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841.
by taneq 2y ago
> This time fly likes your arrow. And fruit flies like bananas. :)
842.
by taneq 2y ago
And these aren't even generally low-functioning or undesirable! The much-sought-after 'state of flow' is defined in part by a lack of self-aware consciousness.
843.
by taneq 2y ago
> (HINT: It's often both.) Or worse, it’s neither! By which I mean both. Neither part of the design is technically wrong but the fault is in the way the two interact. Those are some of the fun ones… I had one where I had to make s
844.
by taneq 2y ago
The human body (like most fit organisms) is antifragile. It needs to be challenged. In this context, people who think "ooh that hurts I'll never do that again" and carefully avoid discomfort find that, by middle age, they c
845.
by taneq 2y ago
Agreed. I think fusion power would be great, but the sales pitch of 'limitless free power' just isn't true. The thought experiment I use is this: Let's imagine coal is magically free in every way. How does my power bill
846.
by taneq 2y ago
One might assume that such a system would be more active in a bear market than a bull market. ;)
847.
by taneq 2y ago
They're getting way, way better at responding in the negative when they don't know something or when asked nonsense questions. The original LLaMA and variants would happily spout some completely fictitious backstory if asked about
848.
by taneq 2y ago
That's how we work. We're officially a "remote-first" company, in that nobody is required to come into the office or work at specific times of day unless their work physically requires it. People still come in most days
849.
by taneq 2y ago
> Most of those people probably aren't learning from professors who spend their whole day teaching and doing research, and that kind of activity can only be supported by a relatively wealthy society. Nope, as your next sentence says
850.
by taneq 2y ago
I’d never heard of this particular trick but I’m glad my decades of paranoia-fueled “right click -> open with” treatment of any potentially sketchy media file was warranted! :D
851.
by taneq 2y ago
- People buying new high end computers are no longer benchmarking them (at least with PassMark) while people buying lower end or second hand computers still do so I know I haven’t bothered on my last two computers, partly because CPU perfor
852.
by taneq 2y ago
> There are no past examples to extrapolate from. There are plenty of extinct hominids to consider.
853.
by taneq 2y ago
Just another piece of evidence that the world really did end in 2012 and we’ve been in a simulation ever since. ;)
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by taneq 2y ago
You guys are getting full days without power? That’s disappointing. I’m in Australia and since moving a decade ago to a suburb with underground power, I think we’ve had maybe three or four outages that lasted long enough to notice, and all
855.
by taneq 2y ago
That's a different thing. Your eyes automatically filter out the blurry signal during a saccade (ie. while they're doing a fast pan from one location to another.) Rapidly strobing lights (eg. LEDs being PWM'd) mess with this
856.
by taneq 2y ago
This is because your cones (colour-specific 'pixels' in your retina) cluster around your fovea (high-resolution area around the center of focus) while the rods (black-and-white, bigger, dumber, but much more sensitive and therefor
857.
by taneq 2y ago
PDFs are more akin to SVG than to a Word document, and the text is often very far from “available”. OCR can be the only way to reconstruct the document as it appears on screen.
858.
by taneq 2y ago
> As much as it may fake it, AI isn't learning anything while you're chatting to it. What's your definition of 'learn'? An LLM absolutely does extract and store information from its context. Sure, it's only
859.
by taneq 2y ago
Did they replace "don't do weapons" with "do the right weapons"?
860.
by taneq 2y ago
This can be a great opportunity, but it can also be a trap. I was labeled a "fixer" at a past job, I was the one who Got Stuff Done, and so I was hand-balled a succession of train wrecks to fix, while the people creating the train
861.
by taneq 2y ago
Or because they were tricked. eg. LinkedIn’s “Connect with your contacts” onboarding step which sounds like it’ll check your contacts against existing LinkedIn users but actually spam invites anyone on your contact list that doesn’t have
862.
by taneq 2y ago
On the one hand, this isn’t a great example for you because you already knew how to do that. There’s probably no good way to automate trivial changes that you can make off the top of your head, and have it be faster than just doing it yours
863.
by taneq 2y ago
Fire! Fight!
864.
by taneq 2y ago
If a smartwatch requires anger management classes in order to use successfully, that might indicate something about the watch. :P
865.
by taneq 2y ago
I've been saying for a long time that the real definition of 'personhood' is the ability to take liability. If something can be sued in court (not counting civil forfeiture sophistry) then it counts as a person.
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by taneq 2y ago
That's actually really cool. :D And here I was assuming it was about farting over the internet. :P
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by taneq 2y ago
Do you seriously think the driver is a major factor in the cost of putting a bus on the road? How much does a bus cost?
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by taneq 2y ago
> Ok, they live safely, but not comfortably by any stretch. > They value their leisure and live a good life. There's an inherent contradiction here unless you believe you can live a 'good life' (which I would expect to
869.
by taneq 2y ago
The trick is to attain leisure while also having the resources to live safely and comfortably.
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by taneq 2y ago
> From the rest, it works the same as in the US. If the government comes with a lawful order for you to do something, you'll do it or be held responsible for ignoring it. I’m always amazed when people ignore this. One day it’ll be s

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