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by palmotea 4mo ago
> To illustrate why this is stupid, I will furnish two links to purchase Dark Souls 3 (PS4, 2016) > Ebay, to buy: $11 + shipping[0] > PS Store, to rent: $60[1] Yeah, Sony is stupid to be leaving money on the table like that. Lucky
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> My other first impression is the potential similarities to alien contact. What if these cells, once given the ability to reproduce autonomously, become widespread around the globe, with no way for our, and other species', immune s
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You misunderstood me: I'm complaining about people being sensitive/offended due to the origin of a word. It's not a workable standard. Language changes and evolves, and the etymology should considered little more than a his
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> simply asking to justify or explain their claims may be perceived as an attack I think that's because that often is a prelude to an attack. I know someone who mainly asks for explanations or justifications when they're gettin
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> It's generous to assume all the difficult accounts you encounter are lacking mental faculties. It's also not uncommon for people who are arrogant to think that most people who disagree with them are stupid. They assume they&#
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> One of the most cancerous developments of our generation is a bunch of people isolating themselves from everyone else, and having their perfect unchallenged audience captured views spread far and wide. A takeaway from that: if you thin
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> A lot more durable than software engineering in this day and age... Look at his actual description of his people skills...
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My point is: who cares about the origin of the word? IMHO, no one should. Unless the word used in a way meant to offend, it's fine. Otherwise you're kind of cultivating offense and over-sensitivity, helping it survive and grow,
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> I just don't agree that it's a false equivalency. I see them both as "tools I use to get the job done". For me, the job is not "writing code" - it is "deliver feature", "fix bug", and t
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> I think it should be really obvious how they're equivalent: both are the result of a program running on a computer... In fact it's really obvious everything is equivalent: it's all just matter and energy! > Of course
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> The only shocking part to me is how people continually and intentionally don't see it or, worse, think they'll be unaffected by it so don't care. You see this on HN where so many people seem to think they'll be Jeff
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> The origin of the word is a bit darker than its meaning, unfortunately. We should all just stop speaking. The origin of too many words is problematic. Just think of how many were coined by racists and misogynists!
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> If scrapping content is legal, model distillation should be legal too. No, because legality should be determined by what's in the best interests of Athropic and OpenAI's business models. Hopefully they're working on RLHF
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> Would you also say that "someone who wants to use an IDE / LSP features to code and not give credit to the IDE / LSP is the worst kind of person"? That's a false equivalency. > If not, what is the difference
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> Maybe consciousness just does not exist. Could it be that humans invented it to feel superior to animals, but it does not really exist? I wonder if we will think of the word "consciousness" in the same way we think of the wor
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So not "raised by chickens," but rather abused and isolated in the presence of chickens. That's more plausible.
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> Similarly, I'm reading "Supernormal Stimuli" now, and there's a whole section on infants raised by various animals (chimps, wolves, chickens, leopards, etc, etc). When they are found and brought back to human societ
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> They literally don't have any good candidates because it takes one of these to get to the top: > 1. Extreme wealth > 2. Extreme corruption > 3. All of the above OK. So which of those categories did Obama fall into? I thin
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> Don't ever let a Republican, and especially a Trump voter, complain about the current state of affairs. Likewise: Don't ever let a Democrat complain about the current state of affairs. They chose to run shit candidates that c
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> wtf. Is there any European country that has 1% do that? News flash: other cultures are different than yours. People in them will do things that you don't do, or not do things that are extremely common to you.
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> ...which are weird quasi governmental entities that are meant to avoid a lot of the pitfalls of in house government red tape, and the downsides of short term contracts. And I guess when I said "government agencies" I was bein
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> Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). We need more of this
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> It's actually gotten better for those of us that value all sides of a given story so we can come to our own conclusions, instead of parroting stuff we hear in bubbles. 1. A different bubble is still a bubble. 2. Regardless of poli
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> I mean, not to nitpick, but isn’t endlessly filling motions a often-used method to deny justice and avoid consequences, especially in the US? I would imagine that those motions at least have some plausible legal merit. A software engin
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> If you've NOT had Covid since, you may have evidence in your own bodies that would be useful. Unlikely. By this point, hasn't pretty much everyone had COVID? My understanding is recent variants often don't even lead to v
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> But a new analysis suggests the post may hold clues to the pandemic’s origin—and further evidence that China is withholding vital data on the contentious issue. > Evolutionary biologist Florence Débarre of CNRS, France’s national re
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> It would be a clear cut rule, and extreme "shape rotator" types... It had to look that slang up: https://roonscape.ai/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words . > ...often have trouble with the fuzziness of things
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> I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook. I'm suspicious. Didn't Mozart use a word processor? I mean, not a PC program, that would be ridiculous, but one of those dedicated stand-alone word processor syst
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> Lehrer did [sic] 97 FYI, most people speak the vast majority of their quotes before the day they die.
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> And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you. Can you elaborate on the "or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you" part? Ctrl-F isn&

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