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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well, I'm still glad I posted it, since I do care about it.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
This person seems to think they have engaged with the counterarguments against their way of looking at the world, but to my eye they are clueless; they just have no idea how most other people think at all. They've rationalized their mo
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by ajkjk 2y ago
This is probably unnecessary, but: I wish you wouldn't use the word "stupid" there. Even if you didn't mean anything by it personally, it might reinforce in an insecure reader the idea that, if one can't speak intel
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Agree that it adult stuff in it but loved that as a kid. I always hated 'kid' content, it felt fake.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
That is what we were doing. We were complaining about the use of the word 'could'.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Quite. "5 minutes of exercise a day could raise blood pressure" is equally accurate.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
The article linked in another comment offers this by way of justification: > "Because none of the potato’s flavor or aroma compounds can escape, you get the most intense potato flavor you’ve ever experienced,” Brock says. “And they’
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well yeah he sells AI and wants you to believe in it so the stock price stays good.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Not an expert, but: the curvature of spacetime is modeled as a tensor field (the metric tensor). That field can have (classical) waves in it, which is what LIGO detects (I believe). Then you can certain hypothetically quantize that field, i
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I think that all of his explanations to do with the content itself are wrong. It's simply that a sufficiently good writer is fun to read every time they write. There could easily be such a writer about pretty much any field if anyone w
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by ajkjk 2y ago
When I judge someone I compare them to what they ought to have been able to do. Bing, Azure, and Office 365 were mid and it's the person in charge's responsibility to do better than that. The world would be a better place if he ha
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by ajkjk 2y ago
I frickin love rebase-only linear history. It just feels so clean. It's so much easier to understand what happened if you're just scanning the commit history. I also don't know of any pain to it, though. It's just simple
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by ajkjk 2y ago
You know something about their internal architecture and why it was built that way and the tradeoffs involved, I guess?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
What? Do you have some reason to think Netflix's architecture is deficient?
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by ajkjk 2y ago
So what? There are still better words for it.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
What? Of course it's a Sourcehut problem. They chose to use that word and could choose to use a better one.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
No, it doesn't work at all. Human mistakes are not at all like computer mistakes. Like -- blundering a piece in a 1-2 move combination will straight up never show up in the stockfish move tree, no matter what you set `y` to.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Not this slowly. Not "this has been obviously stupid for my entire lifetime" slowly.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
well, the idea is that you have a contract with them and that determines the money you owe, not the actual card. There's some mechanism under the hood to update the recurring subscription to use your new card when it changes.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
My understanding is that under the hood this does happen, but in the company's favor-some memberships will survive your credit card changing? There was a patio11 article about it which I can't find at the moment. (edit: maybe not
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by ajkjk 2y ago
There are so many things like this that have needed fixing for such a long time. The fact that something is happening, even slowly, is so heartening. If your reaction is wondering if this is legal then you should be interested in the passin
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Not so much rude as.. silly. What's your goal here? Optimal resource consumption? Can't relate. It's not like absorbing more information faster makes me smarter or more capable. Or happier. If anything it's the opposite.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
That's not at all the same.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well yes but it's kinda crappy that you do. Can easily imagine an alternate reality where laws are more pro-consumer such that it's illegal to charge someone for a service in a month that they don't use it.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
As compelling as the theory that "unhealthy behavior" is root cause of the obesity epidemics, at this point it seems to me that the weight of evidence suggests an actual physical disruption. It's not supposed to be _this hard
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by ajkjk 2y ago
You are talking about something different than I am. I'm not saying you should have un-peer-reviewed major research. But there are other types of communication that are useful but do not need to be rigorously vetted. (not that peer re
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Well, publishing online also has a reach problem. The nice thing about journals is that they consolidate all the material on a subject. Arxiv does this for some fields (and I guess similar aggregators in other fields) but really it is nice
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Very true and it's wonderful. But only a thing in some fields, as I understand it. In the past that was the role that a lot of papers played but the conflation of publications and citations with career advancement messes that all up.
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by ajkjk 2y ago
Everyone's first thought when they read something is whatever the social norms say you're supposed to think (peer review = good, publishing without peer review = not science somehow?), but shouldn't you stop and wonder why th
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by ajkjk 2y ago
"we will be able to" -> "someone with a financial interest in my believing them says that we will be able to"

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