jrflowers

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by jrflowers 2mo ago
“A computer can never be held accountable” is from an internal IBM presentation
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
> I’m concerned that AI is going to make software much too secure. Lmao this is like “I’m concerned the raccoons that I see in the storm drains are going to make our sewer system much too efficient”
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
Me, looking at an enterprise product: “Hmm, but do they guarantee FULL lore? I don’t really need to know what the lore is, just the assurance that it is full”
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
All the stupid made up names are taken, startups have to take regular words and make them meaningless now
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
I love to spend a dollar for a 70% correct search result
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
All of the worst websites on the internet are owned by people that are household names
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
Logging on to news dot ycombinator dot com for some Borat posting
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
I feel like being head of ethics and working for a CEO that keeps talking about inventing a genie would drive a person insane
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
What was the task that cost $40?
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
> > many non-vegans think (whether or not it is true) that vegans believe themselves superior. > It's hard to imagine a reason why someone is vegan, that wouldn't logically entail such a self-image. I know a guy that’s ve
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
I don’t think this article about Mark Twain, a famous guy one hundred and fifty years ago, lost all of his money betting on the wrong thing is about chat bots. He lost his money before all that We will never know if Mark Twain would have or
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
“I have exactly one ‘extremist’ belief that I’m willing to share and here’s why I think it’s correct” doesn’t do much to clarify what constitutes extremist other than stuff the author is too smart to believe
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
Reading about a machine from one hundred and fifty years ago and getting progressively more and more upset that the writing doesn’t give sufficient praise to the real topic of every article, my lovely chat bot
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
> At no point does anyone seriously comment "wtf do we even have alcohol|anti-depressants" when they see an add for one or the other. People absolutely do talk about their opinions about alcohol/antidepressants. Also a lot
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by jrflowers 2mo ago
I like that the author doesn’t clarify what constitutes an extremist idea aside from suggesting that he doesn’t believe in any. “Extremism is when people, who are dumb, don’t know facts unlike me, who is very smart” is a kick ass theme for
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
> These people commute to construction sites elsewhere during the day While it is a shame that tptacek has to see “commuters“ going both ways it is good to know that the people of Aurora have this beautiful park https://www.cy
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
>are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers >Mine is that office buildings are not generally filled with workers from the immediate municipality in
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
That’s wild, where do all the people from Aurora work? The data centers? Also what does the specific building or set of buildings you hate in one town have to do with the concept of office buildings
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Wait are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers Do you think a community is your house
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Feeding dimes into a machine that releases prank fart spray into my vents every morning, wondering if there’s a good post here
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
I love this post because of how clear it is. Lack of GPS isn’t a critical safety issue, it simply causes critical safety issues. It’s the pilot’s fault that they crashed but they wouldn’t have crashed if GPS wasn’t jammed. It’s overly macho
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
> To keep the group focused on posters (and not just readers!) anyone can join so long as: > they have a non-greenname account > they have 64 karma or more Is the karma checked at the door or is it at the time of submission? Seems
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
It’s like when the quarterback throws one last Hail Mary to a receiver in the endzone and people are betting on an interception
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
> The alleged team involved had nothing to do with prevention - Go back to Reddit :) “Alleged team” lol You know what the team was doing but you’re not sure that it existed
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Scott Adams had some deeply bizarre opinions about human behavior/relationships. https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedcomments/comments/wqc1an/curs...
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Nice. What other stuff haven’t you read?
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
> the number of arsonists is 0.0001% of the general population. The number of firefighters that are arsonists (100/65,795) is 0.0015%, so I suppose it's slightly higher that the general population. Trying to imagine being reall
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
In that case you can imagine the biggest container of ranch dressing you’ve ever seen in a grocery store, a gallon is a few of those
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Just think of the largest container of ranch dressing that you’ve ever seen in a grocery store. It’s that much.
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
I love the references to a massive sporting culture in America while talking about a sport that has an order of magnitude more fans than there are Americans on the planet. Your point about salary caps is interesting. It is good that we have

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