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by jackyinger 9mo ago
What if there was a way for the “silent majority” (or something like it) to discuss political issues free of the impetus to polarization? Surely that would be a lot better than echo chambers. Hackernews style apoliticism strikes me as wanti
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
I went on a date with a gal who told me about using LLMs to fluff up her work emails, and she was proud of it. I was aghast, imagining the game of telephone where a receiver drops the mail into an LLM for he TLDR. The date didn’t go well ha
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
Great point, this cosplay phenomenon goes far beyond LLM use.
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by jackyinger 10mo ago
I remember a time when users had a great deal more control over their computers. Big tech companies are the ones who used their power to take that control away. You, my friend are the insincere one. If you’re young enough not to remember a
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by jackyinger 10mo ago
Yep, and there are many more incidents along similar lines. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Union_Pacific_oil_train_f... This move is about putting the bottom line above safety.
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by jackyinger 11mo ago
Pizza does not have network effects like social media. Social media only works well if the network scale is huge. Pizza works well for me if it tastes good, doesn’t matter how many and who the other people are eating it. But if I sign up fo
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by jackyinger 11mo ago
They were also popular as food, and for use of their excrement as agricultural fertilizer. Probably more so than letter delivery.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
I beg to differ. There is less corporate BS on Linux than any mainstream OS. The software if largely by users for users. Obviously it caters to the power user, but it also works well for extremely novice users. It’s those savvy with Win&#x2
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by jackyinger 1y ago
Guessing it’s a joke that as many end up as campers as in working roles.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
There’s no need to be so literal. We’re discussing here, not formulating mathematical statements. Read for what was intended by the author and you’ll learn more.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
I’d say that it is precisely because of superficial demand by bureaucracy that academic output has become superficial. The demand for novel knowledge is always high. It is the supply that is short. That’s why we hang around on HN hoping for
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by jackyinger 1y ago
To the contrary, if voters are manipulated it is not a well functioning democracy. It is a farce of a democracy, the subtle manipulation just adds a veneer of legitimacy because it appears to be a democracy. Those who are manipulating peopl
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by jackyinger 1y ago
Yeah, I’ve fantasized about the same thing with windows, blinds, and hvac. It would be so nice.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
And then you have AIs talking to each other slopping junk derived from minimal prompting back and forth. Why have humans at all? For discernment perhaps? Humans have an authentic connection to the real world.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
Wafers on some semiconductor processes are 0.3m in diameter. You could not practically handle a 1um thick wafer 0.3m in diameter without shattering it. 0.75mm is a reasonable overall wafer thickness.
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by jackyinger 1y ago
You’re focusing on your side of the communication, but to be really effective in any communication you need to focus on how it will be perceived by the recipients. If they messed up, you want to help make them better so it doesn’t happen ag
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Skilled machinists are very well aware of deflection and resonance. Operating a machine tool is not static in the slightest.
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Exactly. This is the problem with throwing all the money into “hot spots”. Growing the heck out of a few hot industries virtually ensures established ones will decline.
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Reminds me of a friend’s defense of the service focused economy: “I’ve got a PhD in economics”. Sure services may be great when things are going well, but you can’t ONLY have services, and then go and blow up international trade and expect
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by jackyinger 2y ago
And this isn’t going to change overnight. You know what I’m talking about. Most of the good machinist knowledge in America has retired, if not already literally died. And mechanical engineers in the US largely don’t have the hands on skill
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by jackyinger 2y ago
How’s basing the US economy on services looking now? My brother is an extremely skilled machinist, the sort who could build machine tools if he had the resources. And let me tell you there ain’t many of them, especially not young ones. Why?
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by jackyinger 2y ago
On the meta level, if a statement seems false the burden is on you to prove it. You’re asking your counterpart to do all the work. On the subject level… Have you ever seen a troop of monkeys hanging out? They definitely aren’t operating as
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by jackyinger 2y ago
This is a great story, but this is definitely not the best write up of it. This is at least a tad better https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...
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by jackyinger 2y ago
The data backs up the grandparent’s post that blacks and Hispanics were disproportionately punished for their use compared to whites.
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by jackyinger 2y ago
That is a pretty disingenuous quotation, you cut it mid sentence destroying the context: > It's the most important time in human history to protest/fight unchecked power because it's likely the last era of humanity that we
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by jackyinger 2y ago
If you care to read the article you’ll find evidence of Pat’s competence.
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Hmm, I’m not convinced. That’s just the comment in the guise of poetry. There are a bunch of dangling implications in this “poem” where a real master would weave the implications together. I guess I’d also say it is not only doing the right
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by jackyinger 2y ago
They should look on the bright side: eliminating plastic exposure could be a great wellspring of identity. I mean to really avoid them you’d have to make all your food from raw unprocessed ingredients, and then there’s clothing, all the obj
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Water is pretty dense so it could muster the force to push bricks together. And bricks hold together pretty well. I can see how an “impedance match” could be achieved.
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by jackyinger 2y ago
Since when did we knight people in the USA?!

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