Talanes

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by Talanes 6mo ago
I'm failing to see what in the quoted text you took to be about AI rewrites specifically? It just reads as a slightly catty aside about the social reaction of rewrites in general (by implying the one example is generalizable.)
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by Talanes 6mo ago
Now what if we ask the LLM to write about social media? Do you think the output would be similar to what you'd get if we had a time machine to bring the actual man back and have him form his own thoughts firsthand?
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by Talanes 6mo ago
The real sticking point for me is I don't even believe that authors themselves FULLY understand their process. The idea that anybody could achieve such full introspection as to understand and articulate every little thing that influenc
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by Talanes 7mo ago
I'm part of the silent majority and I'm not speaking up because I have so little trust in Apple to ever fix anything that I'm just riding out my 2nd gen SE on IOS 17 until it physically stops working. At which point I'm
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by Talanes 7mo ago
You're correct in the literal sense that they did say those words, but the entire comment clearly demonstrated a lack of surprise that reveals the opening words to be intended ironically.
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by Talanes 7mo ago
My friends in I would spend entire weekends in high school "hiking" in Halo: finding spots on campaign levels to clip out of bounds, and then exploring the exterior geometry until we hit a spot that dropped us to our deaths.
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by Talanes 8mo ago
>If the patron found them through the patreon iOS app and use the app to consume the artist's content, then clearly the patron has indicated that they prefer the iOS experience. I hate IOS enough that I'm running at least a ful
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by Talanes 8mo ago
Except most those people have developed the separate skillset of playing work politics to make their job seem necessary.
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by Talanes 8mo ago
And those trade-offs can only pay off if the extra food produced can be utilized. If the farm is producing more food than can be preserved and/or distributed, then the surplus is deadweight.
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by Talanes 9mo ago
>Totally disregarding health warnings, and being insubordinately against precautions rather than becoming more neurotic. It's not such a clean map between neuroticism and reaction there. My father was very against the precautions in
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by Talanes 9mo ago
"Just like how you might measure productivity of a warehouse employee by the number of items moved per hour. Of course if someone just throws things across the warehouse or moves things that dont need to be moved they will maximize thi
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by Talanes 10mo ago
There's an argument to be made that Lucas wouldn't have brought it back if they didn't miss the check. A little over half a mil of it's budget came from the initial payout of the new Hasbro deal.
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by Talanes 10mo ago
You're describing literally Ferrari.
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by Talanes 1y ago
Not everyone can do that, some of use were blocked by him before we'd ever heard his name.
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by Talanes 1y ago
I'm currently reading 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' and the author talks about this exact dilemma. She attributed the difference to the fact that box-cake recipes tend to use oil for the fat, while recipes from scratch often prefer
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by Talanes 1y ago
It’s impossible — impossible! — for anyone to attend a mass gathering with the pure intention of causing trouble.
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by Talanes 1y ago
>Nobody here is actually even arguing about the proposal here, just repeating platitudes and analogies. Well, given that they're responding to this: >I think it's actually pretty clear that almost all people are not capable
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by Talanes 1y ago
The 1993 movie Super Mario Bros. features both a major and minor antagonist clearly modeled after Donald Trump. He was a well known, highly referenced figure for DECADES before he entered politics. Where are you getting this idea that nobod
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by Talanes 1y ago
>I just posted a talk by Seymour Papert from 1991 where he said that kids were on computers or Nintendo for 6 hours at a time, which surprised me that even then they were "addictive." He notes that poetry, music, Shakespeare ar
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by Talanes 1y ago
And we know it can be done on existing download infrastructure, because it's available for all the games I own that added the hi-res textures after launch - selectable as a free DLC.
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by Talanes 1y ago
>An opposite extreme would be something like AAA games. There's further extremes still: sharing a game made by a solo-developer who's only compensation comes from sales is less ethical than sharing a game made by a team who wer
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by Talanes 1y ago
Why would the base state be "No cryptography, no communication, no information" and not "No cryptography, communication, information?" If we assume a default state of avoiding engagement, the average poker player is givi
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by Talanes 1y ago
We tell plenty of lies that aren't intended to hold up forever — whether it's a lie to a stranger that you hope to be away from before the lie becomes apparent, or a lie to a acquaintance that you hope is small enough that the soc
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by Talanes 1y ago
Yeah, it's basically the main thing I was taught to do to avoid any chance encounters with (animal) predators growing up: walk confidently and present as a fellow predator and not a prey animal.
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by Talanes 1y ago
Your definition seems like it would include the entire field of cryptography as lies, would it not?
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by Talanes 1y ago
It's even been an option in every By-the-Slice display I've ever seen that wasn't purely a Pepperoni/Plain cheese affair.
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by Talanes 1y ago
Writing is interesting, though, because there's also a steady stream of writers regurgitating the "I don't like writing, I like having written" line too. George RR Martin possibly the most famous/contemporary exampl
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by Talanes 1y ago
It was written so long ago that the primary author himself died two years ago.
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by Talanes 1y ago
Same manager with right-sized stand-ups wouldn't cost anymore money, unless that manager is making many multiples over what any of their team makes. It seems more like a kneejerk reaction to not "waste" the manager's tim
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by Talanes 1y ago
>and a confused bottom layer of people who have to use this deliberately broken human telephone to communicate with their real ultimate bosses, the owners. Which just feels like efficiency if you're the owner: less people reaching o

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