cnity

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by cnity 5d ago
Apologies for my short-sighted comment.
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by cnity 6d ago
> It seems quite odd to me to 'admire the construction' of something, only for your opinion to sour once that something figures it out first. Not to be too cute here, but this is like every artistic rivalry ever.
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by cnity 6d ago
Right, but there is a big difference between "not uncommon" as disparagement vs as invitation to take part. This is how Hofstadter can connect with such a large audience despite tackling really challenging and fascinating question
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by cnity 6d ago
Please read Hofstadter and you will know more about truly interesting questions.
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by cnity 8d ago
90C is a normal sauna temperature. It's on the hot side, but normal.
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by cnity 19d ago
There's a qualitative difference to me. Categorising Stardew Valley the same way as Cyberpunk because they both receive content updates feels unfair to Stardew Valley (because the continual content updates for the latter come from a pl
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by cnity 22d ago
This is my experience too. The solution is to train people to stop wanting to solve data query problems in the application layer.
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by cnity 22d ago
ORMs are great. They make the easy queries remain easy and the harder queries impossible.
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by cnity 23d ago
The public pays for them via taxes.
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by cnity 26d ago
I'm going to argue to my boss that our KPI for the next quarter should be the number of load bearing seams discovered. I'll await the promotion.
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by cnity 26d ago
The article contains 31 references. Of course, no report on the _general_ market trends are going to cover every anecdote in the US. It could be that the staples you mentioned aren't affected to the same degree. How about your non-stap
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by cnity 27d ago
I've noticed that most people seem to consider the core problem of Claude's output as "too verbose" but I don't think this actually cuts to the heart of the matter at all. It's almost, in some weird way, the op
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by cnity 1mo ago
I recommend folks here read "The Dreamt Land" by Mark Arax. I just started it so it might be a premature recommendation, but it has been doing a great job for me as a new California resident of explaining the interaction between b
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by cnity 1mo ago
I love this, and the example images are really beautiful. It feels sci-fi, but is actually practical too. Nice job and thank you for sharing.
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by cnity 3mo ago
It's a slow motion motorcycle crash[0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
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by cnity 9mo ago
If you pretend not to use time, everyone will do an implicit time mapping in their head anyway. I've never seen it go any other way.
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by cnity 10mo ago
I think you sort of have to learn things this way. What else are you going to do? Trust random blogs and comments online so much that you'll ignore your inner compass, which drives you to build a product?
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by cnity 10mo ago
Sometimes I read something on the internet and I think: finally someone has articulated something the way that I think about it. And it is very validating. And it cuts through a bunch of noise about how "oh you should be tuning and twe
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by cnity 11mo ago
Thanks for giving your two bits on the matter.
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by cnity 11mo ago
At 250ml it's not far off a half pint.
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by cnity 11mo ago
Totally agreed. And as the sibling comment points out, it started before AI slop became a thing. I think it's because technological progress in typesetting means you don't have to "care" as much (it is automatic). Of cou
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by cnity 11mo ago
> There's no non-physical "ghost in the machine" But of course there is a physical one, that at some point appears. Or, it is a kind of gradation that at its highest peak is a human, and at its deepest depths is...
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by cnity 11mo ago
I didn't say I wasn't a materialist :). It's important for consciousness philosophers to have a sense of humour, I think (and remember the shortcomings of their own arguments).
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by cnity 11mo ago
Materialists always seem to forget that they're kicking the can down the road.
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by cnity 11mo ago
"The perfect should not be the enemy of the good" is the wrong analogy here. It's more like "death by a thousand cuts". Limitations on free computer usage are like a ratcheting mechanism: they mostly go in one direc
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by cnity 11mo ago
You don't even need to "host" it per se, just include the icon source in the webpage. It's 315B.
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by cnity 1y ago
Just drink a verification can before the boss fight to freeze ads for 30 minutes.
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by cnity 1y ago
See: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
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by cnity 1y ago
When I moved to London I used to love listening to ambient electronic music and taking the tube at night, and many of the quieter lines and back routes up emergency staircases and so on evoke what I suspect is a similar feeling (at least I
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by cnity 1y ago
Maybe let's loop in other senses for a second. Since, presumably aphantasia doesn't apply to all senses? I can imagine the sensation of my tongue on a cold ice cream, and even the taste. But I don't _taste and feel_ it. I can

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