margalabargala

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by margalabargala 2mo ago
This is bad advice to give. It sets a lot of people up for failure with unreasonable expectations. The correct advice to give is "don't do it. It's really hard and you'll probably fail". Anyone who quits after recei
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
> Its extremely disingenuous and pejorative to conflate artists, students, and service industry employees with criminals. > There's a number of reasons for people to be poor outside of being CRIMINALS. Right, yes, I agree with yo
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
I don't think the GP comment is actually NIMBY. They are pointing out that there are more incentives at play than what the article presents, and ignoring them will cause different problems. In the case of SROs, if a perception exists t
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Ask a software engineer.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, exactly. "Oh yeah? Well I drive drunk" is not a valid rebuttal to "you are not a serious person".
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
No. Just because an entity is able to do things with serious consequences, does not mean they are a serious entity. For other examples, see school shooters in the US.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
> These days, I don't think anti-establishment hackers have any physical conference gathering. HOPE still exists
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Much like today, early humans were indeed capable of eating meat raw. Also much like today, early humans did not do so if there was a way to cook it.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
The Inca had a method of drying potatoes such that they were stable for multiple years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%B1o
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Seems fixed now. But when I posted my comment, on mobile, the triangle bisector appeared to be measuring whether you were bisecting the long leg of the triangle, very much not the area.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
> I doubt it would be able to complete a single level Have you ever played pokemon?
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
The math behind the interactive bits is terribly broken. You may want to add testing to the prompt that wrote this article.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
If one is using the Socratic method, rhetorical questions are one tool they might employ. The reverse is not true. Just because someone asks a rhetorical question, does not mean they are using the Socratic method.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
I was never using the Socratic method. I was asking rhetorical questions, and then gave the (my) answer at the end. We just have different opinions about what it means to have a book. I think that having a copy of "Pride and Prejudice
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
That sounds to me like fuzzily having a version of the book. That is, it's more like having the book, than having nothing would be. You seem to be arguing that a translation, etc is not literally having the book, which is something tha
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
My opinion is different from yours. If I have a translation of a book, I think I have more of that book than if I had nothing at all. It's fuzzy.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Bad at quoting, good at digesting and regurgitating. The concepts are preserved even if quotes aren't. I'd rather a digital copy exist in someone's hands than a rotting physical copy.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Having or not having a book is absolutely fuzzy. If you have a translation, do you have the book? Even if, like the Odyssey, there are hundreds of wildly varying translations? What about an abridged copy? What about the Sparknotes version?
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, that's my point. These generally are not books people care about. The information contained therein was doomed. Now the information has been digitally preserved and a digestion of the information will be made publicly available.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, but if an AI company buys some vanishingly uncommon book, digitizes it, shreds it, and adds the information it contains to their permanent digital library and digests its contents into an AI that is then publicly accessible...are the
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, exactly, nothing is, because "performance" is a meaningless term without context. Unless you're saying that there exists no conceivable context in which IQ would be a performance metric, in which case you would be wron
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
"performance" is an undefined vague attribute. Define what they are performing at, and what you say becomes true, but then who is a high performer changes with every task. For example, consider the police stations with maximum all
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, but didn't that one go out the window with your original comment? People follow all the rules some of the time, and some of the rules all the time.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
HN guidelines are that I should choose the most generous interpretation of your comment, not the most likely one. It would be uncharitable and insulting to you to take your comment at face value.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
That's surprising to me. You think a gigawatt of heat cannot be felt 500 meters downwind? How near before you experience the temperature rise in the article, if not that?
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Right, yes, if people want something studied, grants usually are made available to study it.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
I assure you that is not true.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
Sure, but this is just one issue. How many potential $0.78 connectors exist? If one in 1000 customers has a need for a connector, and there are 40 different potential failure modes where a $0.78 connector would make recovery easier, is that
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
The skull was found in 61 pieces, which is above the limit for quantity of pieces your skull can shatter into from blunt force while remaining alive.
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by margalabargala 2mo ago
I take your point, but unlike everything you mentioned, programming languages have usually been written for others to use, with a handful of Intercal-like exceptions. Any fully new languages we get will be either doomed from the start, or t

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