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by bena 3y ago
Everything looks like this in hindsight. You can trace any significant thing through a series of seemingly unlikely events. You can do it with your own life and career if you wish. The larger things you can impact now makes the smaller thin
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by bena 3y ago
I think it's at least partly compelled internally. You see this phenomenon, you wonder why it happens, then you start wondering what you could do if you could cause it intentionally. Part of the excitement of discovering new knowledge
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by bena 4y ago
Exactly, everyone is expecting a Toys R Us moment, an Enron implosion, or an FTX scandal, but really, it's going to be IBM. It's going to be Atari. It's going to be MySpace, Digg, etc. It'll dwindle until it's a she
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by bena 4y ago
So first I tried it on a video that was too long. It produced a transcript though. Which is something. But it was an easy test. I chose an episode of a television show that is uploaded to YouTube. So I said, "fuck it", and chose a
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by bena 4y ago
Not all programming is the same. I have work and personal coding. And even in those, I have several projects under each category. In C#, python, Javascript, Swift, old-school C/C++, etc. Games, websites, CRUD apps, various "toys&q
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by bena 4y ago
It's something George Carlin has touched on as well. Paraphrasing a bit: We're not really trying to save the planet. The planet has been here for billions of years, it'll be here for billions of years after we're all dea
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by bena 4y ago
This seems like a wicked study. By starting with 8 year olds, you've selected people who have already developed somewhat. It's quite possible these differences are developed. Partly by reinforcement of norms. We believe boys are m
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by bena 4y ago
Rigor is good as long as it contains Slack. Slack should be built into the system, it should be part of the rigor. Because rigorous systems aren't brittle, they are resilient. And you only get resilience when you are able to adapt to t
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by bena 4y ago
I mean we're trying to determine the mass of objects many light years away. The concept that we might not be able to perceive everything isn't a real huge leap. Far shorter a leap than "everything we know about gravity is wro
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by bena 4y ago
This might be a thing where the correlation was the other way, so people got it in their heads that doing the thing would make them smarter. Like any time you see an article about how intelligent people drink more coffee, or swear more, or
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by bena 4y ago
Yeah, I subtracted instead of added for some reason. Good catch.
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by bena 4y ago
You mean self-publishing or finding another publisher. Probably cost and reach.
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by bena 4y ago
From sunrise to sunset. Today, sunrise was about 6:30am and sunset will be about 7:30pm. That's only 11 hours with no food or water.
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by bena 4y ago
This is probably the absolute stupidest way to have lost $5 million. The claim was very specific: Prove this data isn't from the 2020 election. All you had to do was actually include 2020 election data in the set. And right there, the
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by bena 4y ago
If you just outright called him a pedophile and I saw your post accusing him of it, I would assume you're just an idiot.
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by bena 4y ago
The man sought $6 million. It was reduced to $500,000 for "moral" damage by the court. Punitive damages were rejected because they believe Google was also acting in good faith.
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by bena 4y ago
It looks like a pretty clean example from what I can recall. WinMain builds the window and starts the message pump. The pump is implement starting at line 425. It's basically a while loop that reads the next message on the stack, trans
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by bena 4y ago
Part of what made Anime and Manga so "exotic" back in the day was just how different it was to anything you'd find in the West. A lot of early Anime has sci-fi/post-apocalyptic vibes because Japan was essentially a post-
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by bena 4y ago
Is reddit going to pay users? Or are they just going to collect the content generate by its users and then turn around and charge people to access it? I think we all know that it's more column B than column A. And while I'm not en
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by bena 4y ago
Unfortunately, there are many reasons to write horrible code. I work in-house for a non-tech related company. I'm often the sole developer, sometimes I have help. I'm also the defacto DBA and systems administrator for the machines
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by bena 4y ago
Uber is going to collect the difference, not the customer.
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by bena 4y ago
Apple doesn't offer Uber. Uber offers Uber. Uber offers it through the App Store because that's their only option. And even if the only thing that happens is that Apple takes a smaller percentage, that doesn't impact me at al
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by bena 4y ago
Because he is of the belief that if he doesn't explicitly say something, he can never be called out on it. He wishes to engage in criticism of others while never having to invite criticism to himself. He will sit there and tell you eve
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by bena 4y ago
And that's a fair response to the question. But it is true that the vast bulk of their revenue does come from ads. So it gets complicated. If you were to take away their non-ad revenue, Google would be fine-ish. If you were to take awa
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by bena 4y ago
Eh. Yes and no. Homebrew may be a wonderful product, but that doesn't make the creator a wonderful engineer. Useful things can be poorly created. And this is not to shit on either Homebrew or Max Howell. I personally do not know if How
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by bena 4y ago
Right, but the person I responded to spoke as if this was going to be a way to increase consumer choice. It's not. Everyone will not get "the privacy/control tradeoff they want". They're going to get whatever the cr
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by bena 4y ago
I think you're missing something. Meta makes the Facebook app. Currently, the only way to get the Facebook app on iOS is through Apple's App Store. Which means Meta has to follow all of Apple's guidelines. Once sideloading is
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by bena 4y ago
It's essentially the question of free will. There is a case that everything we do is preordained. A result of forces and interactions that trace all the way back to big bang. My choice on whether or not I reply to you doesn't exis
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by bena 4y ago
Either way is likely, but I don't think the position of "they have a different position from me, therefore they are not thinking critically" is a good one in general. Now, I'll probably never get to actually talk to Tyso
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by bena 4y ago
I think you're conflating multiple groups. Think of each thing as their own group. "String theory" people are a group, "simulation" people are another group. While some of the string theory group may also be simulat

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