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by jprete 3y ago
I can understand someone believing that this is how the world is, but I can’t see why you’d phrase it in such a nasty way.
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by jprete 3y ago
I don’t think tech comes out better on this scale than the happiness one.
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by jprete 3y ago
Fake food images are literally fraud. I’m also having trouble believing that this is a passion project for friends and family based on your 90% comment.
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by jprete 3y ago
That’s a good point to being up. Apple’s entire pile of cash is just under three years of Google payments. This tells me Apple’s been spending the money on other things. “Replace Google Search” probably isn’t high on their list of prioritie
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by jprete 3y ago
I’d think better algorithms. A detailed scan of a city’s streets and layout is obsolete before it’s completed. A driver (bot or not) needs very good reactions to bad situations observed in the field. And ideally a good sense for when a situ
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by jprete 3y ago
I’m reasonably sure I’ve done things like that. I wouldn’t need the mirror check because I would already know what’s there during the right turn. However I would personally aim to stay dead center in lane to reduce the skateboarder’s uncert
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by jprete 3y ago
Thanks to both of you for pointing out some quite good solutions to this problem.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think that’s got a similar bias as the original, unfortunately. All deleted indices between K and N (K<N) will result in picking N, and the number of such deletions would vary wildly between individual articles.
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by jprete 3y ago
That’s very, very ambitious. I think, in the help systems I’ve seen with multiple languages, each language example is written by hand. I personally have some related ideas for a personal project but haven’t gotten anything done on it.
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by jprete 3y ago
I’m shocked at the method for picking a random page. It’s guaranteed to produce permanent biases in the randomization and lots of path dependence in how individual articles’ chances change over time. Picking a random int from 1 to N is not
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by jprete 3y ago
Nit: Basically all stories have a form like that. (I _think_ detective stories specifically choose for the protagonist to want societally-sanctioned retribution. The protagonist then has to publicly demonstrate that the antagonist deserves
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by jprete 3y ago
This is why I said that "Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make" in the GP, but thanks for providing a reference.
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by jprete 3y ago
This was also the period where Netflix et al discovered that shows become more costly to make and less likely to get brand-new subscribers around season 3. So it’s hard for me to give that statistic any weight.
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by jprete 3y ago
Only a handful of polities, in practice, would need to agree on a strong response - the US, China, the EU, and maybe India and Russia.
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by jprete 3y ago
That's a reasonable observation, but there's a big distinction between "aren't the ones who work" and "obsolete". My experience makes me think that people very much do _not_ want to be obsolete, and that b
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by jprete 3y ago
“The very fact that the evolution of technology feels so inevitable is evidence of an act of manipulation, an authoritarian use of narrative brilliantly described by historian Timothy Snyder. He calls out the politics of inevitability ‘...a
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by jprete 3y ago
Who decided that, again? Or is this an unconsciously disguised statement of techno-religion?
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by jprete 3y ago
I’ve had these experiences in the days when IRC was still a thing, and there were very heavy doses of idealization and fantasizing involved. I believe that is typical but I can’t be sure.
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by jprete 3y ago
Board game organizers are my source of interest. Kickstarter-type games, especially, often need more efficient organizers than the designers included in the box. And it’s very difficult (in my experience) to get useful off-the-shelf organiz
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by jprete 3y ago
Is there any support for this bill or is it just a random NY legislator proposing a bill with no actual support or plan for getting it passed? EDIT: It looks like this bill is in committee and only has one sponsor, so I am thinking no, but
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by jprete 3y ago
This is rather pseudoscientific.
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by jprete 3y ago
Fraud. You’re advertising a service for one price, accepting a contract for service on that price, then charging a higher price.
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by jprete 3y ago
I consider them much worse than that. Header files are explicitly a copy-paste of the included text file into your source. There’s no rule that they have to only contain declarations, or that they have to appear at the top of source files,
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by jprete 3y ago
What is great about header files?
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by jprete 3y ago
The whole thrust of tech for 20 years now has been to commodify every part of human relationships, knowledge, and experience that can be commodified, sell the commodified versions in place of the real thing, and sweep the unmeasurable/
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by jprete 3y ago
That actually gives me a reverse accessibility problem on iOS, because I will try to drag-scroll at the edge of the screen but accidentally grab the scrollbar, which goes in the opposite direction.
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by jprete 3y ago
The copyright infringement happens at the moment of production of the image, unless the use counts as fair use. It doesn't matter whether or not you claim ownership or authorship. Home copies are protected primarily by the total imprac
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by jprete 3y ago
I'm glad to know that the person behind this post have real expertise, because at first glance the headline is a bit clickbait-like. (The content, though, makes excellent points.)
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by jprete 3y ago
I appreciate the point about not being 90 degrees because I periodically need plastic bins for board game organization and the ideal shape is a perfect rectangle of an even fraction of both box inner dimensions. At least now I know why all
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by jprete 3y ago
Almost all self-help books have this flaw. I think most of them won’t sell without providing something that looks like a solution. But to get that solution, they dress up the author’s badly-founded personal beliefs as final truth, support t

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