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by ralusek 3y ago
An issue down to coin flips should be seen as a signal of a bug. However, I would argue that more often than not, it's not actually down to a coin flip. There is a default position in a liberal society, and that is that of minimal au
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I gladly choose option b. The rule of law is a meta-principle, and is much more important than any individual issue. Allowing arbitrary execution of authority in favor of an issue you care about is a recipe for authoritarianism.
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> arbitrarily change the rules after it’s already made up its mind. It is often the precedent which was arbitrary.
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Sometimes they create music at a particular length because that's what worked well on radio, or TikTok, or for a club set. I would go so far as to say that song length is probably chosen for some specific non-artistic constraint more o
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by ralusek 3y ago
Does anybody else feel as though Bing chat only working in Edge is a bit of a violation of web culture? Gmail, YouTube, Maps only working on Chrome. Is this what we want? Is this what Microsoft wants? I can't remember the last product
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IMO the only serious problem with social conservatism is when it's legislated. Accordingly, feminism was at its best when it was about liberation. Touting sex positivity vs touting traditional gender roles are on equal moral ground, an
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Can someone please explain Pink Floyd to me? Is it the lyrics that are cool? Do you have to be on drugs? I'm not being facetious, I would very much appreciate a link to a song, more specifically a part of a song that you like, and idea
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No I mean like when you open your maps application and want to go somewhere with GPS, latitude and longitude will be vertical and horizontal and proportionally spaced due to the map using a projection like Mercator...
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A globe IS a map projection. It's the projection of the surface of the planet onto a sphere.
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This clip is always hilarious to me. Smugly declares "it's where you've been living this whole time," as he stands in front of a projection that is just as flawed, as all projections are, as the Mercator. The only priori
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The Overton Window is common parlance. I agree with the other poster: what, exactly, is your point? I agree that the Overton Window is probably stifling some crucial conversations here, but your comment, as is, leaves open many racist impli
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I suspect that YouTube would much prefer to move away from being considered a video repository, and instead be considered a video feed. I don't know the figure, but if I had to guess, I would wager that 95% of their views at any given
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Dall-E 2 was almost immediately displaced by MidJourney. Nothing comes close to even GPT 3.5 at the moment.
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Opportunity cost is higher than inflation.
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At that point just watch a video, or drive an unmanned submersible.
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I know this isn't a great time for reddit, but I just made this on your behalf: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenLLM/ I much prefer the HN/Reddit discussion format to Discord and even Stack Overflow.
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Surely making a browser game would have the same benefits with fewer limitations?
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This has made me formulate a new theory that European access legislature is actually funded by VPN providers.
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A materialized view is absolutely demoralized. The only distinction between something like a materialized view, an index, and just ad hoc representation of the same data in multiple places is that with an index and materialized view, it&#x2
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Could rule out certain things. If they have more heart attacks on Sunday, then it would make it more likely that the association is "first day of the work week," as opposed to something like "first day of trading on internati
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React VR: https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2017/react-vr-buil...
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The killer app is your current workstation. This thing is worth it alone just by virtue of being able to expand my workstation to an indefinite number of virtual monitors wherever I am alongside my laptop. This is possible on current VR hea
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It acts as an infinite screen extension of your computer... Many professionals would be thrilled to have a portable multimonitor setup that they can use from the couch, bed, airplane, train, Uber...
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The problem with these people saying "this is just applied statistics" or "all it does is predict the next word," etc, is that it's exceedingly likely that our own intelligence is also just a series of emergent phen
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I don't want the think-pieces about it to end until it's gone for good. It offends my eyes.
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I refuse to believe that Alegria/Corporate Memphis/Globohomo art isn't a psyop to demoralize populations with how hideous it is.
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This is the case for every database, but they still tell me what indexing options I have available. With an RDBMS I know that I can use hash key indexes for fast lookups on an exact key. I can use B-Tree indexes for range or partial key loo
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Announcing it now, with no specs and no release date, and only a promise of discussing it more in September...clearly meant to draw attention away from whatever Apple announces next week. As far as VR goes in general, HN is extremely crotch
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Google has gotten bad, but YouTube search is just...I don't even know how to describe it. They've decided that when you search for something, only the top 2 results should be related to your search, and after that it should just g
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> Number of write (POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) requests is limited to 2k per month Many production applications use substantially more than this in 1 second. I think even most people developing a project will exceed that limitation before

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