HappMacDonald

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by HappMacDonald 3d ago
This sounds like motte and bailey.. why bother calling something an autocomplete if not as a means to try to undermine its utility? This is a https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dissimile
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by HappMacDonald 3d ago
> If your axioms are wrong then of course your logic will be wrong. Equally, even if your axioms are right your logical execution can still fail. Neither individual humans nor LLMs get either of those steps right as a default. Just as
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by HappMacDonald 3d ago
I would rate anything that is a sufficiently immersion-challenging distraction to be a problem. Would the game be more fun if we just chop off all the character's legs and make them float like apparitions instead? That needn't act
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by HappMacDonald 4d ago
Well obviously the real solution is for the owner of the company to 1. Fire everyone else 2. prompt the AI "make me more money than you cost" (that's a short prompt, innit?) 3. Retire to Aruba
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by HappMacDonald 4d ago
Nobody is hired for a job if the person hiring thinks that the employee will murder them. So I guess that makes the most salient job description "refraining from murdering your boss"? Or it might be that any baseline expectation w
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by HappMacDonald 5d ago
Better at predicting real world consequences from priors than we are :)
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by HappMacDonald 5d ago
Doesn't this just describe AMP?
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by HappMacDonald 6d ago
Given that the abundance will be predictably hoarded by those in power — leaving everyone else even fewer table scraps than we already get — should however remain a concern. After all, its not like some benevolent super-AGI will be deciding
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by HappMacDonald 8d ago
While that may be true in reality no such externality consequences appear to be baked into the game theory of the experiment. It's like having people or neural networks choose door 1 from door 2 without clear advantage to either of the
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by HappMacDonald 10d ago
This one is my favorite: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/ncw1/pr...
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by HappMacDonald 15d ago
Dear Hackernews: It is not good security practice to publish your random word passphrases as the title of an article. Thank you for your time
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
On the other end of that spectrum I cannot _stand_ back button on the mouse and always disable the feature immediately because it is often too easy for me to click those fiddly side buttons without meaning to (either while grabbing or while
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
There exists a floor to how "idiot-proof" Motor vehicles are since they do require a skill test and a licensing protocol to legally operate that do weed out some number of humans not competent enough to operate them (and even be
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
I can't pop outside to check, I'm too busy filling Russel's Teapot from this von Neumann Kettle.
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
Perhaps this archive.org snapshot will work for ye? https://web.archive.org/web/20250329043544/https://invention... Interestingly all of the snapshots newer than this one appear to be blocked by cloudf
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by HappMacDonald 17d ago
You replied to: "The most cost efficient new-build grid is 90-98% solar/wind/battery depending on your locales insolation & wind coverage. (Source Ember Energy)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by HappMacDonald 18d ago
I have been lead to believe that blue scrub jays have a lot of different vocalizations but the only sounds I've caught out of them over the past 15ish years of paying attention have been the raucous shouting shrieks they seem so fond o
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by HappMacDonald 18d ago
I prefer to believe that the building-climber was happy :D
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by HappMacDonald 19d ago
Is alt-left to go back a bad keyboard shortcut for you? It's what I use. It's also far less likely to be accidentally typed while trying to fill in a form and fumbling the tab navigation.
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by HappMacDonald 19d ago
Nono, that should close the window xD
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by HappMacDonald 21d ago
I am almost 50 years old and I struggle to imagine anyone younger than I am being any more familiar with what cash is than with what a landline is
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by HappMacDonald 22d ago
For one of my projects the important advantage was "lossless compression similar to Webp and Avif (far better than PNG)", while ALSO supporting > 16kpx dimensions where Webp and Avif appear to max out
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by HappMacDonald 22d ago
File explorer support, thumbnails, local image viewers and editors, import into other media software like slideshows, video editors, 3d modeling software, etc etc.
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by HappMacDonald 22d ago
Rolling the clock backwards toward the big bang, it is not matter which is directly compressed, it is the fabric and metric of space itself. Matter being compressed is merely a side effect of the fact that "all of the locations that th
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by HappMacDonald 22d ago
Once you pass the event horizon, every direction leads to the singularity in your future. Directions "away" from the singularity may still visibly show what things looked like outside of the event horizon before you fell in, but t
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by HappMacDonald 23d ago
Where I live in the Pacific Northwest we all have garages but nobody parks their cars in them. Cars wind up parked in front of the garage or on the street, garage winds up being filled with storage junk.
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by HappMacDonald 23d ago
As long as I have reliable climate control I prefer not having windows or "natural light". I presently live in a townhouse triplex with like 5 huge windows to the outside world and everyone in my household has them permanently bla
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
Looney Toons / Merry Melodies also bear out this connotation quite well
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by HappMacDonald 26d ago
Time to steer my horseless carriage onto the Information Superhighway! :D
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by HappMacDonald 27d ago
I would posit that the null hypothesis should be that uncoerced human sleep patterns and historical sleep patterns are similar to A: modern human sleep patterns, and B: the sleep patterns of a majority of diurnal mammals and especially thos

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