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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Sure, they could prefer healthy customers, or they could select for lower risk populations. The latter is easier. how are insurance companies (in the US) supposed to achieve this, when it is generally acquired through an employer?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
those are all things you actively agreed to, in advance, in exchange for some sort of consideration (job, not going to jail for illegal things you've already done, etc)
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by sigstoat 3y ago
open source doesn’t make modifications free. who is going to take the liability of distributing modifications for other people’s medical devices even with a “no warranty expressed or implied” license? who is going to load “no warranty expr
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by sigstoat 3y ago
can any of these models be coerced into just doing straight phonetic transcription? like spitting out IPA?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
i worked with this guy who had alerts popping up on his screen for everything that was anywhere in his calendar (somebody else having a meeting in room X? he got an alert when it started), every email that arrived for him, and probably some
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by sigstoat 3y ago
hmm since there is a CFG for lojban, it’d be interesting to give [some LLM you can do fancy things woth] what corpus of lojban there is, and then use the work on constraining LLMs to a grammar, and see if that’d help its output.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> It’s not crazy to pick the least technically risky option that’s simultaneously the lowest cost and highest capability. why buy one when you have two at (more than) twice the price?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
ted talks?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
how much effort should the prosecutors spend on prosecuting more challenging charges, when they had a bunch of easy ones? are they morally obligated to prosecute every single charge that might apply?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Why do you think social cohesion and mental health is in the dumps in the developed world? everyone being convinced that problems are monocausal, with their pet bullshit being the solution.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> A business is group of people building things together. Its a family. Its a village. you'll be happier when you stop looking for family at work.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> I’m starting to doubt anything on the internet that’s overly cherry and polite. > …was this written by an LLM? do you find that asking this is constructive?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
what is it with “security” people and these scare facts? it isn’t enough to point to real events, they’ve got to produce stuff that rivals the most hyperbolic gartner report ever.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
the solar facilities i'm familiar with use aluminum beams for the structure. it is more than strong enough, lighter so it is easier to install/ship to site, and requires no special treatment to survive the environment for more tha
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by sigstoat 3y ago
personally i'm not interested in seeing the news rewritten by gpt as it stands. but if you could automatically find the least sensational article on the subject, and then send me to that site, along with a plugin that just highlights t
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> I have no way to know if that project was actually your idea or if you were just implementing someone else's initiative. I have no idea what the team was like and what your actual contribution to the project was. The numbers are m
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by sigstoat 3y ago
did i miss some part of the article suggested that? nobody is doing or suggesting the thing that you’re freaking out about.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
which isn't a promise that it will be "free forever". in the context of the rest of the article, it's not even an attempt to mislead you into thinking it will be free forever. though it is apparently enough to base willf
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> neofeudalist late stage capitalism how does that differ from "late stage capitalism" and/or "neofeudalist capitalism"?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> This is well written, but it doesn’t really explain how or why Zulip will maintain its free plan forever. i don't see anywhere zulip has made that claim, merely that it is currently free. in fact, it explains that they're car
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> Carlson literally disputed the results of an election that was a pretty popular thing to do, circa 2000 > that is not an exaggeration not something normally included in non-exaggerations.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
fixed cost projects either don’t change, or more likely have a very specific change procedure written in to them, so the customer knows changes aren’t free. (of course changes are never free, but we all seem to want to brush that away, to t
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by sigstoat 3y ago
If you take a look at Rapid Development (published 1996), one of the classic mistakes it lists is not using version control. A number of other 90s and earlier texts lament people not using version control. Personally, a guy I dealt with cir
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by sigstoat 3y ago
the mattress could be infected with bedbugs. and a piano that's been unmaintained for enough decades isn't an instrument any more, and never will be. and disposing of them is expensive. they have negative value, despite not costin
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by sigstoat 3y ago
and when exactly do you think that changed? if “these days” are in some sense bad, when were the good ones?
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by sigstoat 3y ago
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/23696/how-many-roc...
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> In all my career (started coding in 1986) I keep hearing about 1), worked in several RDMS agnostic products, never saw a customer actually migrating into another RDMS. no kidding, you hear about this way more than it actually comes up.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
>"Everyone will thank you and appreciate you because you are really doing them a favor. working is a business transaction. "appreciation" comes in the form of cash. if you're not being offered more cash to stick aroun
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by sigstoat 3y ago
they let it go well past the point it was clear to lay observers that it was out of control. i expect they got all the uncontrolled-descent telemetry they really had a use for.
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by sigstoat 3y ago
> I think the idea is that if it’s important to rich parents, they will grudgingly fund education for everyone. it doesn't cost more for a teacher to open up an algebra book and teach from that instead of from the pre-algebra book.

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