wisty

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by wisty 9mo ago
I suspect it's partly diagnostic creep. Either real actual professional creep, or self diagnosis. Some mental illnessess are extreme versions of traits that are often useful. It's good have one person in the village who frets abou
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by wisty 9mo ago
Critical thining requires knowledge, which is why LLM appear OK at it, and I fear the next generation of humans will be worse.
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by wisty 9mo ago
I also cited more serious analysis. Yeah, Homer Simpson is fictional, a unionised blue-collar worker with specialised skills, and he lives in a small town.
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by wisty 9mo ago
Economists suggest we are in many ways no more productive now than when Homer Simpson could buy a house and raise a family on a single income - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
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by wisty 9mo ago
Soapbox time. They were arguably right. Pre literate peole could memorise vast texts (Homer's work, Australian Aboriginal songlines). Pre Gutenberg, memorising reasonably large texts was common. See, e.g. the book Memory Craft. We&#x27
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by wisty 9mo ago
Free market ideologues are too dumb to understand local minima. An ideal free market is a global minima (in theory). It's the best. A non-ideal free market (heavily subsidised and regulated) might be close (in parameter space) to a glo
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by wisty 9mo ago
Toyota has tonnes of heirarchy. Their "andon" just means that if anyone suspects a fault, they raise a red flag (old school andon - a literal flag, US companies heard it and made it an app lol) and the line goes down until it&#x27
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by wisty 9mo ago
Other replies say it isn't small claims but a federal case, with large potential damages. Either way, ignoring dcma is asking to be sued. And you can't just block or ignore a court summons.
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by wisty 9mo ago
IANAL but if you send a DMCA notice and they ignore it, they are (partly) liable. That's the point of DMCA. File in a small claims court (or notify of your intent to do so) and see how long it takes to get a response ... I wonder if yo
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by wisty 9mo ago
Untrue, most of the time. Even with a monopoly, there's still a demand curve. Would you rather sell one widget for $1000 or 1000 widgets for $10? Does the answer depend on costs?
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by wisty 9mo ago
> If a small number of shareholders reap all the profits It's not greater profits but lower costs (and prices) that matter here.
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by wisty 10mo ago
You mean Trump's elimination of USAID? You really think he's worse than Hitler?
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by wisty 10mo ago
Is this going to become a generational thing? I feel like millenials are kind of programmed to think that the customer is always right (or at least that this is the only stance you should take). Will some younger generations think that the
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Multiscale Aperture Synthesis Imager(nature.com)
27 points by wisty 10mo ago|1 comments
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by wisty 10mo ago
Wrong link?
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by wisty 10mo ago
People want to spend money to fix a problem that fundamentally requires effort on their part, not tech. Vacuuming is actually the easiest bit of cleaning a house IMO - getting the floor clear (if you have kids, or out of control hobbies, or
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Multiscale Aperture Synthesis Imager(hbr.org)
1 points by wisty 10mo ago|4 comments
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by wisty 10mo ago
Yes the US is forced to meet the 5% target, as it is a part of NATO. What is your point? Trump is the person who demanded the 5% target; Trump forced NATO to adopt a 5% target. Trump also ordered ICE to deport more illegal / undocument
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by wisty 10mo ago
I didn't group NATO and the US separately. You thought I did, but I didn't and you just hadn't read properly. I waffled a bit in my reply to not rub it in too hard. And do you want to contribute with something other than nitp
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by wisty 10mo ago
Can you rephrase what I said without "literally using NATO for a grouping that does not include the US"? I didn't even mention the US lol, I think you're paranoid but please, correct me ... I mean, I didn't phrase i
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by wisty 10mo ago
There's a left wing cooker conspiracy theory that the guy who gave Ukraine the Javalin anti tank missiles and forced NATO to increase military spending to 5% of GDP is actually a secret Russian agent.
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by wisty 10mo ago
I saw a paper that shows that peole find contrasts attractive. I can't find it, but here's the same finding for salads https://www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/article/abs/pii/S... Blond hair
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by wisty 10mo ago
The tax fraud can get a conviction, since there's a paper trail, and juries are more likely to think "yeah this billionaire might not be a monster but they probably cheated in their taxes".
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by wisty 10mo ago
I want to see a tax audit. Epstein was running what he said was legal tax avoidance system for his clients. I'm not saying they were breaking any laws in it, but Epstein is a dodgy guy (also he used to be involved in IIRC a Ponzi schem
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by wisty 10mo ago
> realized Most UK and Australian writers would spell it "realised" so there's a bit right there. Even if you include no personal information, there is information in writing style. Stylometry is the study of this. Yes, th
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by wisty 10mo ago
Reconstructioniats say that they only show th colours they can prove existed. The article suggests they obstinately do this because they know it creates a spectacle. I think there's another explanation - if they use their own judgement
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by wisty 10mo ago
It must fill some purpose though. I doubt it's entirely just marketing in most legitimate companies. Effectively a/b testing job adds? Or trying to get a range of candidates so they can find a good fit? Let's say you have, li
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by wisty 10mo ago
Bad: "I wrote a web app" Good: "Why I used Postgres to write a web app"
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by wisty 10mo ago
OK but if a woman (assumed) was saying she was using flash cards to learn how to stop her disregulated husband from taking out his anger on her over his own dumb mistakes (my interpretation maybe but no is actually disagreeing) .... you wou
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by wisty 10mo ago
LLMs have a lot of knowledge and maybe intelligence but cannot have wisdom or integrity as they are tuned to say whatever crap the user is likely to want to hear. Existing companies do try to keep moats though (often regulatory barriers to

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