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601.
by taneq 1y ago
It's often used that way. I'd define 'misleading' as 'easier to interpret incorrectly than correctly', and 'deceptive' as 'intentionally misleading'.
602.
by taneq 1y ago
> But once you get past "I'm selling something so manifestly useful that people find me to pay me for it", it sure seems like the things you, the sales rep, have to do to get their dollars skew rapidly toward the "sel
603.
by taneq 1y ago
That’s what happens when you print trillions of dollars. Suddenly investors have too much Monopoly money and they want to spend it on something, anything, that might not make as much of a loss as holding cash during the subsequent inflation
604.
by taneq 1y ago
It sounds like your definition of “simple” is more like “short” than “straightforward”?
605.
by taneq 1y ago
"We should have solved Busy Beaver, if the complexity of BB(n) is finite this is possible." I mean yeah, chess isn't THAT bad but still not directly tractable and besides, brute forcing it is boring.
606.
by taneq 1y ago
The increase in renewable generation is great, but some of these are kind of cheating by importing energy to cover shortfalls. You need some kind of baseload generation that’s not dependent on weather, and borrowing this from a neighbour wh
607.
by taneq 1y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen mechanical drawings have “90% confidence” dimensions like this. If a part’s too big then it won’t fit, and it’s probably useless.
608.
by taneq 1y ago
Huh, I always thought it was “total dissipated power”. Like you’d use to spec a power supply.
609.
by taneq 1y ago
> It's as much an approx as any physical measurement is. This is exactly the point I was making, so I agree. :)
610.
by taneq 1y ago
An approximation, I’d imagine. I wouldn’t expect it to manifest in any real physical sense, any more than I’d expect an actual physical “unit circle” object to have a circumference of exactly two Pi.
611.
by taneq 1y ago
Great, now I’ll have to figure out if my USB Hi-Flow cable is slowing down my USB Full-Flow drink bottle refilling.
612.
by taneq 1y ago
It’s not about being immune to software issues. It’s about having a vendor to cop the blame if something goes wrong.
613.
by taneq 1y ago
I’d say rather that “statistically significance” is a measure of surprise . It’s saying “If this default (the null hypothesis) is true, how surprised would I be to make these observations?”
614.
by taneq 1y ago
Niße. ;)
615.
by taneq 1y ago
If you're playing at this level, you need to define: - letter - word - 5 :P
616.
by taneq 1y ago
It's definitely something a zillionaire does in a Peter F. Hamilton book, except instead of a rail car it's a zepplin. I mean, if I were a zillionaire I guess I'd live in a zepplin too.
617.
by taneq 1y ago
Do you really have a privately owned rail car in order to go fast? It sounds to me more like a self-driving campervan, you can sit back and watch the world roll by.
618.
by taneq 1y ago
Damn these Tool-related Language Additions.
619.
by taneq 1y ago
Alright, you can have the right to have babies.
620.
by taneq 1y ago
Ducks are like toasters. Both love bread and seem like fun in the bath but in reality can be messy. (Yeah I agree, it’s so hard to get people to actually engage instead of just talking past, and it’s one of those things you can’t under one
621.
by taneq 1y ago
Yeah but does it actually work, though? There have been a lot of online tools claiming to be "AI detectors" and they all seem pretty unreliable. Can you talk us through what you look for, the most common failure modes and (at suit
622.
by taneq 1y ago
Huh, interesting. I periodically ask Siri "hey siri, are you actually smart yet?" (or variants on this depending on how I feel). So far I've always received a polite "I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that&quot
623.
by taneq 1y ago
Have you tried being severely myopic to begin with? :D My presbyopia has kicked in surprisingly quickly (at a guess, 1.5 diopters over 2-3 years) but that just means I can look past my glasses at close things, like the opposite of your ster
624.
by taneq 1y ago
Contacts for astigmatism have a tiny weight on one side which keeps them oriented (enough) that they can cancel out mild to moderate asphericity. I'm surprised LASIK still can't correct for astigmatism though, I know that was the
625.
by taneq 1y ago
No good deed goes unpunished!
626.
by taneq 1y ago
Especially if you make a habit of patching the binary instead of rebuilding from source! ;)
627.
by taneq 1y ago
Huh? I have Continue on Codium talking to ollama, all local, and I never signed up to nuffin’
628.
by taneq 1y ago
Or “unconscious competence”?
629.
by taneq 1y ago
No, this is a good thing, assuming the overall global inflation rate (whatever that is) hasn't outpaced the increase. It's a measure of our increasing expectations for an acceptable human existence. Yes, "the poor will always
630.
by taneq 1y ago
> This is the result of policy decisions with well-understood outcomes. All the things you mentioned, certainly, but there's a more direct, more obvious route for policy to control inflation. It is (at least in Australia) one of sev

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