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by thaanpaa 2y ago
I can guarantee they will look different because I've spent the majority of my life in a culture where male-female friendships are extremely common. In fact, if the study was conducted among 50-year-olds in the United States, the resul
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by thaanpaa 2y ago
The study was conducted on a small sample of people at a single public university in the US. Now, repeat the study with a random sample of people from a less conservative and sexually repressive culture, such as Sweden, Finland, etc., and t
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by thaanpaa 2y ago
Did you miss the climate agreement they committed to in November?
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by thaanpaa 2y ago
Finland has spent the last 70 years strengthening its military to keep the Russians away, and they are well below Nigeria on the list. It is fairly safe to say that the list has absolutely nothing to do with reality.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
With music, in particular, if you use any analog sources while recording, the signal will contain so much noise that any dithering signal will be far below the floor and will most likely be completely redundant. I know that people claim to
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
If you deliberately misinterpret what I'm saying, I suppose I'm mistaken. The majority of these studies consider a weight loss of 10 pounds over two years to be successful. If you start with 100 pounds or more, that is almost noth
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Perhaps you didn't read what I wrote. You really need to look at the parameters (as well as the data). A 5% weight loss for a 200-pound person equals 10 pounds. Anyone can achieve this by following a fad diet for a week or two.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
The number one in a thousand is simply a ballpark figure that is frequently used in nutritional science. There are literally hundreds of papers, and not all of them are good (you should look at the parameters because many of them are quite
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
It requires that complexity because a metric shit ton of scientific research shows that it is more complicated than that. Permanent weight loss of more than ten pounds is nearly impossible from a scientific standpoint. The success rate afte
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Disk drives are also large global mutable states. So is RAM at the operating system level. The article conflates the concept of data storage with best programming practices. Sure, you should not change the global state throughout your app b
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I suppose this could be the first "niche" in history where business demand did not drive up supply. But I wouldn't bet on it.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me that the fact that you need an extra coffee break whenever you drive for more than 4-5 hours at a time is ostensibly such a huge inconvenience, but somehow the fact that you never need to go to a gas statio
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I don't remember exactly, but there were some issues where a security update would remove support for certain common (HP?) RAID controllers or something to that effect. So, if you're not careful, a security patch could potentially
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
The notion that everyone must work will eventually become obsolete. It will most likely be remembered as a brief and miserable but significant period in human history.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
That's an interesting development. Since the ransomware outbreak earlier this year, there has been an increase in security concerns about VMware. I've heard more complaints about the lateness of security patches and the difficulti
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
It's a marketing tactic in the case of artificial intelligence. AI promoters all want to make people believe that it is far more advanced than it actually is. Although, I'm sure that many people who work in the industry also fall
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
It's not magical; it's just agnostic. Some AI believers appear to be quite confident in their understanding of how the human brain works, despite the fact that those who have dedicated their entire lives to studying it will be the
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
The engineers are said to be relieved that Altman is gone, so it doesn't sound like they'd be following a "success story" (whatever that is supposed to mean).
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I'll be concerned if I see an LLM create a secure, functional SQL schema and API with users, roles, subscriptions, products, MFA, and all the other basic requirements of modern-day apps. We're not even close to the required level
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
If the architecture is vastly different, these comparisons become sort of meaningless, though. The ultimate performance is determined by all the tiny little bottlenecks, like how quickly the architecture can move data between different type
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Not really, I suppose; it's just a different type of prompt. The algorithm does not "know" what it is fed. Data is data.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I apologise, but I have no interest in any tech religion.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Isn't that just shifting the user's misunderstanding to whoever is developing the application? I guess my argument is that if the type of behaviour described in the article causes problems, perhaps the technology was chosen incorr
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
In other words, a probability-based text generator does not behave like a sentient being. That's hardly an attack; isn't it more of a misunderstanding of the technology?
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I.e. people who actually use the app are wrong, and you must be right.
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
My TikTok is filled with electrical engineering, various forms of activism, and so on. I've never seen anything like what you describe, and I've used it a lot. When I first started using it, I noticed a lot of dancing and singing
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Everyone seems to believe that all the apps spy on users (such as tracking your location, etc.), but I don't believe the platforms actually permit this unless the user expressly grants the app permission. However, just having a huge da
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
Yes, a one-size-fits-all game engine will undoubtedly be extremely complicated. However, depending on your project, you will most likely only require a subset of its features. One could also argue that if people base their creative decision
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
The lack of interest in developing a custom game engine today surprises me. It should go without saying that using a tool like Unity can help you get going quickly, but when it doesn't exactly fit your original game idea, it can and do
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by thaanpaa 3y ago
I suppose it's me. When I'm working on something on the bench, I don't like having to Google the pinouts. A well-curated printed book would be ideal. But, yeah, I can see how that might be very niche.

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