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by feoren 2y ago
But those two tiers are not really competing with each other, are they? I'd wager that most people are fixed in one group: either they will never watch anything with ads (e.g. me), or they just don't care about seeing ads. The f
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by feoren 2y ago
Thank you for the good discussion. I think we share a lot of the same vision. I'm more pessimistic than you about inherent limitations in crypto (and more optimistic that there's still room for improvement in fiat), but I hope you
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by feoren 2y ago
My point is that there is no prompt engineering that could keep Vikings white without also keeping Italian plumbers looking like Mario. Unless you singled out Mario, but there are too many examples to do that with. The AI does not put Mario
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by feoren 2y ago
> We would be pissed if a human artist did that No, I would not be pissed if a human artist drew an Asian Viking. Do you get pissed when a human artist draws a white Jesus? Why are we justifying internet outrage over an Asian Viking when
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm assuming the downvoters are the ones who get offended at the sight of an Asian Viking, so let me ask you this: In a work of fiction -- which you're automatically asking for when you ask an AI to generate an image -- in a wor
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by feoren 2y ago
I remember all the hullaballoo about Asian Vikings and the like. It was so preposterous that Vikings would ever be Asian that it must be ultra-woke DEI mind-worms being forced onto AI! But of course, as far as the AI's concerned, it is
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by feoren 2y ago
I know this is hard for techies to hear, but the way you fight existing power structures is by organizing, petitioning, protesting, voting. Political, in other words. No technology is going to come and save us from powerful people exploitin
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by feoren 2y ago
> It's very difficult to decide which module to put an individual function in It's difficult because it is a core part of software engineering; part of the fundamental value that software developers are being paid for. Just lik
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by feoren 2y ago
I just don't see most of what you're talking about as either actual problems, or as caused by fiat currency / solved by crypto. > why not create the transaction up front and include the conditions under which it should or
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by feoren 2y ago
If the first note isn't on the 1, you'll write rests before it, so that the person reading your sheet music understands what's going on. That doesn't mean the music has started yet. The notation is not the music.
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by feoren 2y ago
> 2. You hear the incomplete first measure as an anacrusis, or a kind of unaccented lead-in, to the second measure: OMG even more radical! Why is this radical at all? This is exactly how most humans perceive it: as a lead-in to the secon
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by feoren 2y ago
> There's a tremendous amount of waste in the economy related to reconciling different companies' records of who owes what to whom and then getting that info to the bank and then hearing back from the bank about whether the deb
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by feoren 2y ago
> Plain English can be every bit as precise as legalese. If you attempt to make "plain English" as precise as legalese, you will get something that is basically legalese. Legalese does also have some variables, like "Party
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by feoren 2y ago
Option 3: treat your students like adults as much as possible and be flexible with everyone about how they complete the class as long as they demonstrate that they've done sufficient work and have sufficient mastery of the material. Th
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by feoren 2y ago
While we wait for the official discriminated union feature, the OneOf package is a pretty good stand-in: https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf
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by feoren 2y ago
Here's what I don't understand. Let's say you're a selfish multi-billionaire, essentially having won at life, and now you want more . Essentially the only things your money can't buy you are long life, health (both
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by feoren 2y ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment at all, but your 99% number is definitely way off. The number of PEs in the US seems to be around 500,000 per NCEES. That represents way more than 1% of all "engineers" -- ther
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by feoren 2y ago
> some underlying public interest ... I think we should have these kinds of rules for people who design bridges, medical equipment, and passenger airplanes. I don’t think we should have these rules for people who design hard drive contro
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by feoren 2y ago
Requiring the sheet of paper is less about ensuring the person is qualified, and more about having something you can revoke if they act negligently. It turns out to be important some small percentage of the time that you can say "we wi
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by feoren 2y ago
> An OS on an OS, in a document reader Versus an interpreted language executed in a runtime running on a virtual thread of an OS running on top of a BIOS over a glorified calculator!? Insanity! Whatever happened to good old-fashioned pen
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by feoren 2y ago
"no filters", "what you see is what you get", "tells it like it is" has been said about a lot of pathological liars. I don't really get it. People said the same thing about Trump. There seems to be this th
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by feoren 2y ago
> having well rested and healthy worker will long term produce much better results You said the two words which will ensure this never happens in the US: "long term". Most companies have zero decision-makers who care about th
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by feoren 2y ago
Not several years' income, but I might pay you up to $50 for it if it's good. > In general if there is only one implementation just use it. This is good advice for people who don't understand what interfaces are for -- whi
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by feoren 2y ago
I'd argue that any functions with arity higher than 1 (including "this"/"self"), where one operand is not clearly "primary" somehow, should live in some sort of "service" (and I am including
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by feoren 2y ago
Honestly I wouldn't think much about offsetting thousands of points in my normal work. I'd expect that the compiler would do a good enough job of optimizing it and it's just as parallelizable (if necessary) as using a static
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by feoren 2y ago
Mostly agree, but there are methods that truly are best co-located with their (immutable) data. A good example is Point.Offset(deltaX, deltaY) which returns a new point relative to the callee. Why force that into a static class? There are p
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by feoren 2y ago
You contradict yourself here. Interfaces are useful for the same reason having private data is a good idea: separating the contract from the implementation. Interfaces are a description of what the consumer of the interface needs, not a des
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by feoren 2y ago
> using this definition everything is Natural, including fore example Complex numbers, which is obviously incorrect No, that's not "obviously incorrect", nor does it invalidate my argument: that is my exact argument. Com
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by feoren 2y ago
Sure, and we can call major sixths "one-point-six-eight-one-seven-nine-threes". Or "one-point-six-sevens" if you're a bit flat.
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by feoren 2y ago
Music only settled on 12 equal tones after a lot of music theory and a lot of compromise. Early instruments often picked a scale and stuck with it, and even if they could produce different scales, early music stuck to a single scale without

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