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by npunt 2y ago
Agree, fiction and narrative is a fundamental method of human reasoning, one of the first and oldest. I think a lot of people are reacting to this are missing some of the point - fictions may not literally model reality, but what makes cert
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It may still be true. Handling plastic over time (e.g. lots of squeezing and dropping) could plausibly cause an increase of plastic leakage over time.
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Part of the beauty of tests like PISA are that, at least in the US, nobody is teaching to the test because it doesn't have an effect on the students, the teacher, or the school. That makes it an ideal measure because it's less dis
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by npunt 2y ago
Yeah K12 and higher ed are vastly vastly different. There's also many reasons for many foreign students at US universities that are unrelated to academics: - we have the best universities in the world, and lots of them - our universiti
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by npunt 2y ago
Another bit of evidence is unruly passenger reports from airlines [1]. There's a kind of mass PTSD / trauma response at work re covid that causes people to shy away from the obvious facts about its effects on us. That said, these
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by npunt 2y ago
Same, and the story is really of all technology. A suitable amount of friction is the invisible force that holds together much of society. We have to be very careful about what activities and actions we make easy to do, because if destructi
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by npunt 2y ago
Glad you liked it! I worked on 3d modeling/texturing and mp maps, though my time was divided between BZ2 and our other game Dark Reign 2 and other duties, so I was never full-time on BZ2. Of the games I worked on during my 3 years at P
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by npunt 2y ago
Absolutely! I was a teenager when I worked on it, so I feel ya :)
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It's a pretty unique hybrid genre game, you don't really get a lot of first person + RTS experiences, I think that's the big enduring appeal. It also gives you a lot of vehicle types to pick from, which became Pandemic's
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by npunt 2y ago
I worked on BZ2 at Pandemic in 99-00 and setup the forums, and I don't remember this fellow in particular (tbf I can't remember anyone's names), but I recall we had a lot of trolls so I wouldn't doubt he was there. It&#x
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by npunt 2y ago
"...in AI" will be the psychology equivalent of biology's "...in Mice"
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by npunt 2y ago
"Don't overthink it" is sometimes good advice!
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by npunt 2y ago
The new Macs with M4 Pro/Max have Thunderbolt 5 which supports up to 120Gbps video bandwidth: 3x that of previous gen. That should cover 8k120 or multiple 8k60 displays! And the regular M4 now supports 8k60 displays I believe due to DS
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Xtal is a gem. I just tested both and the Apple Music version had more oomph the first time I tested for a bit. Then I went back to the beginning a second time and they sounded the same. Whether or not it's true I don't think I ca
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by npunt 2y ago
Yep. JPEG artifacts are now a signature of the medium. "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of
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As you scroll around you'll notice it'll turn all the images into jpegs with bad artifacting like you're back on dialup surfing the world wide web. That's dedication to detail. This degraded image effect was done by movi
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Whenever I see old low res grainy footage like this I wonder how well the latest image gen & AI can restore it
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by npunt 2y ago
What a pleasant surprise seeing dark mode get ported over to this. Always loved BeOS aesthetics and this improves on it! Hope Haiku continues to grow as an alternative OS that can do more daily driver activities. One day I hope Obsidian can
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by npunt 2y ago
Repairability was bad but has gone up a lot, they did a big internals redesign for iPhone 15 to make it easier to swap batteries and replace screens. Still not something they want user serviceable, I imagine mostly because it creates headac
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by npunt 2y ago
Yep they do this for all their platforms, set a battery target based on ~90%tile daily usage of particular form factor (e.g. 18hr watch/iphone, 10-12hr macbook/ipad) and then let ID & chip teams do whatever they want to hit th
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by npunt 2y ago
This is an excellent rebuttal. I think it is an issue that can be overcome but I appreciate the irony of what you point out :)
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Absolutely! Today's LLMs can sometimes(/often?) enormously suck and should not be relied upon for critical information. There's a long way to go to make them better, and I'm happy that a lot of people are working on that
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The argument about LLMs is wrong, not because of reasons stated but because semantic meaning shouldn't solely be defined by the publisher. The real question is whether the average publisher is better than an LLM at accurately classifyi
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by npunt 2y ago
Hey Jim! Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head, the difficulty of measuring language's impact on us comes from the individuality of response to it. Even minor shift in situational context can alter our response, as can the measurem
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That's weird because I find value in using this technique in both personal and creative contexts, and these kinds of reframes are used all the time in therapy, in school, with parents talking to their kids, etc. Perhaps the finer point
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A different name offers a different perspective, because of all the associations with the name. Problems that are hard to solve are often hard because we're stuck on a particular perspective as to how to solve them. Reframing with new
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For an example of how these may be used, Kialo [1] uses a form of argument maps for structured debate. There's also an Obsidian plugin for argument maps [2], tho it's a bit out of date. [1]: https://www.kialo.com [2]:
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Siri was a system seller - The iPhone 4S that Siri was introduced alongside sold 4mm units on the first weekend which was the fastest selling iPhone to date. This was an 'S' update where the body style had not been changed, so the
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by npunt 2y ago
I love the tech but these things are going to be obnoxious as hell. I hope it supercharges the movement to ban advertisements from public places, which has already been done successfully in Sao Paulo and several other major cities [1]. The
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Talk about a profound misunderstanding of the powers that shape the tech landscape and open consumer wallets. Bundling, convenience, tight integration, and bringing technologies to larger markets are like the most powerful business moves yo

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