jprete

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   by jprete 2y ago

   I've heard Insta has a bunch of stuff that can replace FB's remaining uses (not just photo sharing, events and such) but I've never gotten into it so don't really know.
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   by jprete 2y ago

   I'm no longer convinced I'm correct.
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   After. I think I'm getting generic location-targeted ads.
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   I think the Library of Congress already does preservation; it seems to be legally required to give the LoC two copies of every published work in the US ( https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ7d.pdf ). Preservation of work
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   by jprete 2y ago

   > By seeding these torrents, you help preserve humanity’s knowledge and culture. These torrents represent the vast majority of human knowledge that can be mirrored in bulk. I am having a hard time reading that claim as anything other tha
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   by jprete 2y ago

   I'd never heard of GJK before, but as I remember it, there's a lot of mileage to be gained in computational geometry from applying these kinds of "shape algebra" options in different combinations. And there are plenty of
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   by jprete 2y ago

   I turned off personalization a while ago. I get ads for Mint Mobile, a local spa, an Internet fast fashion men's T-shirt company, dog food, and similar anodyne topics. It feels a little like watching 90s daytime TV.
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   by jprete 2y ago

   Based on the first article, it's all cosmetic items, which I think matters a lot to the ethics.
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   by jprete 2y ago

   Thanks for the example.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    As soon as I heard "unbox new laptops" I thought "tech problem and un-shaken-out game platform". I understand why a player might think it's a good idea...but it's extra risk for little benefit.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    They're addicted to metrics instead of observation. Anything that isn't easily measured is considered to not exist, including how people feel about it. Now that I think about it, that's literal selection pressure for psychopa
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    by jprete 2y ago

    That's a very contrived scenario and your hypothetical response is very unrealistic. For one thing, the gangsters either wait outside the gambling joint or simply take it outright and farm the rake. For another, real communities with s
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    by jprete 2y ago

    I didn't know about the old meme, but the image made me immediately think of The Stanley Parable. Not surprising since TSP is probably a descendant of the meme.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    I know of no review process that produces the same level of understanding as does authorship, because the author must build the model from scratch and so must see all the details, while the reviewer is able to do less work because they&#x27
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    by jprete 2y ago

    This isn't a good trend. Reviewers never have the depth of knowledge or understanding of authors.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    The direct purpose of any ID system is for the state to assert more control over the population, by making it harder to plausibly deny one's identity, and therefore easier to punish for disobedience. It's historical good luck that
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    by jprete 2y ago

    I don't think so! But tmux is really useful for laptop scenarios, like when the laptop goes to sleep, or if you're working on a train and it goes through a tunnel with no network reception.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    Totally off-topic: You could always write a JNI shim to a C/C++-compatible API, if you know what OS it's running on. I know it's awful, but probably not as awful as a hardcoded passphrase.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    > In effect this means that while companies that give paltry pay bumps that don't keep up with the market may successfully hold on to lower performing employees, they'll be continually churning through top performers. The same
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    by jprete 2y ago

    Physics wants to open the black boxes until it can no longer figure out how to pry the remaining boxes open! It's not useful to draw a false equivalence between AI-style "the model predicts, that's good enough" and scien
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    by jprete 2y ago

    This is a very theoretical argument but I don't think it happens that way in reality, because of all the ways that real human beings are not economically perfect agents. Particularly the information asymmetries - it's much harder
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    by jprete 2y ago

    There's value in identifying what the incentive structure is doing even if it can only be expressed in anthropomorphic terms.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    It occurs to me that one reason we have such a winner-take-all tech economy might be that VCs don't want anything else to exist.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    If the author can only write this depressingly about the world they're building, maybe she should stop helping to build it?
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    by jprete 2y ago

    Quoting the IRS ( https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/strategic-plan/irs-direct-file... ): > The Direct File pilot doesn't prepare state returns. However, if you live in Arizona, California, Massachusetts or New Y
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    by jprete 2y ago

    Customer service is something that doesn't scale well, so requiring good customer service is probably an advantage to small players.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    I agree for very specific situations, but compilers tend to get better at optimization over time, and it can be better to express plain intent in the code and leave low-level optimization to the compiler, rather than optimizing in code and
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    by jprete 2y ago

    How thematic that they've asked it to play Doom.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    The intestinal tract's neural network could be an entirely separate consciousness with its own thoughts and personality spending ninety years of life thinking about food.
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    by jprete 2y ago

    And if anyone knows about peeing on people, it's an H2O dragon. /jk