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by creata 3y ago
> everything moves through spacetime at the same rate Things don't "move through spacetime": https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/133821
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by creata 3y ago
Not that it makes much of a difference, but Rust does compile to 32-bit platforms. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm...
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by creata 3y ago
> For example, if a girl preferred traditionally male activities, today that is 1 of 2 criteria she needs to be considered as having gender dysphoria, while in the past she’d be called a Tomboy before. Sorry, I don't have the energy
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by creata 3y ago
> Use spacing to specify the order of arithmetic operations Reminds me of EWD1300: > Surround the operators with the lower binding power with more space than those with a higher binding power.
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by creata 3y ago
> gender dysphoria (5% of young adults now) In no country is it true that 5% of young adults have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The Pew Research article that you linked only looks at how people identify themselves.
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by creata 3y ago
Imo that's fine. In fact, it's annoying when people (e.g., the "5 seconds" rewind in the YouTube player) don't do this. Even if it's often abused, user-select exists for a reason. [But if there is some text i
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by creata 3y ago
As it's phrased, I think your question is useless, because it's more a function of the insane hype around LLMs. That is, as long as people think that LLMs can pass for humans, it's going to be hard to convince them that you
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by creata 3y ago
> Why can’t people just appreciate that? Because money sucks the joy out of everything? * There's a lot of money in LLMs right now, and people are desperate to find new and profitable uses for them. * Separately, there are a lot of
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by creata 3y ago
> google returning a list of exclusively black people when you searched for "american inventors" There's no way that's intentional. For starters, DuckDuckGo, Google and Brave image search all do the same thing here. M
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by creata 3y ago
> From the perspective of a customer, what is the difference between a heated seat that doesn't work because it doesn't exist, and one that is locked out by software? In the former case, I didn't pay you money, so you didn
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by creata 3y ago
> My games Can you link to these games?
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by creata 3y ago
> and it's only 384 dimensions And the model is only 70MB!
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by creata 3y ago
> Anyways, I'm pretty sure GP was being facetious. I hope so: if "build a camp for them out in the desert" is serious, it is a horrible way to talk about other humans, no matter how upset you are.
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by creata 3y ago
Taking results at face value is silly when your sample size is 1.
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by creata 3y ago
You probably already thought of this, but this looks like a 1-bit dithered image (maybe Floyd-Steinberg?) so maybe you can blur it to get something like the original image, then scale it up, and apply the dither again.
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by creata 3y ago
I'd get family to switch over to Linux, but it isn't ready. As far as I know, there's no comprehensive substitute for Microsoft Office, or many other Windows-only apps. In contrast, Firefox and Chrome are practically intercha
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by creata 3y ago
> I am horrified to read that people use them as a therapist replacements. I'm guessing that (thanks to wait times or simple anxiety) for a lot of those people, the alternative isn't therapy, but nothing (or worse, anonymous
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by creata 3y ago
> Llama 2 might be a better option but it's way more expensive to self-host a 70B L2. It's free if you're okay with getting one character per second (and possibly melting your laptop).
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by creata 3y ago
Of course, but it still breaks the split between interface and implementation that people are talking about here.
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by creata 3y ago
But there's no .cpp file for many (most?) uses of templates.
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by creata 3y ago
> I doubt UIs where you click on shit are going to exist at all in a couple of decades I'm not sure what kind of UI you imagine for, say, PowerPoint, or Blender, or Excel.
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by creata 3y ago
In rustup's defense, if you're already trusting them enough to run their executables, this isn't that much worse, afaik.
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by creata 3y ago
Running just some of the layers on the GPU can still make things much faster, though.
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by creata 3y ago
Okay, come on, surely even you can see how this is the shittiest rebuttal ever.
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by creata 3y ago
I'm not demanding perfection. I'm literally just asking "what would be different this time", and the only answer I'm getting is "we know better this time around". Seriously: the reason asylums were so pron
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by creata 3y ago
> I think coming up with a comprehensive mental health policy is a little beyond the scope of a HN comment True, but that's clearly not what I asked for. > If there are, we already have an example in homosexuality of how we can s
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by creata 3y ago
If something goes really badly, and someone wants to try it again, the natural questions to ask that person are: * What do you think are the reasons why it went badly last time? * What are you proposing we do differently? * Are you sure tha
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by creata 3y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm curious: what's wrong with position (3)? That's kinda where I am right now.
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by creata 3y ago
> lots of mentally ill people don't get proper treatment, yet are still a huge burden on the health care system. I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but why do you believe that?
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by creata 3y ago
People find his ideas fun. That doesn't mean they're good. Astrology is much more obviously incoherent, but it isn't going to "collapse under its own weight" any time soon either.

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