habinero

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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, it's almost like porn isn't the problem, it's crime and chargebacks. All of those sites use high risk payment processors if they go through the major card networks.
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by habinero 1y ago
Really? It's not difficult. Visa doesn't give a single shit about porn, porn generates a lot of fraud and chargebacks that cost them money. Most people I see complaining about how "unethical" it is are the ones who got k
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by habinero 1y ago
I think your reference pool is just small. I absolutely use it for meat and especially for ground meat, which has a much higher chance of contamination.
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by habinero 1y ago
It really doesn't lol. I don't get the reactionary right's hysteria about Reddit. It's so clearly not true it's just silly. It's like when my brother let my little cousin watch a scary movie and she had hysteri
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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, basically. Nobody wanted to pay $12,000 to be in a plane for three hours when they could pay ~$1200 to be in one for six hours. Plus, they used up a lot of fuel. That made them real vulnerable to oil price spikes. Contrast that with
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by habinero 1y ago
This is like saying "planets exist, therefore it's possible to build a planet" and then breathlessly writing a ton about how amazing planet engineering is and how it'll totally change the world real estate market by 2030
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by habinero 1y ago
It is different. Most systems aren't designed to be a slot machine.
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by habinero 1y ago
Honestly? Spam and upselling executives on features that don't work. It's a pretty good autocomplete, too.
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by habinero 1y ago
Nah, you're managing to miss the point going both ways lol. It's both. Let's assume for the sake of argument that your statement is true, that you do, in fact, somehow get 10% more useful results. The two points are: 1. That
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by habinero 1y ago
Hmm. Responding to "the government is kidnapping people off the street with no due process or recourse, and my friends are desperately afraid their spouses will be taken." with a sneering "yeah but what about all the other
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by habinero 1y ago
It's just a pile of statistics. It isn't acting like a feeling thing, and telling it "do this or people will die" doesn't actually do anything. It feels like it does, but only because humans are really good about
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by habinero 1y ago
Huh. It takes a special kind of person to respond to "my IRL friends credibly fear being disappeared by the government" with a sneer of "lol reddit". Man, I am glad I am not that person.
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by habinero 1y ago
I did indeed see your hypothetical. What you're missing is "I made this 10% more accurate" is not the same thing as "I made this thing accurate" or "This thing is accurate" lol If you need something to b
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by habinero 1y ago
A trick that "improves accuracy" but isn't reliable isn't improving accuracy lol
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by habinero 1y ago
My dude, I know multiple white people in LA who are terrified their Hispanic spouses might not come home one day, because masked agents are grabbing people and disappearing them. The president threatened to deport a legal citizen who won th
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by habinero 1y ago
Because it's not reliable? Why would you want to rely on a solution that isn't reliable?
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by habinero 1y ago
Not really, no. Both of those projects are tinkertoy greenfield projects, done by people who know exactly what they're doing. And both of them heavily caveat that experience: > This only works if you have the capacity to review what
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by habinero 1y ago
You've never read any engineering blog rants, then.
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by habinero 1y ago
We have lots of students and eternally manufacture more.
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by habinero 1y ago
Not the same thing. With human code reviewers, you can talk to them and resolve conflicts. You can even ask them to review code differently in future. The whole point of a tool is to reduce workload. If you have to frequently correct it, th
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by habinero 1y ago
Huh? This is not at all accurate. There are simple and reliable methods, they're used all the time. I promise you, women understand their cycles quite well and absolutely nobody jumps right to IVF (which costs tens of thousands of do
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by habinero 1y ago
No, you misunderstood what they said. And I misspoke a little, too. While it's true that in principle it doesn't matter what style you choose as long as there is one, in practice languages are just communities of people, and
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by habinero 1y ago
No, they're absolutely correct that it's critical in professional and open source environments. Code is written once but read hundreds or thousands of times. If every rando hire goes in and has a completely different style and for
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by habinero 1y ago
Sure, and there was a lot of hype about the blockchain a decade ago and how it would take over everything. YC funded a ton of blockchain startups. I notice a distinct lack of blockchain hegemony.
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by habinero 1y ago
80% is a pretty abysmal success rate and means it's very unreliable . It sounds nice but it means at least 1 in 5 are bad. That's worse odds than rolling 1 on a d6. You'll be tripping over mistakes constantly.
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by habinero 1y ago
LOL, exactly. All of the weird AGI/doomer/whatever bullshit we're calling it/ feels like exactly this: people who think they're too smart to fall prey to groupthink and bias confirmation, and yet predictably are fa
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by habinero 1y ago
A weird cult doing helpful community service doesn't cancel out the harm of them being a cult. If they want to donate to charity, they can just donate. You don't gotta make a religion out of it.
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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, but it turns out the Turing Test isn't all that hard to pass if you pick the right kind of people.
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by habinero 1y ago
> while LLMs have become so good at "human intelligence" (language) that they can reliably pass the Turing Test If the LLM overhype has taught me anything, it's the Turing Test is much easier to pass than expected. If you
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by habinero 1y ago
I swear, most of the AI "papers" that get posted here are someone screwing around with ChatGPT on ketamine and deciding they're advancing humanity.

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