polotics

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by polotics 3y ago
Wow, are you really sure you've updated your priors? This notion that Python is for programming beginners as opposed to Java/C# has aged quite a bit has it not? In other news, ten years on the game's been up a while now, Fowl
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by polotics 3y ago
Yeah. I feel this article has been assisted by AI. TLDR: Apart from the focus aspect, it mentions deliberate practice, but doesn't go into identifying what practice that is, expect sayingfocus on your weaknesses.
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by polotics 3y ago
As a child I was wholly educated in the certainty that my life was in imminent danger of a nuclear Armageddon... Maybe your "honest with children" about climate change is a hint that they're more likely to have to deal with n
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by polotics 3y ago
May I ask for a hint about where your friend's abused child is located in the world? Also, what data was provided, did the 7 year old have to read the whole IPCC report?
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Ask (Visually Impaired) HNers: How do you use headsets?
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by polotics 3y ago
Maybe consider that the loudness you resent is the result of reflexivity, and in a world where no-one would flip an eyelid over such persona creation and whatnot, there would only be the loudness you'd mistakenly perceive.
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by polotics 3y ago
look up malicious compliance
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by polotics 3y ago
well this is seemingly only when adjusting volume on the Mac itself. The Apogee plugged into my Mac has its own volume control, that doesn't suffer from this drift.
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by polotics 3y ago
Can you substantiate this statement?
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by polotics 3y ago
Looks like this is already documented: Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson.
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by polotics 3y ago
Do you have data to substantiate this? I was happy RAGging with it but colleagues swear by GPT4's wisdom, saying things like Gemini forgets the middle of contexts, hallucinates the meaning of acronyms, and so on...
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by polotics 3y ago
From a games-theory standpoint: - Top performers need less management. - Top-performers may be competing for your management job. - Top performers are more likely to annoy colleagues and/or make them feel threatened.
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by polotics 3y ago
Good idea! It then follows that we are looking at CAA: Computer Assisted Alienation , or maybe Optimized Alienation, or Automated...?
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by polotics 3y ago
You choose to ignore one key difference between Chernobyl and the Armenian plants: the size of the exclusion zone in Ukraine was large because of the mad graphite combustion. As the plants in Armenia didn't have an insane design, no ma
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by polotics 3y ago
This was a green movement perceived as useful idiots by the empire, that was in its death throes already. Accepting this pressure was a way to save face, by feigning to accept the lie that all power plants were dangerous, in spite of diffe
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by polotics 3y ago
Very interesting article, I am surprised that the author blames it all on apathy and stupidity, when greed at the regulators could possibly be a viable alternative explanation.
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by polotics 3y ago
Reminder for anyone who missed it last year: the movie "Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves" is funny, slick, and does convey a good feeling of what the experience would be to play a game run by an imaginative if whacky D
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by polotics 3y ago
Modest proposal for y'all: each season finale of GoT is an opportunity for great branching discussion about how the story should best develop from that point on! For example: once John Snow's been stabbed, he's really dead, a
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by polotics 3y ago
Super interesting that you equate waiting at a red light, with time to pause and breathe, as lost time in the same way not being alive anymore is indeed lost time.
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by polotics 3y ago
The plan was the results of unavoidable logic: you have to strike where the capabilities had been placed, and it was the logic of the Moscow empire to place capabilities away from places it favoured.
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by polotics 3y ago
In the US, I would never trust a shop's self-checkout to be honest and fair, I would expect some half-built AI to misclassify me as a thief, then get swatted, tazed, or worst. I think self-checkout implicitly relies on a degree of soci
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by polotics 3y ago
This is clearly what brainless managers would want... In reality if you're hoping to create something innovative and different as a team, guess what: you will need to have emotions, likes and dislikes, reach into your intuition. So th
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by polotics 3y ago
Maybe for context about what an organoid is, and why this very much matters: Drug trials on a close-enough vat-grown copy of an human organ gives us the chance to better study drug's potency, effects and side-effects, without harming p
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by polotics 3y ago
Can you substantiate why you think these are the two only possible futures?
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by polotics 3y ago
The one thing that could be noted on this point of seeing a toddler-focussed TV show with an LGBTQ acceptance theme, is that there are a lot of other acceptance-worthy themes out there that never make it into toddlers' TV shows. I will
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by polotics 3y ago
Be very careful that for most people, the first impression of "sounds great" is in reality an "is louder", the loudness wars in audio production have led to less and less significants bits of data being needed to carry m
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by polotics 3y ago
unwilling: no time! Happy Holidays! :-)
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by polotics 3y ago
Not in a post, but here's a few books for you: Seignorage on a global reserve currency: read "the global minotaur", the story of oil: read "Oil, Power, and War" by Matthieu Auzanneau, and for completeness: "The
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by polotics 3y ago
Also btw about dams: they kill! a great deal of a lot more death and also lost land because of dams than all deaths and land loss issues with nuclear.
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by polotics 3y ago
You really have to understand and look at the numbers, and also model the economics of what you're writing about, to get a sense of how wrong you are. May i suggest you start on this big quest by looking up how inflation gets imported

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