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by brlewis 3y ago
"Entirely new genres" of anything is unlikely from ML models trained on existing work. Someone using AI to implement an entirely new idea will be frustrated as the AI keeps gravitating toward convention.
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by brlewis 3y ago
For $22/year there's https://pinboard.in/
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by brlewis 3y ago
Rather than call people delusional, how about giving an example from the past of a technological advance that reduced the work needed to create computer programs, and consequently reduced overall demand for SWEs? I can think of plenty of ad
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by brlewis 3y ago
I'm studying persuasion. If anyone changes their opinion on decriminalization as a result of arguments made here, could you please say so in reply to this comment?
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by brlewis 3y ago
As mentioned in the description, there's an introductory video. What I probably should have mentioned in the description is that it's highly unlikely you'll recognize how awesome this thing is without watching the video: htt
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Show HN: HowTruthful – help yourself and others think clearly(en.howtruthful.com)
2 points by brlewis 3y ago|1 comments
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by brlewis 3y ago
Hasbro avoided this mistake by basing their movie on Dungeons and Dragons, where anything can happen. I think they actually had the best movie of 2023. Mission Impossible 7 had better stunts, but DnD had a better story, better acting, and s
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by brlewis 3y ago
Wikipedia is a repository for established truth, not for discovering truth. For discovering truth you have https://www.kialo.com/ and the one I'm working on, https://en.howtruthful.com/ but I've o
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by brlewis 5y ago
I'd be interested to see an exhaustive list of computer programs that are as old as emacs that people still complain about today.
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by brlewis 5y ago
I was unable to reproduce this just now in emacs 26.3 using company/tide. I've been thinking about moving from tide to LSP, but that bug would drive me crazy so maybe I should wait for it to be fixed.
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by brlewis 5y ago
Seems paywalled. Alternate: https://news.arizona.edu/story/many-mild-covid-19-infections...
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by brlewis 5y ago
As the employee in that situation I'd want to be told, so I could improve how I manage others' perception of me.
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TypeScript at Google (2018)(neugierig.org)
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by brlewis 5y ago
Allsides is prominently featured in the article.
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by brlewis 5y ago
To clarify, what you want is a benevolent intellectual dictator?
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by brlewis 5y ago
Exactly this. Dramatic videos of people experiencing adverse events following vaccination make the risk appear much bigger than it is. COVID-19 being old news makes the risk appear much smaller than it is.
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by brlewis 5y ago
How is that more clear than "True: A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records has not established a causal link from deaths to COVID-19 vaccines"? Please don't say &
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by brlewis 5y ago
With Brazil being on the equator and mostly south of it, I doubt the end of northern hemisphere winter has much to do with it.
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by brlewis 5y ago
I made what I thought was an honest effort to evaluate the risks of vaccination versus the risks of the virus, but I ended up with a clear cut answer. Could you please point out the dishonest part? https://en.howtruthful.com&#x2F
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by brlewis 5y ago
What I would really love is for people to start seeing the act of changing one's opinion based on evidence as something that brings admiration. If attention-seekers started even pretending to change their opinion based on evidence I th
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by brlewis 5y ago
tl;dr Here's a web site that made a lot of money despite being a single file of code that we presume is ugly. From this we conclude that one must choose between writing clean code and focusing on what the user wants. (In case it isn&#x
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by brlewis 6y ago
MUDs have always had natural language recognition in the form of other players. The interaction is realistic because it's real. That said, NLP could widen the already broad possibilities of interactions with NPCs.
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by brlewis 6y ago
If TypeScript and OO are your thing, I made some code for this: https://gitlab.com/brlewis/mud-eventemitter
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by brlewis 6y ago
Hi. I work for Fitbit, but don't speak for Fitbit. I am, however, curious about how people on HN talk about Fitbit, so I subscribe to HNWatcher alerts. Unfortunately, I only got an alert about this comment a week later. If I did offi
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by brlewis 6y ago
FTR making a good smart watch is a hard problem. Acquiring a company that's already put in the hard work is more resource efficient than scaling that mountain yourself.
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by brlewis 6y ago
> It doesn’t take much imagination to see how dangerous a remotely-hacked smart TV can be, since they are usually equipped with microphones (and occasionally webcams) Based on this security concern, I've compiled an exhaustive list
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by brlewis 6y ago
> why literate programming isn't more popular is beyond me I saw this topic brought up in a video I was watching yesterday https://youtu.be/SzA2YODtgK4?t=1519 There are 2 reasons: 1. Programmers and code review tool
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by brlewis 6y ago
Not the OP, but I'd suggest using what's built into React, i.e. keeping shared state in a parent component, until you hit one of the reasons the Redux docs enumerate for using it: https://redux.js.org/faq/gene
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by brlewis 6y ago
In general, yes, it can be tricky to determine what will and won't be confusing to people, since different people see things differently. In this specific case, it doesn't seem tricky to me. When you have concrete examples of peop
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by brlewis 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but as I understand it, a trademark is violated if it's likely to confuse people into thinking the product/service is from the trademark holder when it actually isn't. If Amazon's CEO experi

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