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by yunwal 2y ago
> First, we model the onion as half of a disc of radius one, with its center at the origin and existing entirely in the first two quadrants in a rectangular (Cartesian) coordinate system. Can someone explain to me why a half sphere (the
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by yunwal 2y ago
In terms of controlling commerce (google’s main line of business), non-mobile is on its way to becoming a rounding error.
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by yunwal 2y ago
They read very obviously as jokes, but still strike me as distasteful and tonedeaf. If they were in a satire of apple, they could be funny, but the idea of AI slop infecting even family gifts is just so, so dark and depressing it's har
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by yunwal 2y ago
Perhaps try making whatever point it is you’re trying to make directly instead of falsely claiming the platform is growing and that people who feel the opposite are out of touch.
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by yunwal 2y ago
I mean losing 35m when every other social media platform (even facebook ) is growing is pretty bad. I left twitter but not for any political reason, it just started to get really glitchy and the dopamine rush wasn’t hitting like it used to
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by yunwal 2y ago
> And if anything X/Twitter is gaining more relevance in normal peoples' lives Objectively untrue, Twitter lost ~35m (out of 370m) active users since the Elon acquisition. I'm not sure how much of that was due to his polic
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by yunwal 2y ago
> it's the ground that's dangerous Sure, but there’s nothing we can do about the ground
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by yunwal 2y ago
Sxsw has banned the defense industry from sponsoring the festival in 2025. It’s a pretty big festival.
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by yunwal 2y ago
“Never” is definitely an exaggeration https://djmag.com/news/sxsw-cuts-ties-us-army-and-weapons-ma...
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by yunwal 2y ago
> We know this is better than what you released previously, otherwise, why would you be releasing it Because it's at a lower pricepoint and in a different form factor than the thing it's being compared to. How is this even a qu
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by yunwal 2y ago
> Snake case to camelCase > VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" I never understand arguments like this. I have no idea what the shortcut for this command is. I could learn this shortcut, sure, but tomorrow
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by yunwal 2y ago
It essentially is, you’ll get a disorderly conduct charge (the Wikipedia article confirms this). You’ll also be held liable for any damages caused by the ensuing panic. You can contrive situations where it falls within the bounds of the law
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by yunwal 2y ago
“We should dox everyone on the internet” is definitely not a take I expected.
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by yunwal 2y ago
Spellcheck, voice control, voice-to-text, autocomplete and next-word-prediction are all some AI features that are already in use. Voice-to-text could certainly be much better if something like whisper was integrated. I pretty much never act
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by yunwal 2y ago
> didn't care ding ding. Managers are paid roughly based on the number of employees they manage, so they will hire as many people as possible.
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by yunwal 2y ago
It would be practically, if not literally, impossible to formally prove that you voted for/against your own interests, if you could even define what that means. Formal reasoning means a specific thing.
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by yunwal 2y ago
"chestburster scene" isn't a particularly hard one to figure out
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by yunwal 2y ago
> If that’s all you eat you can’t be fat and out of shape. I promise you if ground beef is all you eat you will be much worse than fat and out of shape.
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by yunwal 2y ago
> Can you imagine the horror of a large city where most people each use an individual vehicle? That just dystopia. Yes - every American
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by yunwal 2y ago
> although mine definitely was in good faith If it was in good faith, why didn't you bother addressing the point? How was gambling prohibition "not working"?
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by yunwal 2y ago
cool, he noticed it right away
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by yunwal 2y ago
I stand corrected
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by yunwal 2y ago
Let’s say you gave o1 an API to control a good robot. Could it throw a football? Could it accomplish even the most basic tasks? If not, it’s not generally intelligent.
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by yunwal 2y ago
> Gaining capital looks like buying an oven Going from 20% of a first-world country's capital to 100% of our capital looks like upgrading your oven for most people. If had 20% of my current wealth, I'd still have an oven most l
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by yunwal 2y ago
How does this work for things like COVID vaccines, where waiting for a reproduction study would leave hundreds of thousands dead? Ultimately there needs to be some level of trust in scientific institutions as well. I do think placing higher
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by yunwal 2y ago
> When people say "trust the science", they often refer to things like masks, and antibiotics, and vaccines. That science is hundreds of years old and have been replicated thousands of times. When people say "trust the sci
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by yunwal 2y ago
> They have a hose of ad money and have nothing to lose doing this. If I didn’t have context I’d assume this was about Google.
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by yunwal 2y ago
I didn’t need to, the question was about losing 80% of your capital instantaneously. A broken oven is most likely not worth anything.
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by yunwal 2y ago
> It tries to ensure the number of people who need a taxi is the same as the number of people who drive This is almost certainly not what it does. What it (almost certainly) does is maximize Uber’s profits. Meaning if they can make a few
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by yunwal 2y ago
Or: systems that tolerate bad actors contribute to a society that tolerates bad actors, and therefore increases the number of bad actors.

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