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by mcphage 3mo ago
> with full impeachment, Vance becomes President and that would be a NIGHTMARE even worse than what we have now Vance has no popularity or support. Right now Trump is able to destroy the country because congress is doing nothing, and th
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by mcphage 3mo ago
That’s neither simpler, nor better. > "cat" can easily add up to a noticeable delay. If you have a slow script, you will have more useful places to optimize than removing calls to cat.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> But they do have authority over the domain registrar Why do you say that?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
…is your friend… er, was your friend, a US Senator, by any chance?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> This wasn’t possible even a year ago Just because it’s possible now, doesn’t mean it’s worth doing.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> This means there are marginal readers who previously didn’t buy any book but now buy AI slop books, or buy slop books in addition to human ones. The former would be interesting, but seems unlikely. The later seems much more likely, si
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> So far I have made a little over $40, compared to probably $800 in AI subscription fees. > If anyone is curious, I'd be happy to talk about any of it. So you've spent $750 to publish AI slop. I guess my question is... why?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
The existence of someone buying AI slop and being okay with it isn't the same as losing to a robot. Unless you mean losing that specific sale, but they're not outselling human authors yet, and it's not clear they will until
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by mcphage 3mo ago
That almost makes it worse—like they're vaguely aware that training too heavily on too small a data set makes badly trained models, but are unaware that it has a name and is an actual identified problem.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Wealth inequality doesn't cause ills, envy does. No, it really is the wealth inequality.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> if you are less than 50 and on private health care through your employer than you're very likely going to have better healthcare access than anywhere in Europe and Canada Even if it's true now, I wonder for how long—insurance
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I like the idea, but they don't look particularly cloud-like.
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How does this paper not even mention the word "overfitting"?
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What would the advantage be to New Yorkers if they were built here?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> neither the chud nor the cuck vision of classical antiquity is anywhere near accurate Which version continuously looks for new data to test its vision of classical antiquity? Which version changes its vision over time as it acquires n
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> when games stopped with local co-op The Switch and Switch 2 are still great for this. And to bolster your point, they’re still selling like hotcakes and Nintendo is making gobs of money.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> whether the woman desires to be "rescued" or wants changes in the way she lives now Here’s the thing: you can’t keep someone isolated for 55 years, working them without pay—regardless of whether the victim thinks that they wa
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Welcome to HN! You’ll find that a lot of the readers and commenters here don’t view technology as an isolated field, that it interconnects with all sorts of other systems—sociology, politics, entertainment, manufacturing, business, and so
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Yeah, I really don’t think Mitch did.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> What's the goal of the US/Iran war? What's the goal?! The US/Iran war has a ton of goals! Every day a new goal, each as improbable as the last.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Ukraine didn't want to go to war, but someone else made that choice for them.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Iran will probably in a better place than they are now, strategically speaking How could that be? Are they getting an influx of $300 billion dollars or something?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Fiction should be fictional and not be forced to carry today's immoral panic with it. What time period do you feel that took place?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Most of this article is tilting at windmills. It's notable that they present a number of examples of minority villains pre-woke, and then decry that that can't happen anymore because of woke, but they also stop presenting exampl
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Well, maybe a lot of people do keep it secret… that’s true. But plenty of people do not keep it secret.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Since there are no libraries with space for every book (ever), then there is no censorship? When people ban books because they don't want others to learn about trans people, they're usually pretty vocal about their motivation
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> article title is shit clickbait because it IMPLIES those books are banned in Portugal People on this site have some really bizarre ideas about what constitutes "clickbait".
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Given the stdlib modules listed as "explicitly not done yet", I'm going to say: it doesn't yet, in any meaningful sense. The question then becomes: how confident do we feel that it will work in the near future ?
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This kinda reminds me of the Pepsi Universe design doc. Random "hey let's make things like planets and orbits—that's science, right?"
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I feel like you could solve that with some constraints defined early in the process—the controls must fit in dimensions XxYxZ, and have K-input wires, and draw at most 5V of power, or whatever. Then the control designer can go off and desi

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