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by rfrey 1y ago
Your comment read as accusing the og poster as being too insecure to deal with someone else's expertise, and of being pretentious. Probably not how you meant it to read, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who read it that way.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Why would you take it that I "strongly believe" that? I said nothing of the sort, and jumping to that conclusion is a reflection of your own biases, not mine.
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by rfrey 1y ago
It's actually a mid-elite idea, I'd say - that novice/mid/elite programmer meme springs to mind. For sure profanity is used a ton by those some would consider the rabble. Then there's medi-elite who are very pure in
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by rfrey 1y ago
So I know which of the 2 kinds of people in the world they are.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Comment mastery
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by rfrey 1y ago
I contend that you are slipping in the words "respectful" and "professional" and assuming the benefit of their positive connotations without an argument that simply omitting the occasional well-placed curse is indeed &qu
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by rfrey 1y ago
I want to make replying to this thread a requirement for anybody I'm interviewing to hire. Also for anybody interviewing me. Truly a "2 kinds of people in this world" moment.
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by rfrey 1y ago
This comment is so cynical, and not in some cool, edgy way. I made an honest attempt, but I could not find a way to read the response in a way that your interpretation makes sense.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Oh for heaven's sake. Why do we say "lie" every time we correct someone nowadays? What's wrong with "I think you're mistaken"? Another gift of polarized politics I guess.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Why should somebody consider their own "family line" special? That seems pretty arbitrary - perhaps hardwired in some way but not in any sense a moral imperative. When there's an imminent danger of the human species ending be
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by rfrey 1y ago
your opinion on that sidebar issue . I for one am glad not everybody writes their op-eds while cosplaying as an HR-drone writing press releases.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Yes it does. Ground truth is what 30 years of experience says constitutes mergeable code. Ground truth doesn't mean "perfect, provably correct code", it means whatever your best benchmark for acceptable code is. In medical AI
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by rfrey 1y ago
That's exactly the point, it's hard to see how someone could hold that view and pillory AI companies for slurping up proprietary code. You probably don't have those views. But I think Thomas' point is that the professi
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by rfrey 1y ago
... you think tptacek has no expertise in cryptography?
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by rfrey 1y ago
The most powerful nation on earth isn't even willing to extend basic health care to the masses, nevermind freeing them to pursue a higher calling than enriching billionaires.
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by rfrey 1y ago
How old are YOU? I think there's a certain age bracket who thinks the US would never invade Canada, and if you were a bit older you might not be so certain.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Low royalties compared to other jurisdictions, with the possibility of them going lower with an "independent" government comprised of their surrogates. Complete socialization of externalities: for example oil companies are flagran
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by rfrey 1y ago
This is as true as Trump's claim that the US subsidizes Canada $200 billion/year. It's a made-up outrage point.
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by rfrey 1y ago
From chess to Go to Atari games, AI research has always been about games. You are unintentionally positioning yourself as more sophisticated than a huge number of AI luminaries, including Nobel and Turing winners.
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by rfrey 1y ago
What physical or cultural characteristics would make a person "indistinguishable from A"?
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by rfrey 1y ago
A luxury reserved for your ski chalet, then
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by rfrey 1y ago
My microwave had an inverter rather than a transformer, which is a change I guess. Don't know if it's an improvement. I do know it was a disappointment to me when the microwave failed after 4 years and I went to salvage the transf
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by rfrey 1y ago
All professional dishwashers I have encountered (there may be others, obviously) require thorough rinsing (either high-pressure handheld wand or a wipe with a brush/cloth) so they are essentially "clean" before going in the d
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by rfrey 1y ago
>Older microwaves have a cumbersome enter time, hit start procedure. Newer microwaves also have a "quick start" button for 30 seconds which you can just press four times to get it to go for two minutes QS-QS-QS-QS-Start 2-0-0-S
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by rfrey 1y ago
Do I understand from this that they lock you into... proprietary soap?
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by rfrey 1y ago
And there are many that if they taste bad raw, will taste bad cooked. Coffee is one of those.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Every country wants peace, as long as it's on their terms.
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by rfrey 1y ago
I was once on the phone with a cell phone company customer support rep who was clearly as dis-empowered as it's possible for a worker to be. He was obviously forbidden to hang up on me, so I used my normal tactic of just refusing to gi
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by rfrey 1y ago
Thanks and apologies, I totally misinterpreted your comment.
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by rfrey 1y ago
Is your comment asserting that there are no people poor enough to steal food? Or are you claiming that poor people do not get arrested and are in fact treated with kindness and compassion by the various police agencies?

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