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by stupidcar 6y ago
I used it at a birthday party a few years ago. My main takeaways were twofold: First, it made me understand the concept of good and bad "vibes" w.r.t. to drug use. It was clear that the experience of taking LSD recreationally in a
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by stupidcar 6y ago
AFAIK, some do advocate having surgery. But plastic surgery is expensive and scary, whereas "Mewing" is a pretty basic set of exercises you can do for free. If you want to get more psychological about it, perhaps there's a di
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by stupidcar 6y ago
People can and do pay for "free" web services like Firefox. They pay with their personal data. This is exchanged into regular currency via the advertising industry. Services that cannot or will not exploit this income stream will
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Capitalism Lab releases Banking and Finance DLC(capitalismlab.com)
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Despite the supposed "mystery" of consciousness, it won't be hard to reproduce in an AI. Take a general intelligence system, give it the ability to sense its own mental state (e.g. by feeding the output of its intermediate la
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The UK too has only just introduced the concept of "no-fault divorce": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce#United_Kingdo... Previously couples had to apportion blame for the marriage breakdown, whi
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by stupidcar 6y ago
uPlot really is amazing. My dream is that one day all the CSS Houdini[1] tech will be finished and widely supported and someone will create a version of it on top of the layout/painting/font-metrics APIs that is equally performant
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by stupidcar 6y ago
False dichotomy. Taking steps to heal yourself from damage, such as a physical burn or a psychological wound, doesn't necessarily mean not taking the threat seriously in future. Pain is a signal that teaches us a lesson. Once the lesso
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I've seen this objection raised a lot, but I think it betrays a misunderstanding of what GPT-3 is capable of doing. The best, in fact the only way to generate truly convincing text output on most subjects is to understand, on some le
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by stupidcar 6y ago
This reads like the plot of a dystopian young adult sci-fi novel. Children who resist authority being diagnosed with a "behavioural disorder" and being forcibly given hormones by an evil doctor. Yet apparently this is the reality
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Agreed. I recommend this video to every new dev joining our team.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Although brains cannot do it "out of the box". Most kids take years of practice to achieve decent dexterity in even simple manipulation tasks. And learning a new skill like guitar in adulthood makes it very clear that, however sop
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I became aware of Hancock by listening to the Our Fake History podcast series about him and his claims: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-78-who... The impression I got is... not good, to to sa
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Can you provide some examples of complex web apps you consider to be substantially slower than their native equivalents? [Edit] I'll take the downvotes as evidence you can't. For example, I use https://app.diagrams.net&
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It's perfectly possible to write a performant app with the web. If the author thinks it isn't, the problem is their ignorance, not the web.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Or it could be some of the older employees decided to cash out after the acquisition, and they've lost some institutional knowledge about how to keep things running smoothly?
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by stupidcar 6y ago
What this article really boils down to is the usual coder arrogance: Thinking that most problems are inherently simple[1], thinking they are a better coder than average, and thinking that the answer is always to do more yourself, so that mo
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I'd echo one of their recommendations: Robert Mile's YouTube channel focussing on AI safety. He presents the material in a very interesting and accessible way. For example, this video on whether or not corporations can be consider
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It seems pretty clear from this that, had the pandemic not intervened, he would never have finished. He completed three chapters in the space of a week, and yet still doesn't anticipate being finished until next year. Ironic that the
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by stupidcar 6y ago
It's weird to see stuff like this published as a "paper", as if it were a scientific endeavour, when there doesn't seem to be any experiment, mathematics, or even data involved. Just a lot of conjecture sprinkled with ci
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Just because the choir couldn't select its members on the basis of lower immunity, doesn't it mean it didn't select them (or they self-selected on) the basis of some characteristic(s) that happened to correlate with lower imm
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The frustrating thing is, all the assumptions here really should be true. Big corps should be the best place to do focussed, meaningful work on a product you believe in. And start-ups, with all their constraints in terms of budget, pers
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I absolutely blame the EU for this. The job of any political organisation isn't just to blindly regulate, but to predict the likely response of the regulated industry, including in a worst case scenario. I worked in web dev when these
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Maybe the reason he was doing so much media was because he was encountering resistance to his ideas internally at Intel. Talking publicly about them and becoming the public face of Intel's CPU design program might have been his way to
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The post I was replying to was saying that masks are not 100% effective when worn properly. Now you're talking about people not wearing masks properly. What's your point?
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The point is, in Japan's case masks appear to be 100% effective, or very close to it, in eliminating transmission on public transport. Do you have a reason to believe greater prevalence of the virus is linked to lower mask effectivenes
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by stupidcar 6y ago
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2020/05/29/feds-seek-incentives-... "Japan, which has the third highest rate of transit ridership in the world, found no infection events linked to commuter trains after perfo
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by stupidcar 6y ago
I disagree with respect to frameworks like React, Angular and Vue. Yes, they all "do the same thing" when viewed from a distance, but up close the details of say, managing state with hooks in React, is very different from managing
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by stupidcar 6y ago
As I said, we already have technology to colonise space. Not to spread throughout the galaxy, no, but at least to get to multiple places in our solar system. At that point the feasibility of a single event like a genetic accident always o
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by stupidcar 6y ago
If you're arguing it may not be possible to colonise space at all, that may be true but isn't germane to this discussion. The idea of Fermi paradox and the "great filter" presupposes that it is possible, and that there i

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