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by raddan 10mo ago
You mean aside from the fact that his quasi-mystical, self-important proclamations have no factual basis? I personally dislike how his ideas cast a cynical veneer over truly transformative changes without actually contributing anything usef
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by raddan 10mo ago
You can take this to an extreme (like I do) and use a different email address for every party with whom you communicate. It makes it rather obvious who leaked your email address, and also easy to shut them out (looking at you ActBlue!). It
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by raddan 10mo ago
The report you link says that 45% is used for ethanol. A lot, but not “most.”
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by raddan 10mo ago
Assuming your fact is true, that corn merely uses an order of magnitude or two more water than AI is surprising, given the utility of corn. It feeds the entire US (hundreds of millions of people), is used as animal feed (thus also feeding u
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by raddan 10mo ago
Brilliant. I love this idea!
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by raddan 10mo ago
I agree when it comes to veganism. It is more of a religion than a rationale. I was curious about your claims that meat could be cheaper than tofu, so I made a few notes on my last shopping trip. For comparison, I chose the cheapest cuts
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by raddan 11mo ago
In the Venn diagram of eating, vegans are a subset of vegetarians.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Thanks, somehow I forgot about that scene. Pretty great by 1982 standards… a little lame by modern standards, although I could imagine that this is exactly the kind of snazzy but low-res simulation a scientist of the future might generate.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Becoming vegetarian caused my French-Canadian grandmother some dismay. She asked me what I wanted for dinner. I said "no meat" and she replied "ok, we'll eat chicken." I was like, "oh, uh, no animals" a
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by raddan 11mo ago
My mind also immediately went to this lyric.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Did the Wrath of Khan have any CGI? The only scenes I remember are the jarringly bad computer displays at various points on the Enterprise. If I recall correctly, the rest of the movie used traditional VFX: models, compositing, etc. I perso
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by raddan 11mo ago
Are you a wolf (or a dog)?
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by raddan 11mo ago
> there's clearly no good done by the existence of social media. If this were true, I’m sure that you wouldn’t have any trouble advocating that we ban it. Many of us remember social media before the algorithmic feed took over, and i
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by raddan 11mo ago
Not to mention that any test of “innate” ability should not be affected by training or practice, but all known tests of supposed innate ability are. Even Binet (yes, the guy who intended the IQ test) found substantial practice effects; thes
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by raddan 11mo ago
Citation?
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by raddan 11mo ago
This sounds like a rumor to me. Plenty of people (including me) have no social media presence (unless you count HN as social media). How do you know that the person on whatevergram with the same name is me?
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by raddan 11mo ago
Hardly. I heard this “questioning the dominant narrative” over and over again. Disagreement is not censure. As far as I am aware, the only people who faced any penalties at all were doctors who went so far outside the realm of evidence-base
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by raddan 11mo ago
I assume that you mean "censored" and not "censured" (different thing), but it was not, in fact, censored. It was entirely in the open. However, the information was definitely not distilled effectively for the average l
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by raddan 11mo ago
Did you even follow the link provided? It leads directly to an informed consent page for the study, which was voluntary. You're probably thinking about what happened _after_ these studies found the vaccine to be safe and effective.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Netflix is still "competing" with discs at this point, although I would accept that discs aren't exactly winning. Most of the content I watch comes from blu-rays, and with a few exceptions (The Americans, grr), most of the t
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by raddan 11mo ago
Cool, thanks!
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by raddan 11mo ago
> I’ve been thinking about an act to intentionally enrich members of Congress for reducing the deficit (e.g. a fraction of percent of savings certified by GAO goes to district and to member’s fund with a multi year cool off period, savin
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by raddan 11mo ago
If you don’t mind me asking, what do you think of that laptop? What kind of workloads do you run and how is battery life? What OS? Would you choose it again?
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by raddan 11mo ago
I seriously doubt that single bit errors on the scale of OpenAI workloads really matters very much, particularly for a domain that is already noisy.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Amusingly, I started using OpenBSD in 2000 because after repeatedly trying to get Debian running on my PowerPC G4 and failing (for months), I discovered that OpenBSD had a PowerPC port that immediately worked. Honestly the hardest part abo
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by raddan 11mo ago
I would personally prefer to work with a language-based CAD than a strictly graphical one. Especially for parametric kinds of objects. Now that 3D printing is going mainstream, I am certain that new and interesting things are still to com
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by raddan 11mo ago
According to the article there was a pilot in addition to a skydiver.
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by raddan 11mo ago
Engineers usually have at least some sense as to why their efforts work though. Does anybody who iterates on prompts have even the fuzziest idea why they work? Or what the improvement might be? I do not.
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by raddan 1y ago
I wouldn't call this a silly question at all. But having recently converted my intro data structures course from Java to C#, I can talk about why C# might be better. I have programmed regularly in both languages for the last 15 or so
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by raddan 1y ago
The rules are different for the government. Protection for private employees are weaker. The government has the force of law (literally force) on its side, so what it is allowed to do is different. A private company cannot truly compel an e

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