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by bena 3y ago
I think it's interesting as there is a common beetle ancestor. Usually, when we find something like this, the answer is because "taxonomy is more art than science". Like trees or fish. Both exist all over their respective bra
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by bena 3y ago
I purchase a fair amount of stuff online, but there's still a lot of things I buy in person.
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by bena 3y ago
"Highly sensitive person". Basically hypervigilant
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by bena 3y ago
As someone who read enough of the article before it became a full-blown ad for their services: neat. They do have a point with regards to Bloomberg's analysis. Bloomberg's analysis have white women being selected more often than a
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by bena 3y ago
Congress gets "reestablished" every two years. The English government gets "reestablished" every year when the Prime Minister asks to form a government in the Monarch's name. So it could just mean when the current t
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by bena 3y ago
Most other front end technologies I’ve used are themed with themselves
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by bena 3y ago
> As for teaching to the test, what's the real downfall of doing that? This comment is a perfect encapsulation of AI hype. Recitation is not competence. It doesn't matter if Bobby can say "4" when I say "What is
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by bena 3y ago
Bingo. My wife is a special education teacher and so much of her work does not get reflected on a test.
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by bena 3y ago
I remember your username. But StackOverflow suffered the issue every site that relies on user contributions/moderation does: it ultimately caters to those with the most free time, not those with the most expertise. And I don't t
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by bena 3y ago
hiQ was found to be in violation of the User Agreement in the end. Basically, in the end, it was essentially a breach of contract.
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by bena 3y ago
Scraping is legal. Always has been, always will be. Mainly because there's some fuzz around the edges of the definition. Is a web browser a scraper? It does a lot of the same things. IIRC LinkedIn/Microsoft was trying to sue a com
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by bena 3y ago
A fair number of people I grew up with wanted to be some sort of celebrity. Either an athlete or some sort of performance art. "YouTuber" is just another specific type of celebrity to them.
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by bena 3y ago
How am I doing that? I am claiming that LLMs lack imagination. They are incapable of creating out of whole cloth or interpretation. Saying they cannot create based off of a vague suggestion is very much in line with that claim. I consider i
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by bena 3y ago
But you can't make it creative. You can't say "give me something cool" and have it produce something of note.
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by bena 3y ago
AI isn't influenced. It doesn't have restrictions. It doesn't have to work within confines. AI can always remember the word it wants to use. It always can hit the note it intends. And it can hit every note. Etc. It uses the c
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by bena 3y ago
I thought the next thing after CD/DVD would have been essentially thumbsticks. Or something more akin to Switch cartridges. Data access is data access, it seemed we could get more data in less space by moving to basically SSDs. But yea
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by bena 3y ago
I had forgotten about the eReader. I had gotten Excitebike on the eReader card because I was curious. I was planning on getting an eReader at some point, but never got around to it.
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by bena 3y ago
That was the neat thing about cartridge based game consoles, each game was essentially a new piece of hardware. I think the Game Boy Advance was the last mainstream PCB cartridge game console. The GameCube had moved to discs, Sony and Micro
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by bena 3y ago
You think he woke up that day and said to himself, "Today, I'm going to get drunk, drive my car, speed, crash, and kill two people." No. He did not. Everything that happened was likely unplanned. Hence, no forethought. And I
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by bena 3y ago
Intent has a lot to do with it. SBF operated with forethought and malice. He intended to deceive people. He was trying to commit fraud. Hometown guy did not intend to crash or kill anybody. Now the results of hometown guy's actions wer
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by bena 3y ago
The "state" being the federal government in this case and not any individual state. The president cannot pardon state-level offenses, that is at the discretion of that state.
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by bena 3y ago
I would imagine the desire to unify GR and QM is because if we expect the universe to operate on a set of rules, they should by unified. And we just need to find out how . But the forces and factors that work on the smallest particle sho
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by bena 3y ago
Another factor is that Lego is using more greebling than in the past. So you have more "parts", but they're all small pieces used for detailing rather than larger structural components of the build.
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by bena 3y ago
I was pretty dead on with photos of people. Especially if they're in color. And it's not just a hand thing. There's often an element of surreal excess or a kind of uncanny valley/plasticy thing going on. If I had to poin
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by bena 3y ago
People who descend into this are kind of missing the point of the XY problem in the first place. The XY problem is to get all parties involved in thinking about the actual goal and how to achieve that goal. By presuming you know what the Y
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by bena 3y ago
This is kind of what I'm talking about. There is data backing up that early morning sun is better. It being light out when kids go to school and when we drive to work is more important. There are also things about our circadian rhythms
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by bena 3y ago
Probably, Boeing was the topic of discussion on Last Week Tonight relatively recently. We're all experts now.
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by bena 3y ago
I don't want to abolish time zones. But I would like them to be more standardized. I don't know who else has looked at a time zone map, but it is a clusterfuck. And that's putting it mildly. In so many places, you can tell th
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by bena 3y ago
Arizona doesn't have any issues. They're standard time year round. We _should_ abolish DST. The issue is that there are people who want to abolish Standard Time because, I don't know, they have weird notions about how awesome
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by bena 3y ago
Not to mention lawyers have to work with the police fairly regularly. They see fostering an adversarial relationship as bad for them. So while the police may have broken the law, caused damages, etc, and whatever, other police aren't g

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