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by ajkjk 4mo ago
One finds in regular vector algebra that "position vectors" and "displacement vectors" are sort of two distinct types of objects, and that it is never physically valid to add two position vectors together unless you crea
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
if they're unit vectors then yes that makes a lot of sense. The same calculation works in R^n, incidentally, using the geometric product. This is pretty much the ideal usecase for it, for constructing operators between vectors.
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
Well, I said "sound kind of crackpotty", not "are crackpots", about the reputable writers. My point (ish) is that I would really like it if the non-crackpot GA writers would try a lot harder not to sound like crackpots!
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
What magnitude are you expecting your angle bisector to have afterwards?
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
When I wrote " GA is considered a kooky, crackpotty sideshow..." I didn't mean I consider it to be... , I mean, it is the case that it is considered to be... . I guess I'm surprised if you haven't run into this? I
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
I meant it more as an assessment of the state of affairs, not as an ad hominem (I have no opinion about the people at all). IMO the crackpottery is impossible to ignore, and if you don't talk about it everyone feels like they're g
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
to be clear (and this is kinda addressed at everyone in this thread because it was bothering me a few days later): I don't disagree with any of what you said here. I don't even live in the UK anyway, and I'm inclined to belie
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
Well mainstream discussions are idiotic, lol. You won't find any deep or principled philosophy there.
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
> The whole point of fundamental rights is that they aren’t compromised on based on outcomes. This is false, we generally take away fundamental rights when there's justification for doing so. e.g. the first paragraph of https:&#x2F
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
We... are... talking about regulating and banning them. That is what is being done. Talking about regulating and banning them. Not > Internet version of legalising heroin and installing a physical surveillance state to target the addicts
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
It's not satire. > people like you are happy to close your eyes to any consequences and insist we let the government take control and do whatever they want right now, without considering the consequences. Nobody said anything of the
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
I'm stunned when people can't reason about a tradeoff between two principles because they assigned infinite weight to one of them. Police state=bad. Industrial scale drug addiction in kids=also bad. Some compromise must be made.
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by ajkjk 4mo ago
If I stop having a way to block ads I will stop using the internet. They are so evil.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Individuals*
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
I gues that way of thinking makes sense if you have a certain model of what a process is, in terms of the data structures and runtime state etc. But, tbh, I think of processes as glorified function calls, which happen to have that stuff inv
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
What I feel like cannot be missed if you're paying attention is that other people suffer from it. Whether individual mind it or not doesn't disprove the general observation.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
> After the pandemic, workers in remote-capable jobs spent more time working alone and avoided social activities with their friends, remaining more isolated both during and after work. This pattern was most pronounced among remote worker
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Fork always seemed conceptually terrible even when I first learned about it.. If you want to do one thing (start a process) you should not have to use a mysterious incantation that does a different unrelated thing (forks your process) in or
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Oh yes sorry. I meant addicted to AI. No doubt they are, though, anyway.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
They are also just bad at almost everything they do. I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted. Although maybe it doesn't take much, given that it sounded at one point like the Microsoft execs
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
What? You are confused--human beings write em dashes also. Also you're being a dick to the OP, grow up.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
The em dashes are fine. If someone gives them shit about their writing, that's on the critic for being shitty. If they use AI to write, that's on them for being fake. But, to write online at all requires being ready to have people
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
My brain immediately fills in the whole story that happens after this. 1. Someone links this post in an internal Slack-like app to relevant PMs and designers. 2. Someone in leadership respond "dang we should look at this deluge of CTAs
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
I message them back and inform them I am reporting their message as spam. Seems to get a reaction.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
they're talking about the article that was posted
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
nevertheless most people can be a lot better at most things than they are, in the same amount of time, if the education and culture around education is of higher quality.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Well they do. The problem is that if a competitor arises on the individual market they can pretty efficiently copy anything that makes them competitive.
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
For an individual sure, but the vast majority of their business is corporate contracts which don't think that way. Generally it is impossible to understand Dropbox's strategy if you think about individual purchasers as significant
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
Well my point is that it's not a question of how exciting it is. It is that it is essentially unworkable as a business strategy, unless you have a technique for being more frugal or efficient than it is possible for your competitor t
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by ajkjk 5mo ago
The real issue is that if you do manage to build a cheaper clone they can just delete you by lowering their prices. It'll hurt the growth they have to show investors but not as much as letting you live will.

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