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by rdiddly 3y ago
Probably a true statement, in that those folks made contributions, but also misleading, since technology specifically, usually has a goal or outcome in mind. A problem to solve. Like let's assume one of the first technological innovati
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Wow the questioner and most of the top responses are overcomplicating this so much. The best response is the simple truth: "ChatGPT only says what's statistically likely in a given situation, which means it comes up with something
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If you're looking for a fast turnaround I would recommend filing earlier in the period -- like as far in advance of April 15th as possible, i.e. as soon as you have all your supporting materials. As you get closer to April 15th, you ar
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by rdiddly 3y ago
I'd go further and say it's less obnoxious than the alternatives thus far. It has always bothered me for example, having to enter into some weird murky relationship with a private company as a third party, in my communication with
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My understanding was that financial info was the primary thrust of it these days, i.e. what we call plain old credit scores, without the "social." But I remember 15 or 20 years ago when they announced their ambitions for it, and I
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The funny part about your third paragraph, is that if someone took you up on this "bad employee database," it would look a lot like China's Social Credit System. Which is probably not desirable. (And maybe the other funny par
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Ha ha - Cheers. I always found that lyric to be flat wrong. The place where "everybody knows your name" is the same place where you spend most of your time, and is almost certainly the place where "all your worries" are
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No one needs more failed startups either, but if your point is that some ideas are bad, yeah no kidding. In fact most of them are. A cargo cult by the way would be another great example of misapprehending the world as a simple deterministic
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Being currently in the middle of belatedly reading The Black Swan, I can't help but see this as a classic case. Penn has a formula that's supposed to predict "success," and it's a linear formula: more papers & f
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Using energy to free up CO2, so that you can bind CO2 that was produced by using energy - do I have that right? Anybody see any trouble with that plan? If you're being charitable you can assume the whole thing is 100% efficient like in
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Thing is, if "carts back in the right place" is what society wants, you could hire a guy a lot more cheaply than this to just put 'em back, all day long. Society apparently puts a higher value on watching videos of people bei
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by rdiddly 3y ago
I feel like in addition to the cultural East-West and young-old biases mentioned in the article, there's also one about gender. At least in the US, girls/women are traditionaly encouraged to be sensitive, helpful, considerate (gue
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by rdiddly 3y ago
This is like the flea on the dog's tail, wagging the tail and dog. I don't know how many more levels of meta we can handle. Also, if you just dump all that content on archive.org, you're kind of just reaching into archive.o
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Don't forget email signatures with "pithy" quotes. ********************** * "Suck my balls." * * --Maya Angelou * ********************** Thing is, there's a firehose of self-expression modes
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Some stuff skips a generation!
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Having been more or less "over it" from very early on, I can definitely see that tempest-in-a-teacup factor, not to mention feel the hollowness of all the articles about how "we" live "our whole lives" online a
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That was refreshing as heck. No damn them to hell, no woe is me, just a lot of here's what happened, and that's why I'm leaving, bye and thanks. Simple, clear, balanced, no histrionics. The word "sadly," I believe w
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by rdiddly 3y ago
Something something Glanton... he was complete at every hour... he would chase the sun to its final endarkenment in the West as if it had been ordained ages since... That's one of the ones I remember, if you loosen the definition of &q
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by rdiddly 3y ago
I don't presume to know what they meant, but as an example of something I think fits the bill, I downloaded "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home" and the lyrics are full of a certain type of phonetic transliteration f
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by rdiddly 3y ago
"This is so simple..." Reminds me of "One weird trick." Really they're two specimens of the same phenomenon. Some people essentially spam and clickbait the world with ads for themselves.
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by rdiddly 3y ago
Surprisingly I find myself thinking "Yes, the recommendation algorithm is Google's speech." Particularly if they claim it's secret and proprietary. If Google claims ownership of it, they own it, not any user, i.e. it&#x2
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by rdiddly 3y ago
Yeah seems like physical controls for input, screen for output is the sweet spot.
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Second (later) reply to the same parent comment. The initial disconnect here seems to be that I'm deliberately eliding a lot of details in order to see all iron products as part of a unified whole, with improvements on a continuum over
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How do you get molten metal out of the vessel it's in? Do you cast it? Or do you just start rolling and welding the liquid? And is steel mostly iron, or isn't it? How many different ways can you ignore the obvious? I would think w
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I went to engineering school and studied this shit my dude. Stress-strain curves, metallurgy, the whole bit. I know what steel is. Your response is weak. I'm making an apt metaphor about the brittleness of your hard insistence on shall
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You should be like the steel, a little less rigid, in your thinking. Obviously steel isn't cast iron, because hey look at that, different names. Also if steel were cast iron, it wouldn't be an improvement on cast iron as I'
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"...he suggested that unknown developments in the future might make cast iron strong and safe..." Of course that proved true - we call it steel - and if you go by the date of Bessemer's patent (after which steel became chea
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I just keep wondering what the hell is wrong with the people who think junk like this is a good idea. And why there are any. Theory: They're child-molesters themselves?
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Yeah there's a bit of a disconnect between what we wish it was -- a useful indicator of the actual number of rooms left, for purposes of gauging the urgency -- vs. what they use it for[0], which is to create the urgency artificially. [
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This is an interesting thought experiment. I'm surprised the CSS class names are so transparent. They must think they're doing nothing wrong. "Persuation" is about what I'd expect from people who downvote every spe

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