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by dilap 3y ago
Current switch you can feel just be position -- don't need to toggle. You can also tell just by visual inspection. "Action button" feels like a gimmick, and I agree, backwards for usability.
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by dilap 3y ago
sorry!, i messed up the link -- i tried to link to the first tweet, which is viewable not logged in, and has a link to the study; then if you are logged in, it has a very helpful more informal discussion of the results. but i accidentally l
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Human basal metabolic rate has declined over the past 30 years(twitter.com)
34 points by dilap 3y ago|18 comments
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by dilap 3y ago
Does that invalidate the analogy? The point I'm trying to make is if you rule these behaviors illegal, then you're necessarily making intelligent AI illegal, because humans are capable of the same behaviors.
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by dilap 3y ago
Seems unfair as we converge on AGI. If I memorize the lyrics to a song, is that a copyright violation? The lyrics are encoded in the arrangement of my neurons, after all.
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by dilap 3y ago
To spell out the obvious, the problem with this is what is considered acceptable in society is always changing, and it's not practical or desirable to expect everyone to submit themselves at all times to the judgement of society. Beyon
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by dilap 3y ago
Very nice.
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by dilap 3y ago
A hack songwriter looks at other songs, mixes them together, and writes some songs. A true artist communicates something about their own experience of life through their songs (still taking inspiration in techniques of course from previ
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by dilap 3y ago
Extremely cool looking project which I would love to try, alas I am blocked by the lack of git-lfs support, for now https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/issues/80
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by dilap 3y ago
I think the takeaway is that the scientific method is great, but since science is necessarily conducted by humans, the economic incentives within context of "doing science" also need to be correct for good science to get done. (Cu
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by dilap 3y ago
sure, but in practice when people use the word science (as in "trust the science"), they mostly mean research happening in academia
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by dilap 3y ago
If you use AC in your car, you could get one of those iPhone holders that sticks into the AC vent -- then the AC would be directly blowing cool air onto your phone, which should keep it from overheating.
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by dilap 3y ago
yeah i hate the slow perf too, but their success in the market unfortunately i think validates the "features over perf" strategy (also, as slow as it is now, it's MUCH faster than it used to be, if you can imagine that!)
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by dilap 3y ago
why not flatbuffers, if youre looking to minimize wasted cpu?
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by dilap 3y ago
Is it the licensing that results in mostly safe engineering? I don't know, but I'd guess not -- it's probably more about liability. If a bridge or a balcony or a car or whatever fails, the responsible parties can be held lega
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by dilap 3y ago
I don't think requiring a professional license would result in these cameras being secure. The issue isn't individual developers, but market forces not rewarding making the investment to make software secure. I could imagine thing
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by dilap 3y ago
(i did not read the original paper but...) i think you want to subtract len(compress(x1)) and len(compress(x2)) on the lhs/rhs, instead of len(compress(y)) -- we care about the incremental complexity of adding y on top of x1 or x2, ign
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by dilap 3y ago
The cartels would still exist; they'd continue to make money, selling untaxed drugs, & via kidnappings and extorsions, & the numerous other ways that can be found to make money if you are willing to break the law and do bad thi
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by dilap 3y ago
we have account servers for a game in java that end up being cpu bound (we have to scale up based on cpu, not network), which is much much faster than python. so i would be surprised if a server written in python could saturate the network,
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by dilap 3y ago
Might not take the other side of that...
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by dilap 3y ago
They did an ungodly-bad rebrand and suddenly just looked like every other beer.
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by dilap 3y ago
A great novel by one of my favorite authors -- I think the way to understand Tao is he is simply trying to be as 100% purely honest as possible, to really grapple with what it means to be alive, in each and every tedious (or awkward or te
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by dilap 3y ago
Really? I would completely disagree. Reading his manifesto at 14 after seeing endless newspaper descriptions of it as incoherent, rambling, crazy, etc. was an eye-opening moment for me: I found the manifesto to be lucid and well-argued. In
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by dilap 3y ago
I meant go the other way -- the apps band together and all decide to support some alternative backend, instead of the official reddit. Ultimately it's the users that make a site valuable, and the clients seem to have a lot more goodwil
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by dilap 3y ago
Yeah I don't know either. How hard could it be to build though? I say that half-jokingly... Is the reddit API complex?
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by dilap 3y ago
Rather than shut down, it would be a great time for all these clients to get together and decide on an official alternative site to reddit, and start supporting that. If they did it en-masse and in a coordinated fashion, it might be enough
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by dilap 3y ago
Awaiting extradition in prison, what else?
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by dilap 3y ago
Notice the US did not succeed in capturing him, but did succeed in associating him with Russia & inducing uncertainty about Snowden's revelations and motivations in the public mind.
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by dilap 3y ago
Yeah, definitely -- he'd be suffering the Assange treatment right now otherwise.
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by dilap 3y ago
He was actually trying to reach Ecuador; the US canceled his passport, trapping him in Russia (which was an excellent move from a PR perspective; the US is second-to-none in PR/propaganda). Once he was stuck there he applied for asylum

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