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by feoren 3y ago
You said a <2% difference in tuning is a larger question than composition styles . Like, the difference between 440 and 432 is more important than the difference between Baroque, Romantic, Atonal, Beebop Jazz, and Death Metal. "W
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by feoren 3y ago
> If a driver sees me walking in the crosswalk and notices that our paths will intersect, he speeds up. Everyone does it and everyone accepts the behavior It's a weird experience reading this about something I've never done nor
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by feoren 3y ago
Mike Verta is a Hollywood composer who has put out a lot of great videos on composition, and he makes great points on this (he has since become an insane alt-right nutjob, unfortunately, but his old videos are still up). He tells a story ab
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by feoren 3y ago
Literally pick one and then forget about it. Or split the difference and make it 436Hz if you want. It literally does not matter.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Flexible definition of data allows for greater precision of data structure. Other way around. If there are 3 different ways of doing something, the data structure is less precise. Say you have an object with a Name as a string. You kno
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by feoren 3y ago
XML is less precise, because it's more flexible. Powerful and mature tooling only matters to people creating and editing XML, not computers. XML Schemas are there to support human editors, not computers. Verboseness means larger fi
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by feoren 3y ago
The article feels like an excuse to talk about six different tangentially related topics at the same time. That's not a criticism of the article -- it's like listening to someone's wandering train of thought out loud, which i
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by feoren 3y ago
Put yourself in the frame of reference of the moving belt. An electric current is running through you, and also some other machinery around you is moving very slowly in the same direction as the current. So? Why should the movement of some
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by feoren 3y ago
I somehow knew everyone was going to assume I was talking about recycling. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about TRASH. GP mentioned TRASH. We're talking about mining, or sorting, LANDFILLS. Why is eve
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by feoren 3y ago
I've never before heard anyone ever suggest that we're "supposed to" be sorting and washing our trash at home. What an unbelievably wasteful and pointless notion.
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by feoren 3y ago
Lots of organisms eat wood and cotton. How often does your furniture and clothing just randomly disintegrate? You really cannot imagine a middle ground between these products existing for millions of years vs. your steering wheel falling ap
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by feoren 3y ago
You missed the point of the exercise. Of course it's extremely difficult to compare the two, but the question was: do humans get nearly as much training data as LLMs do? This analysis is good enough to say "actually humans receive
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by feoren 3y ago
> Blazor SSR + Vue I'm sorry, but WTF? You spend 5 paragraphs talking about how great Blazor Server-Side Rendering is and then throw a "+ Vue" right at the end? WTF? So it's not SSR at all !? How are you avoiding n
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by feoren 3y ago
> stop ... acting like there's some optimal amount of ads Why are you dismissing offhand the idea that there is an appropriate level of ads that users will feel is a fair trade for the content they're getting? You're just
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by feoren 3y ago
> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling. I made some false starts using what I could gat
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by feoren 3y ago
We can have nice things and also take care of the planet. If your suggested solution to climate change is that we all wear loincloths and live out in the trees, foraging for a paleo diet, then your suggestion is going to be immediately igno
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by feoren 3y ago
In the walls of new buildings.
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by feoren 3y ago
That flow is exactly what this article is telling you not to do. Basically the article said "don't do X, do Y instead", and GP said "ok, but if I don't do X, what if Z happens?" and your response is "the
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by feoren 3y ago
> You could add a hidden UUID to the form server side and only process any submission with a given UUID once. Not if you have a load balancer that might send the two requests to different servers. If all of your requests are idempotent (
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by feoren 3y ago
Screen readers are browsers. They could just ... not do that.
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by feoren 3y ago
Who exactly deserves a middle-management position where they sit between the actual business-handshakers who suck the blood from the company and the actual ("individual") contributors who do all the useful work? A nebulous self-bu
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by feoren 3y ago
> A car can kill people just as easily as a gun ... How do you justify that point of view? Right, and we have some oversight and regulation about who can operate a car, what kind of (admittedly low) bars they need to pass, and when their
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by feoren 3y ago
You're right of course, and I certainly don't have that expertise. I am literally just some rando on the internet. But they are points I'd like to see addressed before we start rewriting our understanding of human history.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Overall I think the burden of proof is on the group who wants to go against the status quo That attitude definitely benefits those who like the status quo. I think the "burden of proof", if such a thing exists, is on the posi
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by feoren 3y ago
> Over the years 2011 to 2015, they studied the structure using seismic tomography, electrical resistivity tomography and ground-penetrating radar. This has absolutely nothing to do with assessing the age of the site. I believe them that
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by feoren 3y ago
"We have intentionally trained them wrong. As a joke."
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by feoren 3y ago
You may be using a stricter definition of "control you" than GP was. Perhaps the better word would be "influencing" you. That can mean something as subtle as reminding you that pizza exists and it's yummy and mmm is
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by feoren 3y ago
Great points in general, but two things: > you don't want to give lots of information to the CIA if they're violent maniacs because they might use that information recklessly ... the biggest problem in the scenario is if the CI
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by feoren 3y ago
Please see my sibling comment to yours for three reasons why this is a terrible justification for spying. > The most powerful country in the world should have an inside track on whats going on in important markets, by hook or by crook
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by feoren 3y ago
(Arguing with the point you present, not against you, since it seems like you mostly disagree with it too.) Reason 1 to reject spying for this reason: literally any spying could be justified this way. Every butterfly's wing flap could

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