slingnow

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by slingnow 4y ago
> People still really find it hard to internalize exponential improvement. I think people find it harder to not extrapolate initial exponential improvement, as evidenced by your comment. > My immediate thought was always, "Yes, t
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by slingnow 4y ago
> If ChatGPT-4 hallucinates an answer, it won't kill me Not yet it won't. It doesn't take much imagination to foresee where this kind of AI is used to inform legal or medical decisions.
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by slingnow 4y ago
Can you explain how this is a whole different ballgame? It seems to me that making art that people like is a combination of pattern matching, luck, the zeitgeist, and other factors. However it doesn't seem like there's some kind o
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by slingnow 4y ago
If the design of the page is so bad that it makes the content hard to parse, it seems worth mentioning. Yes, bike shedding. People love to bring that up as a way to deflect criticism they disagree with.
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by slingnow 4y ago
I'm curious, can you explain how an image of some kind of crab plushy toy that takes up THE ENTIRE SCREEN ON A DESKTOP helps illustrate anything about immutable references? It is fully 2x larger than the previous text and I have to scr
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by slingnow 4y ago
Citation definitely needed. I have a nearly constant internal monologue that is 100% composed of words.
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by slingnow 4y ago
What made the first term imperfect? Who decided what was preferable later?
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by slingnow 4y ago
Early in the story, he mentions the roommate had already played an elaborate deceptive prank on the author, so I don't see an issue with doing what he did. The roommate had already established the precedent that deception was fair game
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by slingnow 4y ago
So, the same scenario we're currently in. Jamming a gun barrel so the bullet can't leave the chamber isn't a method of making a gun safe.
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by slingnow 4y ago
Why do you assume OP was blaming women? Nothing they said implies blame.
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by slingnow 4y ago
You're right. I'm sure their security design is 100% bulletproof and none of my sensitive data will ever be leaked. And even if it were somehow possible for it to be leaked, I'm also sure the company would be completely forth
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by slingnow 4y ago
Have you considered trying to make some art instead of asking this question on a message board full of STEM folks? Also, "art" is such a broad term that it's hard to even know what you're asking. This would be like someo
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by slingnow 4y ago
A "simple query". The tech "looks ancient". You're "willing to bet" things. And yet you speak so confidently and derisively about this outage. It must be nice to sit behind your keyboard and just have all
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by slingnow 4y ago
How in the world in this day and age of nearly infinite resources to learn ANYTHING on the internet is this a question that gets voted up to the top of HN? Here's an idea: pick a project that interests you and start. For any question o
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by slingnow 4y ago
Where exactly did OP advocate for using free tools that come included with your new [3D Printer / Furniture / etc]? Also, anecdotally after 30+ years of using the free tools that come included with [whatever], I have never once ru
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by slingnow 4y ago
Rephrased: So you're OK with countries using guns to conduct warfare, but you're NOT okay with countries using nuclear weapons? How does that make any sense? Hopefully you can see the difference.
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by slingnow 4y ago
I don't take their comment as dishonest at all. I take their claim at face value, as you should. It isn't fair to immediately discredit someone when they express a fear of your words becoming ever more violent. I think you should
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by slingnow 4y ago
This is one of those articles that could benefit immensely with a single picture or quick video/gif, but provides neither. > The other thing I need to do is subpixel-correct lines, because they're so much more nicer in motion t
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by slingnow 4y ago
Serious question: you consider rectangles with crosshatching "beautiful illustrations"? I completely agree with the OP. This is a _pure_ regurgitation of introductory material one could find anywhere. The internet is overflowing w
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by slingnow 4y ago
What a weird argument. Obviously a company can go n-layers deep when it comes to misdirection, but I'd say going to a store to physically inspect what you're getting is a much better option than blindly trusting everything they te
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by slingnow 4y ago
If your definition of "wordy" is "anything longer than a 20 word phrase", I mean, I don't know what to say really. Your response to OP was definitely wordy then. And so is this response. You've basically redefi
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by slingnow 4y ago
Top 5% of looks based on what exactly? Something about your story doesn't add up. I would certainly consider myself NOT in the top %5 of looks, and get plenty of matches. And I'm not looking for trashy women who are only into mate
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by slingnow 4y ago
He's making the argument against it because it's not effective in achieving the causes he cares about, and he wants people to be effective. It's all at the bottom of the article: > I've always been on the side of thes
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by slingnow 4y ago
If your argument is just that "everything boils down to a creative interpretation", I don't see how this is a really meaningful or interesting take. The point is that there are widely varying degrees of creative interpretatio
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by slingnow 4y ago
I disagree that this was "put well". > An example: If a person is blessed enough to be in a position to have paid off their loans, ... This is the perfect kind of framing for her argument. Someone who paid off their loans didn&
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by slingnow 4y ago
Amazing, you can brush aside everything he said as "wrong" without providing any evidence or any sort of interesting argument whatsoever. Not to mention your counter claim makes no sense and is far too broad. Which humans can&#x27
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by slingnow 4y ago
Have you yet considered acquiring another bike instead of grieving the loss of an easily replaceable object?
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by slingnow 4y ago
It also really sucks to have to constantly stop in a car for all of those annoying traffic lights, stop signs, and of course crosswalks. It would be much much much easier and faster to just continue driving without stopping to my destinatio
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by slingnow 4y ago
Well if energy output is your reasoning: then it's orders of magnitude more energy for a car to come to a full stop and re-accelerate than it is for a pedestrian to let it pass. Should cars then have priority over people in a crosswalk
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by slingnow 4y ago
You didn't implement anything like this, but congrats on finding a home you're happy with using a different algorithm. You only saw 2 homes -- an arbitrary number not at all tied to how many homes might be on the market. You then

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