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by vehemenz 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. There is a time and place for footnotes, sidebars, and citations, but they take attention away from the body text and, when overused (gwern.net), the entire site can look cluttered and disorganized. Most people aren&#x2
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by vehemenz 2y ago
The argument is more about the relation between the visualization and the audience, not the data and the visualization. I see a lot of commenters missing this point.
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I hope I'm not too late to this thread, but I have a couple comments and a question. The experience is better than Amethyst or Yabai, but there is a learning curve. I think it would help if the documentation was one single searchable p
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Don't give up. I had the exact same issue when AeroSpace when I first used it, but I gave it another chance because of my constant frustrations with Amethyst. The commands do what they're supposed to, but unless you read the docum
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Of course it's an opinion column. But how is it masquerading as news? All opinion columns have a central thesis that is supported by facts. This is a thesis about the current state and future of AI. Like any opinion piece, the author c
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by vehemenz 2y ago
That's a pretty handy way to let radical Islam off the hook.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Ironically, you could have proposed an argument had you taken your symposium-style philosphy classes. Instead, you find yourself on the wrong side of a “hot” take with no means to defend yourself.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
On the other hand, there are a lot more competitive video games than there used to be, so the best competitive gamers are spread all around instead of just in Counter-Strike.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
> Counter-Strike is played by two teams with five players in each. As someone who played CS from the first beta, this is a convention that started with certain competitive leagues but was never a hard and fast rule. Most maps don't
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Most people didn’t find the ad disturbing, so the offensiveness is a relation between you and the content, not the content itself.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I see the point, but wouldn't this new rule also force employers to pay more to prevent workers from leaving in the first place? Employees won't leave if they are well compensated.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
When you use the word "just," you seem to be implying that Vim is a suitable development environment out the box, when in reality it takes hours of configuration over weeks of time, conservatively. Even then it's not going to
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I mean, just doing the math and being agnostic about the strengths of different interpretations seems to be an interpretation. Maybe it's more of an epistemic position than a metaphysical one, but it still kinda counts.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
To be clear, I never suggested the many-worlds interpretation isn't philosophy, but I still think it's mystical nonsense (as most indulgent metaphysical speculation is).
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by vehemenz 3y ago
No one, even the most ardent of postmodernists, is going to disagree that science is a very successful human enterprise and produces progress that philosophy cannot. But that doesn't mean science approaches an account of reality on its
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by vehemenz 3y ago
When you say "actually scientists" and "boundaries of human knowledge," you seem to be taking for granted naive views about metaphysical realism, scientific realism, and truth that are not trivial to defend, even for exp
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I think your critique of philosophy would land better if you picked an easier target. The primary metaphor of the Tractatus (pulling up the ladder) often goes over people's heads.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Or the part where your parents are professors and provide the educational opportunities and financial freedom to take risks that 99% of people don't have. I don't mean that to even sound bitter or cynical, but it's just a fac
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Cost of ownership of an M3 MacBook Pro is like $300-400 a year. Even if you have the time, it's just not worth it anymore like it used to be.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I'd recommend spending a few years on macOS. It doesn't sound like you have much experience with it.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Yes, but also Reddit is giving away free access to a site where anyone in the world can exchange ideas with each other.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I agree that city subs have basically been ruined by overbearing moderation, but ultimately it's a small part of Reddit. Go somewhere else for that. Plenty of other subs are doing fine or are thriving.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Imposter Syndrome isn't much better. In my experience, most "sufferers" are more likely to be in over their heads than intellectually humble. You need to be somewhat of an expert to understand your relative level in the first
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by vehemenz 3y ago
There are smaller gaps between the sexes for high-paying jobs in general. See law and medicine. I started at top ten CS program almost 25 years ago, and there were only a handful of women there at all. Today's grads weren't born m
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Yeah, it’s hard to argue with the production value of Chrono Trigger. I debated putting it agead of VII, but the scope of that game is just too big. The story is more interesting, and the materia system is better than the combo system (imo)
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Honestly just the complex class system and replayability. 4 and 6 are good in their own right, especially for story and music.
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Insanely good class systems making for much better gameplay and replayability
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I was one of the few people that bought Final Fantasy on Nintendo when it came out, well before the series was established. At the time it was great—and II was fine—but III really pushed the class system forward in a way that really defined
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it&
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by vehemenz 3y ago
The author sort of alludes to it, but I will cast some doubt on the "every generation" theory that seems to prevail amongst most educated people. As the theory goes, every generation is just as tasteless, naive, foolhardy, ignoran

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