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by mikrl 1y ago
My philosophical excursions eventually led me to his writings, but I never found what I read to be inspiring or substantial. Pretty much like Ayn Rand in that respect. Like a precocious undergrad who just discovered set theory and thinks he
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by mikrl 1y ago
Sacrifice?? ARSE!
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by mikrl 1y ago
You’ve never heard the anecdata that the Dutch are notoriously stubborn? The offense could have been the Dutch person being direct about their stubbornness to feedback. Also possibly a point in favour of political speech vs directness. Much
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by mikrl 1y ago
There are historical precedents though: >1798 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts >1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 >>notably speech and the ex
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by mikrl 1y ago
I remember before mass LLM adoption, reading an issue on GitHub where an increasingly frustrated user was failing to properly describe a blocking issue, and the increasingly frustrated maintainer was failing to get them to stick to the issu
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by mikrl 1y ago
I went further and just took keys: no watch, no wallet. Also lengthened my 20 minutes to 40 minutes, with adequate buffer of course, and a known 40 minute loop. Yea, it definitely starts the day right.
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by mikrl 1y ago
>The "pioneer spirit" is so core to the American identity and hard to replicate in Europe Consider that the European frontier is either - west: Americas (already done) - south: Africa (not gonna happen again) - north/east:
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by mikrl 1y ago
I had a beer by that name last time I was in NL. No friction in consuming it 9.5/10
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by mikrl 1y ago
GPT SAVE ME! stabs USB drive into leg
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by mikrl 1y ago
I read that Oceanic climates are less stable, making it harder for the massive cumulonimbus clouds associated with thunderstorms to form. Here in Ontario, I can sit on the beach and look over westward and see storms approaching from Michiga
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by mikrl 1y ago
In my undergrad days I learned about the MAPL classification to be considered Canadian content: Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics IIRC you need to hit 3/4 to be considered Canadian content. At that time J Biebs was big, but since his
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by mikrl 1y ago
One of the cultural touchstones of being a Canadian is the smug yet bleak realization that your tiny (in population) nation has produced so many titans of various creative fields, but everyone thinks they’re American because they had to bug
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by mikrl 1y ago
>The tech track works great if one falls into line and doesn't rock the boat by questioning authority or trying to see the big picture Is this true? I thought senior engineers were expected to push back as a matter of course, and st
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by mikrl 1y ago
>Using AI to catch AI cheaters Outside of being highly ironic, this is how you get a GAN arms race :)
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by mikrl 1y ago
I remember my Java IDE in undergrad warned me about an infinite loop, and this was before I learned about the diagonalization proof of the non-computability of the halting problem, one of my favourite proofs ever. The fact that not all prog
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by mikrl 1y ago
Not a quant, but I have physics training and I’m very curious about stochastic calculus and finance. Isn’t it implicit in a lot of the work? If you’re modelling volatility you’ll need the rigorous mathematics in the back of your mind while
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by mikrl 1y ago
For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: “website running 15 year old software gets pwned again”
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by mikrl 1y ago
There is already a Canadian company, Telesat, that’s been doing comms since 1969. Unfortunately, like most things from Canada, there was never enough market for it to catch on. Maybe that will change now the US has unlocked the demand. htt
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by mikrl 1y ago
The UK is not Canada though. You have the House of Lords, we have a Senate. We are a (con)federation, and that adds a whole new political overlay that the UK doesn’t have. The executive power of our PM relative to the body politik is much h
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by mikrl 1y ago
When can I get the GPT that sounds like Boomhauer crossed with Gerald from Clarksons farm?
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by mikrl 1y ago
I bought ocean fish roe from my local Euro store. “Product of Belarus” which is of course landlocked. I thought it was highly suspicious when I noticed, like evasion of sanctions on Russia. However, food products aren’t covered by sanctions
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by mikrl 1y ago
Scroll through wikichip sometime and try to figure out the Intel μarch names. I always confuse Blackwell with Bakewell (tart) and my CPU is on Coffee Lake and great… now I want coffee and cake
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by mikrl 2y ago
Yep. I ask LLMs the XY questions since they don’t get annoyed, and when my question is very concrete and reduced to its essence, I ask the search engine and usually get a better answer than the LLM would give me. Basically, there’s a lot of
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by mikrl 2y ago
You are the only one who brought up gender minorities, as well as the TERF I disagreed with. Anyone wingbrained enough can have luxury beliefs, and I’m not immune. For example, I previously supported a very liberal drug policy, and still do
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by mikrl 2y ago
Look at that, our luxury beliefs collide! Mine, lax and libertarian, perhaps too unconcerned with traditional gender roles and stereotypes. Yours, worried and authoritarian, focused on an imaginary moral panic propagated by reactionary Inte
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by mikrl 2y ago
Maoist rhetoric and hyperpoliticization in academia, seeping out to the broader society. Or in internet cultural terms tumblr/redditization of environments that should be intellectually neutral, because “it’s called being a good person
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by mikrl 2y ago
Hating LGBT people is itself a luxury belief. The spendthrift belief is to just not care what people do with their personal lives, what bathroom they use, etc. And, of course, comprehensive sex ed that reduces the negative externalities of
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by mikrl 2y ago
That Adams quote is nice, and has a similar historical flavour to some of Milton Friedman’s arguments. That said, choosing a field of study only has the risk of bankrupting yourself. The excesses of the 21st century, whether that’s blowing
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by mikrl 2y ago
It’s an apt description of a perennial feature of politics. People have a pain in the foot, so they shoot a hole in it and complain about having a bullet wound. Is there better, less charged terminology?
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by mikrl 2y ago
Poor people get hurt most by wasteful belief systems. Sure the demographics might correlate positively or negatively with poverty, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s primarily economics. After all, rich people can eat the extra $$$

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