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by thfuran 1y ago
It sometimes work when we talk.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>And the easiest way to keep up the act is to fool yourself, because most of us aren't good at faking it. The better way is to work for a company that doesn't suck.
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by thfuran 1y ago
It's pretty well established that people are just generally irrational about free things. Because of this, I think any business model involving giving something away for free, whether it's a loss leader or or ad supported or somet
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by thfuran 1y ago
You’re absolutely right! The engines do not appear to be working. What I actually meant to do is, of course, turn the engines on. As you can see, they should now be working correctly. Sorry about that, thanks for correcting me!
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by thfuran 1y ago
They’re not beliefs. They’re claims aimed at maximizing profit. Or do you mean why do people believe their propaganda?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Very low energy though.
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by thfuran 1y ago
"What kind of parrot?"
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by thfuran 1y ago
Computers were invented to break cryptography.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Ask anyone you know who has been sexually assaulted or raped what they think of the idea of pictures or recordings of that being both kept by the perpetrator and widely disseminated. I think you'll find very few who'd say that&#x2
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by thfuran 1y ago
Which part are you disputing?
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by thfuran 1y ago
Not most but some.
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by thfuran 1y ago
So you'd tell customers "No, I'm not fixing that bug because doing so would offend my aesthetic sensibilities. Yes, I know you have a support contract, but I simply refuse to address your problem even though I could"? Or
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by thfuran 1y ago
The alternative to using private methods or reflectively mucking about with library/platform internals isn't always "do the same thing but with only public API"; it's sometimes "you can't possibly fix the
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by thfuran 1y ago
US cops fear everyone else, and look what that gets us.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>The authorities really think every predator will just give up and stop abusing just because of that? What a joke. Yes, the framing is disingenuous, but so is yours. You're seriously suggesting that any policy that doesn't 100%
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by thfuran 1y ago
An act being incentivized doesn't make it good, only more likely to occur. Both the act and the incentives can be opposed.
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by thfuran 1y ago
As a first order approximation, closing down a nearby hospital and sending patients to one further away is only worse than PE if PE doesn't worsen care to such an extent that more people die there than would've en route to the oth
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by thfuran 1y ago
I'm not sure that simply stopping business is categorically worse than selling to a malevolent entity instead.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Meanwhile the costs of everything, including salaries has skyrocketed. More like everything except salaries.
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by thfuran 1y ago
But if you are iterating on code and using an LLM without even looking at the code, there's a reasonable chance that when you prompt "okay, now handle factor y also", you end up with code that handles factor y but also handle
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by thfuran 1y ago
> At that point I tend to just go BC It sounds to me like their pricing is working as intended and getting an even bigger upcharge.
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by thfuran 1y ago
But reproducibility is famously a matter of some concern to scientists.
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by thfuran 1y ago
If everyone did it, there wouldn't be much to pirate. Nothing new at any rate.
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by thfuran 1y ago
You're paying for hulu twice?
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by thfuran 1y ago
You're treating a statistical tendency as immutable law. It's true that attempting to time the market is not generally a good investment strategy, but every investment is made at some time, and some of those are very bad times t
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by thfuran 1y ago
Only if they're optimistic at the right time and not the wrong one.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I don’t understand why you think it would stop that, given how comprehensive a record of self-contradiction he already has.
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by thfuran 1y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/ultrasonic-... The premise is obviously sound, though it's possible this particular product doesn't work very well.
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by thfuran 1y ago
But kids can use bikes and public transport well before they can drive. How are cars so especially helpful for children?
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by thfuran 1y ago
The common corporate policy of making it harder to give raises than to increase starting salaries for new hires is insane.

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