kbelder

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by kbelder 4mo ago
You should save face by editing in a '/sarcasm' as soon as possible.
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by kbelder 4mo ago
Should she be allowed or forbidden from doing so?
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by kbelder 5mo ago
No one is a mob. They are just part of one.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
I voted you up, not because I think ADHD is a myth or doesn't exist, but because I think it's massively overdiagnosed, and what many people in popular culture call ADHD is often normal, even healthy, behavior.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Politeness is me speaking directly and freely. Rudeness is a facade and a burden, that I employ only when circumstances require it. I suspect that most people are like that.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Simple fix, they need to put mistresses in all their second homes.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
HERO system Star Wars. What a magnificent grognard.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
"Crack team" long predates video games and even crack cocaine. I think it is related to the phrase "get cracking", i.e., "get working", but I wasn't able to find a clear etymological line. One possibilit
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by kbelder 5mo ago
He may not be a shill, he may just be terribly and enthusiastically wrong. Lots of HN posters are.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
* Emphasis on privacy - good. * Speed improvements - good. * Compact mode back - best thing in the article. * Soft/beautiful/gentle/loving colors - whatever. So at least it's not disappointing, which is what I'm kin
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by kbelder 5mo ago
He didn't say more sophisticated integration. He said 'more integration', which is very likely true.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
The bulk of what you eat is harvested air.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Unfortunately it is. The worst HN policy, I think.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
He was responding to "Inline graphics from 1981"
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by kbelder 5mo ago
They tested it and decided against it because the economics didn't work out. That's how things are supposed to go. Data centers in space will work out or not. They have some engineering hurdles to get over and some bigger econo
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by kbelder 5mo ago
"How many people came to our contact page, but left without calling the hotline?" "Don't know, boss. We'd need to add analytics." "Like what?" "Google Analytics? It's free and pretty much
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by kbelder 5mo ago
A Chromebook is far cheaper than a neo. It could be less then a third the price, and that makes a big difference when you're buying a thousand of them.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
I feel like the son should take the blame. There's never been any shortage of bad advice being passed around. He made the credulous decision to take a mix of party drugs and drink, and I can't believe he had never been told that
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Not in Windows, but in my teens I happened across a very similar color scheme on my Commodore 64, and used it for quite a while. Something about red text on a yellow background made pixel-level details on my television set seem much crisper
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by kbelder 5mo ago
That argument is hugely compelling.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Yeah, AmigaBasic especially was when I felt that all the rough edges were sanded off, and it felt like a real language. Using AmigaBasic or other polished Basics doesn't seem very different than using something like Python.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
You mean, "Low rate of meat consumption"?
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by kbelder 5mo ago
Future HN posters in training.
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by kbelder 5mo ago
>offloading AI compute from the DC to the browser isn't really increasing carbon is it? That is actually an interesting question. I would think that any given amount of processing is at least slightly more efficient when running on
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by kbelder 5mo ago
You know, you're condemning most of California. The measure he supported won the vote. Would you like to drive all of them out of their jobs?
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by kbelder 5mo ago
While I think you're right in principle, there's a lot of reason to think the structure of a brain is more complicated than just the connection map of the neural network. There is a lot of complicated behavior inside each neuron
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by kbelder 5mo ago
I guess you'll have no influence over Ladybird, then.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I don't post things publicly that I fear may be read.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
"The study authors took 36 books and divided each of them into overlapping 100-token passages. Using the first 50 tokens as a prompt, they calculated the probability that the next 50 tokens would be identical to the original passage. T
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by kbelder 6mo ago
But that worldview excludes art that solves problems and inventions that create them.

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