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by jrowen 3mo ago
I used ourTunes in the dorms, people just sharing their entire iTunes with the network. I've always been more of a solo digger, but I never liked Spotify. I have specific dance/electronic tastes so I browse and purchase music on s
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by jrowen 3mo ago
HN is everything. HN is nothing. HN is this. HN is that. HN is Meta™ edit: how many HN comments talk shit on HN comments? Ask your therapist about self-loathing
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by jrowen 3mo ago
While I certainly sympathize with your distaste for certain institutions and traditions within the medical industry, I feel compelled to share that you do seem -- if ever so slightly -- imbalanced.
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by jrowen 3mo ago
I once asked a long-term partner, point blank, "do you think you're not long for this world?" That person remains one of the deepest connections I've ever had. There is a great amount of variance in human brains and how
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by jrowen 3mo ago
> Personally, I'm fighting for the idea that words mean things, and the 2nd best word wont do. Now ask if this battle is worth fighting with someone that is actually "just trying to do the right thing," on the front line
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by jrowen 3mo ago
It was a don't call me Shirley thing to say to begin with. I merely added on. I would dare to say that your interpretation of that vague FUD was largely a projection of your own experience. And I think you sharing that in a constructiv
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by jrowen 3mo ago
As someone who didn't flag or downvote you, "unhoused" is the newer and currently more politically correct term. That's it. Pushing back on it is seen as pointless and unhelpful at best, and "anti-woke" aggress
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by jrowen 3mo ago
I actually love this comment. I feel seen. Thank you. I am prone to a sort of grandstanding that can elicit such responses, which I believe to actually have a similar philosophical aim as mine (and are perhaps subject to similar dramatic fl
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by jrowen 3mo ago
It's a lot harder to change the shape of the hole. But I do agree that there is too much emphasis on the pathology of it. I think therapy needs a major rebranding and it shouldn't be seen as something that we do to "fix"
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by jrowen 3mo ago
The best thing you can do for yourself, at all junctures, is develop your own sense of truth. Listen to people, consider what they have to say, but ultimately decide for yourself. Don't place too much faith in any particular source or
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by jrowen 3mo ago
> HN comments are _NOT_ going to help debugging your mental state. Nice paradox you've created there. > People here have trouble agreeing on engineering, product and business practices they specialise in. They are _NOT_ going
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by jrowen 3mo ago
This. Before we worry about how much work there is left, we have to define what work is "to be done." We're already at a point where an incredible amount of work done isn't strictly "necessary." It's not g
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by jrowen 3mo ago
I'll grant that it's complicated, as the comments on this post have demonstrated. But half the exposure isn't quite equivalent to twice the protection. All my life I just thought they were somewhat arbitrary numbers, I didn&#
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by jrowen 3mo ago
It's not really just framing though, it was reality. An election is a popularity contest, not a morality detector. Everybody knew Biden was (by then) a wet noodle that could not hold his own against Trump.
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by jrowen 3mo ago
After reading some of that article and the one from Current Affairs in the other comment, I decided I don't have much of a taste for that genre. They may have some decent points, but it's such toxic bickering.
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by jrowen 3mo ago
On the other hand, it's completely unintuitive that "Sun Protection Factor 30 = 1/30th of UV light passes through it", and I had no idea there was any correlation before this comment. The only intuitive bit about that sy
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by jrowen 3mo ago
Is there a future where AI takes all of these no-value arbitrage games to their limit and there is no longer a market for this type of behavior?
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by jrowen 3mo ago
Comparison is the thief of joy. I know plenty of people who live in SF on much lower salaries. Acting like you need AI bucks to survive is out of touch with the reality of the common man. A household that earns nearly 400k talking about &qu
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by jrowen 3mo ago
This is such an interesting subtext. I think the original comment was a bit unfair to call it " just pollarding," at the least it's a very specific subtype that has its own culture and clear uniqueness. Your comment feels so
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by jrowen 4mo ago
I mean, that's a tale as old as time. That's humans, not AI. Has the internet enabled more people to be more educated and informed, or has it enabled echo chambers of misinformation? I don't think it's demonstrable that
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by jrowen 4mo ago
I feel like it could be a law that there is essentially no way to guarantee that AI is any more or less safe than humans. It kinda seems incompatible with what we understand to be "intelligence" which arguably requires a certain u
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by jrowen 4mo ago
It's insecurity. They worry they might be saying something dumb and the LLM gives them assurance that it sounds "better" and "more professional."
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by jrowen 5mo ago
Check and mate, capitalists!
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by jrowen 5mo ago
There's something fitting about the mystical nature of LLMs and scrolling through a bunch of goofy pelicans on bicycles representing report cards for the bleeding edge of technology. How are these even graded? Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gets high
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by jrowen 5mo ago
People do know on some level though. There was enough willpower to get the cookie bullshit on every website. I think it's just that it's more of a visceral lizard-brain thing than a logical thing. Like how you can go through life
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by jrowen 5mo ago
This is the most AI thing ever. I was delighted to hear it still going 5 hours after your comment. The different voices are a great touch. "It's the way of the future, it's the way of the future, it's the way of the futu
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by jrowen 5mo ago
I think there's a very interesting duality forming around privacy. It seems like most people don't really care if they're being filmed, or if their data is being slurped up six ways from Sunday, as long as it's aggregate
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by jrowen 5mo ago
I disagree, I found the story to be the interesting part. It's inspiring to me when people have the moral conviction to put themselves out there in a big way at great risk to their personal lives and mental health. And it was gratifyin
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by jrowen 5mo ago
I was wondering where Wittgenstein fits into this. He's the only one that truly makes me think "are we taking crazy pills or is it just me?"
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by jrowen 5mo ago
In another comment I recalled reading a paper while implementing Rayleigh and Mie scattering a while back...this was definitely it! Getting it working was a "holy shit, we can actually model this complex real-world phenomenon pretty we

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