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by mjd 4mo ago
Two sentences in recruiter register, yes. I'm really bad at it and I do need help.
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by mjd 4mo ago
I would never use AI for something where I need my own voice, say a blog post or a personal letter. But I'm not ashamed to say that I used it last week in a chat conversation with a recruiter to turn this: 1. I just said I'm
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by mjd 4mo ago
Better. But I think we still are much better at building tools than at using them.
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by mjd 4mo ago
You left out perhaps the most widespread and important example! Many western European cultures, going back I think to Charlemagne, had a monetary system in which a pound was divided into 20 shillings / solidi, and each shilling was div
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by mjd 4mo ago
Thanks for the callout to my Telugu fractions article! If you enjoy ৪ being four and ৭ seven you will probably enjoy the thousand-year-old magic square inscribed at the Parshvanatha temple in Madhya Pradesh. https://blog.plover.c
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by mjd 4mo ago
That's an interesting theory but I don't think I find it plausible. Say we're cutting bars like you said. With the obvious strategy I have to cut the three bars into a total of 9 pieces of sizes no less than 1/3 bar ea
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by mjd 4mo ago
Thanks, I think they raised the limit in the last few years and I forgot. I have definitely gone over the limit for single documents in the past, although I've never been over the quarterly waiver limit. Judicial opinions and hearing t
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by mjd 4mo ago
PACER fees are waived if they are under $15 per quarter. That's about 150 pages of material.
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by mjd 4mo ago
Best of luck with this. About twenty years ago there was a website that displayed play-by-play of games in progress with a much more minimal display than yours: just a scoreboard, balls and strikes count, and an indication of who was on ba
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by mjd 4mo ago
I've added a short paragraph to the beginning to explain what is going on.
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by mjd 4mo ago
I didn't think about this before, but it must be hard to understand what's going on for someone not already familiar with Egyptian fraction notation.
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by mjd 4mo ago
It was something really silly: I asked Claude to help me think of a snide emoji for every U.S. President. I hadn't been able to think of one for Zachary Taylor, because, you know, he's Zachary Taylor. Claude proposed the cherries
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by mjd 4mo ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 4mo ago
Same, I'd never heard of this product or company before, and know I know how many people on HN say they tried it and said it didn't work!
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by mjd 4mo ago
The comment I was responding to asked for examples of “lotteries you don't see, because you're used to them, and they're just part of how the world works, like this one is to the people in the story”. The comment wasn't
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by mjd 4mo ago
“She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.” That's from this morning, reported in ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/arkans
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by mjd 4mo ago
Hit-and-run vehicle collisions. Innocent bystanders of gang violence. Factory workers killed by industrial machinery. That chemical tank in Los Angeles that is about to explode. Woman in Arkansas with ectopic pregnancy. (Abortion is illegal
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by mjd 5mo ago
This sort of theoretical result is not always as clear-cut as you suggest. Computers are finite machines. There is a theorem that although a machine with finite memory can add, multiplication requires unbounded memory. Somehow we muddle al
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by mjd 5mo ago
The Hacker News guidelines say “Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. ‘Did you even read the article? It mentions that’ can be shortened to ‘The article mentions that’.” https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by mjd 5mo ago
C++ and Java and … Perl.
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by mjd 5mo ago
It's not dumb. There's a conflict of interest.
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by mjd 5mo ago
I accidentally read the comments on the post and got as far as this one: “Honestly, since we're going towards socialism, we need to abolish child support. Women have the right to get an abortion because it is their body their choice. A
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by mjd 5mo ago
Matt Levine's introduction to this story made me laugh: “If you have a certain sort of mind, you might think ‘no, people respond to incentives; if the grid paid for every efficient lightbulb, we’d save more electricity.’ If you have a
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by mjd 5mo ago
Or maybe Ms. McHealy was simply lying.
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by mjd 5mo ago
The employee's goal here isn't to make the employer feel proud, it's to exchange their services for money. If the employer wants an employee they can feel proud of, well, that's a service too, and one they can purchase w
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by mjd 5mo ago
I gave Claude a couple of paragraphs of Ozy Brennan's newsletter from today, and it guessed Scott Alexander.
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by mjd 5mo ago
She's a hero.
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by mjd 5mo ago
Abandoned doesn't have to be forever. As I got older I had a longer time horizon and more skill, and found I was picking up and finishing projects I'd laid aside decades earlier. Now when I put something aside I know there's
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by mjd 5mo ago
I wonder if it is reasoning. To me the sequence looks something like this: 1. The story is promulgated by a long-retired ex-FBI analyst 2. Fox News picks it up and runs with it 3. Fox News watchers get excited about it on social media 4. So
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by mjd 5mo ago
If they don't mark their territory by spraying urine, I'm not interested.

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