ahelwer

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by ahelwer 6y ago
Canadian here. No, people have stories that their uncle tells them happened to them or their friends, but actually the uncle just read about it online. And then you repeat it as though it happened to you personally. The healthcare system wo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
My sister lives there and knows multiple people her age (mid 20s) who've had the coronavirus. To my knowledge I only know a single person here in the US who has had it. Seems bad.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You say inclusivity isn't the real reason for the change. Then what is it?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Probably a long time. Anyway, language changes! Sorry to inform you that the dictionary which existed the year you were born was only a descriptive record, not a prescriptive tome crystalizing the language forevermore. What a burden this mu
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you don't care, as you claim, then just use the new word. It isn't hard. You wouldn't be fired for using the word blacklist. At most, someone would consider gently suggesting using "blocklist" or something like t
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Great argument!
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It isn't kowtowing, it's wanting to make your field more welcoming so you maybe get to work with a broader set of people? Research scientists tend to be quite a bit more egalitarian than your average corpo engineer.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Here you go, letter published in Nature explaining the reasoning: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03781-0 It really isn't a big deal, the field is trying to be more welcoming to people. Not sure why thi
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Term of art has been changed from supremacy to advantage, to avoid evoking e.g. white supremacy. It's pretty hard to find a benign usage of supremacy actually.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
That isn't statistics, it's nonsense. Returns do not follow a Gaussian distribution, therefore do not exhibit mean reversion behavior. This is true in the price of any widely-traded financial instrument. You can't just say pa
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Pfft. Market movements don't follow a Gaussian distribution. Reversion to the mean does not exist in domains governed by power law.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This isn't me saying how people should pick their beliefs. This is me saying how people do pick their beliefs. It's an exhortation to know thyself, and to let go of the delusion that you're different. If you're stuck
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This comment reminds me of a tweet I saw years ago, that roughly said "programmers read posts like a compiler: stopping immediately & printing an error when they see something they disagree with" Read the very next couple of s
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by ahelwer 6y ago
At this point I basically view preoccupation with fallacies, presenting arguments in formal format (premise, premise, conclusion), etc. as a proxy for immaturity. That isn't how people are persuaded, that isn't how people ever wer
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You've been posting this link all over the thread. Reddit posts exist somewhere on the credibility continuum between facebook posts and some random person's blog.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Why does this all-or-nothing objection come up all the time? You see it with the minimum wage debate too, as in "why don't we pay everyone $100/hr" or whatever. It's just lazy thinking. The economy is a nonlinear sy
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by ahelwer 6y ago
From the Turing Award announcement, it was for his (and others') work on symbolic model checking: https://web.archive.org/web/20090417205051/http://usacm.acm.... I've never used a symbolic mode
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I've been replaying the first Dark Souls in co-op with a friend over the past few months. As long as you stay out of the shield-turtle playstyle trap (something that took convincing for my friend) it's a lot of fun. I will say the
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Edmund M. Clarke, recipient of 2007 Turing Award, passes away from Covid-19(linkedin.com)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I have this exact setup except I just bought the Samson Q2U microphone ($100ish with stand) which has USB output (in addition to XLR). I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Hmmm. I actually quite like 2160p as a simple upgrade over 1080p; usually I just solve the screen real estate problem by buying more monitors. You can get the 24UD58-B for about $200 used on eBay, so this is not a large cost.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I thought it was the exact same as the LG 24UD58-B except with lightning connectors instead of display port and hdmi? That (the non-lightning model) is the monitor I have, it's the smallest (24") 4k monitor I could find - I wanted
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Not really? I can't think of the last time a prominent newspaper named & shamed a random working man for spending money on porn, whereas that happened with the NY Post and a paramedic with an onlyfans just last week. Your view of r
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by ahelwer 6y ago
What corruption? This is all intentional. America benefits greatly from mass murder & destruction of countries who are insufficiently deferential to the hegemony. Countries can't keep natural resources to themselves; American corpo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Which side of a gun do you want pointed at you?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
American moral authority has been dead since the Vietnam war, if not the Korean war. The sheer quantity of war crimes committed was astonishing. Most people know about My Lai, but that was just an incident which managed to break through int
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The USA does not promote peace nor democracy. This is not the result of good intentions gone awry. This is exactly what is intended. We really have learned nothing from Vietnam. There, too, unrestricted murder of children was justified as r
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Those things are linked. In our system, some people making a whole lot of money is predicated on others making too little money. I don't mean this in the zero sum sense. I mean that by far the most common way to make a lot of money in
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by ahelwer 6y ago
This problem is only a problem if you assume you exist in some persistent sense, rather than being a continuously-arising emergent phenomenon of your physiology. As for whether the no-cloning theorem informs this, there isn't any reaso
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's the only way to reliably communicate a quantum state. Want to network quantum computers? This is how you do it.

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