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by ripe 3y ago
Very much this. Two of my colleagues live in Boston, and they have sold their cars because it's easy to live without owning any.
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by ripe 3y ago
I don't have numbers, but I can tell you that the city government is serious about providing other alternatives to cars. For example, making buses free. [1] [1] https://www.boston.gov/news/new-steps-reduce-vehicle-
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by ripe 3y ago
Love the idea! Gotta try it, to give my poor Emacs pinky a rest. I also like the audacious stealing of a common key like COMMA.
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The billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffet and the US Treasury(theatlantic.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
“Giant corporations could decide how much they wanted to save in taxes, then—through an investment fund created just for them—buy exactly the number of generators to achieve that figure. All they’d have to put down was 30 percent of the gen
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by ripe 3y ago
Humans work in a completely different way, and human performance is irrelevant to the obvious, systemic limitations of LLMs. You haven't addressed the substance of the comment you're responding to, only diverted attention. Unless
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by ripe 3y ago
Dear HN: I am the author. Thank you for your wishes. I do see that a short obituary like this needs some context. To address some of the comments: * Why choose to disclose that my father was a Maharashtrian Brahmin: being brought up in such
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My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it(robotsinplainenglish.com)
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by ripe 3y ago
Article refers to an op-ed by Lina Khan in the NYT [1], worth reading in its entirety. "Scammers, for example, can draft highly targeted spear-phishing emails based on individual users’ social media posts. Alongside tools that create d
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by ripe 3y ago
Huh? Quite a stretch to blame journalists for this. Thomas hid these gifts and lied about them. ProPublica investigated and exposed him. This is how journalism is supposed to work.
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by ripe 4y ago
Then there's the story about the man who drowned in a stream with an average depth of six inches. -- in R. Jain, "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and M
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by ripe 4y ago
The physician who acknowledges the imperfections of a diagnostic test will ask, "In view of this test result, how uncertain should I be about this patient?" Fortunately, there is a method for answering this question: the theory of
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by ripe 4y ago
Apart from the facial recognition technology, there's also a second technology that was used and possibly misused. From the article: The friction of getting a warrant has been eased by technology. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office
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by ripe 4y ago
I noticed the same thing: loved Smalltalk-80, but when editing documents or code in Emacs, I need monospaced fonts.
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Why Warhol images are making museums nervous (NYT)(nytimes.com)
2 points by ripe 4y ago|2 comments
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by ripe 4y ago
Relevant to the question of “derivative works”…
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by ripe 4y ago
> adding mass to objects even when their main purpose depends on users moving them. I read somewhere that automakers spend a lot of time designing their car doors for the sound and feel when you shut them. Consumers perceive a door that
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by ripe 4y ago
… and those chess-playing computers were called AI in those days, so parent is right about that part. But parent has fallen into the trap of mistaking performance on a narrow task for competence in general, i.e., the third deadly sin [1]. [
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by ripe 4y ago
Thanks for your recommendation. Stephen King's On Writing is itself enjoyable to read. I have read it cover to cover more than once. He says he first realized that writing could be learned and taught when he was young. His first boss
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The death of the customer service hotline(vox.com)
1 points by ripe 4y ago|0 comments
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by ripe 4y ago
“Midnight Run” is my favorite movie – not the best movie I’ve ever seen, but the one that gives me the most enjoyment, time after time, year after year. That’s a quote from Alan Sepinwall [1]. But it does summarize my own sentiments, too. A
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The Queen of Everest Trains While Working at Whole Foods(nytimes.com)
1 points by ripe 4y ago|1 comments
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by ripe 4y ago
Inspiring story. I got clickbaited by her beautiful face, then got sucked in. Can’t believe she can’t get a sponsorship in the U.S.
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by ripe 4y ago
But doesn't ChatGPT consume the same Internet as Google does? Including junk websites? The current release of ChatGPT is just old and out of date. Google could use the same criteria as ChatGPT to filter the input. Then why would search
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by ripe 4y ago
It's a thing in my family. We all pronounce it chip-puttle.
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by ripe 4y ago
I copy my blog text to Substack and use the platform as a push mechanism. I hear your concern and am open to suggestions.
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by ripe 4y ago
When looking for information, I despise videos and will avoid watching them if at all possible. For exactly the reasons you mention: random access, too much fluff and low information content. The only exception is things like home repair ad
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by ripe 4y ago
This is a really good point. Not sure if the study included this case. Yes, I do like kebab-case. Common Lisp!
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by ripe 4y ago
> Regarding this point: "Despite some impressive lab demonstrations we have not actually seen any improvement in widely deployed robotic hands or end effectors in the last 40 years" : Yes. Manipulation in unstructured environme
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by ripe 4y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Your point is valid. Many arguments can be made against the article's critique, but the analogy used by the comment above yours is rejecting the very idea that these companies can be c

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