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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
> I would have rather seen that spent on giving lunch to every school age child or paying graduate students a wage above poverty level. At least something useful would have been accomplished Yeah I guess the only thing we’ll give away fo
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
That would require an act of Congress. So implicitly, the majority party in the House and Senate don’t want to do this. Ask yourself, who is in power right now?
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
The post boxes were more about crippling mail-in votes. In Washington Bill De Joy had at one point dismantled several of the sorting machines which dramatically slowed how fast mail gets dispatched. The result was that you could no longer m
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
I can attest that a lot of “car culture” and “motorcycle culture” people want the car or motorcycle to be as loud as possible. Where I live they’re frequently interrupting conversations and waking children up. It’s a major nuisance.
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
So basically there are rules, we just can’t articulate them and so we can’t decode them from the weights. The Goedel Numbering metaphor is pretty appealing to me. You can represent any finite series of real numbers with a series of computat
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
I think consciousness is going to turn out to be very challenging to define rigorously enough that we can test for its presence or absence. Emergent or not, the question is how do you determine when it has emerged? Is it a quantity or an at
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
> Use of diversion and "restorative justice" programs, which clearly do not work for certain classes of criminals with very long rap sheets, but here we are. But they clearly work on others, so they’re probably fine. > Not e
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
A lot of utility companies including Comcast used to not have a flow for “moving” and so you’d get a brand new account with a comcast email every time you moved to a new address. In a lot of cases the techs would just set it up for you as p
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by throwaway173738 4mo ago
This is too simplistic. A lot of automatic door locks are just door strikes with a solenoid that is remotely actuated inside the door casing. In that model you can let people out of the building because the inner part of the door has a bar
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
The pump manufacturer is at fault a few different ways. They have a responsibility to make pumps that don’t break, and they should probably issue a recall. They shouldn’t rely on the availability of a product they don’t supply as a backup u
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Yes for men mostly it’s red/green colorblindness. It’s one reason traffic lights have a uniform order and why you might get tested on which light means stop and not what color on a written test in the US.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Just as OP’s derision isn’t a reason for disbelief, “smart people” expressing belief isn’t a reason to believe.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Because what parents have access to now is extremely ineffective unless they prevent their kids from going outside or going to school. Right now the onus is entirely on parents too keep their kids off the Internet equivalent of smoking ciga
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
I’m the same way. Getting good sleep is my best predictor of whether I’ll blow a weight loss attempt or skip exercise.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Sorry where I come from we drink peanut butter and eat roots are we still American?
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Look man there are several different ways people argue and calling someone a liar or saying a policy is cruel despite the official line is entirely reasonable. If you’re taking that so personally that you have to personally respond to every
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
30 years is plenty of time to change the law. We change the tax code all the time. In 2020 or so it was recently amended to substantially increase the standard deduction. Slippery slope is a fallacy unless you can prove the pattern already
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
I don’t think it’s dooming to realize that these tools are only ever used to extract more of your life faster. When was the last time a technological advancement let us work less? Guys like Eric Schmidt preach that it makes you more product
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
What’s truly astonishing is that all of that money could be spent on bettering real people’s lives, but instead it gets spent on hubris.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
I think it’s messed up that we’re busy handing it off to the next generation instead of actually doing anything. We should be making things better for the younger generation not passing the buck to them.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
There are a lot of mechanical reasons your engine will die. For example crankshaft or camshaft position sensors failing will do it because the engine control module can’t time fuel injection or spark properly.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
More like “we did exactly what our constituents wanted and bought a system to do this instead of hiring a team to do this.”
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Most assuredly. One of the things you learn in thermodynamics is how to analyze heat engine cycles based on measurements of a quantity of fluid.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
kagi has been pretty good. Not great but way better for searches for information that happen to have a lot of people selling you something.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Be careful with this because the LLM will just change the tests on you to get them to pass.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Review always misses something.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
The concept of a small module is an architecture invariant. You’re making that decision, not the LLM. And you’ve made that decision because the machine is not good at certain things. You’re doing that because you can’t trust the LLM to make
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
It does in safety critical industries. You can get grilled by regulators about your source code. And lawyers will use it as evidence in court.
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
Idocracy is basically arguing against the idea that progress is inevitable so we can just sit around and do nothing. Joe’s character development is in his shift away from getting out of the way and toward a follow or lead choice. It’s calle
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by throwaway173738 5mo ago
They wanted to focus resources on the very profitable top end of the market and leave the low-margin commodity business to competitors. If you repeat that cycle enough eventually you just stop competing with anyone because you’ve fired ever

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