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by farfatched 6mo ago
Either is fine. ``Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word'' https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/transpiler-formal/
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by farfatched 6mo ago
Public policy seems tricky if we must take every line of reasoning to its extreme.
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by farfatched 6mo ago
What if the parent is not responsible? Should society help the child, by making it more difficult for them to access harmful material, in the same way we age verify alcohol? What if the parent is responsible, but finds themselves in a situa
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by farfatched 6mo ago
> Parental responsibility and better parental controls would be a MUCH better way of going about this. Call we do all three? Also, what about the irresponsible parents, or parents who don't have time/opportunity to be responsib
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by farfatched 6mo ago
Is it so bad if different countries can have different values?
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by farfatched 6mo ago
The RSA algorithm was named after its creators: Adleman, Rivest, Shamir. Their initials were ordered "RSA" to reflect that Adleman was the "shoot it down" guy: "Rivest and Shamir, as computer scientists, proposed ma
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by farfatched 6mo ago
"404. We're having difficulty finding this." Page down?
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by farfatched 6mo ago
> One day I was doing work on my laptop on a couch because hitting 30 apparently means that sleeping slightly incorrectly results in debilitating back pain. A factor in my debilitating back pain for me (was 31 and fit; now 37; getting be
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by farfatched 6mo ago
> you must communicate them in contexts where there's a real chance of them being crossed I think this falls under de-escalation, and there's lots of approaches. Communicating boundaries, or stating if-thens, can be an escalati
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by farfatched 6mo ago
I feel like the moral dilemma is less significant if you're in a position to give out loans as gifts. The moral dilemma might be more significant if the amount is large enough to worry you. Suppose a close friend needs $50k for medical
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by farfatched 6mo ago
I've wondered how some people can be so calm/clear in difficult situations like chaotic press releases, or interviews, or ... I had figured it was experience + natural skill. How much are these people actively practicing?
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by farfatched 6mo ago
I'd like a local LLM too, but they're expensive (consider the opportunity cost of a GPU, if it sits idle most of the time), and produce heat and noise in places that I'm trying to cool and quiet. I'd like a private jet t
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by farfatched 6mo ago
Likewise, every right granted to every minority has occurred because people have remained more open minded than "Set the Line Before It's Crossed". > Social approval from peers comes first, lines are moved, always because
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by farfatched 6mo ago
I agree, and the point I challenge is the blog post's first: > Lines Will Move Further Away If They Aren’t Defined Is that necessarily a bad thing? Sometimes I think some line is important, then I move closer to it, and realise the
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by farfatched 6mo ago
His wife and the unhoused drug users can both can be worthy of sympathy and consideration.
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by farfatched 6mo ago
> Members of The Church of Graphs live by one primary commandment: thou shalt not believe your lying eyes. Ah, how familiar this is from some colleagues in tech. Demands of evidence are asymmetric: make a bold claim that's aligned w
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by farfatched 6mo ago
Scott Alexander, https://www.astralcodexten.com/ is one of the most influential bloggers in tech spaces. I was a keen reader, but don't follow so much anymore. That said, I don't think his blogging influence is th
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by farfatched 6mo ago
I want to support local models and compute over SaaS models. I want to support RISC V over Intel. I want other things too, and on balance, Intel+Anthropic is most compliant with my various preferences, even if they're not perfect.
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by farfatched 6mo ago
> The AI industry is 99% hype; a billion dollar industrial complex to put a price tag on creation. At this point if you believe AI is ‘just a tool’ you’re wilfully ignoring the harm. > (Regardless, why do I keep being told it’s an ‘ex