cortesoft

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by cortesoft 3d ago
There are assumptions you make, though, that go into calculating that level of confidence. One is that each coin flip has the same odds as the previous coin flip, and that assumption will continue with each flip. If you have no way of knowi
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by cortesoft 4d ago
Weirdly, I thought the terms would be reversed… I think of a craftsman as someone who values quality over quantity, and makes everything beautiful and long lasting, while an engineer is more about productivity and tolerances and efficiency.
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by cortesoft 4d ago
I mean, there is still a place in the world for a Kung Fu master… it’s just not as someone trying to win in an anything goes combat competition. If you think there are going to be as many jobs in the future for people writing all their code
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by cortesoft 4d ago
How would it have helped? Net neutrality doesn’t mean you can’t sell your customers different bandwidth guarantees. Net neutrality is only about the connections between a provider and external networks, not about how a company handles bandw
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by cortesoft 5d ago
Doesn’t the history of civilization show RSI? Or even evolution itself? Isn’t that just RSI writ large?
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by cortesoft 5d ago
Whether you describe it as “regarding” or not, the underlying behavior still needs to be addressed. Does the anthropomorphizing lead us down the wrong path for how we address the issue?
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by cortesoft 5d ago
I feel like this is a complicated issue, because there are two competing values here. On one hand, fair representation is important, and the idea that every person has an equal say in how governmental decisions are made. One person one vote
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by cortesoft 5d ago
They removed that years ago.
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by cortesoft 5d ago
There were always two types of people at college, those who want to learn things and those who want a certificate so they can get a better job. It was always pretty easy to distinguish the two. I think the second group has gotten more and m
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by cortesoft 5d ago
That just means no one else can pretend they are you, but it also means they can know it HAS to be you. If you sign two images with that private key, people will know for certain that you created both of them. This is the whole point of sig
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by cortesoft 5d ago
This is exactly how I feel, and I have been trying to think how to articulate it. I love programming, and have loved it ever since I read the first page of my BASIC programming book 35 years ago and learned how to write a PRINT statement. I
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by cortesoft 6d ago
What are you signing it with, though? A unique key that only exists on your device... so it will perfectly tie a photo to a specific camera. Even if you didn't know who owned the camera, you could identify other pictures taken by that
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by cortesoft 6d ago
Binding arbitration as an abstract concept seems fair (really, the entire court system is a complicated system for binding arbitration) However, in practice it isn’t fair at all.
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by cortesoft 7d ago
Muse released their 4th platinum album before Twitter was even founded. They poured their life's work into Twitter? That is ridiculous.
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by cortesoft 7d ago
> Both are equally possible. I don't think so, because if it was involuntary from Muse the band, surely they would post something about it. They would get a ton of publicity and goodwill for shit talking Meta, and the fact that they
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by cortesoft 7d ago
They obviously want to run AI models on their phone.
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by cortesoft 7d ago
I think there is a cycle, like with most things of this nature. You start really locked down, and you read and approve every request for access. You do this for a while, but never see a result you deny, so you stop reading as closely. You k
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by cortesoft 7d ago
You have to pick what you want to measure. I think that is a different study; measuring the mental and emotional impact of two working parents. Both are interesting and useful, but I think they need to be separate studies.
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by cortesoft 8d ago
Yeah, as someone who fairly recently discovered that the reason I always feel so uncomfortable out in nature is because I am severely allergic to almost all grasses and most trees, I think we need to put some caveats on these statements. I
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by cortesoft 8d ago
Why would that give you the benefits of walking barefoot? If the point is to pick up bacteria, shoes are shoes. It doesn't matter if the toes are separated or not.
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by cortesoft 8d ago
> but many others are first person accounts saying that for whatever reason, the grounding mat worked for them. We know the reason, and it has been studied extensively. The placebo effect is very strong.
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by cortesoft 9d ago
It has nothing to do with whether you know something is a crime or not. Many crimes require intention, such as murder and fraud, so you have to prove that to convict someone of that crime. That doesn’t mean you can get away with anything as
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by cortesoft 9d ago
You would have to prove they acted intentionally, though. You can't just argue in court, "Well, we don't know how they prompted, so we will assume the worst" If the prosecution is able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
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by cortesoft 9d ago
I agree with you that it isn't the same, and vulnerability matters. My worry is that I can easily see an administration like the current US one claiming that MAGA Americans are the most vulnerable in the country, and they need to be pr
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by cortesoft 9d ago
Seems beyond AGI at that point? Most humans wouldn't be able to make a good business that is profitable.
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by cortesoft 9d ago
They should, although I think the charge would (and probably should) be around some sort of reckless endangerment type crime. These are people irresponsibly using powerful tools, and should be charged as such. This is like someone who remov
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by cortesoft 10d ago
I think this depends on how you define 'hate speech'. Is talking about how billionaires are the scum of the earth hate speech? I get the idea behind banning hate speech, but it gets really tricky when you try to think how to defin
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by cortesoft 10d ago
If it was the government telling a platform to block certain speech, that would be a restriction in free speech. The difference is that the ownership of HN has their OWN freedom to choose who they let post on here, and what they let be post
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by cortesoft 11d ago
If you are selling a product for way more than it should cost (like a $60 3D printed case), when that cost is the exact price that a popular blog says the computer costs, you are intentionally hoping to prey on people mistaking your listing
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by cortesoft 11d ago
That explains the below-market part, but not the cushy part. Gaming is notorious for not being cushy.

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