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by billjings 4y ago
For organizations like the Video Game History Foundation ( https://gamehistory.org/ ) that are trying to preserve video games in an above board way, things really are as dire as this article describes. For VGHF to fulfill its
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by billjings 4y ago
Human authors do get ideas from existing material, and they do imitate existing work, but ChatGPT does not actually have any ideas. It is technically incapable of understanding. It generates the appearance of ideas, but that appearance is a
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by billjings 4y ago
It's a component. "Breadwinner" is a common pattern for showing up, so if that is your only model for what you do, and you can't do it, then you are up a creek. But it's not the only way. You simply need to be able
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by billjings 4y ago
It's dangerous to apply heuristics in political discourse without the inclusion of the element of reputation. Otherwise, you're vulnerable to adversarial techniques that flood the zone with garbage information. This kind of thing
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by billjings 4y ago
"The criticism is bad, therefore the claim must be true" certainly sounds like a rhetorical fallacy to me. Does it have a name?
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by billjings 4y ago
This isn't how it's always worked for Hersh, though. The Abu Ghraib report was published by the New Yorker, which has fact checkers on staff. You cannot tell their stuff "my source is anonymous" and not have them confirm
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by billjings 4y ago
Yep, the Inflation Reduction Act is what I meant. It came into effect this year.
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by billjings 4y ago
Here's a couple of reasons: 1. The American market has a lot of incorrect perceptions of heat pumps. Debunking these makes for great viral content! 2. The IRA introduced big incentives for various electrification expenses. The incentiv
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by billjings 4y ago
Eh. That kind of comment was never normal or okay. Or even common...but anti-Muslim rhetoric was absolutely more common in the wake of 9/11.
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by billjings 4y ago
I was going to come out and defend Oxford and the Oxford American (Oxford is a rich and active literary mecca, and the Oxford American is a notable literary journal), but learned more strange and confusing facts: the Oxford American has act
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by billjings 4y ago
> I think what you're seeing is in some areas they may be over running offers, and need to pull back and kill some post acceptance to correct based on the new reality of hiring forecasts. There are times when you read something that
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by billjings 4y ago
I get the feeling that the Quest Pro is a similar game changing experience, but the strategy tax from being forced into Facebook services is absolutely suffocating. I am legit excited about the idea of having VR eye contact, and would gladl
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by billjings 4y ago
That's not inflation. That's two cherry picked product categories. One of which is a luxury good.
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by billjings 4y ago
> Well its nearly 2023, and we have had 10%-ish inflation going on about 2 years. Are you not in the US? We haven't even had 10% inflation for all of the past year.
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by billjings 4y ago
"2020s era inflation" started just this year. And it's, what, 11%?
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by billjings 4y ago
Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. He died there, having served 11 years of his sentence.
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by billjings 4y ago
It could be, sure. But people are playing influence games with Elon, too.
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Musk IS corporate press.
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by billjings 4y ago
I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. We're already well off the rails of the original post here, but I do want to say that I share your anger at evangelicalism. Their fundamentalism has made the name of Christianity synonymous
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by billjings 4y ago
It's fine and defensible to reject the religious perspective, but to refuse to admit religious perspectives to the discourse at all is to take pride in ignorance. In the Christian faith alone, there are over two thousand years worth of
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by billjings 4y ago
No decent, intellectually curious person should deny religious perspectives in topics like this. Religious writing is literally the prior art here, and still where one can find the richest live discourse.
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by billjings 4y ago
It's not because of the price point that you wouldn't send your overpriveleged kid there. It's because they'd run a decent chance of flunking out.
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by billjings 4y ago
I went to Georgia Tech with Dare. It's a great school, but it's not exactly the kind of place you send your scions of privilege.
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by billjings 4y ago
Dare Obasanjo: https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1589867071693017088
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by billjings 4y ago
I hear that KSP makes a huge difference, as you call out. Not an easy task to get rid of kapt, though, so - good luck! And again, congrats. :)
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by billjings 4y ago
Hi! Congrats on the huge accomplishment. Is that list of disadvantages really accurate? Reading them, I get the impression that the "popularity gap" between Kotlin and Java was a major reason FB was behind the industry on converti
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by billjings 4y ago
Molecule is another. Glance ( https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/glan... ) is built on top of Compose, but without using the local Compose UI runtime: it's for drawing remote widgets.
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by billjings 4y ago
This discussion feels incomplete to me without a mention of developments in the opposing camp: Google's Compose UI framework. On Android, at least, Compose feels fully baked to us. Our shop is fully committed to new development on Comp
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Not all of them. Square doesn't quite meet the bar for the top tier, but I can confirm that nobody gets special treatment for the open source work I'm involved with. It's easier to get face time with maintainers, sure, but yo
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by billjings 4y ago
I mean, they chose to invest in making this an open source project. And now it's been forked, which requires them to either forego community contribution, or migrate. Remind me again what the win was here? It seems like they would have

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