sfn42

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by sfn42 7mo ago
> If it's so bad for gamblers, why don't they stop? Because they're stupid. Gamblers are idiots, gambling companies prey on the dumb. Anyone who understands the very basic math behind the games understands that it's p
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by sfn42 7mo ago
Some gambling companies may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
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by sfn42 7mo ago
I don't think that's what VAC is. I think VAC just looks for known cheat patterns in memory and such, and if it finds indisputable proof of cheating it marks a player for banning in the next wave. Maybe there is some ML involved i
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by sfn42 7mo ago
Anyone who trusts LLMs to do anything has shit coming. You can not trust them. If you do, that's on you. I don't care if you want to trust it to manage hiring, you can't. If you do anyway then the ethical problems are squarel
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by sfn42 7mo ago
Well if you want to spend your days doing something trivial enough to be automated I guess that might be a concern. I mean I'm not sitting around doing data entry. If I'm automating something it's not my job it's someone
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by sfn42 7mo ago
Not really sure what your point is. The employer is worried about getting good return on their investment in me, I am worried about getting good return on the time I'm investing in the company. So my interest is that they recognize tha
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by sfn42 7mo ago
I just do my job to the best of my ability. If I can help a colleague I do. I don't expect to get explicitly credited for everything I do. If my employer can't see or don't care about the value I bring, I simply go to one who
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Can you show an example of "blatantly obvious"?
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by sfn42 8mo ago
That's not what I said. I said I don't read their work. Maybe I do some times, but it's not often and I seriously doubt the $2 or whatever they end up getting after everyone else has their cut makes any difference to them.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
I looked up the price for Project Hail Mary which I read recently, it's like $20 and the physical book is the same price. Think about that. Imagine all the work involved in producing and transporting the physical book, compared to just
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by sfn42 8mo ago
No, I don't mind giving physical books as gifts to people who want them. In fact I don't mind physical books at all. I just prefer ebooks because an ebook reader is 100 times better. It has backlight so I can read in the dark, it&
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Oh yeah because I definitely want to be giving money to entitled shits who'll spit in my food. That makes all the sense. Tipping happens after anyway. And for the record I'm not American, we don't have the insane tipping cult
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Staggeringly affordable? Last time I checked ebooks were roughly the same price as physical books. That's ridiculous. If they were like 20% of the price I'd buy them. I don't care man. It doesn't matter to the world whet
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Simple, just make it public. You don't bring a lawyer, a lawyer is appointed. This way everyone is on equal footing. Doesn't matter if you're a homeless bum or Jeff Bezos. Both just get an appointed lawyer. If a suit is found
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by sfn42 8mo ago
I just Google the book name followed by the word epub and generally find what I'm looking for pretty quickly.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
My parents did provide me with materials. They were happy to buy me books and stuff. But school is where I spent most my time and did most of my learning. My single father had enough to deal with, working full time alongside being a farmer.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Where I grew up there wasn't any way to deal with those of us who did better. If you did worse there were all sorts of programs, they would move you to a separate small class so you could get extra help and stuff like that. My problem
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by sfn42 8mo ago
People also don't handle rain well.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
I assure you, intelligence is very cool.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Yes there are some fascinating emergent properties at play, but when they fail it's blatantly obvious that there's no actual intelligence nor understanding. They are very cool and very useful tools, I use them on a daily basis now
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by sfn42 8mo ago
There's also the fact that most men aren't very healthy - you'll often see very fit men wearing "revealing" and tight-fitting clothes that show off their muscles etc, whereas everyone else wears less revealing cloth
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Yeah, one that I forgot to mention is if you pause a youtube short and go to a different tab, the short will unpause in the background, or it might change to an entirely different short and start playing that.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
It's not just the search deteriorating. The frontend is littered with bugs. If you write a comment and try to highlight and delete part of that comment, it'll often delete the part you didn't highlight. So apparently they imp
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by sfn42 8mo ago
No. That happens when people drive too close to each other and brake. Not when you let off the gas slightly to maintain a gap which prevents this exact thing. The entire reason this happens is because 98% of people are morons who drive up t
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Good luck telling a FOSS project what to do. At the very least you'd have to pay for the work and it seems to me they could claim whatever price they want.
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by sfn42 8mo ago
Nobody gives a shit about that man. I don't care if it's unfair. I care that this app does the things I want. How it came to be is entirely irrelevant to me.
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by sfn42 9mo ago
It's more like the chess.com vs lichess example in my mind. On the one hand you have a big org, dozens of devs, on the other you have one guy doing a better job. It's amazing what one competent developer can do, and it's amaz
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by sfn42 9mo ago
This is such an underappreciated fact. Lots of people think 20kgs overweight is normal, they'll call you skinny and tell you to eat more if you're a healthy weight. An adult man of average height should probably not weigh more tha
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by sfn42 9mo ago
They also said: > Very short distances, very slowly and very gradually. Which does not sound like overtraining to me. Any relatively healthy 30-something should handle that just fine no matter how untrained they are. They should get over
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by sfn42 9mo ago
The person I replied to said they were taking it easy. By push through it I meant keep it up for a while longer even though it made them feel unwell, thinking they would get past the unwellness. I wasn't intending to suggest anything r

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