beowulfey

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by beowulfey 2mo ago
We just went through institution of a union at my employer for one type of employee. The organizers did exactly this, and as an observer/affected party it was a little coercive. But you know it has to be, because people always prefer
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by beowulfey 3mo ago
I would love something as responsive as the Remarkable tablet in this form factor
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by beowulfey 3mo ago
There is a market for smaller cars and trucks but its probably smaller than for other countries. We don't have the smaller roads/spaces associated with e.g. Europe. But for sure I would buy small cars or trucks first any day compa
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by beowulfey 3mo ago
There is active propaganda against scientists and institutions; and scientists are decent but not excellent communicators. They lost the communication war and now the general public is very distrusting of science.
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by beowulfey 3mo ago
Why the hell ARE they even valued that way?
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by beowulfey 3mo ago
There's definitely something to this idea. Our toddler absolutely loves her Yoto player, which is kind of like a tiny Walkman with cards instead of tapes. It's new but has that same old-tech feeling, IMO. She loves to pick out her
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by beowulfey 5mo ago
Even if you test a batch once, do people who get testing done do testing on all batches? The synthesis of peptides uses some NASTY chemicals. I would be worried about lax manufacturer policies leading to contamination, even if one batch pas
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by beowulfey 5mo ago
Clinical trials are not looking for fundamental mechanisms, they are there to ensure an effect is strong enough to say a product should be sold for that purpose. Otherwise you end up with snake oil salesmen. Because how can you be sure you
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by beowulfey 6mo ago
Causality was not the point. The point was to refute the seeding hypothesis, and because they found those molecules, the effort to falsify the hypothesis failed. Now we can move on to the next attempt to refute, which, as you say, might be
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by beowulfey 7mo ago
LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking dogs for fun. I understand why people don't act polite
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by beowulfey 7mo ago
where did you hear this?
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by beowulfey 7mo ago
Your first post specifically stated: "I'm curious - do you have ANY idea what it costs to have humans write 100,000 lines of code???" which any reasonable reading would take to mean "paid-by-line", which we all know
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by beowulfey 8mo ago
It is not possible to "dox" a public employee because that information is legally public information. Don't become a public employee if you want your job to be private. see e.g. https://www.openpayrolls.com
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by beowulfey 8mo ago
Fully agree. Forums predate social media and are some of the oldest parts of the internet. And it's not quite socializing... it's more like, are you broadcasting and consuming content? Or discussing it?
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by beowulfey 8mo ago
As with anything, it is about trusting your tools. Who is culpable for such errors? In the days of human authors, the person writing the text is responsible for not making these errors. When AI does the writing, the person whose name is on
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by beowulfey 8mo ago
They may have meant grounded, not decommissioned. DC-10s were grounded alongside the MD-11s. https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/us-faa-broadens-md-11-gr...
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by beowulfey 8mo ago
What is the purpose of saying this? It's being unnecessarily antagonistic towards a genuine sentiment. It's not like you are offering any solution either. Are you proposing nihilism, maybe?
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by beowulfey 9mo ago
I would have thought the change to Calibri was simply because office uses it as the default font now
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by beowulfey 9mo ago
Ah yes, a great point. We must protect the freedom to heap shit on other humans
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
California had Fry's until a few years ago. Once they went under it basically ended the local market. I'd love to see more market-style parts locations a la Huaqiang or Akiahabara
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
But that occurred with a new form of media that people now use in more of their time than back before Google. It implies AI is growth in time spent. I think the trend is more likely that AI will replace other media.
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
If you visit Disneyland regularly, Snow White is just as popular for costumes as any other princess and has been for a long time!
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
It's not just about the economy, it is about freedom of choice. What does Max and Avery feel about their careers? Would they rather be working or watching kids? If one parent has to stay home, that might mean having to give up a good c
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
It's not an intractable issue. It's just a matter of economics.
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by beowulfey 10mo ago
You can do this with State taxes too, but I think your impression that people just ignore it is correct. A good example of this is gas prices. Gas in CA is 70c per gallon, vs about 25c per gallon in the Northeast. This gets baked into the p
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by beowulfey 11mo ago
Without ethics, other motivations inevitably end up undermining any good intentions an experimenter may have. Ethics are the "laws" of science that constrain us for the sake of all. Your opinions here reflect a Libertarian bent, I
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by beowulfey 11mo ago
Unless I'm misinterpreting what you mean, I believe if it was reflected in the hair in the immediate aftermath, it wouldn't reflect internal circulation because hair does not grow that fast. It would have been from exposure to the
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by beowulfey 11mo ago
A frame is by definition flexible in how many pixels tall or how many pixels wide it is, and there is nothing in the definition that says it can't be 1x1.
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by beowulfey 11mo ago
I'm sorry that you are not familiar with how laws work but it's kind of a big concept and I don't really have time now to teach it to you. I would recommend Wikipedia or perhaps ChatGPT to get started.
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by beowulfey 11mo ago
No because the sale would have had to occur in the place that it is illegal

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