dbsmith83

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by dbsmith83 2y ago
I agree that evidence would be nice, but let's not pretend TikTok is simply a 'speech platform' for 'The People'. It is an app on your mobile phone collecting data about you and making it available to a foreign adv
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Yet Einstein said something like "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough". So maybe Feynman didn't understand it "well enough"
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
True, I agree 100%, and that's why I chose to say 'irrelevant' to imply that there was nothing useful about it inherently for those cases. Most of the time, at least in coding, there was probably something useful that came o
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
It is kind of an argument against over planning though, because if your plan that you spent considerable time creating becomes irrelevant, you wasted a lot of time
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
I think you could make it work for negative numbers. You would just shade the negative area differently to show it. For example, if you subtract 1000 sq ft from 100 sq ft, geometrically it means you are trying to remove more area than you
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
In the first image on the left, you can see the large square has length and width of a, which would have an area of a*a, or a^2. There is then a little square inside with length and width b, for an area of b^2. Essentially, the little squ
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Because people don't commute around the city? Or come into contact with other people who do? Also, you're assuming that the 'initial' cases were actually the first cases. You don't know that for sure.
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Clearly, which is what I was showing. A poor design decision imo
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
There have been many breaking changes throughout python 3.x releases: - standard library modules removed - zip error handling behaves differently - changes to collections module - new reserved keywords (async, await, etc.) You can argue how
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Similar to the journal idea, I keep a notebook by my bed where I can write down any thoughts or concerns I think of that needs attention the next day. This lets my mind relax so that I'm not worried about forgetting it or trying to so
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
I find it strange that people are so upset about the absence of an opinion piece from this newspaper. What is the reason? Either you want to be told what to think, or you want everyone else to be told what to think. I think it is the lat
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
A fidget spinner illustrates this for me--bear with me. When I spin it and it just stays at rest in my hand, it spins fast. But when I quickly move my hand carrying the spinner, you can see it slows down the spin rate, and then when I sto
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Look into Bleem. It was sued, but it won. Though the legal costs did hurt the company， it reaffirmed that emulators are legal and you can sell them. In fact, there currently are nintendo emulators for sale to this day (3dSen)
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
It still says nothing about an individual. That's why you get to vote.
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Additionally, we all make decisions collectively in society even though many of them do not affect us personally. I'd argue old people do have interests in many decisions, but perhaps you are not aware of them
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Decisions affect your children, and their children, and the future of mankind. I don't buy that argument that old people don't have skin in the game
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Because you get to vote, so explain why it needs to be a rule
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
I don't. Are you talking about 'sponsored shortcuts'? You can turn those off in the settings. It's on the first page you see when you hit the settings button in the top right
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Unix would like a word (file) with you :)
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Yes, I just saw this. Looks like the 'questions' did come from her and her legal team after all
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
> You do know the whole modus operandi of AI companies is "screw laws, take it all we'll see what happens" right ? That they actively lobby to not respect IP laws because they couldn't exist if they were enforced ? Th
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Possibly, but that is not what their statement suggests to me, unless those 'questions' came from her/her legal team. I suppose they could also be worried about future legal action from her. Maybe it just isn't worth g
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
> We’ve heard questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT, especially Sky. We are working to pause the use of Sky while we address them. Why? They take it for granted that there is obviously something wrong here. Are users actua
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Certainty Is the Mind Killer – USF Commencement Speech by Greg Lukianoff [video](youtube.com)
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
How old are you? Usually this introduces a lot of bias in what your idea of a reasonable age is :)
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
Ah, I see, that makes sense
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by dbsmith83 2y ago
"In this case, however, viruses are an order of magnitude smaller than bacteria so the needles must be correspondingly smaller if they are to have any effect on them." And animal cells are an order of magnitude larger than bacteri
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by dbsmith83 3y ago
Exactly! There are some obvious things too like: don't copy and paste tiny bits of an electrophoresis gel and put it into another image to make it look like it was the same result. Sylvain Lesné comes to mind here. Last I checked,
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by dbsmith83 3y ago
It seems like dishonesty in academia is not punished severely enough. Someone who is caught may face professional embarrassment, and lose some privileges, but I think there should be tougher consequences. Hell, Ranga Dias still seems to b
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by dbsmith83 3y ago
I agree. I know this was supposed to be funny, but it was actually a bit sad for me

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