matherial

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by matherial 2mo ago
Right. If anything, the 1990s were the decade of apex celebrity superstardom? You had singers like George Michael on the covers of mainstream magazines and in TV ads, you had all the boy bands (New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC)
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by matherial 2mo ago
You have 20 kids in a classroom. Fifteen of them want to know what's going to be on the state-mandated test. Five, if you're lucky, may have some interest in the subject you're teaching. So, do you design the class for the fi
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by matherial 2mo ago
> I get your point, and the book does say that. It's just... For a teenager, it rarely lands. Basic education is weird because it has two conflicting goals. One is to get everyone to the same basic level needed to function in a soci
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by matherial 2mo ago
I wish the author lived by the same principle, seeing how the text on the webpage is pretty evidently AI-generated.
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by matherial 2mo ago
A common way of thinking at Google and other big tech companies is that you're not building for your current users. Your current users will hate it if you move or change the color of a single button in Gmail. Also cue the "faster
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by matherial 2mo ago
Zoning is a per-city and per-county thing. Traditionally, they usually occupied some sort of commercial / light industrial zones, the same as office parks and warehouses. But hyperscale stuff often requires one-off variances / rez
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by matherial 2mo ago
There's no other account. The period is disregarded. When you sign up for foo.bar@, you effectively get foobar@ and all the other variations (foob.ar@, etc). No one else can sign up for these. Quirky but not terribly interesting.
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by matherial 2mo ago
No. I was on a free plan for years and found out by accident. It's interesting that you set "nefarious" as the bar. I'd simply call it "sleazy".
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by matherial 2mo ago
I'd just set my wallpaper to Hasselhoff as soon as I found out about the tradition and be done with it. More seriously, the wallpaper stuff is OK, but I never found some of the more disruptive office pranks on the list to be particular
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by matherial 2mo ago
Because your institution's PR department and the journal you're publishing in want the publicity of "scientist cures cancer". And you probably wrote "I'm curing cancer" in your grant application, team char
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by matherial 2mo ago
It's an AI-generated post on another ephemeral AI-generated blog, now a multiple-times-a-day occurrence on HN. We're taking issue with what a chatbot thinks about "leadership". And some people will probably show up and s
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by matherial 2mo ago
How so? The article is talking about a fictitious person that's listed by name only on a sanctions list despite the government knowing the person doesn't exist. There is no possibility of the real Sean Byrne presenting a governmen
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by matherial 2mo ago
Do you also get upset when people buy Lego sets, model airplanes, or jigsaw puzzles? It's the same thing. And FWIW, it's the exactly same reason most people were buying DIY electronics kits in '70s, '80s, and '90s.
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by matherial 2mo ago
> This part has been beyond baffling to me. The last thing I want Most people don't think about it when buying a car, or they have no practical way to evaluate it. So it is one of these things you probably need to fix with legislati
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by matherial 2mo ago
Right, which is still few steps removed from the actual genocide. IG Farben was a direct participant, to the point where a lot of their execs were tried and convicted at Nuremberg. But I'm not sure the focus on corporations is all that
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by matherial 2mo ago
> Waiting a year to get from intuition to theorems is a perfect way to ruin math. It's interesting that you chose to make that point in a thread about calculus specifically. It had pretty shaky foundations for most of its history, a
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by matherial 2mo ago
> However, although G is undecidable, it’s clearly true. That's... not really true; it's surprising to see it in Quanta, of all places. Godel's (separate) completeness theorem says that in first-order logic, anything that&
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by matherial 2mo ago
What are you trying to say? That Facebook should be excused because others also behave badly? Otherwise, we can dislike both things and it adds nothing to say "but why aren't your talking about the other thing instead". And f
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by matherial 2mo ago
You don't need to accept at random. I'm selective - I only connect with people I worked with or know well from the industry - and it's still 99% AI slop. Part of the problem is the tech industry. There's plenty of people
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by matherial 2mo ago
How so? They have the same radios, the laptop has more human input devices (touchpad, trackpad, keyboard, pen), quantitively better almost everything (more RAM, much better CPU / GPU, much higher pixel count, faster and higher-capacity
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by matherial 2mo ago
What an odd website. It explains everything in incredibly childish terms ("The display you’re reading this on is an absurd grid of exactly [wrong number] tiny, multicoloured light bulbs, known as pixels."), has lots of needless wo
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by matherial 2mo ago
I guess this is where our true colors show. There's a significant contingent of HNers who always dunk on LLM text detectors and claim that they can't possibly work, that they ruin careers, etc. But now that a lab says "OK, we
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by matherial 2mo ago
You have less latitude than in prose, but I think you're underestimating how much can be changed without causing breakage. For example, the most likely sequence might be "if (!foo) bar; else baz;", but you can also say "
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by matherial 2mo ago
Minimal. I'm behind Cloudflare and 90% of the traffic is still scrapers. I don't think they're serious about the long tail. I think the main thing Cloudflare is trying to do is block direct traffic from frontier labs and then
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by matherial 2mo ago
That's not really true? Housing in depopulating / depopulated areas can be easily 5-10x cheaper than in premium metro regions. In picturesque locations, there's upward price pressure because well-off urbanites sometimes buy v
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by matherial 2mo ago
All silicon capacitors are relatively expensive, they're specialty parts that generally go into expensive things (mmWave airport scanners, optical backhaul, etc).
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by matherial 2mo ago
No, not if you want 22 nF. That's a pretty substantial capacitance. It would need to be quite big on a PCB. That would mean significant inductance, and thus, bad performance at high frequencies.
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by matherial 2mo ago
This is, without exaggeration, probably the fiftieth blog post or long-form comment about how someone is using an LLM for "complex learning", and I'd just really like to see at least one of these to be accompanied by a statem
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by matherial 2mo ago
You truly envision a future where every program is written in a custom programming language, for a custom operating system, for a single user who will now be in charge of understanding and maintaining it forever? That user being your grandm
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by matherial 2mo ago
What? No. Plants colonize new areas in complex succession sequences that require hundreds of years to play out. It might start with grasses, then shrubs, then dense stands of trees that die off and are replaced by stands of other trees... m

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