mcbrit

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by mcbrit 2mo ago
This Kind of War (reading list Marine Corps commandant 2026 Vietnam War) suggests the answer is that the US fought crusades through WW2. Then they got Korea; not absolute war, not a crusade. And the US had no reference frame for that. Who i
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by mcbrit 4mo ago
Shuffling zk (Zettelkasten) cards is just fine. [1] The meaning of a note is largely determined by its connections, and so approaching a note through a different set of connections gives it a different meaning. Finding new paths uncovers ne
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by mcbrit 7mo ago
A tax deferred is a tax avoided. (common wisdom)
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by mcbrit 11mo ago
You're talking to a dude. (in my case.) I mentioned 8 books. I won't tell you exactly what to do, but one way to do it is to measure your surprise with me choosing each of those 8 books when you provide a recommendation back to me
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by mcbrit 11mo ago
If I provide that list, a (real) person doesn't ask me if I've read the Hobbit.
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by mcbrit 11mo ago
I don't know. I entered, trying to be popular but at least slightly? opiniated: Tigana, Hyperion, A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Moby Dick and I got a list. Sure, read all that or wasn't interested for reasons, I added (only Ne
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by mcbrit 11mo ago
Other than capital does a lot of work in that argument. Companies will not pop up and optimize much less micro optimize the tradeoffs. This isn’t a stock exchange; it’s a real capital intensive product.
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by mcbrit 1y ago
Counting in people rather than people-days is problematic, and then you get to qol-people-days. Saying murder is not helpful; see how folks have responded to you.
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by mcbrit 1y ago
Line: The ADR of standard colonoscopy decreased significantly from 28·4% (226 of 795) before to 22·4% (145 of 648) after exposure to AI Supprt: Statistically speaking, on average, for each 1% increase in ADR, there is a 3% decrease in the
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by mcbrit 1y ago
France is from the legal past that the US emerged from and it's a criminal prosecution so seems relevant. Offering inconsistent defense has got to be thing in France, particularly during criminal prosecution.
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by mcbrit 1y ago
Louisiana is the only jurisdiction which does not adhere to the general rule that a defendant may rely, in a criminal prosecution, upon inconsistent defenses. (In other words: prove it. I get as many counterexamples as my lawyers can dream
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by mcbrit 1y ago
Yes? That is just obviously correct given the judicial system for hundreds of years. I get why you are outraged, but also: inform yourself. This is exactly what even minimally competent defense does and should look like.
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by mcbrit 1y ago
How far do cables generally move power now in terms of hours, meaning time zone offset? This might seem like an odd formulation, but. I /think/ formulating the problem this way means that 12h=power is always relevant. So: where ar
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by mcbrit 1y ago
I can drive several large trucks through that sentence while answering no, so: no. There are so many ways to create a no there is an important point. Related: you are in an audit. The auditor asks you if you know what the time is. Correct a
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by mcbrit 1y ago
To point out something that is a fail: I don't want to hear about how you simulated 10M particles on the GPU without acceleration forces.
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by mcbrit 1y ago
I am currently limiting myself to 500 lines of (particle engine) code while listening to visual artists talking about their workflow in UE5 or Houdini, and Odin+Raylib are lovely to work in. GingerBill has shouted out Go, but Odin doesn&#x2
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Probably you are missing sth because it’s so one sided.
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by mcbrit 2y ago
It’s always you are running too fast. Slow it down, walk more, figure it out. You simply shouldn’t feel bad or even breathe hard unless you want to when doing 2 walk/2 run. If you are: too fast! Slow down! Most folks don’t slow down be
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by mcbrit 2y ago
One of the hard things to do when building a game is to figure out why it's fun. It's hard enough that, in general, most folks just remake another game that's already figured out the fun. You're doing a math game, math g
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Assumption: wanted feedback, saying kid was not saying shibboleth.
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Games are a series of interesting decisions. That’s one formulation. Being asked what x+y is with some graphics is not an interesting decision. Perhaps an interesting decision comes later, but I wasn’t interested and bounced.
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by mcbrit 2y ago
(computers generating hypotheses beat non-computer aided humans generating hypotheses should adequately engage a large class of arguments that your comment seems to suggest that you'd like to make)
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by mcbrit 2y ago
The "just" a hypothesis-generating step is THE HYPOTHESIS. Generating THE HYPOTHESIS is THE non-scientific step in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. To not undersell this: where the actual fuck does a hypothesis come from? Particularly one t
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Chipotle ensures all paths lead to a customer-pleasing Burrito, which is kind of sort of the same Burrito once you squint in the way Chipotle slants. Choose away; it does not matter very much. I would say cooking/Cooking is finding int
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by mcbrit 2y ago
You are meant to feel it. Just: it does whatever is helpful.
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by mcbrit 2y ago
No one who cooks, cooks like this. So, no, a burrito is not a monad, unless you are performing Catholic Mass and the burrito is sth sth, in which case you have more words to write and I while I believe you can write those words, the words a
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Many chefs go on about this; I don't see anything unique or insightful in the article. Personally, I think the Japanese ryokan tradition is amazing. It's obsessive food, and you /can/ taste the difference. I thought it w
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by mcbrit 2y ago
Imagine an athlete being told that they should never do the same workout twice. Thanks, no, I prefer winning. (Proof by contradiction by analogy. Also the same workout twice is never the same workout.)
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by mcbrit 2y ago
All models are wrong, some are useful. CAP is probably at least as useful as Newtonian mechanics WHEN you are explaining why you just did a bunch of… extra stuff. I would like to violate CAP, please. I would like to be nearish to c, please.
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by mcbrit 2y ago
It is important to realize that big companies are friction free to a small set of folks; you will note marked tiers of less friction at some earlier point. You appear to have had a full-friction experience. This mostly has to do with top-do

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