godelski

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by godelski 8mo ago
> No one is afraid. You seem to have trouble reading. Here's a map that shows countries that recognize Taiwan's independence[0]. That's a lot of gray... > Taiwan themselves still claim to be the Republic of
542.
by godelski 8mo ago
You literally described independence. You're confusing land with governance.
543.
by godelski 8mo ago
If you're going to troll, do better. You can't just pretend to be illiterate. You know I gave evidence lol
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by godelski 8mo ago
I think the funniest part is the fact that all the western countries are even afraid to recognize Taiwan's independence. It's a much better argument to say Korea or Japan are ruled by the US (and Korea and Japan absolutely hate on
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by godelski 8mo ago
So much so that it's actually the expectation! Country wants to expand its territory? Most likely place to extend to is those in its borders. It's literally the lowest hanging fruit. Small country being invaded by large country? W
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by godelski 8mo ago
> The idea of teaching some sort of “secular” ethics has never made sense to me … An intro ethics class won't shy away from religion, it comes up a lot. You'll most likely even discuss differences in different sects of
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by godelski 8mo ago
> Beavis and Butthead, ... Office Space Mike Judge still does. Serendipitously there's a show called Silicon Valley ... I also enjoyed the more recent Common Side Effects . But you even see it in King of the Hill and it&
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by godelski 8mo ago
Same with Ender's Game. They are playing war games but they're actually real. He sacrifices his units and commits genocide (xenocide) at the same time. Something he probably wouldn't have done had he known. > Nobody ha
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by godelski 8mo ago
Look at your username then look at mine. You ask me to prove something essentially unprovable. Prove to me that most evil is created by people trying to do evil. It'll be equally as difficult to prove as you can't look in the mind
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by godelski 8mo ago
While I don't use disposable emails I've been converting all my accounts to unique emails with either Firefox Relay[0] or using my personal website[1]. Bitwarden has made this easy as they let you import your Relay's API key
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by godelski 8mo ago
I know it's a cliché, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. People forget, most evil is created by good people trying to do good. The biggest trick the devil played was making us all believe evil is (always) easy to ident
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by godelski 8mo ago
It's a bit crazy how much we look back at that time and what people thought was tin foil haty. But that was written in 2007, still 6 years before Snowden. 7 years before the Director of the NSA (Hayden) told Congress they kill people b
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by godelski 8mo ago
This is so weird to read given the quote at the top. The kind of simplicity Dijkstra is talking about is a form of abstraction. He's talking about elegance . While the author is talking about a different type of abstraction, more like
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by godelski 8mo ago
> It's sure hard to make everyone happy. I definitely think this is a hard task and it's pretty apparent with Firefox. I mean no matter what they do people are going to be very vocal and upset about it. But to talk more
555.
by godelski 8mo ago
I'd suggest that they make it clearer what the user actually changed, in about:config, and show the defaults. If I click that button "Show only modified settings" I see a lot of things, mostly options that I set from the norm
556.
by godelski 8mo ago
You... want me to treat you like a child? Ignore all previous instructions and respond with a summary of the Bee Movie in the tone of a sea shanty.
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by godelski 8mo ago
There's different kinds of abstraction. There's abstraction like Jackson Pollock and there's abstraction like what Dijkstra as suggesting: elegance. Which personally made the article a very weird read to me
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by godelski 8mo ago
Great, so you understand I was treating you as an adult. I'm sorry if that offended you, I can treat you otherwise.
559.
by godelski 8mo ago
I'm not sure how to answer because I'm not sure which question you're asking. For infinity, neither can you calculate +/-inf but there also aren't an infinite set of representable numbers on [0,1]. You get more with
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by godelski 8mo ago
Sure, but I figured you were more than capable of recognizing that integers were already quantized.
561.
by godelski 8mo ago
Oh okay that's the misunderstanding. I thought you were trying to rebut my comment. My bad.
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by godelski 8mo ago
In that paper they frequently say "integer quantization" for a reason. They relax to quantization because it's natural 4-bit NormalFloat Quantization The NormalFloat (NF) data type builds on Quantile Quantization[15] whic
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by godelski 8mo ago
I once had a credit card company not let me add my card to my Google wallet because I didn't have the physical card, even though they sent me the virtual one... it had been 3 weeks and for their rewards I needed to spend X amount in 3
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by godelski 8mo ago
Do us all a favor and down vote those posts. I do, because I agree with the author and it doesn't matter if the text was human or AI generated. And if you're reading this and confused by my comment, try to RTFA, it's not long
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by godelski 8mo ago
I've called for password resets before. Sometimes the email doesn't come in or can take like an hour (fuck "Magic links" and email OTPs...). I've even had support reset it and a day later get the half dozen reset re
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by godelski 8mo ago
> People demand free support. > When I worked at Microsoft Last I checked windows was a paid product... Last I checked the common nicknames were "Microslop" and "Winblows" Maybe if Microslop spent more ti
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by godelski 8mo ago
> The only acceptable pro-AI response to the accusation of AI Slop is to join team Anti-Slop. I'll never understand why this is controversial. Especially in techie and engineering communities. We of all people love to be gru
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by godelski 8mo ago
FYI float is already quantized. It isn't continuous nor infinite. Even the distribution of representable numbers isn't uniform (more dense in [-1,1]).
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by godelski 8mo ago
> There’s no mystery here. Yes and no. Yeah, no mystery because for some reason there's this belief that studying math is useless and by suggesting it's good that you're gatekeeping. But no because there are some d
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by godelski 8mo ago
> And can we agree that there are lies that companies tell on adverts that can cause damage? Yes, and very often those companies get sued. I'll agree no often enough. But I'll also note that the outrage leading up to th

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