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by chongli 7mo ago
It's basically fantasy except the magic is, to varying degrees, rooted in real science and physics. That's a superficial view of both Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Sure, there's a lot of schlock out there which essentially functions
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by chongli 7mo ago
maybe the judge will even try to be extra nice when he explains why the argument doesn't hold water. Many judges take a dim view of expensive lawyers trying to pull the wool over their eyes with sophisticated but fallacious arguments
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by chongli 7mo ago
Cowen uses Freestyle Chess (teams of humans and computers) as an analogy, noting that human intuition combined with machine processing power consistently outperforms either working alone. Unfortunately, this one hasn't aged well. Hum
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by chongli 7mo ago
They disabled NPC participation in the real economy. This gave way to the real player economy which took place in player-run shops built inside player-owned and customized housing. Players didn't buy those 5000 junk skullcaps either. T
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by chongli 8mo ago
If you've lived in your house/apartment for a good long while and settled in, you have an idea of what it was like to use Classic Mac OS 9 (and earlier). It's like flicking a lightswitch or reaching into a drawer and grabbing
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by chongli 8mo ago
Did you only set up Time Machine? Or did you continue supporting all those users for years and years. If the issue is that eventually the backup store becomes corrupted then you may not see it at all if you're only setting up backups b
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by chongli 8mo ago
I'm convinced that this is the fate of all successful software companies. It's not a result of arrogance or hubris or anything else like that. It's the result of turnover. Take your favourite rock band and turn over all the m
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by chongli 8mo ago
I have been so irritated by this that I've been considering switching TO the mac ecosystem, BUT this thread is good on my eyes and makes me disinterested now. It really makes me miss Classic Mac OS 9. I used it from 7.5.1 to 9.2.2. I
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by chongli 8mo ago
It’s more complicated to think about, but it’s still the same result. Think about the structure of a dictionary: all of the words are defined in terms of other words in the dictionary, but if you’ve never experienced reality as an embodied
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by chongli 8mo ago
Having a confidence score isn't as useful as it seems unless you (the user) know a lot about the contents of the training set. Think of traditional statistics. Suppose I said "80% of those sampled preferred apples to oranges, and
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by chongli 8mo ago
Friendly reminder that Google Takeout [1] exists. When I read a story a few years ago about a guy who had his primary Google account banned with no recourse (for reselling Pixel phones) and permanently lost 20 years worth of emails and fami
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by chongli 8mo ago
That's assuming the hydrogen is just loose in the area, like it'd been released from a balloon in a chemistry classroom. That amount of hydrogen is extremely small, from an energy standpoint. Equivalent to a teaspoon of gasoline o
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by chongli 8mo ago
What if instead of allowing the agent to act directly, it writes a simple high-level recipe or script that you can accept (and run) or reject? It should be very high level and declarative, but with the ability to drill down on each of the s
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by chongli 8mo ago
I think a lot of our issues today are because people are too engaged in federal politics. It's turned into a massive spectacle on the same level as the NFL.
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by chongli 8mo ago
This is basically political fundraising, where rich people signal-boost their preferred candidate and help them attract lots of donors from the public. I think the fundamental piece you're missing is the Pareto principle. In any popula
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by chongli 8mo ago
I wonder if there is a viable business model where for each article, readers can pay to unlock it not just for themselves, but for everyone. The price would obviously have to be higher since you aren't just buying it for yourself. But
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by chongli 8mo ago
That’s assuming a developer owns all the codebases they work on. Many don’t, because they work for an employer with a large team and a large existing codebase. If the language evolves and the project manager is 100% keen on adopting new fea
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by chongli 8mo ago
“Your transfer has expired, civilian, you’ll have to pay another fare!” Said the bus driver in the mirrored shades.
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by chongli 8mo ago
That's not true. Plenty of Discord communities have dozens of channels with long-running post histories, pictures, FAQ content, beginner guides; server roles and titles, permissions, custom emoji, stickers, etc. Migrating all of that s
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by chongli 8mo ago
No, they aren't. If you're in your 40s you aren't looking to date people in their 20s. Where's the influx of other people in their 40s to date?
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by chongli 8mo ago
Yeah, Steve would've smashed that phone on the floor if that happened to him in rehearsal, and then fired the whole team responsible.
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by chongli 8mo ago
autocorrect suggesting words that I've never typed before Ahhh yes, there's nothing like when autocorrect turns because into Decatur!
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by chongli 8mo ago
That's because "matches" are the wrong criterion to look at. In aggregate, matches don't matter. What matters is the population of marriageable (or otherwise amenable to long-term relationships) people. And that's w
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by chongli 8mo ago
Ahhh, I see. So the GP's whole spiel was just a humblebrag.
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by chongli 8mo ago
I've never been comped at any restaurant or bar. I always thought that was a casino thing (to keep you drinking so that you gamble more) but I've never been to a casino. I live in Canada though, so we might have laws against that
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by chongli 8mo ago
You don't need tiny apartments to have density. You can do it with smaller single-family houses on smaller lots, narrow one-way streets, and alleyways for parking instead of driveways and garages. This is how the pre-war streetcar subu
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by chongli 8mo ago
... = -2 - (-3) = -1 - (-2) = 0 - (-1) = 1 - 0 = 1 = 2 - 1 = 3 - 2 = 4 - 3 = 5 - 4 = ...
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by chongli 8mo ago
I've read that it's quite usable as a spare part itself, in order to make a cheap and reliable time-bomb IED. It has a built-in alarm and it's apparently not too difficult to use the alarm's beeper signal to set off the
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by chongli 8mo ago
The point is to illustrate that SimCity isn't a blank-slate, value-free sandbox city-builder. It has rules and those rules have been made deliberately unrealistic in ways that favour North American style cities. It's like a fluid
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by chongli 8mo ago
There's no issue with recursive definitions. That's how arithmetic was original formalized by Peano's axioms [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

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