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811.
by bowsamic 2y ago
This doesn’t line up with what is written on his Wikipedia page at all, which claims it was his next novel that was more controversial, and he clearly wasn’t that poor because he did a grand tour of Europe and the Mediterranean a few years
812.
by bowsamic 2y ago
What? Why not? Many many websites have white backgrounds
813.
by bowsamic 2y ago
> In this case Nintendo was doing what Seg-already-did Delicious reference
814.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Right but in this case we is being used to express quite personal opinions and so is not appropriate (my first instinct was, in fact, in total sincerity, that the author has a multiple personality disorder/DID)
815.
by bowsamic 2y ago
What’s with the use of “we” everywhere?
816.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Google “objective tinnitus”
817.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Let’s see if the mods delete this Microsoft critical post off the front page like they did with the last one
818.
by bowsamic 2y ago
I added something to the conversation by critique, and also bringing to the knowledge of others that objective tinnitus is not a novel discovery
819.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Really? You’re surprised that people on HN of all places want trashy fluff?
820.
by bowsamic 2y ago
This has been known for a long time, I’m not sure why it’s being reported on as if it’s a new discovery EDIT why the downvotes? I’m honestly on the edge of deleting my account here at this point
821.
by bowsamic 2y ago
The German keyboard layout is honestly mindblowing bad for programming
822.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Really?? That sounds like hell to you? Well, to others that is the definition of a great and fulfilling life. In fact, you should see what happens when someone reaches the point they can no longer improve, where they finally do become the b
823.
by bowsamic 2y ago
I already said: because it's fun to improve your skills and also to compete with other humans. Rubik's cube is just one possible way to do this. Chess is another. Counter Strike is another. Running fast is another. Etc. etc.
824.
by bowsamic 2y ago
I didn't want to say it but yes, it feels like a large amount of the discourse I see on here is just people explaining things that are really obvious to me as a neurotypical person to people who seem to be autistic. I understand it&#x2
825.
by bowsamic 2y ago
I feel like I'm responding to the most clueless and ridiculous HN comment ever, but I assume it's because it's fun to improve your skills and also to compete with other humans. Do you not have a concept of this? I'm sorr
826.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Of course the HN gods have smote this post off the front page, as they did with the post criticising Microsoft for producing a crappy LLM hype product. It seems recently that any post on HN criticising LLMs gets instantly wiped off the fron
827.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Juicero might be an example, though I'm not sure if they made any specific large claim that was totally false, unlike in this case. Perhaps if explicitly Juicero claimed that some special magic was going on during the squeezing process
828.
by bowsamic 2y ago
A hamburger menu is a specific UI element (the one in many apps that reveals an app's functionalities and is rendered as three stacked horizontal lines). Now that I've told you that, you should be able to grok it.
829.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Just because the device exists and appears to work doesn't mean it isn't a scam. For example, if someone sells you a machine that they claim is powered by magic but actually there is a hidden physical mechanism, you can claim the
830.
by bowsamic 2y ago
There is deceit here, specifically that the LAM functionality is faked
831.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Yeah I took it to mean that the specific 500 they chose of the 50,000 are AI related and that the 50,000 may or may not be
832.
by bowsamic 2y ago
It’s further complicated since the West Midlands will be considered north by southerners but south by northerners
833.
by bowsamic 2y ago
I’m from the West Midlands in the UK and there a lot of people call it “pop”
834.
by bowsamic 2y ago
We’re on HN, people flag anything that has the slightest hint of a challenge
835.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Huh??? Asking someone their views on climate change is now against guidelines?
836.
by bowsamic 2y ago
Yes it does, just purely logically
837.
by bowsamic 2y ago
The reason I said it is because they seemed to be implicitly dismissing anything that isn't a historical material factor (i.e. dismissing an ideological explanation that doesn't address the historical material conditions)
838.
by bowsamic 2y ago
So you believe anthropogenic climate change is a hoax?
839.
by bowsamic 2y ago
So the author of the book was right and the review turned out to be wrong
840.
by bowsamic 2y ago
> There is no correlation of CO2 levels with [global] warming Do you really expect us to accept this review?

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