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   by schoen 9mo ago

   There's a section in this post with proposed replacements: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/#th... I was also frustrated with this criticism in the past, but there are d
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   by schoen 9mo ago

   Whoa, I sent a postcard to a Danish colleague last year! Does this mean I can't do that again in the future? Would this private company deliver personal correspondence originating from abroad? Edit: I asked an LLM, which told me that w
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   by schoen 9mo ago

   Maybe with nuclear power? Are you already factoring that in under "an efficient development path"?
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   I think "tell you the story of" has a different connotation from "storytelling"! E.g. if you said someone was good at "storytelling" as a skill, then I would expect it to be most likely fictional. I agree that
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   In the U.S. we have belatedly had declassification of various parts of military history, including lots of details about Los Alamos (where the U.S. atom bomb was invented). Sometimes this has happened on a delay of many decades and there ar
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   There are a lot of subtleties about connotation here. I would say that "storytelling" traditionally primarily meant fiction, but some modern uses also include narrative technique generally, including nonfiction and also marketing.
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   I feel the same way about Caps Lock!
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   I type Compose Hyphen Hyphen, which is pretty quick and easy! (One might feel that normal keyboards don't have a compose key.)
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   by schoen 10mo ago

   I remember in 3rd or 4th grade I felt sure I knew how to read a clock (then usually analog) until the teacher started a formal classroom unit to teach us. I realized that I had only understood how to read the hour hand but not the minute or
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    Here's someone talking about an example in French: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-em-dash-usage.364... I believe I've also seen it in Spanish and Portuguese.
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    This use in dialogue is common in Continental European languages, especially Romance languages. I think it's also common in English among writers who were influenced by other European languages?
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    There have been some asynchronous secure messenger projects in the past (Pond and Secure Scuttlebutt come to mind). High latency is really important for defeating traffic analysis, but people are so unaccustomed to it now because of all the
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I only know the Tay from the poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster Hopefully I'll get to see it sometime.
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    Thanks, I was assuming it was the same artist as the one at the Embarcadero, and that seems to be right.
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    Huh, that's not so encouraging! :-(
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    The lock and lock attachment are supposedly rated for several hundred pounds of force. There are probably people who can break it by hand (especially if they practice applying the force at just the right angle or something) but a casual &qu
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    Here we're literally talking about protecting the device while the user is actively using it! Just preventing someone from grabbing it by hand for 5 seconds is a huge win.
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I wonder what you could usefully do with a Kensington lock on the train. I bought one for use in cafés although I haven't used it most of the time. You could attach it to something bulkier or something that you could put under the seat
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I met a top-tier actor once in 2014 because he was working on something non-Hollywood-related with a friend of mine. Out of curiosity, I looked at his Twitter feed to see if he had anything to say publicly about that project. It was insane
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    It's too late to edit my post above, but I also found William Irons and Joseph Henrich. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-05917-013 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs&#x2
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    My friend is working on Grammatical Framework, which has a Resource Grammar library of pre-written natural language grammars, at least for portions of them. The GF research community continues to add new ones over time, based on implementin
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I forgot who formulated the idea that difficult-to-understand and difficult-to-believe doctrines tend to have a unifying force for religious communities because they tend to require members of those communities to be more serious about thei
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I believe Bruce Schneier suggested more than twenty years ago now that we think of personal data as like a form of toxic waste or pollution, but this metaphor doesn't seem to have caught on widely.
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    https://reduct.video/ lets you edit (not just search!) videos that way. Kind of a different way to think about video content!
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    I was briefly considering trying to become a professional translator, and I partly didn't pursue it because of the huge use of MT. I predict demand for human translators will continue to fall quickly unless there are some very high-pro
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    If you're building on a computer language, you can say you understand the computer's abstract machine, even though you don't know how we ever managed to make a physical device to instantiate it!
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    The grammars in rule-based MT are normally fully conceptually understood by the people who wrote them. That's a good start for human understanding. You could say they don't understand why a human language evolved some feature but
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    There's an older tradition of rule-based machine translation. In these methods, someone really does understand exactly what the program does, in a detailed way; it's designed like other programs, according to someone's explic
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    When I was working at EFF I would complain about people creating "persistent unique identifiers", and particularly ones that someone can passively log. Many governments probably have classified databases that are more intrusive th
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    by schoen 10mo ago

    This is a good point I think is comparatively less noticeable where I live. But on reflection, I've sometimes noticed it.