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by niam 1y ago
What does the author claim entitlement to? Or what real-world malign effect are you expecting from this piece that warrants the charge? I went in expecting the type of piece you describe, since I know the type, but I've failed to read
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by niam 2y ago
One refrain seems to be that "added sugars" are bad but then that's not quite true afaik either, because sugar is sugar whether it's "added" or not. To a first approximation, "sugar is bad for you" se
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by niam 2y ago
I've not been terribly worried about them running SQLite in the background as long as their sync with the filesystem is seamless, which they've highlighted is the goal. Unless there's another set of reasons you're worrie
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by niam 2y ago
The closest I've come is in using an "outliner". I don't have it in me to impose structure on notes. I like how logseq works, where you don't need to name your files. You just write into the "today" log ab
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by niam 2y ago
He doesn't need to. If retrospect exists to inform future decisions: getting to the GP's point in his business is a useful success signal. Whatever it is that you're tracking seems less useful toward any question that isn&#x2
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by niam 2y ago
Ignoring what might be vapid reddit edge: it doesn't seem like it. The GP would probably do well to see the endeavor as a success in terms of how they should behave in future. Any necessary adjustment would seem to come from the margin
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by niam 2y ago
My reading is that the GP moreso takes issue with how social sciences are discussed, and is using an arbitrary replication-less finding in the 'hard sciences' (this one) as a podium to speak from--regardless of why replication doe
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by niam 2y ago
I mostly want useful. Accurate and supersonic would be great. I've identified an issue with my car's starter and my mechanic, in his wisdom, tells me that cars in general do that sometimes. It's perhaps a cruel irony in a dis
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by niam 2y ago
Slowness is a general problem with cars.
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by niam 2y ago
I get the hatred of excesses wrt finance/economics, to a point. Though I can't help but see comments against efficiency in general as a shift in the needle towards policymakers who bask in nimwittitude. We're not over satur
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by niam 2y ago
I mostly don't see the point in these terms anymore. They were presumably created to categorize people but suck at it because nobody agrees where the boundaries of the category are, and the resolution on the term is so low for how many
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by niam 2y ago
PowerApps would not catch me endorsing it for anything beyond a year of use, however. Either a replacement needs to be on its way, or it's for a project with a defined end date. Otherwise, "there's nothing more permanent than
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by niam 2y ago
They managed to make File Explorer itself considerably worse over time as well. They really pulled out the monkey's paw when I wished for tabs.
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by niam 2y ago
Some easy US examples would be the literally destroyed homes from wildfires and floods. Updated insurance rates are pricing people out of neighborhoods after a history of underpricing insurance. Surrounding less-risky areas receive surges i
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by niam 2y ago
Ah fair. Replacing "really for" with "more for e.g" would have been closer to the intended comment. I'll take that L. Though if I can clarify: "can't be arsed to search" isn't a normative or judg
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by niam 2y ago
I know what you mean, but also don't know how it applies here. Not a hater, and not asking rhetorically to dunk on OpenAI. Just haven't found a use for this particular feature. Which is also exactly something a bad-faith comment
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by niam 2y ago
Genuine question: is there a present or planned value proposition for people like me who already have decent search skills? Or are these really for children/elders who (without making any normative claim about whether this is a good th
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by niam 2y ago
I feel that discussion over papers like these so-often distill to conversations about how it's "impossible for a bot to know what's true", that we should just bite the bullet and define what we mean by "truth".
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by niam 2y ago
Cheaper goods, larger market, more things to market, age demographic balance, broader cultural influence (inasmuch as one believes this to be a good thing), increased chances for innovation. All or some of this probably ties into what peo
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by niam 2y ago
> We wouldn't be able to prove if Google ranked sites with their ads higher This to me is a different argument, though admittedly reasonable to arrive at through the language of "paying Google for placement". > I think
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by niam 2y ago
If Google were to have the astoundingly poor business sense to secretly allow payment for higher 'organic' search rankings: they'd hopefully at least have the good sense to not blow that secret on a fish as small as Fandom.
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by niam 2y ago
This seems a semantic carving of the discussion to match the argument though. > Person 1: Just stop it. Want harder. > Person 2: I can't. > Person 1: Well, you have an addiction then, not just a bad habit; my point was about h
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by niam 2y ago
That's my instinct when people describe themselves , too. e.g in dating profiles when people remark about how "I'm smart, funny", etc. They may be both of those things! But I can't help that my first conceit is alw
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by niam 2y ago
I think you're right that, in the object-oriented world, a method isn't a necessary condition for most people to consider something an "object". What the author seems to be saying is that if someone asked you to sell OOP
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by niam 2y ago
There's got to be a word for these kinds of ridiculous arguments which use personal responsibility as a cudgel against a systematic fix. I agree generally that interfaces have been dumbing down too far, but "private is actually
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by niam 2y ago
What are the arguments for embedded vector DBs being suboptimal in RAG, out of curiosity?
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by niam 2y ago
Loved this piece for the style and rumination, though I focused less on the "did it work? were the approaches reasonable?" aspects that other commenters seem to be highlighting. Not quite the same, but for years I moderated a few
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by niam 2y ago
I never really got the outrage. Or rather, I don't understand why it's directed at the principle of a ring-0 anticheat. I feel that security minded folks are apt to avoid installing software from notably untrusted vendors on impor
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by niam 3y ago
It's not saying the slang originated there, so much as it is slang that is used by gen Z.
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by niam 3y ago
I see the validity of this concern in the short term, but long term I feel like this is a bit doomsday. I don't want anyone's livelihood to get shafted, but realistically I see this as lowering the barrier to creating videos &#x2F

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