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by jancsika 1y ago
> nor in the exaggerated cartoony manner of other comedic anti-heroes I'm not sure I understand the focus on realism here. I mean, there's absolutely nothing in any scene of The Thick of It that looks at all realistic to me.
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> Hyrum's law strikes again. Is there a name for APIs that are drawn directly from some subset of observed behaviors? Like Crockford going, "Hey, there's a nice little data format buried in these JS objects. Schloink &quo
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Seems like offline Wikipedia with an offline LLM that can only output Wikipedia search results would be the best of both worlds. That would downgrade the problem of hallucinations into mere irrelevant search results. But irrelevant Wikipedi
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> If someone else consistently gives higher probabilities to events that ended up happening than you did, then that's an indication that there's space for you to improve your prediction ability. Your inference seems ripe for sc
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> The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message How is this more plausible than the scrambler's own lack of knowledge of potential specifications for these messages? In any case, t
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Is there home lab for isolated LAN and "self-sufficient" devices? I want to have a block of gunk on the LAN, and to connect devices to the LAN and be able to seamlessly copy that block to them. Bonus: any gunk I bring home gets a
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by jancsika 1y ago
> 1. A filtering mechanism after the selection process. E.g., basic civics questions like how many states are there, a background check, and so on. To make sure you don't pick anyone that's compromised or incapable of serving.
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> the subtle and not subtle ways it can affect you In Manufacturing Consent they measured column inches in the NYT-- IIRC it was something like measuring the total that support the relevant U.S. administration's official position
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> Another specific $10 Michelin guide ramen restaurant only lets you order from a vending machine outside using a payment method you can’t access as a foreigner (one needs a physical JCB card or QUICPay - EPOS/Suica/Pasmo/
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I only read sites that are written in Rust, and I can't load this one either. Can someone post a String Literal for us, please?
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> is a slippery slope to nowhere positive. Both you and the author are rankly speculating. Worse, the author is outright misleading: > Trying to suppress that energy by demanding silence or defaulting to screens is damaging. The word
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Is there a library to re-introduce relevant delays into a CDN so that all users experience their own geographically-appropriate response times? I mean, I want reliability. But I also want Europeans to be able to taste that authentic latency
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> If you were in the determinist camp, believing that all that one does was predetermined by prior environmental causes, could you still hold people responsible for their actions? I've been thinking about an escape hatch here: Imagi
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> But having a version tree, forking and merging, having to deal multiple timelines and the graphs that represent them -- that's where you lose people. There's no good reason why that should be the case. E.g., one could imagine
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> That's why parallel fifths are considered a bad thing. They disappear into the rest of the texture and you lose one stream of independent movement. An instrument sounding at the partial a compound perfect fifth (fifth plus octav
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> My favorite Satie piece is “Vexations” [1], a short clip that the composer ostensibly wished to be played 840 times in a row. Live performances of Vexations are illuminating in their own right. But as a reminder for those who don'
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At least for human affairs, there's more to it than that. For example, we don't only care about humans having an understanding of, say, a moral choice. We also care about whether or not a given human can/will make a moral c
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I'm supposing he meant that the body damage was the only damage, and that the known cost to repair the body exceeded the market value. But OP states that, body aside, the car's condition was suitable to deliver at least two more d
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If you'd still be driving it then how was the resale value relevant?
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> I think quite a lot of "high-engagement culture" (ie., the type which requires a lot of its audience) is really autistic culture of these varieties in interaction. What is an example of "high-engagement culture?"
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> And also DUH. If you stop speaking a language you forget it. The brain does not retain information that it does not need. Except when it does-- for example in the abstract where it is written that Brain-to-LLM users "exhibited hig
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by jancsika 1y ago
In the 90s this same logic would have predicted that Napster would have ended record labels. Edit: ...or at least flip the relationship between artist and label.
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In real life freight trains have the right of way in the U.S. In other words, the Dollywood Express would be a lot less fun if it spent half the day waiting while trolls unload corndogs from two-person handcars randomly distributed along th
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There's too much money at stake to be able to have sensible discussion about it online. We saw the same thing with blockchain. IIRC, someone on the Cryptography list replied to the whitepaper with the critique that the energy use would
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> Mozart was never able to. * ending of the last movement of the Jupiter Symphony * Introitus of the Requiem (four-voice ricercare in the instruments, then cascading upward in SATB choral writing, both combined with an operatic-style a
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Was there ever anything like a class action lawsuit over this?
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> The human-perceived loudness level is dB(A) and similar. But db(A) doesn't really measure that for anything but sounds that could cause hearing damage, or test tones. You've essentially taken a newcomer's problem of unde
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I feel like German compound nouns are just begging for ternary conditionals: Was ist das für ein Raum? Das ist mein Schläfrig?schlaf:wohnzimmer.
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> I think loss of artistic variety as culture becomes homogenized is an underappreciated cost of globalization. Loss of variety in terms of what's shown on traditional movie theater screens-- sure. For everything else, technological
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> It’s a crisis of faith, caused by a 10,000 year search for meaning that isn’t there. The article and the book it reviews isn't really about what happened in roughly 9,750 of those years. It's about a narrow band of meaning an

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