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by baryphonic 2y ago
This research is cool, but I always feel it needs an asterisk. Requiring a click or event or some external clock feels like a cop out. I've seen a similar thing with PowerPoint. It would be a bit like saying a language with iterations
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by baryphonic 2y ago
MiniKanren, then?
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> No declarative language can ever handle every use case. Prolog would beg to differ.
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by baryphonic 2y ago
> Now, it's true that the advertisers used to get a good deal from the platforms, and that it came at the expense of the users. Facebook lured in users by falsely promising never to spy on them. It did? I joined in 2005 – back when
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by baryphonic 2y ago
I have been surprised that environmental activists haven't protested return-to-office policies for the incident increase in pollution. Seems like there is very little data backing up RTO other than commercial real estate sunk costs, an
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by baryphonic 2y ago
California's building a paywall and they're making Google pay for it so they can make articles great again.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Yep, that's when I quit downloading from SourceForge as well
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by baryphonic 3y ago
The link you cited references El Niño bringing heavy rains and spreading "black pod disease," neither of which are caused by climate change.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
That's fair enough, but Meta, Google, OpenAI, etc. are all American companies, thus US law would likely apply.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable.[0] I looked into this first when the LLaMA model was released on BitTorrent, and concluded that downloading it was perfectly legal. The courts even have controlling precedents tha
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Honestly, this has been predictable since the beginning of GPT-3 and Copilot. Programmers tend to overestimate how much time we spend sitting down banging on the keyboard, and management severely overestimates it. Even when we are typing
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by baryphonic 3y ago
When I was in high school, we read the Canterbury Tales. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," a knight violates a young woman. He is described as having a "lusty liver."
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by baryphonic 3y ago
I miss this era of the Web. Thanks for the enjoyable walk down memory lane!
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Here's one: I have some pretty long chats, but I can't use the "home" key to scroll to the top if I want to view previous messages. I always have to find the scrollbar and drag it all the way up (not so easy on macOS). I
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> Given Apple's general money-grubbing ways (see: the App Store), this is somewhat surprising. Far be it from me to give Apple credit for altruism or openness, but this narrative isn't quite true. When the iPhone launched, Jobs
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by baryphonic 3y ago
For the 'stans, I remember TUTK (west to east), and that Turkmenistan is closest to Turkey.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Great work! Only feedback would be to make the drop-down search aware of the abbreviations for various countries. For example, St. Lucia rather than Saint Lucia, DPRK for North Korea, or even CAR rather than Central African Republic.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> Purjury is supposed to be serious. But it's not enforced against police officers. [...] > So why should I believe, if this law passes, anybody in the justice system will enforce it? I haven't read the text of the bill, but
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by baryphonic 3y ago
The only existential risk that worries me is nuclear weapons proliferation. It's the only one I have nightmares about.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
In America, the reverse is true. Most French words are butchered, most Spanish words are at least pronounced properly (sometimes with an accent). I suspect it has something to do with proximity to native speakers of the language, as France
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by baryphonic 3y ago
https://archive.is/p59Kl
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Ironically, I had a subscription to the print WSJ years ago. I never read it, but canceling was extremely difficult.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
A couple years in: "We really have no explanation for the rapid increase in cervical and testicular cancers."
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> In general, the Senate's ability to set its own rules surely cannot be unrestricted. For example, when the Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate would it have been constitutional for them to create a new rule that all tax decreases
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by baryphonic 3y ago
How is the filibuster unconstitutional? The Constitution explicitly gives each House the power to select its own rules, and the Senate is never "dissolved" like the House of Representatives is, so its rules carry on.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Madison elaborates also on this theme in Federalist 51, but with separation of powers rather than federalism & factions.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Just for reference, the "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" line comes from Federalist 51, also by Madison.
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> Then having to go to work each day at a place that keeps saying we are all family here knowing that 2/10 of you are going to get axed. Sounds like the mafia
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by baryphonic 3y ago
> > When firing employees becomes too hard, hiring becomes risky If a firm has severe restrictions on firing anyone, then it must be extremely diligent with hiring, because employees will be around as long as they want to be. If an em
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by baryphonic 3y ago
Ah, so regulatory capture? I can see that. It also seems like the ATC system is stretched thin, as well as the airlines themselves in terms of pilots. Though I may be biased since I'm much more aware of ATC problems given the various Y

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