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by naasking 5mo ago
Fixed pie fallacy.
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by naasking 5mo ago
Speculation is not really the issue, most of the issues are around regulations limiting construction. If you wanted to incentivize home buying for young families, then the demographic that needs the most incentives are old people whose kids
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by naasking 5mo ago
Foam are indeed the best, but there's a lot of variation in sound blocking quality and ear comfort. Experimentation is needed to find what works for you. White noise also helps without the need for ear plugs. Depends how loud the distu
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by naasking 5mo ago
> It can be cruel if over-used, but it is not the same as physically hurting a child. Anything is cruel if "overused". And nobody is claiming "it's the same" as corporal punishment, the argument is whether corpor
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by naasking 5mo ago
> I don't agree that forgoing violence as a punishment is the same as excusing the bad behaviour. The best outcome for everyone is surely rehabilitation, no? The dirty secret is that we have absolutely no idea how to rehabilitate an
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by naasking 5mo ago
Nobody has the biggest stick forever, and time is implicitly included in the adage "someone always has a bigger stick".
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by naasking 5mo ago
I don't see how that follows. In an environment in which physical correction has no reason , and is doled out unfairly (as with alcoholic parents), then sure, someone would ingrain the idea that the world is callous and unfair and the
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by naasking 5mo ago
Good thing that's not the lesson then. Of course if you see any use of physical correction as violence and abuse, then you're just assuming the conclusion.
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by naasking 5mo ago
> If child A is bullying child B because they themselves are suffering abuse at home Experiencing hardship doesn't excuse violence against others, just like it wouldn't excuse breaking the law. You can say "here is the pun
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by naasking 5mo ago
> I think we all shouldnt be too quick to assume that the problem starts with the person doing the bullying I don't think anyone is making that assumption, but being ok with corporal punishment likely comes down to three things: 1.
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by naasking 5mo ago
> it is a curious argument that, in order to show that stronger people should not hurt weaker people, you think it's okay for stronger people to hurt weaker people Not curious at all. Ingrains the lesson that, should you feel inclin
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by naasking 5mo ago
> it will only make the bullies taking their revenge on vulnerable ones with even more cruelty. And they will plan it carefully to be hard/impossible to prove. It will lead to the escalation, not to the resolution Bullies are genera
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by naasking 5mo ago
I don't see how that follows. The brain could be experiencing all sorts of things while processing, but simply not record it, and so of course the person will have no recollection of experiencing anything.
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by naasking 5mo ago
> It's not uncommon to see a gemma vs qwen comparison, where qwen does a bit better, but spent 22 minutes on the task, while gemma aligned the buttons wrong, but only spent 4 minutes on the same prompt. Yes, Gemma 4 is very promisin
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by naasking 5mo ago
> It would have been much better if the bun team joined forces and helped out Submitting patches is joining forces and helping out.
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by naasking 5mo ago
Would you feel good about completely fake CSAM if it actually reduced incidence of child molestation?
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by naasking 6mo ago
If you don't understand and verify the scope of authorities a bearer token grants, then you are just begging for a security breach.
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by naasking 6mo ago
> We had no idea — and Railway's token-creation flow gave us no warning — that the same token had blanket authority across the entire Railway GraphQL API, including destructive operations like volumeDelete. So you effectively gave a
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by naasking 6mo ago
> In particular, Wren gives up dynamic object shapes, which enables copy-down inheritance and substantially simplifies (and hence accelerates) method lookup. A general rule of thumb is that if you can assign an expression a static type,
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by naasking 6mo ago
Seriously, when you're conversing with a person would you prefer they start rambling on their own interpretation or would you prefer they ask you to clarify? The latter seems pretty natural and obvious. Edit: That said, it's entir
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by naasking 6mo ago
> It's the established scientific consensus. So was the fact that ulcers weren't caused by bacteria. "Established scientific consensus" is another argument people need to stop using. > You're intentionally omi
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by naasking 6mo ago
Some of those railroad bridges might never have been constructed without those simulations.
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by naasking 6mo ago
Diminishing returns are inevitable, agreed, but it's not clear we're near that point yet.
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by naasking 6mo ago
> What other uses do GPU's have that are critical...? lol GPUs are essential to every kind of scientific and engineering simulation you can think of. AI-accelerated simulations are a huge deal now.
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by naasking 6mo ago
> A bridge with a 6 year lifespan for each beam is insane. Not necessarily. Depends entirely on the value of the transport that the bridge enables.
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by naasking 6mo ago
> The reason no one wants to talk is that these discussions are always co-opted by racists wanting to affirm their beliefs So? People need to stop undermining science and openly sharing information because some people have bad ideas.
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by naasking 6mo ago
> However race is a cultural and social construct. [...] The superficial variations in average height, skin color, etc. do not vary enough to constitute species differentiation Species is also a social construct. Calling race a social co
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by naasking 6mo ago
It can even be more subtle, it's entirely possible that some rare members of A can C breed, and some members of C and B would not be able to breed. The "fertility" relation can only be decided between two individuals, not
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by naasking 6mo ago
Less so for Gemma-4 because it falls behind Qwen on benchmarks. Tests for benchmaxxing are also strongly suggestive: https://x.com/bnjmn_marie/status/2041540879165403527
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by naasking 6mo ago
Qwen models commonly get accused of benchmaxxing though. Just something to keep in mind when weighing the standard benchmarks.

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