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by yarg 2y ago
This makes me wonder, how do you reliably and securely encode steganographic content for distribution within a noisy medium?
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by yarg 2y ago
Goodhart's law can diagnose an issue, but it prescribes no solutions. However, it's still better to recognise a problem, so you can at least look into ways of improving the situation.
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by yarg 2y ago
> The science behind this stuff has always been weak and subjective or due to placebo effects. Give someone a sugar pill and tell them it's psychedelic , and some may actually feel something. (Replying to the comment that you made b
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by yarg 2y ago
Bullshit. The reason that psychedelics are under-researched is that the corrupt medico-governmental chimera has a vested interest in blocking the substances and preventing the research that should have taken place decades ago. I know, from
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by yarg 2y ago
No - they think there's a palpable disconnect between the public environmental statements made by men like Zuck, and the way that they themselves behave. It's to illustrate the hypocrisy.
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by yarg 2y ago
Ranked choice voting seems like the most reasonable choice - the current FPP system lends itself to strategic voting and a two-party system with increasingly polarised parties. Ranked choice allows for a middle ground to form independently
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by yarg 2y ago
Oh no man - that's just regular exhaustion. Burnout's more insidious and pernicious than that - and it takes far more than a few days of rest to get over it.
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by yarg 2y ago
It won't be every employer - but it will come to cover large swaths of companies in industries where performance takes precedence over presence. And you're right, it would eventually go away - but only if and when late adopters fi
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by yarg 2y ago
This sort of snarky response fails to consider the actual benefits - for both the employer and the employee. Often by the end of the week, people in complex positions are well past the point of diminishing returns - pushing them harder may
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by yarg 2y ago
I worked for a company where what you said was entirely true - for all offices except the one in Gurgaon. Those guys had some ridiculous job titles.
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by yarg 2y ago
Read the formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
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by yarg 2y ago
100% deeper thought - and to a large extent the capacity for linguistic categorisation of objects is incredibly helpful in developing a deeper cognitive understanding of the world around us... But the most fundamental boon that it offered w
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by yarg 2y ago
WINE gets a final version of its interface, and Gaben has a happy day.
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by yarg 2y ago
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs. Perhaps, but the relative success of trained LLMs acting with apparent generalised understanding may indicate that it is simply the interface that is really an LLM
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by yarg 2y ago
"Advanced Custom Fields" is a trademarkable term? Beyond the point that custom fields are pretty much always advanced, there has to be a point at which a term is so fundamentally non-specific that it cannot be subject to trademark
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by yarg 2y ago
The aim of the game was Intel getting a 64 bit CPU without having to share the instruction set with AMD. Intel was crossing many lines in terms of the anti-competitive practices they were willing to engage in, of which hobbling their own in
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by yarg 2y ago
There's a major difference - the phone network takes in prerequisite constraints on the nature of the information that it's encoding; it is forced by its functionality to be a reflection of spoken language. The internal communicat
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by yarg 2y ago
Yes it is. Language is designed to be expressible with low fidelity vibrating strings - it is very clear that the available bandwidth is in the order of bytes per second. Verses a fucking neural network with ~100 billion neurons. Come on ma
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by yarg 2y ago
Is this not obvious? Language is a very poor substitute for freely flowing electrical information - it is evolved to compensate for the bottlenecks to external communication - bottlenecks that are lacking an internal analogue. It's als
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by yarg 2y ago
I think that time isn't what we think it is - but I don't think it's all already set; rather I think that the past can be constrained by the future just as the future is constrained by the past. I don't think that there&
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by yarg 2y ago
I consider myself a lazy developer: I like to write code that minimises the amount of code I'll need to write to incorporate new features in the future. Laziness isn't necessarily a bad thing, depending on how it's implemente
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by yarg 2y ago
There a plenty of men who would be content to be kings of the ashes; Don't consider this from the perspective of a reasonable person - ask yourself: what would psychopaths do?
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by yarg 2y ago
The unforgivable part for me was Google prohibiting Android forks in their vendor licensing agreements for their add-on software. It was a deeply cynical way of doing an end-run around the GPL, and I've held them in utter contempt ever
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by yarg 2y ago
Yes it is. It converts a regular rent payment into a one time fee, and scares the crap out of anyone thinking to do something similar.
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by yarg 2y ago
How do you debug it? I'm guessing you'd need to solder on your debugging tools (oscilloscopes?) in parallel, since anything else would completely invalidate anything that you were trying to do. It honestly sounds like a recipe for
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by yarg 2y ago
Yeah, to fix that you'd need to add support for media metadata, which I imagine is a little further than you'd want to go.
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by yarg 2y ago
I'm thinking {-s, -l, -a, -p} for {song, album, artist, playlist}. Unlike the -e solution, it wouldn't make the command significantly more verbose than the default option. You could also print a list of commands for the specific o
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by yarg 2y ago
Does it accept flags to deal with ambiguities? Defaulting to the only result in your library is perfectly reasonable, but it the case of a collision, what does it do? My guess is that it runs through in a loop (I haven't looked at the
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by yarg 2y ago
I know that - the only time I use the American spelling is when I use it as a suffix. (I often consider it shorthand for "I'm not an American".)
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by yarg 2y ago
> If anything, the point of the post is the fact that it's very easy to understand, despite how counterintuitive it may be. Much like he seemed to have missed the point of the post, you seem to have missed my point about him seeming

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