iraq: "I am not only referring to this, it is obvious." UN inspectors had to be withdrawn as
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by Willish42 3y ago
I remember reading this when it came out, but couldn't remember the name and was too scared to type "articles about imminent death and our limited time with loved ones" into a search bar. I've since lost my parents in my
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by Willish42 3y ago
These are both exactly what I had in mind. DITF was specifically something I'd definitely read about but couldn't remember the name for. Also think this reply correctly identifies that anchoring bias is the underlying more generic
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by Willish42 3y ago
I wish I had a large enough Twitter following to make a public claim about this before Unity "went back" on the first version of the recently-announced pricing changes, but I was nearly certain this was an intentional move to make
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by Willish42 3y ago
I've been wondering for some time if business success for in-person companies is based on leadership's "better" control of the workforce vs. employees actually being more productive in the office. Are there strong succes
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by Willish42 3y ago
See above. The Vox article made this seem like logic around the hypothesis is more faulty than it probably is, given other replies. I understand my meaning might've confused HN commenters but I genuinely feel that the intent of my word
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by Willish42 3y ago
Not sure if above had France and the US flipped or not, but this is all I could find for US: https://www.howtogeek.com/138969/why-watching-dvds-on-linux-... (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_
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by Willish42 3y ago
I had meant that despite the statistical correlation being objective and strong, the logic behind a causal link was faulty. That might not be the case though (?), see https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02&
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by Willish42 3y ago
Thanks, this is way more thorough than the links I was able to find / select from a quick search at the time. If anything, I think I've accidentally experienced a lesser case of [Cunningham's Law]( https://meta.wiki
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by Willish42 3y ago
This feels like a good time to bring up the lead-crime hypothesis (flaws and all). For those who don't know, there's a strong (if faulty) correlation between lead levels in preschool children and crime rates: https://ww
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by Willish42 3y ago
After dealing with a terminal illness in my family quite recently, I really have adopted the philosophy that sometimes, it's better not to know... I wonder what the practically immeasurable realized influence of contemplating one&#x2
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by Willish42 3y ago
One has to think the ROI for any financial investment in someone <25 YO towards things like education pays off more than similarly-sized investments later in life. Regardless of whether the parent can support that tuition cost or the kid
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by Willish42 3y ago
> Their main intent is to destroy third party apps that no longer aid the company’s business goals. But they’re also trying to make a few million bucks a year licensing access to data, particularly on the back of AI training. It’s wrong.
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by Willish42 3y ago
Thank you for saving me some clicks to figure out who this guy is. I was a bit skeptical about how sensationalized the article is relative to the substantive content of his sources
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by Willish42 3y ago
https://archive.is/wRT1U
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by Willish42 3y ago
Probably a dumb question, but wouldn't Reddit be very easy to scrape instead of using an API at these prices? I assume the various LLMs' datasets are based on web scraping similar to Google for content that doesn't have a pub
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by Willish42 3y ago
I was curious about this too, and would expect this to be somewhere like kaggle. There's some good results in https://www.kaggle.com/search?q=reddit+date%3A90+datasetSize... , e.g. https://www.kaggle.com&#x2F
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by Willish42 3y ago
Seeing lots of mentions here in the comments about increased serving costs but the nature of the message sounds more like the community itself has fallen apart / lost people due to covid and war. I can't imagine the effort it must
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by Willish42 3y ago
> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war . The comparisons selected here seem off to me. No mention of climate change? It's a mor

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