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by gjm11 4y ago
I would say "Thank you for reassuring me that even though this is a problem affecting my heart, which on the face of it sounds super-scary, it actually isn't all that threatening". (Well, probably I wouldn't be so explic
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by gjm11 4y ago
Because giving people useful things generally does them good rather than harm, and doing people good isn't unethical just because you could have done them more good at greater cost? Because if you are poor then buying more of somethi
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by gjm11 4y ago
Isn't Paxlovid an antiviral that works pretty well on Covid-19? (I agree with the rest of what you say.)
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by gjm11 4y ago
If you put a single extra perforation in, from the "outside" of the straw to the "inside", you add one hole according to my definition. If you drill all the way through from "outside" to "opposite outside&
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by gjm11 4y ago
As a couple of people have pointed out, I somehow fat-fingered an extra character into that URL -- the "b" on the end should not be there. Too late to edit the comment now. Sorry about that!
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by gjm11 4y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a curmudgeonly atheist who found that HDM steadily decreased in quality over the course of the three books as it ramped up the anti-religious emphasis. It's definitely not the case that the only peopl
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by gjm11 4y ago
The "war on Christmas" was always bullshit, a meme deliberately propagated by cultural conservatives to make other cultural conservatives feel threatened. A very merry Feast of Isaac of Woolsthorpe to you.
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by gjm11 4y ago
You might enjoy https://andrewmbailey.com/dkl/Holes.pdfb on some related issues concerning holes, though IIRC it doesn't discuss anything equivalent to your question, which I think is as much mathematics as philos
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by gjm11 4y ago
If I want a sexist poem that degrades men, I can write one myself. How is the world made worse by the fact that I can get a chatbot to write one for me instead? A bot can write bad poetry faster than I can, so if there were some purpose for
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by gjm11 4y ago
Downvoted for (1) complaining about downvotes and (2) "you people".
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by gjm11 4y ago
Oh, for sure, Fukushima's story is not one where everyone did the right thing. It's one where there was negligence and carelessness, as well as a huge (and, yes, in some sense predictable) natural disaster ... and despite all th
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by gjm11 4y ago
Ooooh, that's an interesting thought. You could be right. So, for the avoidance of doubt: The original original was redactle.com. The creator of that seems to have abandoned it not long after its creation, and to have taken no further
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by gjm11 4y ago
Well, there were people saying that Redactle seemed to have been abandoned in the Redactle subreddit before Redactle Unlimited was created. (I think.) In other words, although it's hard to know anyone's intent with confidence, it
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by gjm11 4y ago
I see this got downvoted. I vigorously endorse everyone's right to downvote things they think are bad, but I'm baffled as to what is supposed to be bad about the above, and if I've done something bad without knowing it I&
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by gjm11 4y ago
People think of Fukushima as (1) one of the very worst nuclear incidents there has ever been, and also as (2) something that cost very few lives. Yes, something like 150k people were evacuated because of worries about radiation. What you do
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by gjm11 4y ago
I'd like to remark for anyone not already familiar with the game in question that ... * Redactle Unlimited is a big improvement on original-Redactle * Redactle is (at least for those who like such things) a terrific game, and you shoul
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by gjm11 4y ago
For the avoidance of doubt, it wasn't a good catch, it was a joke; there is absolutely no way ChatGPT omitted B from its acrostic-thing in order to make a Hamlet reference.
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by gjm11 4y ago
Actually, the plural of "vir" is "viri"; Latin "virus" doesn't really have a plural but if it did it might be "via"; "virii" isn't the plural of anything; if it were, it would be o
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by gjm11 4y ago
Most amazing of all, it included a subtle Shakespeare reference. "To B or not to B?"
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by gjm11 4y ago
Wait until you see what they say about the sun "rising".
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by gjm11 4y ago
To be a bit more explicit than badrabbit about why the symmetry isn't there: The problem a filter like this is meant to solve is: You go on the web reading random stuff, and occasionally you run into something pornographic when that is
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by gjm11 4y ago
The article itself summarizes the outcome and is only four paragraphs long. ChessBase (1) are no longer offering for sale "Fat Fritz 2" and "Houdini" (which contain GPL code from Stockfish), (2) undertake only ever to di
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by gjm11 4y ago
For what it's worth, it doesn't to me. Discussing Mastodon is hardly "forced" when the overall topic is a new decentralized alternative to Twitter, since Mastodon is a decentralized alternative to Twitter that's bee
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by gjm11 4y ago
A couple of people asked where this was. I think the article is https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/some-things-to-learn-from... and the HN discussion is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32710002 (b
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by gjm11 4y ago
"O'Sullivan's First Law" seems like nonsense to me. Here are some counterexamples: Centrist political parties. Every small company I have worked for. ( Large companies tend to be performatively social-justice-y and econ
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by gjm11 4y ago
I agree about multiplying 4-digit numbers (though I suspect ability to do that correlates a lot with good working memory and concentration, which are useful for other things too). But the ability to dive into an unfamiliar body of code that
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by gjm11 4y ago
Unfortunately, the fact that a system is not designed to be used at a nontrivial scale is no guarantee that it won't be used that way. For instance, there are a lot of Excel worksheets doing things I am sure the designers of Excel ne
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by gjm11 4y ago
The (plausible) speculation in the article is that the reviewers "don't speak English" because, being machine-learning models rather than human beings, they don't speak any language at all.
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Deepfake Phishing(jefftk.com)
8 points by gjm11 4y ago|4 comments
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by gjm11 4y ago
A post about what seems to have been a pretty impressive Facebook phishing attack using (kinda) live deepfake video of one of the poster's friends.

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