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by jtbayly 2y ago
That may technically be correct, but it is incorrect in the real world. I submit that error is error in the real world. Mathematics can go jump off a cliff unless it wants to be helpful. :)
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Agreed. There will be less error, just not zero. I thought it was a silly error that detracted from the point, rather than defeated the point.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
I can get behind this idea, however, this sentence is wrong: "If clocks rounded to the nearest minute instead of truncating, the average error would be 0.” The negative and the positive error don’t cancel each other out. They are both
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by jtbayly 2y ago
For Mac and iOS users, Moneywell is by far the simplest for using an envelope system. I love it. Local data. Solid syncing. Native app. Drag and drop money where you want it. Edit: no notifications. Sorry I forgot that was one of your crite
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by jtbayly 2y ago
This seems like a very dangerous play. The selling point of these AIs is that they can give you accurate answers. Mixing up answers and ads like this seems like a recipe for loss of trust. I know it’s the same thing that Google did with sea
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by jtbayly 2y ago
This. In other words, password managers have all the benefits and none of the drawbacks of passkeys. And passkeys require a password manager anyway, so why are we trying to switch?
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by jtbayly 2y ago
That’s not the same thing as “ most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II”
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by jtbayly 2y ago
You should read about the non-delegation principle and why it exists. As Wikipedia says, “It is explicit or implicit in all written constitutions that impose a strict structural separation of powers. It is usually applied in questions of co
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by jtbayly 2y ago
The first thing that would happen is they would cut off all your service. If you are relying on them for something other than the thing you don’t want to pay for, this becomes a problem. For example, I disputed a charge with my CC from th
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by jtbayly 2y ago
They would not be able to afford to sell them at that price if they sold all of them at that price. (Or at least, I doubt they would.)
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by jtbayly 2y ago
The Supreme Court hasn’t and can’t say anything against laws being updated and changed. What they have prevented is those we have elected to make laws delegating that very authority to others.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Can you use the M8 on carriers other than T-Mobile? I’m seeing several places that say T-mobile only.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
I’m interested in this, but I think I just realized that what I want it to do is impossible. We have a fireplace, which is not efficient at all, in part because it sucks cold air in from the outside. I was thinking it would be great it we c
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by jtbayly 2y ago
A substantial portion of the links on this site have paywalls. If that’s why this domain is shadowbanned, why isn’t NYT?
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by jtbayly 2y ago
My grandmother had "Do Not Resuscitate” on her file, but it was not known (or ignored) by the medics who saved her. She was very happy to have been resuscitated, removed the order, and lived for years after that. I submit that not ever
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Should the doctor have control over his life? Or just his patients? And how exactly is the doctor supposed to distinguish between those who have a “0%” chance of changing their mind and those who have a 1% or 5% or 10% chance of changing th
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity and doing so graciously! I also found the discussion of the phonetics of the two words in other comments enlightening.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
We drove from Addis to Arba Minch and back, which is about 900km total. We also drove from Gondar to Bahir Dar and… lots of other driving. But the main point is what you ignored. Have you ever seen miles of brand new highways falling apart
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by jtbayly 2y ago
I’ve been to Ethiopia and seen Chinese highway projects that were obviously unusable (caving in) before they were even open to traffic.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Wasn’t The Prestige about this idea, too?
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Those numbers are clearly false at a glance. Here is somebody who bothered to look into it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42292435
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by jtbayly 2y ago
"But to Apple, it would be unreasonable to expect Apple to investigate every copyright notice it receives when thousands of third parties send notices annually.” Nope. That’s not unreasonable. That’s the work you took on when you decid
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by jtbayly 2y ago
So if I’m understanding correctly, the black hole is supposed to be between me and what I’m looking at, not in what I’m looking at? If so, then my question is wouldn’t some light be lost to the black hole? Shouldn’t a substantial portio
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by jtbayly 2y ago
I’m confused by what I see. It looks like nothing actually disappears. I expected a black hole to not just affect what an area looked like, but also to “disappear” some part of what was there.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
I was able to install it on my M1 Mac, fwiw.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
What a minute, this sentence was literally in the SA piece: “First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.” Is
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by jtbayly 2y ago
It’s a lot of work to do, in part because you have an increasing number, and even more because you now have many more ways that people might respond. You need to monitor those accounts.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
Now we just need a site where we can browse a bunch of people’s feeds and find interesting ones. Sounds like Twitter.
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by jtbayly 2y ago
One of the interesting benefits of Twitter splintering into multiple shards is that this problem becomes more clear. As Twitter alternatives have grown more relevant, there is no obvious single place to do this anymore as, say, a police dep
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by jtbayly 2y ago
The most recent iOS (18) introduced a feature that lets you hide distracting things on the page. (Tap left side of the url field and select “Hide distracting items.” Then just tap what you want to remove and hit done.) I believe that they w

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