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by klyrs 3y ago
> Most of us had full control of our devices growing up, right? I dunno about you but we had one computer, one TV, and one phone line. If by "full control" you mean "constant negotiations" then yeah we had that
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by klyrs 3y ago
Oooh, and projecting. Will they even know what they've lost? (tongue firmly in cheek, I hope you understand)
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by klyrs 3y ago
> I think that future generations may forget most details of our way of life. Oh no what will future generations do without doomscrolling.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> because deeply inside you really are Only, I'm not offended by this, because I understand that I have absorbed racist biases from my environs (not according to some hifalutin theory -- I've witnessed my own failures in this r
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by klyrs 3y ago
I like your question, and I cannot answer it. But I have a benchmark: I can write a Markov chain "language model" in around 10-20 lines of Python, with zero external libraries -- with tokenization and "training" on a te
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by klyrs 3y ago
Like that, but hornier.
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by klyrs 3y ago
The section "Short-form video will cannibalize itself" notably fails to mention the literal self-cannibalization, already popular and rising, in the form of sludge: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/s
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by klyrs 3y ago
> I guess my worry is not about free speech or other people just criticizing but more of the woke crowd that just wants to cancel you because they disagree. What's wrong with the "woke crowd?" Is that not merely a nebu
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yeah, he merely quoted a diss track that famously escalated a previous grudge to murder. Who could ascribe anything but jovial intent to that? Why should somebody as famous as Gary Tan expect to have unhinged followers who could be inspir
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by klyrs 3y ago
> I don’t follow at all how the journalistic angle is problematic People of a certain political bent are eager to throw journalists under every available bus, even if that means denying history and common sense.
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by klyrs 3y ago
You keep making personal attacks, they're not helping your case. And yes, TFA's list of facial features includes "complexion," aka skin color. Weird hill to die on, especially if you don't actually know what you&#
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by klyrs 3y ago
I can't help but notice that you shifted the goalpost subtly from "better for everyone" to "not worse for everyone" there. If the pie was shared more fairly, then yes they would be better off and I daresay that th
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by klyrs 3y ago
What do you mean by "everyone?" Do you include the floor workers who are paid so little that they need food stamps? How are they benefitting?
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Isn't that ... good ? For whom?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Motte: judging people's intelligence based on their skin color Bailey: judging people's intelligence based visible developmental defects
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by klyrs 3y ago
Nice quote, but when you drill down a little further, they observe that the correlation didn't actually follow the facial features. > But these facial characteristics were only associated with perceived intelligence. The researchers
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by klyrs 3y ago
> These kind of observations go against the politics of identitarian academia, so you probably won't find much of confirmation there. You mean to say that you prefer the older identitarian politics wherein people who look different
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Facial features really are correlated with intelligence Do you have a citation for this claim? Because I spent a little effort looking, and the overwhelming majority of results were on the "perception of intelligence." The
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by klyrs 3y ago
Hey, I've got the same phone number and zip code... were you born on the unix epoch too?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Garbage in, garbage garbage garb garb ggggggggggg
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by klyrs 3y ago
>> I have zero faith that anything remotely like this would occur if my niece got a similar treatment. Note that I didn't say that I wouldn't want something done for my niece. What I'm saying is that Taylor Swift is
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by klyrs 3y ago
Only, this has already been happening to those people. But when it happens to Taylor Swift, everybody from Elon to Satya flinches. And I don't expect this to change. She's apparently the queen of the US now, and it sickens me.
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by klyrs 3y ago
I still don't think it counts as insider trading if an outsider sabotages the airplane and buys the puts. The sabotage itself is probably a dozen federal offenses (gasp, terrorism!) resulting in actual prison time; insider trading onl
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by klyrs 3y ago
Oh, I don't know about that. Forth words can take control of the input stream! The ordinary parser eats space-deliminated tokens, sure, but how does the " word work? It takes over the input, and reads until it finds a terminal
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by klyrs 3y ago
Your language is really neat, thanks for putting it out there
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by klyrs 3y ago
That isn't syntax. : is a word, and so is ; Cool article posted to HN a little while back: http://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_wri...
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by klyrs 3y ago
My guess is that they're talking about the radiation efficiency -- the strength of signal you get for a unit of power. I would interpret that sentence to mean that communicating with a satellite over a dish antenna will take more powe
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by klyrs 3y ago
Can't wait to see marble logic implemented with this...
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by klyrs 3y ago
Wherein the hex-knight is the anti-hex-queen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_chess#/media/File:Gl...
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by klyrs 3y ago
So you're ridiculing somebody who's done the work, on the basis that you might like to attempt to solve the problem from a position of idealism?

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