walkabout

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by walkabout 1y ago
Useful definitions! Yes, easy. Universal definitions? Extremely hard.
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes. Um. Yes that’s basically true, to the best of science’s reckoning, anyway. Like, you pretty m
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by walkabout 1y ago
Exactly. Do exactly what you’re doing now, but to your own definitions of “chair”. You get it.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Ontology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology Or: just try, then try your best to find ways your definition fails. You should find it challenging , to put it mildly, to create a bulletproof definition, if you’re rea
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by walkabout 1y ago
A universal definition of “chair” is pretty hard to pin down, too…
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by walkabout 1y ago
I think a baseline requirement would be that it… thinks. That’s not a thing LLMs do.
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by walkabout 1y ago
The “good” they’re after is power that keeps them out of prison, and stealing money. They’re doing great at both those things.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Hard to believe that for a long time you could just walk up and knock. Or picnic on the lawn. We probably should have taken it as a sign things were heading a bad direction when stuff like that began to change…
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by walkabout 1y ago
The press corps is already 50% right wing podcasters and 5th-tier far right / conspiracy outlets. And any time one of the remaining actual reporters asks even a mundane and non-confrontational question they just get called names, told
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by walkabout 1y ago
The silent treatment was basically required by law, when it became clear the event was really a political rally using them as props. They just didn’t break the law (unlike what other, hand-picked service members used as props at Trump ralli
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by walkabout 1y ago
> yeah, apparently I can't decide whether to use hyphens or underscores in names yet, lol Go the Python route and hyphenate the name but use underscores in the import, for maximum confusion and searchability disruption.
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by walkabout 1y ago
If we’re doing “deserve” then I have some other, more pressing suggestions for who might deserve less, than the people doing the actual work. If we’re not doing “deserve” then no, they should have had more money if illegal wage suppression
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by walkabout 1y ago
The choice of making the “good guys” camera heads and such does give one pause about wholeheartedly rooting for them. Intended or not, it really did have that effect in me. And one does wonder whether that has anything to do with their enem
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by walkabout 1y ago
I watched the first video a long time ago to see what the deal was, and reckoned it was just one of those silly, absurd videos that become well-known for whatever reason. The tradition of very stupid, absurd stuff taking off on the internet
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by walkabout 1y ago
Um. That’s tens of thousands over median software developer wages in the US. I know good developers who’ve done more impressive stuff than that, making at or under this $150k cut-off.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I used to play that on an Intel i5 MacBook Pro (~2014 model?) with only embedded Intel graphics. It gave it a workout and the frame rate wasn’t amazing, but it was playable. I’m surprised it strains an M4 at all.
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Hell, I used it to fix a production bug from my phone in like 2013 LOL, there are tens of us, I'm sure! Fixed a production bug on my phone from the passenger seat of a friend's car, somewhere around 2013 or 2014.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I think it's also the case that you can't replicate something actually happening, by describing it. Baseball stats aren't a baseball game. Baseball stats so detailed that they describe the position of every subatomic particl
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yeah the nice thing about (non-cellular) iPads vs. the competition (including Android tablets last time I tried them, but maybe they've gotten a ton better since then) is that you can leave them in a drawer for a couple weeks, take the
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by walkabout 1y ago
How ? I've never understood this. There's tons of good software for creating things in the App Store.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I'm still on an older 12.9" Pro but will definitely upgrade at some point—and may not bother with another (personal—work-supplied is another matter) MacBook when my M1 starts to get long in the tooth in a couple years, now that Pr
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by walkabout 1y ago
I think the bigger problem would be that desktop programs aren’t designed with iOS-style suspension and process-killing in mind.
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by walkabout 1y ago
I can’t figure out what this means. For an iOS device, sure, but a Mac? What hardware does a Mac Mini, say, have that the Vision can’t provide?
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by walkabout 1y ago
I think there was more interest in crafting a narrative around that, than engaging with reality. The (at least partially successful) attempt at shifting sentiment didn’t have statements from major democratic figures that were useful, so ign
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by walkabout 1y ago
Hell, some of the stuff Republican voters are worried about that Republican politicians have been ignoring them on (while their media promote it, in some cases) is really popular on the left, too—and also ignored there, as Democrats adopt
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by walkabout 1y ago
> First, Trump has utterly destroyed the establishment GOP. That's why he has such a high approval rating within his party - the party itself has changed. That change was a direct result of the Obama and Biden presidencies; the cons
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by walkabout 1y ago
It's also sometimes the case that rural and suburban precincts report before cities, which obviously slants results toward Republicans in early returns. But in the end you're dealing with people who point at a bunch of large but n
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by walkabout 1y ago
And, notably, Republicans have been making claims of widespread voter fraud in favor of Democrats since well before Trump, have gotten into state office in part on a message of cracking down on it , followed up with investigations, and com
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The people who need to find out aren't curious and aren't looking for proof that counters what they're inclined to believe. They won't check what locals are saying and the videos of nothing-much-happening they're po
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by walkabout 1y ago
Media literacy seems to be one of those things it's easy to forget you ever had to learn. I'm routinely amazed at how little of it most other people are capable of, when a lot of it is now so automatic for me that I can't tur

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