tshaddox

31 ms·

721.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding, because the galaxies that we can see around us through telescopes are all rushing away. Riess studied how they moved. He very carefully measured the distance
722.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Right, but the former hotel has half the capacity as the latter.
723.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I doubt the difference is minimal. Forget the size of beds, the point is that a hotel with 200 single-person rooms has twice the beds, twice the bathrooms, roughly twice the walls, etc. than a hotel with 100 two-person rooms.
724.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Right, but my point is that you're now no longer complaining about the concept of offering discounts for room-sharing. Now you're complaining that there's no one you would be comfortable sharing a room with.
725.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I think even calling it "society incentivizing people to have children" is a bit of a stretch, since in most cases the tax advantages are unlikely to result in a net financial advantage given the financial costs of raising childre
726.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Families who travel together also share rooms and facilities, so if that's a hard pass for you then you wouldn't be happy with the "discount" of traveling as part of a family either.
727.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Only when you're comparing the cheapest vehicles of each size, where the cost of the vehicle and maintenance is probably roughly in line with vehicle size. There are plenty of luxury and sports cars widely available for rent that will
728.
by tshaddox 1y ago
The hotel also cannot easily split and recombine rooms and beds on demand. They have to decide upfront how many single-person and two-person rooms to build, based on what they perceive the market desires.
729.
by tshaddox 1y ago
The fact that their brutally anti-consumer business is also not even that profitable for them is really no consolation to the consumer.
730.
by tshaddox 1y ago
It's probably also worth noting that the majority of these hotels and Airbnbs are also designed to accommodate two or more travelers. Thus the complaint isn't really "single-person rooms are priced that same as two-person r
731.
by tshaddox 1y ago
You claimed that it's an "interesting linguistic choice" in the context of an alleged "cultural currency" which overly frames topics in terms of mental health, describes the purpose of comforting toys as "psyc
732.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Your comment is seething with confirmation bias. You're seeing things only because you're looking for them. You conflate "health" with the word "palliative," when the latter specifically refers specifically to
733.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I think you're pretty clearly experiencing a false positive on your "major cultural problem" detector. The chickens are cute and comforting, no doubt, and people are referring to them as "emotional support chickens"
734.
by tshaddox 1y ago
As far as I know, no major airlines have any special treatment for "emotional support animals." Most U.S. airlines allow pets on domestic flights to fly if they stay inside carriers within approved size limits. Emotional support a
735.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I'm curious what you think counts as "framing in terms of mental health." Or more interestingly, if you think this article constitutes "framing in terms of mental health," I'm curious what you wouldn't
736.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> Private data + data exfiltration (with no attacker-controlled data) is fine, as there's no way to jailbreak the LLM. This is why I said *unless you...have a very good understanding of its behavior.* If your public-facing service i
737.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I don't follow. How does making computer programs more capable make it more important to give them access to private data?
738.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> an LLM has access to attacker-controlled data, sensitive information, and a data exfiltration capability > THe "cardinal rule of agent design" should be that an LLM can have access to at most two of these during one sessio
739.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Again, I didn’t intend the mathematical definition of “prove.”
740.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, I understand what he is saying and it’s precisely what I am disputing.
741.
by tshaddox 1y ago
I can’t understand why it would be at all safe to conclude this. In any other field, you certainly wouldn’t conclude that good visual design, attention to detail, craftsmanship, etc. indicates anything about the factual or moral correctness
742.
by tshaddox 1y ago
47 people died in a blizzard in Buffalo, New York in 2022.
743.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> It's hard to claim that any American can achieve this. Not only that, but there certainly aren't enough cheap houses in cheap areas like this to meaningfully make a dent in the large number of Americans struggling to afford h
744.
by tshaddox 1y ago
To prove is to demonstrate, and the way to do it is to display information about what is invalid about the code. So all these ways of phrasing it are synonymous.
745.
by tshaddox 1y ago
A distinction without a difference. Perhaps "prove" is sounding too mathematical. I could rephrase it as "the goal...is to demonstrate to the user what is invalid about their code."
746.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Sure, but the goal when designing a compiler and its error messages is to prove to the user that their code in invalid. Most practical type systems are going to be either unsound or incomplete (or both), but the goal should be to make enc
747.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> It's a shame that pretrained approach leads to such good enough result. The learning-from-experience, or what should be the "right" approach, will stagnate. We’ll see. I’m skeptical that you’ll ever get novel theories li
748.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Shouldn't forced policy changes be based on what the policies actually are instead of what they're named? Otherwise it would be permissible to simply change the name of the policy.
749.
by tshaddox 1y ago
> It's so frustrating how full-stack development requires so many ways of describing the same shapes: JS input validation, Swagger for API definition, server-side input validation, ORM for schema conformance, and TypeScript often re
750.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Also, wouldn't each CDN node maintain its own cache and thus its own state-while-revalidate timer? Or is the implication that this is using a tiered cache where there's only a single CDN node that connects to the origin server?

More ›