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by abhorrence 4y ago
It's interesting to see what types of features these models don't distinguish well. For example, I've noticed that a lot of models have trouble with giving lady bugs distinct spots. Instead they usually end up with a big blac
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by abhorrence 4y ago
How?
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by abhorrence 4y ago
Often child actors (like Wil, for example) don’t actually want to be actors and it’s just overbearing parents making them do it. Naturally, for many of them, as soon as they reach adulthood and gain more control over their lives, they don’t
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Ask HN: Why are job reqs trending so senior?
6 points by abhorrence 4y ago|4 comments
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by abhorrence 4y ago
I’m curious, which key do you think is the easiest to play on piano? I’ve found that newer folks tend to prefer keys with fewer accidental: C, G, F, D and Bb Whereas there is a tendency for more experienced players to prefer keys with many
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by abhorrence 4y ago
And even if they did, the stems of the notes (excluding half and whole notes) traditionally are as long as the distance between octaves. One of the things that I think makes traditional notation more robust for experts is the redundancy of
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by abhorrence 5y ago
> Of course Mulan had come out before this (same year but March vs June) For anyone who was panicking over the passage of time when reading this: Kung Fu Panda was released in 2008, Mulan came out in 1998.
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by abhorrence 5y ago
Lots of companies engage third party companies that give "industry averages" or "comparable company averages". The company pays them with dollars and also their own average pay information. None of the companies are expl
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by abhorrence 5y ago
I think it's important to note that some of these sports organizations are _requiring_ specific uniforms for women that are far more revealing and sexualized than that for men.
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by abhorrence 5y ago
I think if we took the reverse analogy, this would be like a situation where depending on the model of car you owned you could only shop at a specific grocery store. Bought a Honda? Only Kroger for you. Ford? You get Albertsons. There'
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by abhorrence 5y ago
For others’ benefit, Mt Gox (of Bitcoin fraud fame) was originally “Magic The Gathering Online eXchange”.
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by abhorrence 5y ago
As I recall, in one of the antimemetic stories they can (with some intentional effort) remember and describe what it isn’t: “It isn’t... round.”
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by abhorrence 5y ago
I think it depends a bit on the generation. I have a 15” MBP that inconsistently connects to the usb devices connected to the monitor. And I have a 16” 2019 one that has never failed to connect properly to the exact same setup. Of course th
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std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs(github.com)
559 points by abhorrence 5y ago|84 comments
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by abhorrence 6y ago
There are at least some examples of startups choosing to apologize, and try to make things better in the future. I think the real advice is “don’t say sorry unless you actually mean it.” People see right through that, because your actions a
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by abhorrence 6y ago
I would argue that most states aren't prioritizing based on need. They're prioritizing based on risk if covid is caught, where they ought to be prioritizing primarily on risk of catching covid (with perhaps some secondary prioriti
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by abhorrence 6y ago
I assume they're referring to Rand Paul (and also Ron Wyden) who have both made assertions that the executive branch has it's own secret interpretations of the laws that were passed post-9/11. The laws themselves are not secr
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by abhorrence 6y ago
I count seven: right, right, reason, right, right, regrets, rest.
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by abhorrence 6y ago
With what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe yourself? Or what pronouns you're allowed to use to describe others?
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by abhorrence 6y ago
I think you'll find that pro-choice folks are split (perhaps many different ways) on this question. Personally the way I view the problem is through the lens of minimizing harm to all parties involved -- and as such, I wouldn't sa
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by abhorrence 6y ago
This is an interesting idea! You could even add weighting into these implicit reviews so that they are less impactful than an explicit three star review, but would still have the effect of pulling towards the median. It’d help to prevent th
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by abhorrence 6y ago
Everything you’ve said about marijuana applies to the alcohol industry. I’m not sure if you’re suggesting marijuana should continue to be outlawed, but if that’s what you believe, do you also believe we should outlaw alcohol?
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by abhorrence 6y ago
It's more that they're equally out of tune in every key. What actually sounds "best" for a given key (though certainly a little strange and unusual given the pervasiveness of equal temperament) would sound quite out of t
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by abhorrence 6y ago
Twitter's actions prompting legislators to be interested in modifying section 230 is different than Twitter not acting in accordance with section 230. Section 230 explicitly allows them to moderate, and says that they do not lose their
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by abhorrence 6y ago
Section 230 also says: > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of— (A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user
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by abhorrence 6y ago
The difference here is that valve has implemented the apis for the purpose of compatibility with existing software, which is explicitly a protected use by law.
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by abhorrence 6y ago
I know several former clerks. Their own political leanings frequently do not align with the justice the clerked for, though I assume they tend to know what types of arguments will be more likely to sway that particular justice.
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by abhorrence 6y ago
Ruby meets most of those criteria. It also had a more graceful (though not without its pains) Unicode transition, as it allowed you to mark file by file the status of string literals.
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by abhorrence 6y ago
Do you make an effort throughout the year to write down all the awesome stuff your directs have done?
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by abhorrence 6y ago
It also depends on the interconnectedness of the population. Person A may not be very connected, only being particularly likely to infect their own household, and maybe one or two other people outside. Person B might be highly connected and

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