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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Vacuum-jacking
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
THIS needs to be spread around much more broadly. [UPDATE]: Looks like I'm getting downvoted by people who cling to their meds. Try physical activity and adjusting your self-talk. Try having goals and making steady progress toward them
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
She turned her adopted sons into daughters. What could she possibly know about men and masculinity?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
If people were that good at noticing patterns, it wouldn't have taken Cortez arriving on the soil of the New World in order to bring the wheel to its inhabitants, who had been here 14,000 years and produced zero wheels.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
> Recent research has indicated that Serotonin levels in depressed people are not lower than average. But SSRIs are effective for relieving depressive symptoms - either boosting serotonin levels above average works, or they work through
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Problem with SSRIs is: Does depression cause reduced serotonin, or does reduced serotonin cause depression? A recent paper [0], [1] claims there is no connection between reduced serotonin as a cause of depression. Which in my book says depr
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
No, it's magical thinking. "Last time there was a storm, it stopped when I sacrificed a dog and danced in a circle. Let's try it again."
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
But...don't you WANT to be a cult leader?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Plot-twist: our entire society is essentially a cult, parenting and education is simply indoctrination, and the same psychological glitches which are exploited in order to produce compliant citizens are also exploited by would-be cult leade
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
And technology is a tool that turns knowledge into power.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
I upvoted but I won't tell you why either.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
The 1980s-1990s were amazing: * The Legend of Zelda (NES) * The Adventure of Link (NES) * Starcraft (PC) * Crystalis (NES 8-bit) * Final Fantasy (NES 8-bit) * Final Fantasy VII (PC) * Duke Nukem 3D (PC) * Mega Man 2 (NES 8-bit) * Journey to
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Ha we don't even have "alignment" among humans. In the Kantian style of "humans are an end in themselves, not a means toward the ends of others" kind of way.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
That's the "AI Alignment" problem we've heard so much about recently.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
I worked as a software engineering tech lead on the "Ground Truth" team at GM Cruise for a short period in 2018. During orientation, the founder (Kyle Vogt) told us all that the cars don't need to be better than a human drive
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Recently, I had the privilege of speaking with one of the scientists doing work there. X-Ray lasers. Peering into the inner rings of electrons orbiting heavier nuclei. Really interesting!
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
> Two wrongs do not make a right. How is that different than karma?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Wait -- why is this story "[flagged]"?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
I remember a Phillip K Dick story set in the future in which the characters in the story kept having to insert coins into their various household appliances to make them work. Not quite the same, but similar.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
20 years ago, Microsoft made a large donation to the Apache foundation. I declared that it would be the end of innovation in httpd. Microsoft, at the time, was making big moves in IIS in support of then-new ASP.NET web framework. Although t
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Just like Habbo Hotel [0] from > 20 years ago. [0] https://www.habbo.com/
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Wow I was thinking "slackware" and was amazed it would be only 500kb.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Yes - often what once worked when the application only had a few hundred or thousand records doesn't work anymore, now that it has millions of records. Those milliseconds, N+1 queries, nested queries, large joins (owing to incongruence
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
THIS. A lot of the work I do involves analyzing and improving Ruby applications' performance. Often, simply wrapping transactions around the database operations will help - without making other (often much needed) structural changes.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Ooohh umm...no transaction? WhenEVER I make an insert, update, or delete -- I always use a transaction. That's what we should always do, right? Right?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
"Agent" Smith?
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by what-no-tests 4y ago
An oldie, but a goodie: > Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: ``You are Yin and I am Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money.'' And so they set forth together, thi
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by what-no-tests 4y ago
Memes
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by what-no-tests 4y ago
That's what Tiggers do best!
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by what-no-tests 4y ago
Enjoy that now, before the "RESTRICT" Act gets passed!

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