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by tarkin2 2y ago
Someone add "direct" before train?
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Any metric that most directly relates to military spending ability seems the most pertinent these days. But of course GDP doesn’t relate to quality of life—I don’t think anyone suggested it did but of course many think it should.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I have found no good way to smaller authors. I've seen a few web rings that give me cool but completely random websites. HN is the best I've got so far. A curated and subscribable list of smaller authors categorised by area, where
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by tarkin2 2y ago
With search engines polluted with SEO spam and AI vacuuming up content to ultimately sell it on, I lost the motivation to write publicly. I no longer feel I'm directly in touch with and helping the average Joe. Does anyone else feel li
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by tarkin2 2y ago
What I’ve learnt from this thread is that the problem with fair coin flips is not if they’re fair it’s whether we count them as a proper coin flips. And so who gets to decide? And if most people aren’t flipping like that then should we desi
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I looked this up on YouTube. It seems a bit of a non-controversy with Quincy criticising Ringo's skills and Paul's bass playing. Comparing a virtuoso arranger and a band whose main strength was their song writing skills is a bit o
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Reinvesting money from stocks and shares is passive income, right? It's hard to say investing is immoral. It benefits society if universally adopted, albeit only as a part of an individuals economic activity. Passive income as the only
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Someone needs to make a good Facebook groups/pages alternative. That'd make it easier for most.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
It's not that the internet created new behavioural problems, but that intensified old problems.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Strip the student of tech. Choose a randomly selected question. Record and transcribe. No need for AI detector.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
You should have used the ironic mood if you'd wanted us to understand the irony
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Isn't Samsung's Store and F-Droid all ready third party?
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by tarkin2 2y ago
The article makes it sound like the UK is attempting to gain African influence by returning Chagos while keeping the military bases. Perhaps it's also cheaper to only have the bases since that's the main reason the UK has kept con
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by tarkin2 2y ago
It's not the original title
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Can someone clean up the title? "'The Iceman' Wim Hof's family suffered domestic voilence." I noticed that first Vice video Wim had a strange interaction with his son, normalising strange interactions, jokingly call
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by tarkin2 2y ago
LLMs will become as evil as calculators: they obviate the mathematical ability and create reliance in most, but are a magnificent aide to experts--those who could survive without a calculator albeit at the cost of speed. As we approach this
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by tarkin2 2y ago
The lack of religion is a big factor. I'd argue as much as the internet. Religious activity--putting aside the well-documented negatives--gives group identity, belonging, a welcoming atmosphere, an in-person place to socialise, associa
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by tarkin2 2y ago
With the top scientists leaving OpenAI, it looks like we've reached a point where "AI" will be seeing how much juice OpenAI can get out of Nvidia cards: I suspect it'll get more accurate without us seeing the huge leaps
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I heard the argument that it's good because you don't need the server devs to change the backend; you can specify the data you want. As echo'd before, I guess that's great if your frontend and backend can't be devel
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I mean it’s no longer commonplace, and rarely advice, and rarely taught, not that it’s impossible.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
The bit about PHP made me yearn for those simple days. Now creating a website with all the trendy technologies creates such a barrier to creation and creativity. It seems large scale system good practice has trodden the small, quick and cre
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I’ve found writing my own software a wonderful experience over a number of years; seeing how my skills have improved, seeing the evolution of the site, seeing what fads came and went. Obviously if you’re focused primarily on the message rat
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Not if the recruiter needs to deal with thousands upon thousands of auto generated CVs
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Reminds me of the Buddhist idea of impermanence; psychologically important in an unstable world
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by tarkin2 2y ago
For me LLMs feel like a lecture where you understand all the words and ideas but once you leave you realise you really haven't understood anything new but you perhaps have some new avenues to explore. More of an advanced exploratory to
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I’d argue these aren’t problems for all but the most frequented sites. Throwing your site behind someone’s walled-garden rather than developing the 100 or so lines to deal with the problem seems a shame. Thinking aloud: Query your one SQLit
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Comments were the only annoying thing on my old site. I used disqus but then that was rather invasive and annoying. A single SQLite3 table and a post, approve and delete end points would be about 100 lines of code and would cater for 90% of
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Medium and Substack are a plight on the web. Substack is better but it'll go the same way as Medium. They start out nice, but then become slow with trackers and what-have-you, and then start charging a commission to read: bait-and-wall
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by tarkin2 2y ago
The cynic in me says they have bad working conditions since they're public funded: governments, to a large extent, don't want to increase or divert taxes to provide better working conditions since they'd rather give their fri
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by tarkin2 3y ago
Khan academy will teach you all of pre-k, high-school, pre-calc, calculus and infinite series pretty well. mathsisfun.com is a great resource if that's ever lacking. High school physics on khan is good to give you a practical applicati

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