tomcatfish

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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Yes, but tail risks definitionally include the WHOLE TAIL, which is infinitely long (including stuff like Quantum gibberish turning you into salmon while you read this). It's why we plan for risks, not tail risks, but the category Tail
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I hopped into this thread praying for a spacecadet remake I could buy now that I have some spare money. I was sad and confused to see that this keyboard did not have all the fun symbols on the caps. Quick edit: FWIW, I'm not knocking t
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
> bastardization What is this universal, pure English you've been speaking? I must have missed the tablets on which it was written? Non jokingly: There is no "bastardization" of a natural language. It is spoken how it is s
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Almost, but there are examples of non-termination still unless I am misremembering a definition (ex 20 GOTO 10).
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
I don't think this is particularly sustainable because the whole thing that makes them tail risks in their uncommonness. I can think of enough unlikely ways to be tortured an incredible amount that it's computationally infeasible
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Yeah, let's skip to the end and ban algorithms, they are the source of so many of my problems I work in computers btw
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Did you skip the paragraph the poster was referring to? They were referring to older social media where you would pick which users to follow and those would be shown to you, which mirrors RSS, a comparison explicitly mentioned in the articl
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1401/
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
The point the parent was making is that citing authority isn't a bad thing to do. Citing authorities in _a different field_ often is, though. (Citing a doctor on the common cold is not a fallacy, but citing a doctor on global economics
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
> Because he was a very small boy, state prison officials decided to place Ian in solitary confinement, where he remained for the next 18 years. What on earth? Solitary confinement starting as a child, potentially for life? What a weird
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
> However, by “system” I mean, roughly, a set of rules that can be printed in a book weighing less than ten kilograms, and which a person can consciously follow. Is this tongue in cheek or is it a very strange thing to say? That's d
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
If that's what all your usecase's developers think is best, sure.
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
Realistically, this might stop some jurisdictions from freeing them, since there is now a large cost attached to each person who is un-crimed. Unfortunately, it seems like this a trap that should be sprung AFTER everyone is out of jail, not
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
It actually took several reads here to figure out where you disagreed with me. You were like 90% of the way there. Your re-write should read > "Do not take YT's prescribed course (YT premium) because they are unethical. Instead
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
This isn't so much of someone trying to explain away bad data, it's just you doing a misreading of the story, which people have explained. This isn't a debate about the object level "is this story true", this is peo
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
uBlock Origin** (Why would you pay someone in order to stop behavior you find unethical?)
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by tomcatfish 5y ago
It's [^1] on the front page now FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976540 [1]: a review of the vulnerability by the person who found it
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
Defense of Garmin: I recently got a smartwatch from them and can use it entirely offline, so they do not necessarily collect that much information.
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
I hadn't noticed (because I always skip pictures in articles that don't look like data visualizations), but I went back to check, and the model looks very comfortable. They are wearing a fashionable shirt that is off a shoulder an
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
This isn't an ad, I'm not affiliated with the program. I recently tried https://obsidian.md and found it really helped me overcome my laziness and take notes down. Another thing I have found that helps is to just mak
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
Wow, some of these are really unique and would be EASILY missed by simpler string matching. I had to read some out-loud to understand Faves: > YOU PUT THE OUGHT IN WATERCOLORS. > YOU PUT THE REITAN IN FRIGHTENED. > YOU PUT THE EFFI
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
Huh, I play these and I didn't know that's why that had these names, I assumed they were compound words in some language I didn't know. This is like a reverse "XKCD" naming convention. Also relevant: "Change Yo
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
For context in this thread, my maximum study in the last 2 months was 10.42 minutes, but my mode (and average as well, that point is an outlier) is close to 3 or 4
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
It says that it was written by Terry Bisson in 1991 on the page
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
For the curious: this search _will_ be NSFW
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
Wow, this is the first time I've seen a company pick "better safe than sorry" when it had global effects (though this isn't a large hit, it's everywhere). I appreciate it a lot, thanks WikiMedia
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
I'd like to try to change your mind on analogies, and even without analogies (although I _will_ use an example)! Analogies are an attempt to generalize an argument. Say we are trying to prove that "It will rain" is a valid co
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
This is the upgrade they are talking about! French Wikipedia is one of the trail wikis. Go to this [1] link and search for "Use Legacy Vector". Uncheck this and you will start seeing the new look on Wikipedia. NOTE: It looks like
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
I'll sound like an idiot, but I have one and it's one of the best desktoys I can think of. It's too heavy; it feels alien almost. It's brutalist in a comforting way. If you have the extra money and you are attracted to t
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by tomcatfish 6y ago
I understand that it is a vocabulary choice, but I take issue with calling the price non-objective in that case. As a toy example, imagine Alice farms Bananas and Bob farms Apples, but each is only able to eat the other food. They would bot

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