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by hnfong 5mo ago
If you implement a game, people would play the game. (which is better than if they ignored it) I would have thought that software engineers, of all people, would understand that one's intention and what they actually implemented in a s
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by hnfong 5mo ago
Not even fish and chips?
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by hnfong 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._CASA
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by hnfong 5mo ago
Well, to put it precisely, an omniscient being would theoretically be capable of knowing today's state of the law with probabilities assigned to the results. I'm serious. Pick any non-trivial issues of law, ask a world leading exp
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by hnfong 5mo ago
document.addEventListener('keydown', (event) => { // Map the keys '1', '2', '3' to array indices 0, 1, 2 const keyMap = { '1': 0, '2': 1, '3&#x2
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by hnfong 5mo ago
Also criminal liability is generally handled differently. Some jurisdictions have no limit, and where the limits exist for criminal liability, limitations on serious crimes can be much longer than the civil ones.
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by hnfong 5mo ago
I must admit I've never been hit so hard that I am 100% knocked out, so I can't really speak as to the subjective experience of being knocked out (from the non-physical consciousness perspective, not the brain)... but surely it is
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by hnfong 5mo ago
Interesting. I don't think the GP's objection is fatal either (for reasons mentioned in another reply), but let me try to poke holes in your argument. If I understand your analogy correctly, you're saying the brain here acts
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by hnfong 5mo ago
There are a lot of similar ideas in various ancient/traditional spiritual/esoteric teachings. "Consciousness first" is actually the more typical assumption among the traditions that have something we'd label as a ph
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by hnfong 5mo ago
There is a "The Matrix" (the movie) argument where we posit these: 1. Whatever you believe is true is true (this is how the consciousness builds worlds before there is any physical existence) 2. Our consciousness built the physica
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by hnfong 5mo ago
> I find it extremely unlikely that there was any noteworthy amount of "complaining" about it at any point in history. "If plows had not been invented nobody would have to plow the fields!!!" OK, if that logic sounds
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by hnfong 5mo ago
Come on, we all know why they work there... "I only work here because I like money and Meta pays more than $(INSERT_OTHER_FAANG)"
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by hnfong 6mo ago
There is nothing anti-science about the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence. In fact its apparent absence is has a name -- it's called the Fermi Paradox. And the facts are just ... released. It's the interpretation of the observ
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Could be spy technology from other countries, I suppose.
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by hnfong 6mo ago
> Because, apparently, a consistent trend of 100 consecutive falsifications implies nothing about the likelihood of #101. And at the end of the day, it's impossible to conclusively prove a negative. That's right. Not sure why y
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by hnfong 6mo ago
I think it's even more specific. From TFA: > Right now would be one of the best times for a supply chain attack via NPM to hit hard. Given the local kernel root exploits, people pulling npm dependencies have an extra high chance of
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by hnfong 6mo ago
I generally agree. But there are movies that can be spoiled because of the big plot twist. Eg. The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, to name a few (and [anime] Your Name, even the recently released Cosmic Princess Kaguya) And then there are some m
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Sure, it depends more than code review, but the code review is still a boolean flag, i.e. BOOLEAN getsMerged = codeReview && passesCI && passesTests.... Unless you're implying codeReview is a score and a low code revi
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Either the code gets merged or it does not. That's the inherent boolean part. Given that, what's wrong with simply commenting on the PR to document the concerns, issues, lack of knowledge, etc? Unless you're using those +&#x2
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Just a wild guess: Given the potential impact a severe security issue in the kernel (like this one), it seems that the only process that is acceptable for government agencies of various countries (that deal with intelligence and national s
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by hnfong 6mo ago
> In terms of something actionable, and maybe someone more well versed in how the distros work can tell me why this is a bad idea, but shouldn't there be a documented process and channel for critical CVE's to be bubbled out to
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Did you even read the article? It's basically a shitpost trying to frame macOS dropping support for AFS as "killing" Time Capsule (which was released 13 years ago). When Linux dropped support for 486 did people rush out and c
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by hnfong 6mo ago
My original comment only mentioned traditional Japanese text layout. Let's just look at the text in the Great Wave: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3... Per https://ja.wikiped
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by hnfong 6mo ago
I have a similar story. Growing up in a place that's mostly not English speaking, I owe a large part of my English vocabulary to Magic the Gathering. Many of the cards use somewhat obscure words to impart a fantasy theme, and I learned
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by hnfong 6mo ago
GP also probably had a sampling bias. The ones who were actually concerned about the impending Russian invasion presumably fled out of the country (or at least, away from the major cities to rural areas that probably see less fighting)
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by hnfong 6mo ago
You are right, but it can be argued that during the time the painting was made, vertical writing was the predominant form, and I don't know whether horizontal writing was a thing at the time in Japan... That said, as I implied in my ot
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by hnfong 6mo ago
... specifically, Japanese is traditionally written top to bottom, then right to left. (In contrast, English is written left to right, then top to bottom.) So, armed with that knowledge, are you going to rotate it as well?
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Not sure what your point is. Sure, AI output is kind of random. But that's also basically true for humans. It's harder to "prove" humans are random, but wouldn't you think a person would do things slightly different
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by hnfong 6mo ago
I don't trust the benchmarks either, so I maintained a set of benchmarks myself. I'm mostly interested in local models, and for the past 2 years they have steadily gotten better. Can't argue with subjective experience, but if
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by hnfong 6mo ago
Thus, in the situation you described, "someone else will tell you first" is your boss.

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