jibal

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931.
by jibal 11mo ago
Indeed. A lot of antivaxxers mockingly say "my body, my choice" but they are highlighting their own hypocrisy, not anyone else's. One critical difference between the cases is that pregnancy is not contagious.
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by jibal 11mo ago
> I don't consider myself an anti-vaxxer. But you write anti-vax comments filled with the usual anti-vax post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.
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by jibal 11mo ago
Great movie, opened the Santa Barbara International Film Festival years back.
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by jibal 11mo ago
You're completely missing the point of this casual example in a blog post ... as evidenced by the fact that you omitted the type definition that preceded it, that is the whole point of the example. That it's not the best possible
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by jibal 11mo ago
It's simply how literate people write.
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by jibal 11mo ago
"Most problems resulting from things people do are people problems."
937.
by jibal 11mo ago
Statistics show that in some populations there is less dementia among those who received the shingles vaccine than among those who didn't.
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by jibal 11mo ago
Yeah, that headline struck me as backwards too, but I acknowledge it's based on an old framework that doesn't match the modern facts. P.S. punished for what, honest self-deprecation? By "it" I meant my expectation, not t
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by jibal 11mo ago
Sad that you don't understand how "seems to underlie your insistence" is ad hominem . > I did make an assumption of why they were arguing against it in such strong terms Yes, exactly. "a personal insult" Maybe l
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by jibal 11mo ago
You've basically confirmed what I said.
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by jibal 11mo ago
An advantage over what? Reading an SO page "scrapes" the whole page with your eyeballs. Anyway, I didn't say anything about which is preferable to use, I merely commented on where the information comes from, so your response
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by jibal 11mo ago
Then your experience is extremely limited or you're misreporting it.
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by jibal 11mo ago
ChatGPT can provide the same answers SO can because it mined SO as part of its training data.
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by jibal 11mo ago
> No one here is saying that Microsoft was good, which seems to underlie your insistence on Clippy being so horrible No, it obviously doesn't underlie their criticism ... and that claim is ad hominem . I think there are numerous re
945.
by jibal 11mo ago
The fact that one can ferret out what someone perhaps meant to say from what they did say doesn't change the fact that what they did say was wrong, and can be rightly criticized for being wrong. Someone else responded to such a critici
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by jibal 11mo ago
Pain being a way to let you know that something is damaged is close to true--close enough not to quibble with. But fever is not a way to let you know that foreign bodies are being killed off--that's his claim, and it's wrong.
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by jibal 11mo ago
> ruby is at the end of the day a syntactic wrapper over C No.
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by jibal 11mo ago
I was a UNIX developer (kernel, as well as userland programs like troff) for 7 years, working for the first company to provide commercial support. (Our founder, the former head of the Cornell CompSci department, while at RAND, had them make
949.
by jibal 11mo ago
Science is about finding evidence in support of such (reasonable) speculation.
950.
by jibal 11mo ago
Anthropomorphic language about evolution is simply a convenient metaphor that eases communication ... it has no metaphysical implications. > You guys have entered the domain of philosophy a long time ago and didn't realize it, think
951.
by jibal 11mo ago
One could ask the same question about any trait of any organism ... and the answer is always the same. Do you have a problem with birds being able to build nests specific to their species, or cuckoo chicks instinctively pushing the eggs of
952.
by jibal 11mo ago
They have vastly more cred than you do, especially after that comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
953.
by jibal 11mo ago
"Up" to -15 now ... and of course the "unreflective self projection" claim is utter nonsense.
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by jibal 11mo ago
No, this is about relative paths, not searching $PATH ..., which it doesn't do. (That happens when people do '#!/usr/bin/env sh' ... the security issues with that are a separate discussion.)
955.
by jibal 11mo ago
I'm well aware that many people are wrong about consciousness and have been misled by Searle, Chalmers, Nagel, et. al. Numbers like 55% are argumentum ad populum and are completely irrelevant. The sample space matters ... I've b
956.
by jibal 11mo ago
Um , the point is to not associate personal information with your name, which would make that information "personally identifiable".
957.
by jibal 11mo ago
People who are paying for it to happen ... which is the standard mode of operation for this administration. This is just one of many such disasters they are generating.
958.
by jibal 11mo ago
The only reason to think that is not knowing when Google switched to using LLMs. The radical change is well documented.
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by jibal 11mo ago
You missed the point ... going to distant galaxies is physically impossible. > Where you change your entire system's resonant frequency, to match what exists in the distant galaxy. This collection of words does not describe a phys
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by jibal 11mo ago
Consciousness is a physical phenomenon; rainbows, their ends, and pots of gold at them are not.

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