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by dahart 4mo ago
Absolutely! And if you are seeing out opposite points of view, don’t underestimate the power of being (or appearing to be) ignorant and/or wrong. Of course, the article’s conclusion about just asking questions, instead of trying to con
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by dahart 4mo ago
> There are countless facts, indisputably so. True, but isn’t the problem here that even though there are many facts, no one of us knows most of those facts with absolute certainty, and we learned them from other people, therefore we pri
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by dahart 4mo ago
> as soon as you state a position, you’re arguing it. That’s true, but is that the meaning of argue that the author was referring to? Do you see a difference between arguing for something (making a case) and arguing with someone (contrad
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by dahart 4mo ago
Yeah exactly, we now have so many layers of stuff. On top of vmem & OS, add high def displays, and today’s corporate firewall and malware scanning. I wouldn’t be surprised if just booting my Win 11 laptop, logging in, and launching Team
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by dahart 4mo ago
On the flip side, the fact that those processors were enough to steer spacecraft make me feel like there’s also a decent amount of remarkable wtf in how much compute we have now and how little we get out of each instruction on average com
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by dahart 4mo ago
I think I’m agreeing with you whole-heartedly if I say that article’s conclusion is at best extreme and unrealistic when it says “the parsers need to be fixed. They should support extracting any numeric type we want from JSON numbers and at
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by dahart 4mo ago
> It is just plain ago and pettiness […] Why else would Zuck cheat on a board game Recently I felt somewhat enlightened on this point, specifically in regards to Trump cheating at golf and some of his bald-faced lies, but I’d speculate i
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by dahart 4mo ago
> Anything other that integers with minor-unit precision, unless you have a very good reason, is a bad idea. The article clearly communicates this sentiment, no? What else needs to be said? How much further does it need to go, and why? I
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by dahart 4mo ago
What are you referring to with the integers/floats comment? The article says clearly that the rule of thumb is not to use floats and that they’re “almost never” a good idea, that they cause unpredictable precision loss, and recommends
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by dahart 4mo ago
The fast part isn’t for your benefit, primarily, and news media would love to go slower and have more time if they could, and still survive. The race to break news first - in order to be the one to tell their audience something “new”, somet
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by dahart 4mo ago
> can you show me ownership of these kills people? You aren’t looking at this from a systems thinking perspective It seems like you’re the one ignoring the system and demonstrated end-to-end results. Ownership of larger vehicles is posin
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by dahart 4mo ago
Having the constants at the top is more easily customizable, especially should this file get duplicated. If devs need to switch to http instead of https for testing or staging, it makes sense to separate the scheme from the domain and put t
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by dahart 4mo ago
You probably already have the common abstraction factored - the code to load pixels for a single sprite, and to display it? It makes sense to me that the level above that, interpreting the sprite sheet layout and modes of playback, come in
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by dahart 4mo ago
El Niño has been occurring naturally for more than 10,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_...
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by dahart 4mo ago
> but then again most people working at LLM companies are deeply antihuman to start with. I agreed with you up til this point, but this isn’t true and isn’t called for, and doesn’t strengthen your otherwise good point, in fact it weakens
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by dahart 4mo ago
> the author is leaning on linguistics Please elaborate. I haven’t used entropy balancing or difference in differences, but those articles explain that their purpose is to try to tease out causation. What - exactly - is the linguistic tr
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by dahart 4mo ago
What exactly is the problem with that sentence? Are you sure the problem isn’t that you don’t understand what it means? Here are a few links explaining the terms: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7384548/
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by dahart 4mo ago
Ah the age old question: what makes something good? I think you’re already describing it well at a high level; context matters, and there are multiple axes to consider. But that’s extremely vague and doesn’t help you identify or measure qua
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by dahart 4mo ago
I have so many questions… Since Apple already sells unified memory systems, what is the market opportunity you envision? Do you see Nvidia and Apple as competitors, and how? (And I’m not suggesting they’re not, necessarily, but I want to he
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by dahart 4mo ago
> If you use it on stuff that you’re pretty good at, it’s not a gamechanger (and if you’re an expert, it’s a minor boost at best). This was probably true last year, and it’s a common talking point, but I’ve seen too many examples now of
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by dahart 5mo ago
> supplements mostly create expensive pee Haha, that’s a great quote. Definitely going to borrow that one. Thanks!
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by dahart 5mo ago
ALICE is adjusted by household size, and cost of living adjusted. Louisiana is the state with the highest percentage of people below ALICE threshold, and the only state that crosses the 50% line. It’s right on their map, so now you know. h
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by dahart 5mo ago
Sure, but conservation in ray tracing is also a goal that not everyone has and isn’t required for teaching or games or making pretty & even plausible images. There are plenty of situations in both ray tracing and fluid simulation where
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by dahart 5mo ago
> using the resulting measurements from this flawed system is horribly misleading Then don’t. Use the cost-of-living metric you’ve been arguing for to answer the relevant question here. When accounting for cost of living, you will discov
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by dahart 5mo ago
You’re still wrong. What you quoted is what they did in 1963, not how they’re setting the poverty threshold today. The same page you pulled the quote from contains a paper that discusses the many changes to the poverty threshold calculation
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by dahart 5mo ago
Fair use was common law with judicial precedents for a couple hundred years before it became a statutory law in 1976. Why would fair use law go away? Fair use for the purpose of critique is maybe the best & most favored defense of fair
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by dahart 5mo ago
1- The poverty thresholds are not using the 1963 guidelines and adjusting for inflation, that’s not correct either. https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty/guidanc... 2- $16k / year / p
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by dahart 5mo ago
Yes I understand your point and yes I brought up ALICE - as an aside - and I see that was my mistake because you’re using it to dodge the core fact that LA has very high poverty relative to most other states. ALICE levels are a completely d
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by dahart 5mo ago
> Median income doesn’t tell the whole story, but neither does percent below the poverty level. You’re equivocating. Poverty rate is a much better metric for measuring poverty than median income is. Louisiana has a higher poverty rate,
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by dahart 5mo ago
Okay I see your point; the state has money, even if a significant portion of the population doesn’t. That in itself is a problem. I was arguing, and many others here are arguing that the population of LA is poor, and you’re arguing that t

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