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by jl6 2y ago
You can’t satisfy everyone, and if you try to, you become the average of all their opinions. Optimally safe, maximally dull.
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by jl6 2y ago
The secret to happiness is not to leave X and join Bluesky, but simply to leave X. These platforms are massively net-negative for the vast majority of people. Go outside!
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by jl6 2y ago
Somewhere in the unmentionable basements of industry, there are virtualized air-gapped XP boxes running mission-critical VBA.
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by jl6 2y ago
Feels like “lines of code”. It means something , but…
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by jl6 2y ago
So, according to basic Ant-Man theory, if I were hit by one of these, it should be like getting all that (10% of a) ping pong ball energy concentrated in a tiny spot, causing me to fly backwards across the room?
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by jl6 2y ago
It feels like this would only be feasible across longer passages of text, and some types of text may be less amenable to synonyms than others. For example, a tightly written mathematical proof versus a rambling essay. Biased token selection
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by jl6 2y ago
For me, that sense of being on high alert is less to do with airport security and more to do with feeling that nearly everyone and everything you interact with is some sort of low level scam. Overpriced food and drink, duty free, poor value
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by jl6 2y ago
Screening for Down syndrome is an example of modern eugenics.
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by jl6 2y ago
It might be that thousands of years is enough time that your body and everything about you has fully passed beyond any claim you ever had on it and now belongs to the world at large.
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by jl6 2y ago
I replied to someone who thought the words had been banned and scientists would have to use phrases like “ovulating person”. It seemed to be based on taking your post (“scrub all mentions of the word "women"”) at face value. You u
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by jl6 2y ago
There is no executive order banning use of the words women and female.
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by jl6 2y ago
They didn’t include 'women' and 'female' in that list.
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by jl6 2y ago
Are small local farms able to keep producing as normal because the birds aren’t getting bird flu or because they’re not testing/killing them?
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by jl6 2y ago
It seems like some new doctors have arrived and diagnosed the patient with terminal cancer. Being new, they have no experience of surgery so are hacking out the tumor with a blunt instrument, excising good tissue and bad. Some hope the surg
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by jl6 2y ago
The search and replace they want researchers to do: gender -> personality transgender -> trans-identifying pregnant person -> pregnant woman pregnant people -> pregnant women LGBT -> LGB (or LGB and T separately) transsexual
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by jl6 2y ago
It goes unmentioned because there is an unwritten rule in progressive media that marginalized groups must never be perceived as doing wrong, because that will deepen their marginalization. In practice it creates a moral blind spot where the
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by jl6 2y ago
> The outlet reports that deleted datasets "disproportionately" come from environmental science agencies like the Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Ag
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by jl6 2y ago
A 4x improvement over lzma is an extraordinary claim. I see the author has also given a result after applying lrzip (which removes long-range redundancies in large files), and the difference isn’t so great (but bzip3 still wins). Does the a
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by jl6 2y ago
Why? Most police spend their time keeping the peace and catching bad guys. That seems an intrinsically rewarding activity. No need to posit any character flaw to explain why someone would want to do that. Maybe you are thinking “power over
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by jl6 2y ago
$3.4K is about what you might pay a magic circle lawyer for an opinion on a matter. Not saying o3 is an efficient use of resources, just saying that it’s not outlandish that a sufficiently good AI could be worth that kind of money.
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by jl6 2y ago
But doesn’t Deepseek’s innovation apply only to training, not inference?
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by jl6 2y ago
Cool, thank you. It feels like Athena + S3 Tables has the potential to be a very attractive serverless data lakehouse combo.
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by jl6 2y ago
I’m not sure. Imagine you want to answer the research question of how people come to adopt certain beliefs. You can probably answer that robustly by monitoring absolutely all their cultural inputs - including throughout childhood where thes
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by jl6 2y ago
I wonder if there is an ethical limit to some categories of knowledge. There are surely some sociological phenomena which are currently unexplained, but could potentially be explained by, say, incredibly invasive monitoring of peoples’ live
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by jl6 2y ago
The table on that page makes it look like all three of these are very similar, with schema evolution and partition evolution being the key differences. Is that really it? I’d also love to see a good comparison between “regular” Iceberg and
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by jl6 2y ago
Why away from bigquery? Just wondering if it’s a cost thing.
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by jl6 2y ago
The app seems to be marked 17+ on the App Store, which means it may have “Infrequent/mild sexual content”. The very first entry on the recent posts list is: “tell us about your cum!” I think you need to make a choice between being stri
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by jl6 2y ago
I think he was close to a finished story that was basically what we saw in season 8 (we were told he shared an outline of the ending with D&D early on), but the reception for that story was so dire that he’s been sent back to the drawin
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by jl6 2y ago
> unnecessary items Here’s the thing. I’ve got at least two family members that could probably be classified as hoarders. They keep a bunch of stuff that they really should get rid of. But at least part of this is, I believe, ingrained
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by jl6 2y ago
> What I am sure of is, it is not the responsibility of people whose rights are being taken away to be polite to their oppressors for the sake of rhetorical strategy. This is very much the TERF line of thinking.

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