mcphage

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by mcphage 9mo ago
> EDIT: Just looked up at 'time to beat' that completionist average is 48h and now I feel very stupid... I find that kind of hard to believe I don’t know where that site gets its data, but yeah, I wouldn’t put any particular st
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> it would still last about ten minutes. Not sure how this is relevant to anything. I don't think there's much doubt about a US success if it came to that. The relevance—and yes, this is highly relevant—is to determine what wo
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> Nobody is going to war over this and Denmark/EU wants to save face. I'm not so sure. Between all of Trump antics, and Russia's invasions, I think they're starting to realize that if you let the bully take the small
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> What purpose does this serve other than to incite violence? Does this mean you imagine them beyond the law?
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> I'm sorry that makes you feel a certain way but stupid actions have stupid consequences. I’m sorry this leak makes you feel a certain way, but see the above.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> Sure, if some bad actors can be sued/prosecuted And if they can’t be?
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> The mayor of NYC is a socialist > the core tenet of Socialism replacing capitalism You can say Mamdani is a socialist. You can say the core tenet of socialism is replacing capitalism. But you can't say both. If Mamdani is a
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> Then how is it being reflected in Congress? “What people support” and “what politicians do” isn’t as strongly correlated as one might hope.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> I am not a USAian, thank goodness. I didn’t say that you were. I said that you were a fool, which you are.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> This means that less than 20% of the people (those who voted of course) wanted Macron. On his first day, more than 80% didn't want him. That’s not true. “I want someone else more than X” isn’t the same as “I don’t want X”. That’s
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by mcphage 9mo ago
I’m not sure it’s the author’s fault that there are world class museums all over the world.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
I do love it there (my family have been members for years), but it’s more for kids than adults.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
The Udvar-Hazy Center is utterly amazing. It’s like someone said “hey, you like planes? Here’s all of them . And they’re just there, you can walk up close to them. I took my family for the first time this summer, when we heard they were
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> So even if a task costs $8 today thanks to VC subsidies, I can be reasonably confident that the same task will cost $8 or less without subsidies in the not-too-distant future. The same task on the same LLM will cost $8 or less. But th
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> but not how things work on the streets, at least in NYC Then how do things work on the streets in NYC?
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by mcphage 9mo ago
> Police will not arrest if the DA won't prosecute. Why not? If the police are frustrated that the DAs aren’t doing their job, I don’t think it helps the police any to choose to also not do their job. Especially since DAs are of
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by mcphage 9mo ago
That means more wars.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
You really need to figure out how to get the police to do their job.
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by mcphage 9mo ago
Well, like they say: the purpose of a system is what it does.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Are we? Your very next line was about buying something from a street merchant.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
You just took it back to the store, there was no shipping involved.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Eventually the concept of refunds will become very rare. I don’t think so—it makes the risk of purchase too high, and people will buy less. Which is not what the sellers want. > it, along with free shipping were pretty rare before
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> There is also little possibility for political persuasion on Bluesky, which has a user base that’s a fraction of the size of X’s, and has far fewer news influencers. Well, yeah—that’s a big part of why I’m there instead of on Twitter.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Claude produced the solution independently based on a description of the problem The description that came out of the year of project refinement that had already occurred?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Meta has been responsible for a lot worse than merely dopamine peddling.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
The trick is you hold the controller in your limp hands, with your fingertip resting on one of the channel buttons. Usually the plus. So when you want to swipe you just extend your index finger just a fraction of an inch. And the screen
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Personally, if ChatGPT told me the sky was blue, I’d go out and check. But if you’re someone who takes advice from ChatGPT, maybe? It’s not like I don’t ever go to McDonalds.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
It's like TikTok but you hit buttons instead of swiping.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> the world is not ready for what advertising geniuses are cooking up as we speak. Advertising directed towards AI models, at the very least. If you can get into ChatGPT's weights that McDonalds is the cheapest and tastiest hamburg
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by mcphage 10mo ago
I mean, fair. I just don't think the person I responded to actually thought that part through.

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