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by gcanyon 2y ago
When I was in my twenties I would often get only 4-5 hours of sleep in a night, or sometimes if it got to be about 4am I'd just stay up through the night and go to sleep at 11pm or so the next night (early for me). I don't think I
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is an awesome way to spend a few minutes!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I was a solo latchkey kid from age... 5 or 6 maybe? I developed a love of reading and spent basically all my waking hours that weren't forcibly in the company of others doing that, by myself: summertime in San Diego, teenage me read 2-
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’m not categorizing addicts, I’m categorizing the companies that prey on people who purchase vast quantities of their product against their own interests.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’ve read articles that (drawing from memory) say that 10% of drinkers are responsible for 90% of all alcohol consumed in the U.S. I haven’t read articles on it, but I assume gambling and gun ownership are similar. I know people who: 1. Li
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Obligatory mention of the fact that the best exercise is the one you’ll do, regardless of what it is. Dance might be better for your brain than cycling, but neither helps anything if you give up on them after a few months. So find the (best
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I’m not claiming revenue must be even. And I’m assuming that the five customers actually benefitted from your company’s work? If so, then they’re not really comparable to gambling addicts, alcoholics, and gun fanatics, right? We already (po
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I wondered if that was what you were talking about.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> 30 years 45 years: December 1903 to July 1949 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-jet-makes-...
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by gcanyon 2y ago
For me Arc was exactly the wrong approach. I thought about asking for bookmarks, but switched back to Safari instead. A menu is just a better tool for keeping track of more than a few dozen things than Arc's sidebar is. If I had though
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Then online casinos are a bad business and shouldn't exist, just like breweries shouldn't exist if they can't break even selling to casual drinkers and need alcoholics to make a profit, and gun manufacturers shouldn't ex
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by gcanyon 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg It's well worth the watch, but tl;dr: it's a long-con scam. They invest as long as it takes to establish a relationship with you, and then engage you to do something (cr
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It is often the case that beginning go players don’t know when to quit. The question becomes more subtle as the players increase in skill. It is never as simple as “checkmate” — think more in terms of “mate in three”, except it’s more lik
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Stipulating up front that this is a question for a lead scientist at OpenAI: I could see a scoring function looking at essays in the New York Times vs. the National Enquirer and finding a way to generalize from there. Similarly for the top
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Ooh, I have stop the madness. I’ll have to check for that option. Thanks!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> it’s still relatively easy to understand how well you’re doing at any point This isn’t true, and is actually a large part of why go computers were getting destroyed by humans almost twenty years after deep blue took down Kasparov. Ther
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> go is a game with an obvious score function which can be used to construct a loss, well defined moves, and total visibility of the board This is literally the opposite of true, and the main reason go computers were getting destroyed by
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Anyone making the argument that computers/LLMs can only create mediocre content, and can’t (or it will take a long time to) create content that humans will find exceptional, needs to go back and read the commentary re: chess bots and g
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I assume there's something similar for Safari on Mac, but I don't know. When I run into a site that doesn't want to let me select/copy text, I screen shot the page -- in Photos on iOS, and in Preview on MacOS, selecting
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I have been negative on Oracle since the ‘90s, when I had to work with an installer CD for Oracle software —- an official Oracle CD —- that: 1. Had multiple installer applications on it, with no indication which was “the” installer applicat
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Same -- I would have guessed that I read about this in the late '80s.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Fun fact: I'm visiting Uruguay right now, and they have fluoridated salt here! (it's iodized as well)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I recently interviewed a number of people about their SQL skills. The format I used was to share two queries with them a couple days ahead of time in a google doc, and tell them I will ask them questions about those queries during the inter
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. Coming from Terence Tao that seems pretty remarkable to me?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I think it has to have been a significant factor just in general. And now I checked the route the previous record-holder rode, and it's a very different story: https://jenny-graham.com/round-the-world/ tl;dr: rain
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That's an interesting article, and I don't necessarily disagree with the thesis, but the article certainly doesn't argue well in support of its premise. It simply states it as fact, citing a book that apparently actually make
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by gcanyon 2y ago
When I was in my 20s I rode the coast of California. I did back-to-back centuries (>100 miles) for maybe 4-5 days in a row at one point. Granted that was self-supported, with loaded panniers front and back, but I can't imagine doing
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by gcanyon 2y ago
We’re in Punta del Diablo right now, and heading back down toward Montevideo (but not all the way) this weekend, then next weekend back to Montevideo to fly out. Any recommendations on where to stop on the way back? Anything important to se
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I happen to be in Uruguay right now (from the US). I rented a car -- didn't see an EV option. I've driven from Montevideo to Punta Del Diablo and I haven't seen a charging station :-( I wasn't looking for one, and checki
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Hi there! I happen to be in Uruguay (from the US) right now, congrats on your amazing country!

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