rcoveson

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by rcoveson 3y ago
Between Stockholm syndrome, sunk-cost fallacy, and the psychological inertia of arguing repeatedly on the Internet in the 2000's that it was more 1337 than the Macintosh, it's hard to tell what "willing" even means in th
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It's fascinating to me how ~80% of the population of the atheist-dominated parts of the Internet seem to have found religion as soon as they started thinking about the implications of AI passing the Turing test in varying degrees in th
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Betteridge's law of headlines aside. Godwin-Bettridge-Graham law: Any headline that ends in a question mark which is posted to HN will have Bettridge's law of headlines mentioned at least once in its first dozen comments.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> You have to go out of your way (or get very unlucky if you're choosing random parameters) to construct an exercise that will fool a large portion of people. That's not remotely true. You're generally picking small intege
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by rcoveson 3y ago
So which is the correct way to choose parameters for a problem? 1. Deliberately choose numbers that have no notable relationships with eachother that could mislead students. 2. Randomize parameters in an effort to introduce only as many tri
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The fact that there is an obvious but incorrect answer that you might spit out if you were just pattern matching is the whole point. It tricks you into being wrong , which "tricks" you into wanting to know why, where before you
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by rcoveson 3y ago
While the teacher in the story obviously bungled it, I disagree with your interpretation of the lesson. The point is not to "teach people about multiplication or fractions or whatever". The point is to teach them to recognize dime
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It sucks, but the courtroom is not the place to change it when it’s spelled out so plainly. The judge would’ve been wrong to rule any other way.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The judge barely has to argue; the law on this seems totally clear-cut[0]. 108(c)(2) says: > ...any such copy or phonorecord that is reproduced in digital format is not otherwise distributed in that format and is not made available to th
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Spanish is "strictly phonetic" English is "[very] loosely phonetic" Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic"
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> I don't want to derail the conversation, but there are many pretty weird and diverse ideas in mathematics, including finitism and ultrafinitism (where people just don't believe in some very large numbers), various subsets of
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I hear you, but I'm sticking to this: Anybody reading this, monk or not, I want to go on record saying that you should not kill yourself, or let yourself die of starvation. Yes, I am presumptuous enough to make the claim that--at least
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by rcoveson 3y ago
There's no Buddhism in the gut, though; at least not full-on nirvana Buddhism. Nor is their any orthodox Judaism, hardcore utilitarianism, or pauline Christianity. I'm talking about our ancient, shared core of self-preservation an
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I think you've missed the point. GP is saying to close the can of worms of reasoning and rationalizing in favor of gut-checking things against childlike simple thinking. Don't kill yourself because ~everybody who isn't clin
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> I couldn't disagree more strongly. Artists can create the content you love because they get paid to do so. Without IP, these artists do not get paid, and therefore cannot create the content you love, full stop. But why? Why full s
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Yeah, this seems like a slippery slope towards requiring companies to release all source code under all circumstances. I'll get my downhill skis!
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The fact that it's immoral to infringe freedom of association doens't imply that it is always moral to exercise your right to freedom of association in any way you want. We could all exercise that freedom to refuse to associate wi
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> The concept that you simply cannot watch a show or movie if you haven't paid for it is genuinely foreign to many people, but it is the only reality that results in those shows in the first place. If you're genuinely curious w
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I'm somebody who usually finds himself defending Stallman, so please let me gently nudge you to read at least the trivially discoverable criticism of him before making the assumption you're making.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I took a biology class that involved going over the organelles of the cell in 5th, 8th, and 12th grades as well as online for university (it seems to be treated like the most critical category of knowledge in all of biology). I think I stil
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by rcoveson 4y ago
How could anybody advocate for "complexity regardless of need"? What would that even look like? Maybe you were being sarcastic, I'm not sure. But I hope it's obvious that advocating for complexity at all is not the sam
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by rcoveson 4y ago
"Unsaid"? I have the opposite perspective: This is repeated ad nauseam . Every time a binary format or any other complex optimization is mentioned, the performance-doesn't-matter people have to come out of the woodwork and b
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by rcoveson 4y ago
Why does this make it worse? People who can override the DNS server their ISP advertises over DHCP can't just install an open CA, or use a browser that lets them bypass certificate verification?
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by rcoveson 4y ago
> Is there a specific term for the way people like to romanticize martial arts? "Romantic" works pretty well if you consider the values of the Romans.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
It is sufficient to demonstrate that the a proposal is worse than the status quo. A problem doesn't demand an immediate resolution just because somebody proposed a bad solution.
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by rcoveson 4y ago
IMO image definitions should be a list of mounts that may be overlays on root but may also be more “normal” mounts to directories within root. I should be able to make an image that is ubuntu:bionic plus a conda installation at /opt&
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by rcoveson 4y ago
The first one is a little unoriginal (but this conversation has been had a bunch so it's hard to fault it for that). The second two we were all working on downvoting and had them near-invisible until you quoted them, restoring their re
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by rcoveson 4y ago
You have no idea how good the Avengers movies are in the timeline where the US issues Internet bans for piracy and does a comprehensive job of protecting the rights of creators in other countries as well. Our IP situation is anarchy compare
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by rcoveson 4y ago
I think I agree with you but I want to point out to any young up-and-comers reading this that you shouldn't just naively act like the world agrees, at least not in situations where you have a lot to lose and not much to fall back on. I
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by rcoveson 4y ago
That's how I look at it too, but lots of people don't look at it that way, hence all the handwaving about "too heavyweight" and "seems like overkill" etc. Largely because of Docker and Kubernetes, many think of

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