Edman274

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by Edman274 2mo ago
So what? A Google Pixel 9 Pro costs only about 4 times what a bare RPi 5 with a run of the mill camera costs, yet with its NPU it can perform 45 trillion operations per second with a camera that can reach 240 frames per second at a resoluti
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by Edman274 3mo ago
Do you always judge the validity of a statement according to the implications of it being true, or do you get to do it just this once as a treat? Further, how does saying a court is "corrupt" not call for "extreme measures&qu
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by Edman274 3mo ago
Okay, then by 2036 the curriculum and standards of teaching will have been updated too, the expectation of what teachers will be able to teach will have been updated too, the competence of students will have been updated, and the hidden exp
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by Edman274 3mo ago
You do understand at least intuitively that it's not even mathematically possible - let alone practically - to train 100 percent of teachers to be in the top 10 percent of teachers, right? The definition of "good" and "g
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by Edman274 3mo ago
> in the mind of the observer In the what of the observer? Are you accepting that minds exist but consciousness doesn't?
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by Edman274 4mo ago
> words for things that don't exist This is rhetorically slippery, and feels like it is restating the thing that I asked to be demonstrated when I asked for example of the opposite. It feels like begging the question. In either case
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by Edman274 4mo ago
Describing something as "car-like" is begging the question. You are presupposing an objective definition for "car" in order to draw a distinction between things that are cars, and things that are almost cars. The reason
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by Edman274 4mo ago
If you take the strategy that you will create a definition, create a label for that definition, and then say that any deviations from the defintion that was chosen makes usage of the label incorrect, then yes, it's the same everywhere
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by Edman274 4mo ago
A standardized unit of measure is almost definitionally a label of convenience, what? Why was there no concept of a meter until the 1790s? It was determined by a council of people, does that sound like a truth of the universe?
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by Edman274 4mo ago
I guess my question or confusion is that if there exists no readily accessible, easily identifiable example of a noun which does actually serve as something more than "a useful label, agreed to out of convenience", then the crit
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by Edman274 4mo ago
I'm not trying to be difficult, but could you give me an example?
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by Edman274 4mo ago
Do you believe in the existence of any noun words which serve as something other than a "useful label, loosely agreed to out of convenience"?
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by Edman274 4mo ago
They can't rebuild it. Facebook Marketplace is allowing people to buy and sell locally for free with systems for managing fraud that are more robust than Craigslist. How do you rebuild when a way larger company - with a side project of
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by Edman274 5mo ago
Do you feel and have the subjective experience of feeling like you're arguing in good faith right now?
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by Edman274 5mo ago
> Yes you can. The same way Wikipedia (or, way back when, a paper encyclopedia) can be used for research but you have to verify everything with other sources because it is known there are errors and deficiencies in such sources. I think
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by Edman274 5mo ago
It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the idea that software engineering efforts can be underestimated at the outset. The humorous observation here is that the total is 180 percent, which mean that it took longer than expected, which is ve
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by Edman274 5mo ago
> If your peers are using AI and getting better grades, opting out is not a principled stand. It is a competitive disadvantage. > The students are not confused. They are trapped. > In this environment, choosing not to use AI is not
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by Edman274 6mo ago
Are you aware that hundreds of American fixed wing aircraft were lost to surface to air missiles in North Vietnam? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._aircraft_losses_t...
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Yes, why are we still talking about the robot whose behavior can be programmed and whose behavior is set by a company and rolled out to all of their vehicles deterministically, when another commenter correctly engaged in whataboutism?
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by Edman274 7mo ago
People that don't buy insurance because they think it's a scam, then end up impoverished after a foreseeable accident or theft, as a more common one.
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Okay, and a B60 is also 5.25x cheaper than a 5090 in real dollars and has 75% the vram, so maybe less sad? I wouldn't expect a 650 dollar card to have the same performance as a 3500 dollar card, would you?
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Handle it this way - a user has Silver tier coin subscription, gold tier coin subscription, and platinum tier coin subscription that they pay in per month. I'll set hypothetical prices at 15, 30 and 60 dollars. Over the course of a mon
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Well, I actually had two interrelated thoughts and because of proximity I think I confused things. I guess what I was thinking was "garments are constructed not of "panels" but of threads of a given material which can be abst
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Tech person - there's only one contributor, it's less than 48 hours old, and appears to be primarily vibe coded with the assistance of Claude Code. No mentions of types of stitches even though it's crucial to understanding ho
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by Edman274 7mo ago
If old teaching styles / standardized testing / standardized schooling represent this moribund, stagnant thing that haven't changed at all and haven't kept pace over the past century, why wouldn't you expect measure
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by Edman274 7mo ago
If Uber had an internal policy of only ever hiring convicted rapists, didn't tell anyone using the app this, didn't warn about unsafe rides, didn't record ride information, and (crucially) also didn't tell their employee
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by Edman274 7mo ago
What incentive would there be for a gig company like Uber to not deliberately hire criminals if Uber isn't liable, but other companies could be? Reputational damage isn't enough to hurt the bottom line and to change behavior - if
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by Edman274 7mo ago
The companies themselves certainly think they do when they give tasks for their workers by dictating the duration, manner, and other terms of employment. Why should they be able to have it both ways? No risk, all reward?
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by Edman274 7mo ago
> My job running the website and twitter has always been to give the people a voice. I think that's important, don't you? Do you truly believe in your heart of hearts that people posting neo-MOASS wish fulfillment suffer from a
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by Edman274 7mo ago
Afghanistan is a landlocked country on the other side of the planet, the soldiers didn't grow up with knowledge of the terrain, they had no knowledge of the language, culture, customs or social networks, no one locally (with few except

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