vehemenz

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by vehemenz 4y ago
What do you mean by "wrong?" And why should logic trump practicality? Besides, rightness and wrongness are value judgments. They have nothing to do with logic. M/D/Y seems to be the most practical because it reflects how
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Europeans have access to multiple countries, cultures, and languages, yet still complain about imperial units, date formats, "soccer," SMS, and all of the many other ways in which the United States differs. It's another count
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I'm not surprised. Self-proclaimed STEM types often embrace a mild form of scientism until they study enough philosophy.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
How are you superior to ChatGPT? BARD: There are several ways in which I am superior to ChatGPT: > I am trained on a much larger dataset of text and code, which allows me to generate more comprehensive and informative responses. > I a
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Doesn't mean they can't be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It sounds plausible, but university towns (at least in the US) are pretty unique in that they are dense and young people can afford to live there. You could say commuter campuses don't have the same social scene because not "every
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by vehemenz 4y ago
People—and not just "elites"—actually go to college to learn things. This is way too cynical/contrarian of a take. Attend more actual college, read less Howard Zinn.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Maybe more appropriately, Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the s
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Given the decline of boys' performance in K-12 and -15% differential in college graduation compared to women, I wonder whether this method/tech will benefit boys at all or if it will continue to benefit mostly girls, doubling down
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I kind of like iOS Siri's limitations. Unlike Alexa, which gives you the illusion that it can do everything, Siri fails spectacularly on certain tasks, and, if you use it enough, you can understand the demarcation between Siri-capable
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by vehemenz 4y ago
This is my experience too, but I think it possibly corresponds to the transition to mid 20s and adulthood, where a lot this contact drops off anyway (not that it should). I'd be interested to know what it was like for older adults, but
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I would add that independent of quality, any article on the SEP is closer to a literature review than a comprehensive, rigorous treatment of the topic at hand.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It's not a myth. The distinction here isn't general body odor, which everyone has, but a specific gene (ABCC11, the same that controls for wet or dry earwax). Those with the gene have a chemical in their underarms and groins that
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It would be strange to force Apple to allow its competitors to establish footholds on their own platform, against their will, only for a Chrome monopoly to emerge months later. A web monoculture will be harder to undo than enacting smarter
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It's true of most East Asians and to a lesser degree with South Asians. Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this comment.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
But it's not your decision to buy an Android phone?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I don't make the connection between "Apple fanboys" and preventing a Chrome monopoly. Surely one's opposition to a monopoly is independent of one's choice of operating system. But yes, most likely this will result i
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by vehemenz 4y ago
What does it mean to suggest the brain has a "different gender identity?" Surely we are not reverting back to mind/body dualism?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Conceptually, it's clearer to think of offense as a relation, not a property. This is because offense requires a specific audience and a specific context. Content alone is not offensive.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I wonder. If the bigger players can make an AI good enough to be indistinguishable from human (but not quite), then wouldn't the AI slowly and incestuously train itself to become dumber, with nothing but AI-generated content left to &q
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by vehemenz 4y ago
ChatGPT tells me that Disney World's Magic Kingdom was built on a swamp. It's just a tool. You don't use a shovel to rake leaves, but that doesn't make a shovel any less useful.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Before it was de rigeur to use real names on the Internet, most of us used personas that were informed by our handles. It's unusual—I might even say unethical, if moral realism were coherent—to insist on real names as a matter of hones
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Prima facie, a one-stop, secure, official (paid Microsoft employees working on it) source for binary downloads seems like it has plenty of value for end users. I'd be interested in knowing why keeping the Windows Store around and havin
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by vehemenz 4y ago
They allow anyone to submit to the repository with minimal vetting, and the package selection is inferior compared to Homebrew. Maybe we have different ideas about what "official" and "comprehensive" mean.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
How many packages are on Microsoft's official repository? Where can I see a list?
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by vehemenz 4y ago
It boggles my mind that neither macOS nor Windows has an official, comprehensive package manager. Sometimes the only way to get software is to download binaries from a Google search like it's 2003. On macOS, 90% of what you'd ever
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by vehemenz 4y ago
I agree it's annoying, but it's also not that big of a deal. I have 200 or so passwords duplicated in both Keychain and Keepass.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
So? Chrome doesn't support hyphenation yet.
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by vehemenz 4y ago
This level of cynicism would make more sense if you spent any time on the Internet, where normal people regularly evangelize for their browser of choice simply because they feel strongly about it. It's a very common thing. Check out Re
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by vehemenz 4y ago
Which worker power? I'd still rather be an ex-FAANG employee with 5 years of coasting money in the bank than practically anyone else.

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