curtainsforus

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by curtainsforus 2y ago
Strange, for you to say this in the age of transformers. They are obviously not there yet, but it seems inevitable to me that e.g. gpt 'understands' things better than a markov chain, and that future systems will understand more.
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by curtainsforus 3y ago
The french monarchy shot the rioters, and it worked. When they stopped murdering rioters, they got their heads cut off.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
If you want logical separation, add sub-blocks to the function. You can see things as being a spectrum from fully inline code, to code blocks, to anon functions defined in the function, to true functions.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
The argument continues to say that the 'clean code' version isn't actually cleaner/more legible/more understandable. I, for one, am royally sick of spending 5 minutes trying to figure out which virtual function im
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
This is a fully general counterargument for why anything that is bad is actually good because it doesn't matter. "Places where air quality matters it is never sacrificed".
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
I think he bought in more people at one point, then sent them away again when he realized he wasn't able to keep the project on track with that many chefs making the soup. The problem with more people is that the project can very easi
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
If you read TFA, you'd know that the headline on the link isn't the headline of the article itself, which has no question mark. Presumably the mark was added here to assuage blue-tribe people.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
You know a lot of children would be raped in those concentration camps, right?
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Building capital and controlling things is good for individuals or families, but less so for large, uncoordinated organisations, especially governments. If I, an individual, own a shop, I'm incentivized to make it profitable- in this
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
If I'm going to eat vegetables, I want to eat real vegetables, not an assortment of pea protein and flavorers slathered in preservatives that doesn't even taste as good as the thing it's imitating!
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
What about the site owner's water supply? The disagreement here seems to over whether Cloudflare is more like a restaurant, or more like a utility company. Given the ubiquity of DDOS attacks online, (and the fact that KF seemingly can
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
The guy who made the nazi pug video might disagree.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Kiwifarms has editorial control, though. Posts advocating swatting or violence are removed, and their users banned.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Individuals have sued them repeatedly and lost; the case I remember best is a woman called Melinda Scott. Here's an explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqkpN9a6q8
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
It's not a problem if one print shop declines to print your flyer; it is a problem if there's only three print shops in the world.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
>Could I declare self defense against a police officer? Not according to contemporary american law, but you should be able to!
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
>How can that system be justified? The 'bad guy' is whoever is the aggressor. Everyone has a right to life; if someone starts shooting at you, or swinging a bat at you, you have the right to defend yourself, and if you kill th
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
There's usually more than one server per minigame. You could see it in the url you were redirected to; they had more servers running the more popular minigames. Each minigame has a player limit, so the maximum load on any given miniga
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
The game servers don't restart after the end of a round, though, do they? I'd imagine they kick the players back to the lobby, reset the in-server game, and then tell the lobby to send the next batch of players.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Biology kills us first, and in a manner that's contingent, not necessary; there are universes with physics similar to ours where life could continue forever. (Just add some rare non-energy-conserving interactions to be exploited). Eve
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
If you could figure out the distribution of universes, somehow, and figure out the distribution intelligences across them to a high enough fidelity to predict their actions (for example, by crunching numbers with a star-sized-computer, pred
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
That metaphor was originally used to justify criminalizing protesting wars.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
There's a 'waterfall' effect of status signals. The upper class uses signal A to differentiate themselves from the middle class; the middle class catches on, and starts using signal A to imitate the upper class; the upper cl
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
I'm not religious, to be clear; I was just using religion as an example. I also went to a highly ranked university, for whatever it's worth. > Hypothesize -> experiment -> measure -> conclude With the replication cris
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
What you call over-explained magic, others call 'hard magic' (like 'hard sci-fi'). Mysterious magic can give that sense of wonder/ambience, but it's hard to use it in order to satisfactorily solve problems:
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Build nuclear reactors.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
I find modern atheist people's investiture of authority in academics confusing. Did we go to the same university system? My professors certainly spent more time reading about the subjects they specialized in than the average person,
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
If the whole world engages in witch-burning, and burn a lot of innocents along with the old women who poison wells, and you build a town and loudly declare it will have no witch-hunts, then you'll get people who want to live in that to
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
In this case, the people claiming that the textually-approved course of action is killing the blasphemer are correct.
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Do you think she cares? She's just catering to the common person.

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