bccdee

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by bccdee 1mo ago
Unless you're already manually setting temperature to zero on the models you work with, the deviation from the "optimal" path imposed by the watermark should be no greater than what you already get from the randomization.
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by bccdee 1mo ago
> “He leaped at the chance” and “He jumped at the opportunity” are very similar sentences expressing the same general sentiment, but they are not the same. The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the
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by bccdee 2mo ago
I've turned against them, partly because they're too flexible. Many of the things a dash does can be done better by more specific forms of punctuation like semicolons, colons, or brackets, which give your sentence a clearer visual
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by bccdee 2mo ago
The vast majority of readers can tell the difference between - and —. It's very noticeable. This sentence: > I use dashes in place of commas, semicolons, colons, and brackets all the time - I just use the standard keyboard dash. is
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by bccdee 2mo ago
I'm introducing examples. It's logical to judge a thing based on its context and circumstances, because those can tell you about the thing. A menu can tell you about a restaurant in the same way that the presence or absence of a c
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by bccdee 2mo ago
> Is it a garage that has the same hygiene standards and medical equipment as an office? Maybe! A garage can be cleaned very thoroughly, especially if you renovate with that in mind. I wouldn't bet on it, though. A good doctor pro
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by bccdee 2mo ago
You're ignoring the third option, which is to make a PowerPoint slide with a stock photo and print that. Or use an online template. There are a million ways to make a cheap, adequate flyer. Look at this poster template. You could make
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by bccdee 2mo ago
Or the contemporary "no name" brand in Canada. https://jacobnelson.ca/2022/01/17/the-beauty-of-no-name/
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by bccdee 2mo ago
No, it's entirely rational to judge a service based on external signals. If you need medical treatment, will you go to a doctor operating out of an office, or a doctor operating out of their own garage? Theoretically, either one could
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by bccdee 2mo ago
Exactly. Modifier sequences and escape presses show up as special characters and can be inserted with `C-v Esc` or whathaveyou. It works seamlessly.
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by bccdee 2mo ago
> a level of mastery where one deliberately "writes" macros (what, directly in the vimrc?) Oh it's so simple you'll kick yourself. If you save the macro to the q register, just paste from the q register and it'll
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by bccdee 2mo ago
Yeah I think this is all coming from someone who never got good at vim. Multi-cursors can be nice, but a sufficiently powerful implementation of that looks like helix or kakoune, and those are at least as complex as vim, if not more. When y
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by bccdee 2mo ago
An aficionado! Have you heard of the jam hitch (ABOK #1727)? Grossly underdiscussed IMO—I only discovered it earlier this year. It tightens like a zip tie, and (in kitchen twine at least) I've found the string will snap before the loop
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by bccdee 2mo ago
There are (I'd contend) four basic types of knot: Bends, hitches, bindings, and loops. Bends tie two cords together, hitches tie cords to objects, bindings wrap & grip objects together, and loops are loops. You only really need one
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by bccdee 3mo ago
I'm glad you've experienced success with these strategies, but unfortunately you can't generalize that. > They did not do phonics, they learned to read whole words from flashcards. Whole language learning is a perfect exam
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by bccdee 3mo ago
Oh yeah I mean theoretically possible, not practical, haha.
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by bccdee 3mo ago
I believe in school as an opportunity for intellectual enrichment, but fostering interest is not the primary goal of schooling. It's nice if school can make your kid an engaged and passionate reader, but your kid must become literate
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by bccdee 3mo ago
I feel like many of the more alternative teaching methodologies have unclear learning goals. What is "holistic problem-solving"? How can we measure it? Do we know that conventionally taught students lack it? Is it hard to acquir
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by bccdee 3mo ago
I know a lot of people who believe this, and I think it just doesn't bear out. I am 4. I have many interests. I would love to read books about those interests, but in order to do this, I have to do phonics drills and practice sounding
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by bccdee 3mo ago
> it's not even mathematically possible to train 100 percent of teachers to be in the top 10 percent of teachers …yes, but it's totally possible to (by, say, 2036) train 100% of teachers to perform at a 90th percentile as compa
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by bccdee 4mo ago
> Getting by is one thing Yeah, and it shouldn't be too much to ask for. So it drives me crazy that I can't get by in Java without a full IDE. All I want is "show docs" + "jump to definition" + "show
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by bccdee 4mo ago
> Only reference types, the same as in golang Everything's a reference in Java except primitives, and even primitives get object wrappers. In Java, String, Long, and Bool can all be null. Go isn't like that—only explicit pointe
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by bccdee 4mo ago
My big issue with Go is, the language just isn't that great. Zero values instead of sum types, reflection instead of proper macros, a mediocre module system… Java's warts are far worse than Go. Everything is nullable. There's
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by bccdee 4mo ago
> and we can vote for these stuffs. Can we? We can vote for a party, but I don't know that any party here has permacomputing in their platform. If you want to add something to a party's platform, the usual way to do that is lob
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by bccdee 4mo ago
No? I imagine, in this context, that he thinks of himself as an advocate against police violence, since he retweeted a video of cops kicking a man in the head and said he thought it was bad. Doesn't seem particularly Jewish to me, one
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by bccdee 4mo ago
You are parroting criticisms made by antiracists and intersectional feminists who are themselves part of the contemporary progressive movement. This is like when laypeople say "economics is all hogwash because humans aren't ration
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by bccdee 4mo ago
The way people talk about Just Stop Oil is interesting. People often say, "Just Stop Oil is doing activism wrong," but I never hear anyone talk about orgs that "do activism right" because the public never talks about the
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by bccdee 4mo ago
> such an uncomfortable idea violates any principles of evolution. Evolution isn't a normative thing. It's perfectly possible for us to evolve into something that morally shouldn't exist, especially in an artificial enviro
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by bccdee 4mo ago
"Intersectionality at an individual level" is poison for a social movement. If everyone lends their support only to movements that benefit them personally, that creates a fragmented ecosystem of niche groups that accomplish nothin
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by bccdee 4mo ago
Conservatives tend to gloss over what it is exactly that they want to conserve. The environment? No. Norms? Sometimes, but not always. Before the 19th century, abortion was relatively uncontroversial; anti-abortion rhetoric was a "cons

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