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by topaz0 3y ago
About your parenthetical: not sure the recent cases about government officials blocking people on twitter applies here, at least straight-forwardly. E.g. it's not illegal for whitehouse.gov to put up press releases without a comment bo
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by topaz0 3y ago
Of course the answers on stack overflow are partly a result of resume-driven answerers.
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Making some piece of software quickly and with little effort is great for one-off projects, or something that is just for me, etc. What sucks is stuff that I have to use many hours a week, with more or less the same requirements over many y
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by topaz0 3y ago
This is a perfectly fine take, but it seems to me there is something wrong when our everyday workhorse tools are painful to interact with despite providing the same basic functionality as they did 20 years ago, adequately, on much slower ha
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by topaz0 3y ago
What part did you work on?
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by topaz0 3y ago
But many downvotes is one of the main ways that they get picked to kill by "software, user flags, or moderators".
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by topaz0 3y ago
I didn't say anything about government , but it should be clear that the involvement of organization is inevitable. The industrialists ensured that by organizing the firm. To say that after that point we should just let the market d
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Yes, it was cheaper. And lower quality. What's your point.
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by topaz0 3y ago
To add to your note: iirc the Luddites were also concerned because the quality of the cloth produced by the machines was worse than the handmade stuff, beyond all of the labor abuses and job losses. Another parallel to the AI age.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Yes, this matches my experience -- I assumed it was something to do with waiting for cloud stuff, but haven't dug too deep.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Certainly some of the behavior I am complaining about is the intended behavior (ads in menus etc), but yes explorer takes several seconds to initialize for me, after the window appears. Not an exaggeration.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Several seconds is not an exaggeration. The window appears quickly enough, but then spins for several seconds (there's a progress bar in the path field) before showing any file. Win11 personal, on a brand new, middle-of-the-road deskto
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by topaz0 3y ago
> [Windows 10/11] fades into the background I strongly disagree with this. When I am forced to use windows, I am constantly fighting with it to not be obnoxious. It takes many seconds to do something as simple as bring up an explore
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You might even say "If Hayek understood economics, he wouldn't have been Hayek".
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Maybe the next methodology should be "lazy river" or similar.
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Except the poor dog. Surely that dog deserves a ballad!
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I dunno about gossipy, but the narrative style is standard at Quanta. It's written for the subscriber who is reading for leisure, and wants a good story as well as some amount of technical depth, not for the HN reader who wants to quic
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by topaz0 3y ago
You don't actually have to assume anything. You could ask instead, or read some background.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Well, I'm not a mind-reader, but I'll humor your question. A charitable reading of your post is that you are refuting a hypothetical reader who might think that the point of the post is that the artist came up with the idea of a c
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by topaz0 3y ago
My intro to K-L divergence was in the context of maximum likelihood estimation with a misspecified model. The asymptotic expected value of a parametric MLE is the parameter value that minimizes the K-L divergence from the true distribution
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by topaz0 3y ago
Sometimes it's fun and interesting just to see what we have in common with historical people, rather than judging their relative ingenuity or lack thereof.
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Huh? Relevance? This has nothing to do with the biophysics of action potentials.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Worth noting that, while this model has been around for a few decades, it does not have many adherents among neuroscientists. Which is not to say that it is wrong necessarily, just that I wouldn't want readers to get the wrong idea tha
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by topaz0 3y ago
Next generation SEO technique: introduce minor typos to LLM-generated text to make the search engine think it wasn't LLM-generated.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Class is also not these social/economic/cultural signifiers. As yogthos said in a different comment, differences in class are about having substantially different economic incentives. (I wouldn't go as far as GP and say they
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by topaz0 3y ago
It's not clear whether you're referring to the HN post title or the article title itself ("Putting the You in CPU"). In either case I think your proposed edit makes it much worse. The HN post title is accurate and descri
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by topaz0 3y ago
Good to hear I'm not the only one who finds that form of title unpalatable. IMO one of the most annoying headline trends of the clickbait era.
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This site was super helpful to me when I was learning about bikes.
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Kafka's been dead almost 100 years.
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by topaz0 3y ago
Those sound like useful bandaids to me, but it doesn't change the incentives. Historically, capital finds a way.

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