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by tshaddox 8mo ago
I’m a fan of the term “human slop,” which I’ve seen pop up recently regarding certain tech company feuds on Twitter.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
That doesn’t sound right. Surely there’s a big difference between Anthropic selling the government direct access to its models, and an unrelated contractor that sells pencils to the government and happens to use Anthropic’s services to help
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
> conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic Surely that would cover both buying things from and selling things to Anthropic.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Over the last 10 years or so in SF and LA, I’ve seen so many countless POS systems at restaurants and small businesses that it’s difficult to believe that Square is anything more than 1 player in an enormous field. And businesses I frequent
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Is “opinion versus fact” relevant to that example? My impression is that Kyle Rittenhouse wouldn’t have a strong defamation case against a random person tweeting that he’s a murderer, but the reason isn’t that “it’s a statement of opinion.”
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
That sounds like a spurious distinction. Pretty sure you can’t say “Person X is a murderer” and then say “well I’m only expressing my opinion, and in my opinion if you do something that annoys me that qualifies as murder.”
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Well, if each unit leaves its own scent trail, that’s a lot of per-unit state, and little to nothing that you can pre-compute for the entire map. You could have all units trails on a global “scent layer” that all units read from, but then y
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
> While the nation is known abroad for minimalist lifestyles, their websites are oddly maximalist. I’m not aware of this stereotype of Japanese minimalism. I guess there’s Marie Kondo, and some Japanese high-end dining tends towards mini
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Not only is that pathfinding, it sounds like an especially complex pathfinding algorithm that would be pretty challenging to implement efficiently.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Carrot Weather’s most expensive subscriptions include 30-day history.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
It seems to me that the open society is in a perpetual state of trying to outrun an endless sequence of problems: would-be invaders from closed societies, internal activists who would rather close down the society in the name of stability,
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Not really. Most of the cultural notion about the remarkable effects of placebos came from flawed studies in the 1950s. As far as I can tell, the modern consensus is that there's no clinically significant placebo effect except for co
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
That justification honestly doesn't sound that ridiculous to me, especially if the closed-source stuff is mostly just platform-specific GUI and integration code. Is there even a practical mechanism to open source an iOS app and then le
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
I bet the rationale would be "anything over 12 characters will be too hard to remember and people will just write down the password."
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Could it be that the only large safety-first companies are the ones forced by law (either proactively, or due to reliable legal accountability if things go wrong) to be safety-first?
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
The ones I took out my Mid-Market apartment window looked pretty true to my eye. But I had an iPhone X, which was 3 years old at the time. Perhaps the correction had gotten worse in newer iPhones.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
But you wouldn't have to ask that silly question when talking to a human either. And if you did, many humans would probably assume you're either adversarial or very dumb, and their responses could be very unpredictable.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Sure, just like less desirable products of every category cost less essentially by definition. But that’s not really a retort to someone asking by why land prices have risen so much.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Surely U.S. housing was not twice as automatable 12-13 years ago as it is now.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
And the same person who posts about that on Facebook will the next day post “keep your government hands off my social security check.”
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
I mean, there’s just no way you can take the set of publicly known ideas from all human civilizations, say, 5,000 years ago, and say that all the ideas we have now were “in the distribution” then. New ideas actually have to be created.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Whoa, I just realized that the comma is the thousands separator when writing out the number in English words.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
They have a blog post called "100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem": https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Properly disposing of industrial pollutants is less convenient than dumping them into the surrounding air or the nearby river.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Why are male organists particularly valuable?
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
I’ve gotten the normal stuff via mail: bills, credit card stuff, DMV, the occasional jury summons. And I’ve also dealt extensively with U.S. immigration, which often requires numerous exchanges via USPS. And all of these things generally wo
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
The exercises are fun (and easy for now, but I'm only on stage 3)! I must say I was briefly surprised at how disorienting it is to see a graphic of a keyboard from A3 to A4. When you don't see the set of 3 black keys consecutively
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
> In business communications, I believe it's common courtesy to respond to emails within 24 hours. Different stroke for different folks, but I'm still very much in the paradigm where email is more like a letter in the mail, not
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
Productive conversation is infeasible with someone who interprets my position to be that it’s selfish to be unable to have children.
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by tshaddox 8mo ago
I was referring to the parent commenter’s specific ideas and conclusions, not general behavior patterns.

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