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by rcoveson 4y ago
The difference between 0.9005 and 0.90005 is not huge in a medical context, or in a chip fab context, or in any other practical context. We're not talking about the difference between 0.0005 and 0.00005. The numbers in question are 0.9
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by rcoveson 4y ago
"That there exist rules of composition of the hypothesized secret DALL-E language" is a much stronger claim than that it "understands" composition of text in the real languages it was trained on. Though I'll also po
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by rcoveson 4y ago
That framing is worse because it hides an assumed conclusion, i.e. that there are rules of composition.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Okay, but whatever the geographical/cultural/racial criteria is, it would be extremely surprising to me if a college-age population was stymied by contradiction of authority in a totally abstract, gamified context like OP descri
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by rcoveson 4y ago
So the impression you got while teaching was that Asian students struggled to follow lectures that took the form of stating a generalization and then contradicting the generalization with non-central examples? E.g.: Teacher: Murder is illeg
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Wow, I've seen that movie dozens of times and I've always thought that was the stupidest line of meaningless technobabble because of how it was delivered. It made me question whether I knew what was meant by the phrase "const
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by rcoveson 4y ago
You know Maus[0]? It's a comic book about Disney animals . Isn't that just laughable? Wouldn't teaching such a thing in schools--with the aim of imparting serious lessons--be "ludicrously off base"? Derision for
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by rcoveson 4y ago
German is an English word that English speakers use to describe Germans. It doesn't have any etymological relationship with the word that Germans use to describe themselves. Latino and Latina are Spanish words that American English spe
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Latinx is revolting, full stop. Nobody who speaks (using the lips and tongue) Spanish as their only language will adopt it. Spanish isn't the jumbled mess that English is. It has a lot of rhyme and reason to it. While not without exc
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> So "most kids don't need to go to college" seems historically shortsighted. High school was proven important (if we just take that part of your argument as a given), so therefor college must be? By that reasoning, I don&
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I'd like to know why as well. The inclusion of the fsync before the rename implies to me that the filesystem isn't expected to preserve order between write and rename. It could commit a rename before committing _past_ writes, whic
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Couldn't `mv` or `cp` from the temp file to `/etc/passwd` be interrupted as well? I think the only way to do it atomically is a temporary file on the same filesystem as `/etc`, followed by a rename. On most systems `&#x2
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> ...someone else actually makes it. ...which sort of applies to a lot of Hot 100 artists as well. A good songwriter writes it, a talented producer makes it sound good, and a well-known personality sings it (with varying accuracy) and ha
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by rcoveson 5y ago
No, facts are true statements. We don't know which statements about this collectively observed reality are facts. Coming up with new statements about reality and figuring out how likely it is that they are facts is the point of science
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by rcoveson 5y ago
The author seems to want more of this[0] kind of high-quality refutation. Here's another, this time a blog post[1] and a rebuttal[2]. Very different examples, one in medical science and the other just blogosphere musings, but both are
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by rcoveson 5y ago
You're talking about implementation details of java.lang.String. The interface it exposes is still UTF-16. Latin 1 has the special property that each of its fixed-width code units maps onto a single UTF-16 code unit. It is for that rea
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Alice: "Nobody saw me swimming in the pool last night" Bob: "Oh, how was it?" Alice: "How was what?" Bob: "Your late-night swim?" Alice: "I haven't been swimming in ages." Bob: "..
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> Some people get to ignore "politics"... No, they don't, because they invite this exact reply whenever they try to do so.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
@dang, I'm speaking from a position of ignorance here, but I think this thread is getting flagged, given its age, score, and position on the (currently) second page. It's possible that it has triggered some other less-documented c
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Or Russian money swaying the occupants of said farms.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> It’s like asking if 2022-01-01 is an orange. This is way overstated. It's more like asking if the integer `1L` is between the float `1.0D` and `2.0D`. It requires an implicit cast. Decide whether operations involving LocalDate[0]
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I like how he decided he should only copyright his comments from years 2010 + Fn.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> there are people would still hold some of the views the GP expresses. "People"? Try 100% of (good) CS professors. Research clearly dictates that gotos are harmful. Lack of comments is just as bad. As for the test coverage, th
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by rcoveson 5y ago
I'm dead serious. These are CS 101 mistakes! I hope nobody is actually using this project.
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by rcoveson 5y ago
Sure, but again, think of the relationship with furniture and fashion like the typical male relationship with cars. Magazines, movies, celebrities, blogs, shopping way outside your price range without any intent to buy when you have nothing
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by rcoveson 5y ago
There also isn't a comment on every line, no test coverage that I can see, many functions are longer than 20 lines, and many of these source files are way too big at thousands of lines. Probably easier to throw the whole thing out an
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> Shopping for uphostered furniture based on fabric type seems more like a rich/poor divide than male/female, to me. Like, it doesn't even get interesting until you're way out of most people's price range, does i
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> We're already at the point where these costs are negligibly low. It takes more effort to think about the cost of transferring the text of a book over the internet than the actual cost of doing so. That's not what it's ab
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by rcoveson 5y ago
> This is not true. It could be enforced by courts and not by computers. No, this doesn't get you through the century with copyright intact. Bandwidth and storage only get cheaper, and copyright-able files are not getting proportion
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by rcoveson 5y ago
In the same way that you don't need a mirror to reflect your appearance; a bowl of dirty water does just fine.

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