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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
The “skill” line is what gamblers tell themselves to justify it. A much more useful demarcation is “does this game have any positive impact on the world” (entertainment value of the gambling itself doesn’t count). For example, insurance is
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
I always re-read this on MLK day and learn something new each time. Pull quote for this year “All that is said here grows out of a tragic misconception of time. It is the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
Likewise, and I always find something new in it. It is always more challenging than I remember it.
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
https://theicct.org/publication/electric-cars-life-cycle-ana... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596... (paywall) https://about.bnef.com/insi
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
Please don’t be so naive as to think that this administration is above creating a pretext for raiding the home of their real target while claiming it’s about something else. It’s the same thing (minus the raid, plus an indictment) they’re d
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
Unfortunately, that is not true. Many manufacturers are very resistant to using Carplay.
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
I would gladly be part of a neighborhood battery swap pool if it would help get rid of the near constant running of gas powered lawn equipment every morning. The sound and pollution are such a menace.
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by collinmcnulty 9mo ago
The USA-led coalition conclusively won the Gulf War. We don’t think about it as much precisely because it wasn’t a boondoggle that lasted years and years.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I am so pleased by ty’s stance that I should not have to add annotations to satisfy the type checker. I ripped out last type checker out because it was constantly nagging us about technicalities, but ty immediately found issues where we ann
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
According to the article, they are part of the Communications Workers of America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_Amer...
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
The problem with descriptive names is that they start descriptive but then become proper nouns. At a former employer in the Fortune 100 outside the software industry, everything started with a descriptive name, that then became an acronym.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
This is my plan at least 1. Don't build the Torment Nexus yourself. Don't work for them and don't give them your money. 2. When people you know say they're taking a new job to work at Torment Nexus, act like that's
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
> But if intelligence really does become too cheap to meter, it will become possible to do a perfect reconstruction and synthesis of everything. LLMs are watching (or humans using them might be). Best to be good. I cannot believe this is
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
Who is “we”? Even within the USA that statement certainly isn’t true everywhere.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I recently learned about Singapore’s seemingly excellent public housing system that is used by over 75% of its population. Singapore being so capitalist about everything else while carving out housing I think provides evidence that capitali
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I think the ship very much has not sailed on how different spaces treat LLM responses. Are LLMs something that you can use if you want, but are considered rude and banned from being blatantly posted without human ownership? “You can’t use a
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
> Surely you can think of something cool to build with that, which doesn't involve money. People have been saying this for nearly a decade and many people with a great deal of motivation have failed to find any that worked and could
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
This might be a bit of talking past one another. The rent vs buy argument should be comparing similar housing, but your comment bakes in the assumption that renting=apartment. That may be true for your area, just wanted to point out the dis
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
If Wikipedia was not real, it would sound like a naive utopian thing you’d read in a bad paperback. Multi-language repository of basically all human knowledge that’s extremely resistant to government capture and contributed by volunteers to
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I did too, but still managed to gain a lifelong appreciation for live theatre.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
Friend, go to a community theatre production and you will find people engaged in something for which there is no economic incentive. Or learning a new language after retirement. Or playing church softball. There’s more to life than money, a
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
To say the quiet part out loud, I don't think any serious companies have any intention to build a data center in space. There is no benefit in actually trying this. There is however, benefit in saying you'll do it to advance a n
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I think GP's point is that an advanced nation-state could just as easily shoot down an orbiting data center as an oceanic data center and that "international space" offers an equally flimsy defense as "international wate
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
Agreed completely on this. I almost wonder if it’d be more palatable to add a grade above A, like a Japanese style “S”.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
I think widening the aperture outside the USA shows how big societal progress has come out of universities of the type we now recognize, starting with 1800s Germany. Even within the USA, the technological and social progress that percolated
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
It’s absolutely an uneasy partnership. But my goodness the benefits of having rubbed shoulders with people studying forensics, entomology, philosophy, pure math, and agriculture were enormous. If I had gone to a school composed exclusively
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
What you’re missing is that when you die, your heirs don’t pay capital gains taxes on the value that appreciated during your lifetime.
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
This view seems to be common, but I think it misses what incredible alchemy comes from making people who come in for “job training” (like I did) spend 4 years in close proximity with research, academic freedom, liberal arts, and at least an
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by collinmcnulty 10mo ago
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges” It’s likewise a dirty trick to target a harmless cultural practice for a disfavored group and ban it for “everyone”.
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by collinmcnulty 11mo ago
My first big career move was similar. Employer had all these complicated ML models that played great at conferences, but operators who had to use them said they were inaccurate and indecipherable. I asked the operators what they used to sor

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