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by the_af 1mo ago
Some adults cannot. Also, consider there are lots of people with conditions that deviate slightly from the normal (some medical, some merely "not standard"). They too are legitimate users of public bathrooms.
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by the_af 1mo ago
Yes, it does. It's hosted in a software development blog called "Just Another Dev", with other entries such as "I'm AWS certified? Should you trust me?" or "Synthetic Monitoring with Cypress". Is your
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by the_af 1mo ago
I still don't understand. Your own "evidence" is completely anecdotal. I and others (including the author of this post) have seen engineers who don't understand what the different components of the "agent system&quo
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by the_af 1mo ago
> I knew this would turn into a super boring thing where people will announce that they too misunderstood, therefore everyone does, but this is all very silly nonsense. I don't understand. You said: > I've literally never
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by the_af 1mo ago
> I've literally never heard anyone conflate an agent and a model. Ever. I recently had to explain it to my brother, who works as a programmer but doesn't read much about technology beyond documentation that solves his immedi
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by the_af 1mo ago
I don't think the TFA has your 80 year old mother as its intended audience.
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by the_af 1mo ago
From TFA: > When you can name the layer, you can fix the layer. That is the whole point of being precise. It is not about being pedantic. It is about being able to improve things faster and more effectively. Also, for any given fact, t
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by the_af 1mo ago
How does it feel playing the 2004 remake these days? I remember I loved it and found it better than the original game (heresy, I know!) except the "simlish" they speak drove me nuts. If only the had used English for the voices, it
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by the_af 1mo ago
Sid Meier's Pirates! was a fantastic game in which I spent a ton of time. I still find it hard to believe it was written mostly in C64 BASIC [1] (I suppose not the dueling scenes though). I think everyone who was a gamer back then know
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by the_af 1mo ago
I agree with your sentiment about ranking -- the gamification of art is pointless -- but I'd go even further: often you won't agree with yourself from the past about a book or movie! Sometimes you just need to be in the mood for a
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by the_af 1mo ago
I wish I could do this. In general, in museums I always feel compelled to go through all the exhibits my time allows, when clearly some of them capture my attention and others are just filler. But I would feel guilty "wasting" my
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by the_af 1mo ago
> This defines "communicating effectively" in a way that it can't possibly cover a complex topic [...] so this definition is a failure. Indeed, I don't think email can be reliably used to convey complex topics. >
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by the_af 1mo ago
So it seems in summary you do see the "H" and "N" of it, you just disagree with some parts of the article.
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by the_af 1mo ago
I don't think so. You specifically replied to a comment by calling it a "fallacy", when it was discussing feelings of parenthood. That's very specific and cannot be excused as arguing it was addressing the broader contex
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by the_af 1mo ago
> Again, feeling should not matter that much in this discussion. Yes, they should. We are, after all, replying to the initial assertion that (and I quote) "you don’t need children to have these sorts of feelings [love, being neede
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by the_af 1mo ago
Being a parent is in large part about feelings. Also, the context of this conversation was replying to this assertion: > You don’t need children to have these sorts of feelings So it's about feelings, not about "rational disc
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by the_af 1mo ago
> You don't need to live a situation to be able to comment about it. In the case of being a parent, yes, yo do. This is not something you can experience second-hand.
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by the_af 1mo ago
> Usually a clear sign that you are not communicating effectively Agreed. I learned that in emails, a multi-paragraph, multi-item text means the recipient will randomly reply to only one of the points (often the least important one). S
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by the_af 1mo ago
> You don’t need children to have these sorts of feelings, unless you can only get them from some small people who don’t have any choice but to love you. Peak HN comment. Technically you don't "need" anything in life bes
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by the_af 1mo ago
Agreed, though I know some people who evidently regretted having children, or never bonded with their own but developed "quasi-parental" relationships with children who weren't their own. More than one case, actually! But I t
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by the_af 1mo ago
Good comment. I have two remarks: > It's time-consuming and exhausting, but I haven't found it to be _hard_ yet. I think this is exactly what people mean when they say "hard": time-consuming and exhausting, not hard
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by the_af 1mo ago
> I would strongly recommend not having children until you're absolutely sure you want to. That's good advice. I'll add the caveat that sometimes you cannot be entirely sure (few things in life are so clear cut), but i
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by the_af 1mo ago
> Surely a lot of this can be experienced by associating with parents and their children rather than having them yourself, right? No, not really. Also not the same as being the cool uncle/aunt, though that can give you a lightweig
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by the_af 1mo ago
> I cannot think why bringing up a kid would be significant or meaningful. I don't think it's something to think or reason about. You feel it (or don't, in some cases). As an atheist, I suppose this is how truly religiou
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by the_af 1mo ago
Depends on each parent. Some are pretty distant or absent. To me, my daughter is my world. But children are work too, however doesn't tell you this is lying.
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by the_af 1mo ago
> I don’t really know how to address this situation or if it needs addressed. My worry is that after several passes this compounds and starts introducing errors or biases, a bit like in the "telephone game" children play.
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by the_af 1mo ago
> But worse, many comments include in the moment reasoning like "added parameter bar because we can no longer use the frob to automatically derive bar". That's stuff for a commit message, or just a mental note, and absolu
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by the_af 1mo ago
> If you ask the dice "what's 2 + 2?" do consider it meaningful to say "the dice told the truth" if you happen to roll a 4? No, and neither do I consider it meaningful to say they lied if they roll a 5. Dice ne
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by the_af 1mo ago
Whether this distinction is relevant is up to you, but I think we can safely say agents do not lie in the human sense of the word, because they don't intend to deceive (in fact, they aren't capable of "intending" anythin
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by the_af 2mo ago
I don't think this is true. Evolution is lazy and suboptimal, not characterized by the "highest possible efficiency".

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