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by foldr 1y ago
As you probably know, the misconception that Abby was trans was fed by online commentary made before the game was released, when people had just seen the trailer and only knew that there was a trans character in the game. No-one who actu
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by foldr 1y ago
> And even if you have everyone free housing, not everyone would take it. So now what? Possibly nothing? If you have free housing for anyone who wants it then you'll have some residue of homeless people, but not nearly as many as th
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by foldr 1y ago
The only examples you give of it 'catering to female and LGBT audiences' are the existence of some female and LGBT characters. Also, Abby is just a regular cis heterosexual woman, and there is never any indication that she might b
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by foldr 1y ago
It seems like you’re just saying that any game with female and/or LGBT characters isn’t suitable for a straight male audience.
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by foldr 1y ago
Loss of electrical power shouldn't cause the engines to fail. They have their own backup electrical power.
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by foldr 1y ago
I think an interesting cultural difference between Rust and Go is that Rust is a 'sufficiently smart compiler' language and Go isn't. In other words, in Rust, it's idiomatic to create an enormous chain of function calls
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by foldr 1y ago
I’d be somewhat skeptical of how much can be achieved just by bombing. It didn’t do much to stop the Nazi war machine in WWII. We have better munitions now, but we also have a lot fewer of them, and the US public won’t tolerate 121,000 dead
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by foldr 1y ago
I’m not talking about ignoring homelessness. Of course people ignore all kinds of instances of human suffering. What I don’t understand is how homelessness could need to be “humanized” when it’s already rather obviously tied to the sufferin
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by foldr 1y ago
Yes, the countries that have been making the most progress on research in a given area tend to be the ones that invest more money in it. I’m baffled that the lesson to be drawn from this is that the UK should invest less than its competitor
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by foldr 1y ago
What’s the plan then? To compete with China on battery technology by spending less money on scientific research? China at least gets the concept of a long term investment.
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by foldr 1y ago
If you look at the debt as a percentage of GDP or percentage of total wealth (both columns in the table, but not the default sort order) then the UK isn’t an outlier. Singapore has more external debt, for example.
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by foldr 1y ago
My pet peeve with the Figma drivers is that they tend to think of design as a 'phase' that happens before engineering. So as an engineer you are asked to implement a bunch of painstakingly laid out user interfaces that have never
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by foldr 1y ago
The concept of humanizing homelessness fascinates me. It really does seem that the cultural default in the US is to view homeless people as subhumans who deserve to lead miserable lives. I’m not saying that this is what you yourself conscio
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by foldr 1y ago
There's more to the group identity than just applying logic and rationality, yes. But surely 'rationalists' of all people wouldn't want to take the position that some of their key ideas don't result primarily from a
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by foldr 1y ago
Most people are trying to be rational (to be sure, with varying degrees of success), and people who aren't even trying aren't really worth having abstract intellectual discussions with. I'm reminded of CS Lewis's quip in
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by foldr 1y ago
The AI features in Zed are very easy to turn off / ignore. I agree that the AI features are probably taking development time away from other features that might be more useful.
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by foldr 1y ago
I see that the WSJ now claim to have a source inside the accident investigation for deployment of the RAT: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-787s-emergency-... Looks like dual engine failure really is t
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by foldr 1y ago
The whole concept of an “anti-pattern” is a discussion ender. It’s basically a signal that one party isn’t willing to consider the specific advantages and disadvantages of a particular approach in a given context.
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by foldr 1y ago
That’s interesting. It’s a little unclear from the reporting whether the engines rolled back to idle (in which case electrical power would still have been available, I assume) or shut down completely. A software bug rolling both engines bac
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by foldr 1y ago
My wild guess (which, to be clear, is no better than all the uninformed speculation that I’m complaining about) is that (i) some kind of software fault caused both engines to throttle back to idle and that (ii) the RAT didn’t actually deplo
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by foldr 1y ago
Not sure if that's supposed to be a reference to the Founding Fathers, but it's erroneous if so. The presumption of innocence long predates the American Revolution.
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by foldr 1y ago
I agree that the evidence of the RAT being deployed is somewhat convincing, but I've looked at the images and listened to the sounds, and I don't think it's as clearly established as the online 'consensus' would sug
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by foldr 1y ago
We're allowed to form judgments about people based on evidence that wouldn't be sufficient to convict them of a crime. The consequences of me forming the opinion that this guy is a domestic abuser are far lower than the consequenc
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by foldr 1y ago
I think people are making too much of some very grainy videos. There are some indications that the RAT deployed, but I think these have to be weighed against the inherent improbability of a completely simultaneous dual engine failure. There
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by foldr 1y ago
Marcus has made some good predictions and some bad ones. That’s usually the way with people who make specific predictions — there are no prophets. Not sure I’d agree that SA has been any more consistently right. You can easily find examples
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by foldr 1y ago
This sort of omission would not be considered scientific malpractice even in a journal article, let alone a blog post. A rebuttal of a position that fails to address the strongest arguments for it is a bad rebuttal, but it’s not scientific
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by foldr 1y ago
Even Sam Altman thinks we’re not at AGI yet (although of course it’s coming “soon”).
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by foldr 1y ago
I don’t read GM as saying that LLMs “don’t work” in a practical sense. He acknowledges that they have useful applications. Indeed, if they didn’t work at all, why would he be advocating for regulating their use? He just doesn’t think they’r
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by foldr 1y ago
It does rebut point (1) of the abstract. Perhaps not convincingly, in your view, but it does directly addresses this kind of response.
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by foldr 1y ago
> In particular, the seeds for principled huge page allocation (HPA) were sown way back in 2016! HPA work continued apace for several years, slowed, then stagnated as tweaks piled on top of each other without the requisite refactoring t

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