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by retsibsi 2mo ago
> The idea of making personal single user software is a fantasy, an oxymoron, you MAKE software? there's the presumption that it will be used for other people, otherwise you'd be USING software. It definitely isn't. I&#x27
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by retsibsi 2mo ago
I don't exactly disagree, but I don't think your analogies work. Machines can lift more weight than humans, but we all encounter situations where strength is useful and machines aren't available or wouldn't be suited to
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by retsibsi 2mo ago
I reckon there's an important difference between a challenge being frustrating because it's hard, and a challenge being frustrating because there's no interesting way to approach it. Hard puzzles can be fun and satisfying to
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by retsibsi 2mo ago
Does this mean the inertia only applies if you remove your finger at the end of the movement, and so non-flicky movements are interpreted normally, with the cursor stopping as soon as your finger stops? That implementation sounds a lot bett
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by retsibsi 2mo ago
My first reaction was that it was ridiculous, or at least hysterically framed. But the claim is that the whole point of the bubble colour thing, from Apple's perspective, is to take advantage of status games among (largely) kids. If th
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by retsibsi 2mo ago
"Belt and braces" (UK) vs. "belt and suspenders" (US). I'm pretty sure the phrases have the same meaning, they just use a different word to refer to the thing that holds pants|trousers up.
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
I think I agree, but I hedged because I thought one could argue that it's not 'cheating' in the same way as, say, sneaking into the scorer's shed and writing in an extra goal would be. A deliberate handball is 'just
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
Yeah I totally agree. Perhaps pedantically, though, I'd say this isn't a counterexample to 'playing to win': > During swim training, if our coach wants to setup a relay race, he’ll deliberately mix swim ability (even
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
I'm reading a book at the moment ( https://academic.oup.com/book/32137 ) in which the author makes a point of the distinction between "the goals of a game and our purpose in playing a game". My purpose in
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
I understand this attitude, but I think the line between tactical progress and (the bad kind of) exploiting the rules can get very fuzzy. It's arguably more interesting to do whatever the game allows, even if it seems cheap, and find o
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
I think that's too strong. The underarm ball was a case of playing within the rules, but against most people's notion of fair play. The hand of god would fit most people's definition of actual cheating.
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
There's definitely an argument for just exploiting edge cases in the rules as hard as you can, seeing how the game evolves from there, and relying on the governing body to fix it if needed. (A la https://www.sirlin.net/
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
Underarm bowling was nothing new, but I reckon some had never even thought about literally just rolling the thing.
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
In context, it was a bit like taking advantage of a videogame exploit that others variously hadn't discovered, thought was forbidden, or assumed would not be used by tacit agreement.
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
The Aussies were simply adhering to the TLC-Sirlin credo.
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
If you can't actually say explicitly what your argument is, that is a very strong signal that you don't know what you're talking about and are likely to be wrong. If you claim you don't have time, or it's not your j
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
I'm not in the US, so maybe things are very different here, but I still wonder if the absolutist advice is helpful in situations like this: One night, while walking, I was stopped by police because I roughly matched the description of
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
"There is nothing worse than very highly intellectual people thinking they are entitled to make decisions for the rest of us." Very powerful people are making decisions for the rest of us! If you have a plan to change that, I&#x
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by retsibsi 3mo ago
> or why the narrative here is all about this being payback The 'narrative' is focused on the corruption because government corruption is a big deal! Even when it's not truly surprising, and even when you have no sympathy
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
Is your primary goal to punish/incentivise the teacher, or to accurately determine how smart the children are? If the latter, you would ignore the 'cheated' answers and judge them on everything else; you wouldn't mark th
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
Yeah it seems harmless in isolation, but I'm pretty sure that lacking a norm against it it is one of the ways you end up with Reddit. And because HN doesn't have an actual anti-humour rule, in the best case it lets the funnier and
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
> Before you did this, was literally every hour of your waking time spend thinking about LLMs? They said "writing and thinking without LLMs", not "not thinking about LLMs". I think they're talking about setting a
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
> If the thing can solve complex math problems and at the same time be so dumb as to fall for "social engineering", then that means that it is not "smartness" or "reasoning" that is helping it to solve those
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
Depends what you mean by 'recently', but for me they are much worse than they were several years ago. There was a period when people were complaining and I didn't really see why, but eventually whatever it was caught up with
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
I blocked it because I found it was in the sour spot of being good enough to be tempting to rely on, but bad enough to be risky to rely on. When the search results are bad, usually I can at least tell that they're dubious: either they&
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by retsibsi 4mo ago
> So no, ”very often works on depression” is not a characterization I would use. I'm (genuinely) sorry about your friend, and I don't deny that it's worth sharing these anecdotes. But a single anecdote comes nowhere near r
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by retsibsi 5mo ago
> but nobody should be surprised when people vote for an outsider who says "I'm for you, and I'm going to help you take back your country from the out of touch elites who hate you and only look out for themselves" Sor
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by retsibsi 5mo ago
The article explicitly says that the author looked at the diffs; it distinguishes this from "sitting down and actually reading the code", which they didn't do. So when plastic041 says the author spent 7 months vibe coding &qu
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by retsibsi 5mo ago
Does the original reply actually make sense in context? I can't see how. It's a response to someone saying "you can't draw any conclusions of IQ significantly before 1950 from how the line behaves after 1950", and i
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by retsibsi 5mo ago
> But how can X be a good indicator for something I want to determine if I can’t measure X either? In the comment that started this subthread, qsera was responding to someone who said "Imo we don't even have a definition of [co

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