mcphage

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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Firstly why wouldn't one be scared of an opponent that can just steadily press against me, winning a war by attrition? Because if they can barely succeed that way against an enemy 1/3 of their size, they wouldn't be able
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Are you saying you want to put him back in charge?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Those numbers come from hamas. Why is it a problem in Ukraine? Because in the Russian occupied territories, Russia has no interest in reporting the number of civilian deaths.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> someone who has no idea how to use LLMs yelling at clouds How to use LLMs? There’s no “how to use LLMs”, you just tell them what you want, and they give it to you. Or they give you sometimes, and sometimes they give you something els
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> most inmates in inhumane prisons would love to have the life you describe if they could enjoy some degree of freedom as a result. On the other hand, people (generally) get sent to prison for committing a crime, not for being incredibly
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by mcphage 10mo ago
As the Bard said (paraphrased) “Some are born miserable, some achieve misery, and some have misery thrust upon them”.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> and brings nothing good to anyone, not a child, not a parent and not you wasting money on stupid shit You really don’t understand people at all.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
If they added a menu item “Kick a puppy”, and every time you clicked it, a puppy somewhere got kicked, would your response be “oh, well, I don’t like kicking puppies, so I just won’t click it, no big deal”?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Don’t forget noisy. Have you considered an Otamatone?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> You conveniently cut off the first part of that sentence where I said she resigned. I left it off because "she resigned" is definitely not the same thing as "I was fired".
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> but if you look at what happened, like her co-workers openly insulting her in the company chat, it doesn't look good I'm not sure "my coworkers don't respect me" is the same thing as "I got fired".
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by mcphage 10mo ago
A bit more. But not much.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Sir, please drop that bag of Flamin Hot Cool Ranch chips and place your hands where I can see them
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by mcphage 10mo ago
So I guess the Cardboard Tube Samurai was a prophesy?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Well, fundamentally no, I don’t think it reflects the will of the general population, since I don’t think they’re aware that this is how it works. At least, I wasn’t before reading this. And beyond that: people’s assets are mostly residenti
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by mcphage 10mo ago
Is it currently there now?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> The student was intentionally mimicking a weapon with a long, tubular object. That's... pretty much every student with any long, tubular object. Of which there are many.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
The Puzzle Boy / Kwirk series of games is Sokoban-based, but has 3 different mechanics on top of that: turnstiles, pits (that can be filled by blocks), and blocks larger than 1x1. One of the things I love about it is that, each mechan
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> If you think the immigration laws are not right, change them, but don't sit on and praise a system perpetuated by illegality. If they want to change the immigration laws, they first need to convince people that immigrants currentl
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Everything is priced that way, basically. In the world of finance, everything is priced according to the future income it can generate -- not just real estate, but stocks, bonds, etc. There's nothing insane about it. To the contra
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Rented unit? Can't be rented to imaginary rich/stupid people. No, but you can raise the rents. Best case scenario, they pay the higher price. Worse case scenario they leave—which leaves you exactly where you were before, wi
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> who is incentivized to push for a correction in this case? Well, the government at the very least. From the article: > Banks are highly regulated, so they can’t just loan whatever they want. The government insists that banks keep h
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Trump has a very distinctive set of beliefs underlying his policies Trump has things that he says—many things that he says. How many of them are beliefs, and how many of them are his normal verbal diarrhea, and how many of them are ju
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> started trying to convince voters on their own merit, instead of simply trash-talking their opponents That’s hard to claim to make right after a Trump victory—trashing their opponents has been the Republicans playbook my entire life, a
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> What if I no good in English? It would still sound more human coming from you.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> The rules of abelian groups guarantee that these identity sandpiles must exist, but they tell us nothing about how beautiful they are. This has causality backwards—being a group requires an identity element. You can't show some
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> It's remarkably hard to fire a U.S. employee without risks of lawsuits. That’s… not really true.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
That’s what they just gave OpenAI the license to do.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
You can buy a good variety of kits on eBay (I say, having done so recently).
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by mcphage 10mo ago
What.are.you.talking.about.the.iOS.keyboard.is.just.fine

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