yifanl

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by yifanl 7y ago
I'm not sure if you've actually looked at the account, but it has a longer comment history than your own.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Why do we compare covid with "just the flu" like that's supposed to make it seem benign? The flu is consistently among the leading cause of death annually, often higher than car accidents. Is it just that the flu is so common
543.
by yifanl 7y ago
Asking athletes to perform in dramatically different conditions than they train for (which will be the case for at least for outdoor events) is practically asking them to drop out.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Funnily enough, I had to do an on-site interview with my current company via the Mac notes app (one of the interviewers was remote and we needed a screenshare). Coding with auto-correct is... not sensible. Thankfully they were alright with
545.
by yifanl 7y ago
Neither what's illegal and what's immoral are static (though I concede that it is often slower to change laws than public perception)
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by yifanl 7y ago
What use is a protest if it isnt disruptive, exactly?
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by yifanl 7y ago
Its just easier to think about a concrete number.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Pizza delivery has some advantage since the starting point is always the same (the pizza restaurant).
549.
by yifanl 7y ago
Adding sufficient acreage of forest would "artificially" create more precipitation, no?
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by yifanl 7y ago
A return doesn't have to be economic. I'd rather lose money and not die than make trillions and drown. (Obviously hyperbolic example, but my point is that the number in my bank account isn't the only thing to invest in)
551.
by yifanl 7y ago
Someone may not want to have a kid and also object to having an abortion for any number of personal and/or religious reasons.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Apologies for the brash tone. I take the view that making a value judgment on an idea is essentially selling that idea. i.e. "A is better than B" is clearly advocating for A, as is "A is good" I disagree with ads in g
553.
by yifanl 7y ago
Is a recipe for my grandma's minestrone soup (which requires you to buy a specific brand of chicken stock) selling you something? Is a blogpost highlighting a particularly efficient way to write a tight loop selling you something? Is a
554.
by yifanl 7y ago
How do you define "ad"? Keep in mind that as soon as you do define it, people are going to look for a workaround.
555.
by yifanl 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is a useful thought experiment.
556.
by yifanl 7y ago
By the nature of network effects, if no one else is using them, then no one will use them. (Personally, I do still use old-school forums and IRC, but less frequently then I used to, its just far too convenient to use something like Discord
557.
by yifanl 7y ago
What does this mean in this context? I can't imagine many people who drive drunk have any reasons about why they decided to drive drunk.
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by yifanl 7y ago
In fair conditions and against a top-performing chess bot, simply no seems like the correct answer. If you're asking how a human can contrive a scenario to beat Stockfish/Leela, that seems like just a conversation that devolves in
559.
by yifanl 7y ago
Seems like the author knows exactly how much they can make, he states that the median income is 81k/yr. Now you could argue that that's deliberately missing the long tail nature of this, but if anything, the theme of outliers of t
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by yifanl 7y ago
They're targeting a pilot within the next 5 years on a single beach, which should help towards figuring what side effects exist. They also note there exist naturally occurring green sand beaches ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
561.
by yifanl 7y ago
That ties namespacing to performance, which just sounds horrible to deal with.
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by yifanl 7y ago
Define "mentally stable"? Deviance is a core part of the human identity, isn't it?
563.
by yifanl 7y ago
Fair point. I read both statements in the context of the particular hardware bugs Intel's trying to fix, but I can see how my comment is quite vague.
564.
by yifanl 7y ago
A great engineer can still be incompetent in the face of a difficult (or poorly specced) task.
565.
by yifanl 7y ago
The two statements are identical, competence is always within a given context.
566.
by yifanl 7y ago
I dont accept this line of thinking, we cant hand wave away hard problems just because we've solved hard problems in a pinch before. This sounds like a tautology, but we solved hard problems by solving them, not by believing we'd
567.
by yifanl 7y ago
Storing the number n takes log n bits, if we're being super pedantic :)
568.
by yifanl 7y ago
Case 2 probably involves some (and likely a _significant_) amount of identity theft, and even then I don't think you can do better than pseudonymous - if you want your intended audience to reliably know which sources of information com
569.
by yifanl 7y ago
Actually yeah, can we not rig some kind of bicycle with the same sensors and test self-driving that way? The steering mechanism would have to be modified obviously, but surely steering is a trivial part of the problem compared to actually f
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by yifanl 7y ago
Right, but it's much easier to be a successful language when you're only competing with one other language as opposed the whole field of options.

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