thelastwave

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by thelastwave 6y ago
I don't know why they wouldn't have done it the other way round. Make Lore the one who couldn't use contractions (a fatal flaw!) which removes the dialog constraint on Data for the rest of the series.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
> still sitting in the bottom right of my Gmail, with most of the threads from 2015 or earlier Same. It's like a mini chat cemetery I can visit if I'm feeling nostalgic.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
The message and skimpy page they serve here if you browse that url signed into gmail could be an object lesson in how to invite product failure.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
What are the best metal construction laptops to run Linux on? I really prefer Apple's unibody hardware to any plastic shell laptops I've seen. I'm especially partial to MacOS, but honestly they're great machines.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
TBH, it would seem to be our telos, the way things are headed.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
I also feel like "this analysis can be misleading if you ignore election night itself in which the prediction markets were wildly wrong and had Trump's odds of winning as high as 80% while a lot of the models still thought Biden
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Correct. And yet more and more people talk like robots.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Oh sure, bring statistics into theory. If we were to listen to statistics, it would have us believe spherical cows don't really exist.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Leading to the question of whether "understanding" is the responsibility of the speaker or the listener. In a world where every other fact is contended, it's unlikely there will be agreement about that either.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Turns out, the Faulkner Editor is MUCH harder to implement well. And for most most practical purposes, the distinction between writing in the style of Hemingway, and talking like a robot, is ignorable.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
This is a good example. Thank you for posting it. I feel better informed after reading your comment. I would like to express my appreciation. Your last sentence was too long.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Why is that a worry? What's wrong with being machine-like? I feel like this attitude reflects a bias against machines and machine-like people that could lead to discrimination against them.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
It is also weird that there is now a sports car that at various points in its orbit is moving towards Andromeda.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
This is not intended as sarcastic, but you solve the theoretical problem by making it a practical problem? If 2 clocks are out synch, but only to a small amount that doesn't affect my ability to meet someone for dinner, that doesn&#x27
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by thelastwave 6y ago
What is NASCAR login?
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by thelastwave 6y ago
This is the style I have. I bought it last year, first microwave oven I have ever purchased.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Well played.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
This is a great way of explaining it. I've often wondered why such claims have a bit of a cringe factor to them, and you nailed the reason why. Great distinction b/w nebulous claims and hard numbers. (Although I would exclude page
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by thelastwave 6y ago
If ever there was a year the eschaton needed to be immanentized, it would be 2020.
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by thelastwave 6y ago
You don't have to call it a conspiracy to see that things are broken. The defense of broken things that "they could be even more broken" somehow isn't working. Also, the Internet seems to have made a lot of people more t
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by thelastwave 6y ago
Enjoy your downvotes, we don't need that kind of "perspective" around here.