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by ghurtado 1y ago
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Some will read this and laser in on the "socialism" part, but obviously
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by ghurtado 1y ago
When you start to think about who exactly determines what makes a valuable company, and if you believe in the buffalo herd theory, then it makes a little bit of sense.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
There's also no evidence that it won't, so your opinion carries exactly the same weight as theirs. > Progress in AI has always been a step function. There's decisively no evidence of that , since whatever measure you use
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Because you can describe the chemical interactions of nicotine with the human body to a high degree of accuracy, while the psychology of human attention in the 21st century is a subject that is very far from that cut and dry. That's wh
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> I got banned by Google because they disallow any alternative site for YouTube, only embeds are allowed. I'm sorry that happened to you, but that seems like a perfectly reasonable policy. In fact, I would have assumed that's t
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> I think the space race ended because we got all the benefit available We did get all the things that you listed but you missed the main reason it was started: military superiority. All of the other benefits came into existence in servi
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> also clearly framed this as my opinion, you are free to have yours. Yes, thank you for your generosity. You very clearly framed your opinion as a dual choice ("this instead of that", "rather than", "either or&q
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by ghurtado 1y ago
No, that's not what's behind talked about
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Right. This is like training an AI on being an Excel expert, and then ask it to make Doom for you: You're gonna get some result, and it will be impressive given the constraints. It's also going to be pure dog shit that will never
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Yeah but remember this tool is, today, the worst it will ever be. True. And it if it stops to be a path forward because a better approach is found (something more likely than not), then this is also the best it will ever be.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
If you think the results in that page are "good enough", then I assure you, as a heavy blender and Gen AI user, that it would take you much less time to get this good at blender (about Logo turtle level) than it would to figure
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> My hot-take: this is the future of high-fidelity prompt-based image generation and not diffusion models Why are those two the only options?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> unlike yours If irony was a ton of bricks, you'd be dead
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> a book I would write about software engineering: You should probably go do that, rather than using the comment section of HN as a scratch pad of your stream of consciousness. That's not useful to anyone other than yourself. Is thi
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> and have to learn tools more advanced than ctrl-f!! Such as ctrl-shift-f But this is an advanced topic, I don't wanna get into it
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Just pointing out a simple mistake. In the time that it took you to type that response, you could have learned 10 new words. I do it because I appreciate it when people do it for me. That was the purpose of my comment. What was the purpose
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> I'm 100% an armchair physician Not to be that guy, but a physician is a doctor.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> almost triple the age of our sun. In this insanely hypothetical scenario, would it be possible to see a sun before our sun? (In the same galactic vicinity)
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Don't be sorry, that was pretty good
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Here's a good rule of thumb: if you have to do it without other people knowing, because otherwise they wouldn't let you do it: chances are it's a bad thing to do.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
You seriously think that mankind wasn't lying and cheating long before inventing capitalism?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Sure. There's lots of things you could do, but you don't do them because they are wrong. Might does not make right.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Sounds like someone must have gotten their "graphies" mixed up
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by ghurtado 1y ago
The world can absolutely be more accepting of certain groups than in the past, while at the same time being less accepting of other groups. If you were part of the latter, you would instantly understand why we still have a lot of work to do
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by ghurtado 1y ago
See, it's stories like this one that make me really question just how ethical it is to completely eliminate Down's from the gene pool. I understand it's the correct medical and scientific thing to do, it's just that it s
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> What you're describing is called: programming. And once you have enough experience, you realize that maintaining your focus and managing your cognitive workload are the key levers that affect productivity. But, it looks like you a
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by ghurtado 1y ago
You're trying so hard not to learn something new in this thread, that it's almost impressive.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> I was already highly.. I stopped reading right here. Presumably other people did too. I don't think you're aware of the caliber of your hubris. About howitzer sized.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Surely this isn't the first time you see software that claims high performance and speed without any hard benchmarks attached. You can benchmark an algorithm or a small piece of code, but for something like a game library, the definiti
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Even better, don't use the Comcast router at all. It's a rip off anyway

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