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by gwd 1y ago
> What are you thinking of? There is no difference between those things. I'm talking about pinyin here. In Mandarin, there are to distinct sounds, one represented in pinyin by 'q', and one by 'ch'. It took me m
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by gwd 1y ago
Pinyin was written by Chinese speakers for Chinese speakers. There are other romanizations written by westerners, and these are easier to see where the sounds come from; e.g., "tsai" rather than "cai". What use is &quot
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by gwd 1y ago
My son's first year teacher said (I may have the numbers slightly wrong) that Spanish has 23 phonemes (sounds the mouth makes) and 23 graphemes (ways to write sounds). English, on the other hand, has 43 phonemes and over 500 graphemes
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by gwd 1y ago
> Also, I never realized the irony that English avoids diacritics because of French influence But is that why they avoid diacritics? It sounds like English probably wouldn't have had diacritics even if the Normans hadn't com
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by gwd 1y ago
But to GP's point: > To those whose time is limited: you may wish to stop reading here. If you seek to improve your life, and want the greatest ‘bang for the buck’, you are well-advised to look elsewhere. > Meditation, for exampl
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by gwd 1y ago
> You're just having some abstract, theoretical conversation that has no basis in what has happened I'm having a conversation about principles ; and my principle is that there should be a path to redemption . When people s
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by gwd 1y ago
No I'm not. I'm not saying there should never be any consequences. But there should be a way to make things right again, even if you did it on purpose.
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by gwd 1y ago
> That's what firing is for. "I only harmed the company and my coworkers and myself for a year, before they had built up enough of a case to fire me." That's a year they could have been paying someone competent, rathe
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by gwd 1y ago
> They were given a chance to admit they were at fault. They instead bullshitted about “sloppy work”. So just to point out, here you're complaining about them not performing step 1 on the redemption path sufficiently well. That&#x2
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by gwd 1y ago
> I think of a spectrum of RPG participants. At one end you have the mini-maxers, who want to squeeze every advantage possible out of the rules, and at the other end you have the story tellers, for whom the rules are a just framework to
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by gwd 1y ago
Or, you know, having to deal with all the goat excrement; or either stopping for several hours three times a day to "pasture" (and having to find a place where the locals will allow you to do that), or carrying grain for 100 goats
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by gwd 1y ago
This is so stupid. One of the main reasons it's become a dystopian, hellish process is because people cheat; proliferating cheating will make it even worse. Lying and cheating on a job interview isn't a victimless crime. You&#
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by gwd 1y ago
Do you never ever do anything that's wrong? If so, well, I guess good for you; but the rest of us sometimes screw up. There needs to be a path for redemption. Admit you were at fault, make it right, do better next time. ETA And
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by gwd 1y ago
Er, they all seem pretty connected: 1. Computers could be more fun if you could buy things more easily. Crypto could solve that, but the people involved don't care about crypto, they care about Whatever. 2. Computers can be fun when p
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by gwd 1y ago
That doesn't place the burden in the right place. It should be the job of everyone reading to wonder if the accusations are true or try to prove them false. It should be the job of the person making the claim to post credible referen
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, that's a different issue. When you asked them, they were happy, they gave good feedback. I wonder if reviews should have a field for "how long have I owned it" (or even "about when did I buy it", to track c
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by gwd 1y ago
That's the kind of thing you don't post without a reference.
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by gwd 1y ago
> I literally asked very politely against a random sampling of all orders if they would consider leaving us a review Uh, this is how it's supposed to work? Make a good product, get good reviews for free. "Make a crappy &#x2
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by gwd 1y ago
> She has absolutely no qualms about moving the story from step to step with very little exposition in between. She’s just really dope, treats the reader in a very accelerated way. I dunno, the pacing I always think was really weird , e
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by gwd 1y ago
I don't see that quip in that link? It seems to think that Mr. Elliot is the most dangerous of rakes, and I'm inclined to agree. But there's an unexamined assumption in that piece that good characters should be rewarded and
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by gwd 1y ago
> So isn't the natural interpretation something along the lines of "the various dimensions along which GPT-4o was 'aligned' are entangled, and so if you fine-tune it to reverse the direction of alignment in one dimens
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by gwd 1y ago
A book that helped me understand what's going on in Austen the best was titled "Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time". Jane Austen loved novels, but was also dissatisfied with what she saw as the flaws of a lot of the nov
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by gwd 1y ago
Well over at AI Village[1], they have 4 different agents: AI o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claudes Sonnet and Opus. The current goal is "Create your own merch store. Whichever agent's store makes the most profit wins!" So far I t
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by gwd 1y ago
> wrecklessly <pedantic> It's "recklessly". "reck" is a very old word meaning "to care, heed, have a mind, be concerned about"; so "reckless" means "without taking heed". I ac
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by gwd 1y ago
I feel like every word in the title is deceptive: Someone you're renting a room from is not a "stranger", nor is their renting it to you "generosity", nor are you simply "getting by". "Enjoying the h
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by gwd 1y ago
That's my understanding, yes. "What counts as transformed" is fuzzy, but it's an old well-established problem with hundreds of years of case law.
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by gwd 1y ago
I experience it pretty regularly -- once the complexity of the code passes a certain threshold, the LLM can't keep everything in its head and starts thrashing around. Part of my job working with the LLM is to manage the complexity it
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An AI Marshall Plan: What could we do anyway?(axios.com)
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by gwd 1y ago
On the contrary. IANAL, but this is my understanding of the law (setting aside the "work for hire" thing for simplicity) 1. If you come up with something completely new, you are the sole copyright holder. 2. If you take someone e
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by gwd 1y ago
Haven't these guys heard of the "reciprocity principle"? When I went to Brazil a few years ago, the basic price for a tourist visa was like $25 and could be done online. But, if you were a US citizen, it cost $150 and you ha

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