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by caeril 2y ago
> but this is evil CEO garbage Correction: this is Evil CEO vs Evil CEO garbage. Casting WPEngine as some sort of saint is highly inaccurate.
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by caeril 2y ago
Short answer: No, I'm not. People are generally extremely intolerant of others who deviate slightly from the norm. Having friends is a fun fantasy, though.
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by caeril 2y ago
Gambling is the only way for some of us to make Sportsball interesting, and attempt to fit in with the absurdist normie culture in which we live. Realistically, there's nothing particularly interesting about the Dallas Frackers versus
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by caeril 2y ago
> I was implying that the downstream effects of chasing numbers are the exciting part; challenging yourself and going through suffering to get a good physique or lift heavier things. Again, I still don't think you understand the nor
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by caeril 2y ago
Edit: My reading comprehension skills are failing me, apparently.
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by caeril 2y ago
> If I know I did 120kg for 7 on the bench last week, I know I need to beat it either by increasing weight or increasing reps. This is the case for some of us, yes, and for us, this is obvious. What I've found, however, is that mos
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by caeril 2y ago
> > the people getting ripped off Nobody is getting "ripped off" by ML models any more than by other humans. When a human wants to launch a high-quality podcast, they survey the market, listen to a lot of other high quality
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by caeril 2y ago
I don't think it's possible for the younger generation to appreciate how much better it is for boys in STEM today than it used to be. Missing in this discussion is what it meant to be a boy interested in STEM socially . It's
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by caeril 2y ago
Corporations don't generally pay sales tax either, if the bean counters can justify the purchase as COGS. There are plenty of accountants who can play fast and loose with what constitutes COGS.
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by caeril 2y ago
And humans are better? QAnon folks, for example, are biological models that are trained on propaganda and misinformation. Trauma victims are models trained on maladaptive environments that therapists take YEARS to fine-tune. Physicians are
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by caeril 2y ago
> butter cures cancer You jest, but there's some small (<10%) cohort of cancers for whom minimizing available glucose will significantly slow their growth (obviously not stop or reverse), allowing more time for other treatments.
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by caeril 2y ago
> It's been sold as being able to give real answers, instead of "having a bunch of data, some of which is accurate". So, basically, exactly like human beings. Until human-written software stops having bugs, doctors stop mi
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by caeril 2y ago
> Their official policy in many stores is to do nothing I suspect this is primarily a liability issue - an issue with the law, not the stores themselves. Believe me, I'm sure the loss prevention departments would love to hire Terry
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by caeril 2y ago
This is a good point, because the "friendliness" of the host being paid to be friendly to you is completely genuine.
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by caeril 2y ago
This is a solved problem for every customer-facing AI already. In this case, the chefs update the system prompt each day, either directly, or through a simple CRUD app.
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by caeril 2y ago
Yes, this is generally true, in order to clone the timbre/pitch/tonality, but if you're going to run a voice cloning scam to fool friends and family members, you need much more to get the cadence, pauses, vocal tics, etc righ
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by caeril 2y ago
A core part of the Unix philosophy is being able to pipe standard streams between processes, files, sockets, etc, as the user sees fit. Systemd, particularly journald, violates this severely by snarfing any stream you want to send to /
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by caeril 2y ago
kMail is not the most performant mail client. Neomutt works fine with > 10k emails. DPI scaling works fine with Wayland + Kanshi, and a few environment variables for GTK+ applications. The "mess" of application styling is an ap
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by caeril 2y ago
It's not the training dataset. All of these models, including the "open" ones, have been RLHF'ed by teams of politically-motivated people to be "safe" after initial foundation training.
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by caeril 2y ago
> The EU is probably not going to be happy Happiness is irrelevant, especially when it comes to geopolitics. In the US, criticism of Israel is antagonistic to our Judeo-Christian values. In the EU, criticism of Israel is tantamount to th
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by caeril 2y ago
I couldn't agree more. I bet the guys doing this don't even get their shoes shined or a proper haircut. People who do things differently from us deserve to get railroaded by the system. Reminds me of a passage in an op-ed in the S
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by caeril 2y ago
This is an important point, and something that HN should really take to heart. It's legal to buy and sell slaves in some parts of Libya, therefore slavery is good. People are quick to forget that the morality of any given action should
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by caeril 2y ago
> The remark was self-aggrandizing and completely dismissive of my colleague's hard work. Ok, but was it wrong? Put your friend's precious fee-fees aside, and ask yourself the important question: was it wrong? If it wasn't
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by caeril 2y ago
> I call it computer science personality disorder Yes, I think that if you're neurotypical, and you find it difficult to relate to the neurodivergent, you should dismiss them as being assholes. > who just doesn't realize he&
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by caeril 2y ago
ACE score of 1, my parents were pretty great. But if this test were applied to other kids, it would be off the charts. Abused and neglected in every way imaginable by my peers, growing up. It's always annoyed me that if your abusers we
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by caeril 2y ago
[edit] Disregard, I forgot that HN has been infested with normies with poor reading comprehension. Further posts will be strictly technical.
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by caeril 2y ago
[edit] Disregard, I forgot that HN has been infested with normies with poor reading comprehension. Further posts will be strictly technical.
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by caeril 2y ago
> And no fiber, which is critical for internet to home primary switch Optical isolation isn't the only way to protect equipment.
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by caeril 2y ago
> I can type over 120WPM with no wrist pain I've observed this, myself. All the people I know with RSI issues are touch-typists. I suspect it has to do with pinky extension being a highly unnatural movement. Three fingers and thumb
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by caeril 2y ago
There are thousands of HackerNewsers whose entire livelihoods are predicated on building the Google Panopticon Machine. The value of their RSUs is hopelessly dependent on things like this being swept under the rug. Same goes for Apple. It i

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