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by cbsmith 2y ago
For anyone looking at a vandalized page, the reddit comment the non-vandalized version was sourced from is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/comment/gnvzi...
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Wow... and now the page is getting vandalized repeatedly. Hard not to believe this isn't related to it making HN.
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> The real issue here is that you keep bringing up outliers like your mother's palliative care and I keep talking about the norm, ie. that most people in therapy are not like your mother. So, if the customer is dying (and we're
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Meanwhile, the more therapy someone does, the more miserable they are compared to me. Is this based on empirical statistical analysis, or are you maybe projecting your perception on to anecdotes? How are you quantifying misery? What ar
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> I'm deeply uncomfortable with anything that combines paying for a service with a social element. I think I don't know what you mean by that. That sounds like you're uncomfortable with renting out party venues.
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> And many of them are being bilked as well. The fitness industry is notoriously filled with hucksters and scams, and "trainers" rarely have any real training in kinesiology or exercise science. Many people are being bilked for
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> What a ridiculous analogy. "Athlete" is a career. The athlete is the extreme example, but there are obviously people who are not career athletes that don't have a defined stop point with employing a trainer (maybe you co
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Exactly.
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> Evidence points in this direction, though. > > Different methods of therapy appear to be equally effective despite having theoretical foundations which are conflicting with each other. The common aspect between different therapie
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> I think the preying part of therapy is that there's just no defined stop condition. There's no defined stop point for physical development either... Top performing athletes still have trainers, and nobody sees that as a probl
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> Only if being a genius means you can never have a lapse of judgement. > > As a counterpoint, the smartest people I know do all kinds of risky behaviors. If anything one might call it a coping mechanism. Do we know that it was a l
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Realistically, Amazon didn't have the scale/resources to mitigate/manage this problem for customers back in the day. It also wasn't a target like it is now. Even a decade ago, it was a comparatively small problem that wa
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by cbsmith 2y ago
In fairness, the issue was attended to within weeks after it recently got attention.
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It's kind of tautological that Gemini Nano is as capable as Gemini and it runs locally. https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/pixel-featur...
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Thanks for restoring my sanity. Every now and then I read articles about quantum computing that upend my (limited) understanding of how it functions, and I feel like I really know nothing about it. In fairness, I do know close to nothing ab
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> It should not be adjudicating any kind of legal controversy. That is not the role of the executive branch. Which they aren't doing. They're deciding whether to take Apple to court. If you don't think the executive branch
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by cbsmith 2y ago
They aren't functioning as the judicial branch. As part of the responsibilities of the executive branch, they have to decide when there's a problem, so they can decide if they need to execute. Indeed, the next step here is to take
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> The fact that corporations and billionaires are so anti-union and engage in regular conduct like this demonstrates that unions are pro-worker and ideal for the balance needed in the US and across the globe. I think there are a lot of t
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by cbsmith 2y ago
That's not exactly a new phenomenon though. "Decline by 9" is a comparatively new thing.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Google has also been working on (and provides kits for) local machine learning on mobile devices... and they run on both iOS and Android. The Gemini App does send data in to Google for learning, but even that you can opt out of. Apple'
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I don't want to give it the views...
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Hehe. It very much is a problem solved in every ACID database... as long as you want to serialize all your transactions.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Oh, 32-bits is enough for a lot of tables assuming you have a transactional ID allocator. The whole reason to have a UUID is so you don't have to serialize all your ID allocation. Agreed though that for some lower volume systems, 64-
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by cbsmith 2y ago
You could encode UUIDs as base58, though I'm with you that that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
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> Typical databases compress rows or columns anyway these days; or if they don't, then the storage does. So often the question is entropy not character count. For example storage I work with these days takes as an identical number o
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Stuff gets "converted" between you and the database anyway. If you really want to see it as though they were strings all the time, you can always make a view.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Isn't that basically a type 4 UUID that you truncated the last 4 bytes from?
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by cbsmith 2y ago
TSIDs are basically type1 UUID's without the MAC address, no?
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Or you can just store the UUIDs as bytes like the almighty intended.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Cassandra seemed to have no problem using type1 UUIDs for this.

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