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by wizofaus 3y ago
Isn't "there are no meta-meta-rules" a meta-meta-rule? Or maybe a meta-meta-meta-rule...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd agree you'd normally not use the root position if you're playing with a bassist (unless they're soloing), but whether or not I avoided including the root at all would depend entirely on what fit well under the finger
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> if you see an E7 in a jazz book you shouldn't play the E "Shouldn't" seems a strange way of putting it - if you're fortunate enough to be playing in an ensemble with a dedicated bassist then sure, it's t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> We have a "rootless" chord that's named after the unsounded root From my reading of the article there wasn't a suggestion the root was unsounded, just that it wasn't provided by the piano or guitar voicings, i.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Politicians are experts at that surely. But in this case I'm not aware of a case where any epidemiology or other public health policy experts were telling governments lockdowns needed to be ended. The cynical side of me suggests that t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
This seems fair enough to me. That ChatGPT currently struggles with certain types of maths problems points to reasonably fundamental shortcomings in what otherwise appears to have the beginnings of a general purpose reasoning engine (whethe
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> getting people out of their cars requires sticks as well as carrots Or...it requires that governments stop prioritising car-based travel over all others, i.e. they should provide carrots for all forms of transport in equal measure, acc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, there are always going to be occasions where a combination of two bits of work done separately cause unexpected behaviour changes - but generally if there are integration/automated E2E tests that are capable of picking that sort
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You can agree with that and still accept that without lockdowns the outcome would have been far far worse. And it's not like nothing good came out of lockdowns either, particularly the much greater willingness of employers to embrace r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If anything COVID demonstrated the opposite - governments were all too eager to get back to BAU despite the situation still being severe, resulting in notably high excess death rates.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
From what I've observed semantic merge issues always get picked up at compile time - hence only the compile phase need pass to allow a queued merge through, but I guess if you're working a lot with weakly-typed or interpreted lang
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Perhaps but LLMs have been trained on information that most people haven't. Most of the stuff ChatGPT is correct about are things "most people" wouldn't know the answer to anyway.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Having 4 independent adults in a 4 bed house is quite common As it would be in Australia. But not 4 families!
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How common is that in the UK?? It'd be exceedingly rare in Australia.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm fairly sure in countries where the life expectancy is lower you're more likely to suffer in your final years.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I suppose what I meant is if the quality/convenience/cost of the alternatives are good enough, many people will choose not to use a car, e.g. to avoid the stress of peak-hour traffic or because they believe it's a more produc
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by wizofaus 3y ago
In all honesty, why is a 4-bedroom house with only a single dedicated car parking space a problem? Is it because families that have decided they must have multiple cars parked close to their home all the time are leaving them parked in publ
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> and many people want one Perhaps that's the main problem. If we were more content to share them they'd be far less of a need for so much parking space (and possibly even road space). I haven't owned a car in 15 years, at
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> parking is perhaps the greatest determinant of whether people decide to make a trip in a car or by some other means Surely that can't be true in general - I would think the quality/convenience/cost of the alternative wou
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Thanks for that link, that is pretty interesting and I can't honestly say I know exactly what the law is where I live (in Australia, but not in the state that gets a special mention in that article). And absolutely, if I happened to ha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes, I absolutely would be cautious - if nothing else, attempting to stop him with deadly force may well be what triggers the situation to become violent and life-threatening for my family and myself. But more importantly, all the circumsta
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not a question of language error, I'm just interested in how different parts of the world have different takes on when taking a life can be legally justified. FWIW, in your scenario, if I simply shot the man and killed him, then I woul
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm curious in how many jurisdictions simply "showing criminal intent" is sufficient to mean they're legally a target to be shot at, potentially fatally. I'd be pretty horrified to know I was living in such a jurisd
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The ability to predict the expected answer to a given question isn't something I could see naturally falling out of those sources though, unlike an LLM trained on text from online forums and the like.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But why would a novice care if it came from python.org, providing the information was accurate? I don't think you've found a good example of what the GP was asking for, at any rate. I've certainly had that experience recently
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Perhaps, but it didn't seem to badly affect the sites I mostly visited until much later.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I can't say exactly when I first noticed how pervasive and intrusive web advertising was getting but it was at least 10 years after I started using the web regularly (~1994).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If that were the only reason tech debt were bad, I wouldn't worry about it so much. But I'd estimate at least 25% of the bugs in our software come about because of existing tech-debt - developers make reasonable assumptions about
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by wizofaus 3y ago
So use the alerts to instruct users to view a website or similar platform where more detail can be posted? Unless it really is an emergency, why's there a need to push so many messages to a social media feed anyway? What are they mostl
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely SMS is more than sufficient as an emergency broadcast system. Which is one reason the increasing number of SMS spam/phishing messages is more than just a nuisance, it's seriously eroding trust in the system. I know people n

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