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by incangold 3y ago
This is a fairly typical example from 2 years ago: https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/dropping-official ... [edit] although for context this team rolls their own engine. If you’re using Unity or Unreal &gt
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by incangold 3y ago
I am so with you. I should be the lowest common denominator when it comes to security- I am what in my head qualifies as a novice. But I notice basic flaws at almost every company I work for. Absolutely baffled how this keeps happening.
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by incangold 3y ago
Importantly, the kid- an individual human- got some wealth somewhat proportional to their effort. There’s non-trivial effort in recruiting the kid. We can’t clone the kid’s brain a million times and run it for pennies. There are differences
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by incangold 3y ago
I was a teenager in the 90s in a house that read the Daily Mail every day, and that could deliver a similar sense of dread. But at least the dread was about things that seemed vaguely tractable and somewhat local, rather than the dizzyingly
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by incangold 3y ago
Almost every LC finding I read about mirrors research that has already been done on ME/CFS. We could be further ahead on this if we hadn’t been treating post-viral illness as psychogenic for so long. It would also help if the literal h
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by incangold 3y ago
Alternatively, sick patients desperate to get better have been written off or abused by their doctors for decades and that makes people angry. Here’s a story of a girl who was made permanently worse after her condition was treated as psycho
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by incangold 3y ago
This is just hand waving. There is no evidence that this thinking helps with ME. The studies have been debunked and in the UK guidelines have been updated, and clinicians are slowly catching up. The research is used as a textbook example of
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by incangold 3y ago
You can Google a lot of the answers to your questions in this thread. Housing ongoing drug users costs more per person. Services do not have the budget. You also don’t want active users around other vulnerable clients. Usually specialist “W
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by incangold 3y ago
I have worked with addicts from a range of backgrounds. The causal arrow does not point simply in either direction. Addiction is a complex result of genetics and circumstance. A background of poverty makes addiction much more likely. It is
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by incangold 3y ago
This is so important and I notice studies missing it all the time. Tragedy and desperation mostly kick in at the bottom of the distribution, especially in the US where median income is in most places not completely awful. So controlling for
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by incangold 3y ago
YouTube and Medium are awash with scientists doing journalism- there’s plenty of supply. Maybe the answer is that people without a STEM background should get out of science journalism? The question mark is genuine- would this be a bad thing
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by incangold 3y ago
Honest question: are we sure that it doesn’t do logical reasoning? IANAE but although an LLM meets the definition of a Markov Chain as I understand it (current state in, probabilities of next states out), the big black box that spits out th
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by incangold 3y ago
Same. We are so, so profoundly not what it feels like we are, to most of us anyway. I am morbidly curious how people are going to creatively explain away the more challenging insights AI gives us in to what consciousness is.
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by incangold 3y ago
Even in commercial cooking, gas is on the way out. I help run a catering business and at least in our kitchens, induction is far preferred to gas. It’s not ideal for wok cooking as understand it (without a specialist stove), but for everyth
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by incangold 3y ago
Once the code isn’t being continuously integrated, it will quickly stop compiling if you restore from vcs. Leaving endpoints in the codebase but intercepting calls and returning deprecation errors like your predecessors did is a nice middle
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by incangold 4y ago
Reminds me of the gaslighting of the D&D community recently around changes to the license there. It’s like watching a five year old who’s convinced he can fool his parents.
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by incangold 4y ago
Echo this, and I _did_ notice it in my first two weeks. 3 separate issues prevented me deploying. One was my fault, but hard to diagnose because error messages contain no useful information. The other two were the platform falling over, wit
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by incangold 4y ago
From the point of view of someone who is immunocompromised this seems like the bare minimum we can do as a society to protect the vulnerable. Something between “almost nothing” and “nobody leaving the house” would be nice. At the moment we
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by incangold 4y ago
Vaccination can still be helpful to the immune-compromised people around you (like me) even if you’re hale and hearty yourself. If I can catch flu or Covid a couple fewer times over a lifetime because the healthier people around me were vac
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by incangold 4y ago
It’s worth it. gov.uk is an absolute delight to use exactly because of this kind of focus on the details and valuing of simplicity. I can’t think of another website that is more useable, and that is super important for a site that needs to
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by incangold 4y ago
The one that switches off the comments section makes the platform quite a bit more pleasant
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by incangold 4y ago
Having been involved with fincrime teams at retail banks, I don’t think this can be said enough. There are so, so many bad actors and it costs every payment platform so, so much more than I imagined before I saw it from the inside. Someone
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by incangold 5y ago
A related thing I wish all businesses would embrace is limiting work in progress. Lean has been around for decades and this lesson still hasn't landed. The key resource is mental energy rather than time worked. I'd accept some tra
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by incangold 5y ago
One way the analogy breaks in an interesting way is that you _know_ when you're able to hypertap, whereas it's pretty easy to convince yourself you're a hero coder for long enough to leave those who follow a total mess.
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by incangold 5y ago
What I don't understand is what you mean by "this type of activism"? Most of the article is explaining facts about autism. The only things I can see that might be controversial are the PFL thing and "severe/profound
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by incangold 5y ago
Setting aside the depressing tone of this sub-thread for a moment, I don’t understand where the author is “tone-deaf, self-aggrandising and utterly unproductive”? Is this just about the IFL/PFL stuff? Because it’s a tiny part of the pi
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by incangold 5y ago
I don’t get it either. You don’t even use “us” or “we” in the sense that’s being complained about, as far as I could find scanning the article. How much more defensive can you be without not writing an article? And we do need _somebody_ to
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by incangold 5y ago
I just tried logging in with the wrong password from a new machine and received an email with the same wording. Anyone care to replicate? I think the problem might be a badly-worded email- they may not have your password.
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by incangold 6y ago
Doing principle component analysis on political views to try to determine the number of axes required to account for variability in political views is an interesting endeavour. e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure&#x2F
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by incangold 6y ago
Weasel word, weasel word, ad hominem, skip the specifics, end. Gosh, this thread! Come on nerds- we can do way better than this.

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