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by devnonymous 3y ago
I have a pet peeve about the term perfectionism - it assumes the target of the idealized 'perfect' state is something other than the absolutely guaranteed limited resource in the world - time. Every self-proclaimed perfectionist s
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by devnonymous 3y ago
This was posted recently here and i found it very interesting https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics Related HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745970
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Ah right, capitalism hasn't ever come in the way of the steady march of technology. This is the reason why we don't have monopolies controlling energy generation. Nor are we limited to a couple of choices of OSs or phones...etc an
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Since links are being posted, here's Walker's clarifications https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/ ... where he first links to the takedown before addressing the issues.
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by devnonymous 3y ago
This is a nothingburger. If we were to hold this blog post to the same standard that they expect to hold the book to: * The email exchange goes on about a single claim from another rebuttal from the reading of a single chapter that indu
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by devnonymous 3y ago
I loved the early stumblupon. It was great for discovery as well as a social network with like minded people. There's nothing that replaced it and that's a pity.
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Reminds of The Nib ( https://thenib.com/ ). Some of the best English language non fiction artists contributed to it. Was saddened when they decided to discontinue.
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Yep. That's the whole principle behind stablity mechanisms such as tripods and easels
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Everytime I hear someone lament about something not being thread safe, what I actually hear is - I want this shared invariant global state to be modifiable but it isn't. Which makes me ask the question why would you want that ? The pro
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by devnonymous 3y ago
People were writing movie scripts long before the talkies became popular :-) Movie scripts contain much more than the dialogues. There's enough of an argument to be made that transcription is covered by fair use rights.
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Perhaps because we aren't seeing evidence to the contrary?
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by devnonymous 3y ago
...tbh, imo, the impact of this is already visible in the world (eg: it can be argued that the conflict in Ukraine is directly linked to climate change) whereas ASI is still fantasy that exists only in the minds of the AI 1% , to use the te
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Climate change has compounding effects (eg: water scarcity, leading to political conflict, leading to displacement, leading to pandemics ...and that's just one vector). Real world is real real messy. COViD should have taught people tha
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Ooh, that's a neat trick! The head fake, so to speak is this is a git trick rather than anything special to sqlite. Thanks for sharing.
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by devnonymous 3y ago
Not only was the Chandrayaan 3 budget lesser than that of Chandrayaan 2, as a meme doing the rounds point out, it was lesser than the budgets of some Hollywood blockbusters like Interstellar. So yeah, safe to say they could have had the bud
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IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you(theregister.com)
10 points by devnonymous 3y ago|2 comments
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> I personally believe that most people are smarter than this You've grossly overestimated the willingness (not the capacity) of people to reason and gravely underestimated the power of propoganda. Everything in history from religio
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by devnonymous 4y ago
If the volume of data fits on a mobile phone for it to be offline, perhaps you don't need deep learning?
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by devnonymous 4y ago
It boils down to who they are trying to appease. With the potential backlash they would have got from customers and damage to their brand it makes sense to position themselves as 'taking a stand on behalf of the customer'. If ther
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> I believe jati and religion/theology are orthogonal. You can belong to caste x and any religion y in the sub-continent. My comment was in response to the parent who brought in the word religion into the discussion, as some means o
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by devnonymous 4y ago
How did religion enter the conversation? Are you saying that you'd stop being a Hindu if you give up your Brahmin identity?
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> It's as absurd as saying there are not enough professional basketball player that are redhead so we should have quota of redhead regardless of skill level. If the end goal is that after a number of generations we finally have the
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by devnonymous 4y ago
I've heard similar arguments being made about teaching CRT in school. Are you really saying ABCDs are so confused about their own identity that they'll cling on to n antiquated notion of a social hierarchy based on knowledge of th
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> No doubt lower caste members have disparate outcomes compared to Upper Caste but this is not due to "Caste Discrimination". This sort of opinion forming based purely on personal anecdotes is why talks such as the one under di
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Leaving out this, while quoting other parts of it, from the linked New Indian Express article is rather disingenuous: > The Kolkata-based Anthropological Survey of India (ANSI), which has, “of late”, expressed “disinclination” to proceed
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Indian government procures DNA kits to study ‘racial purity’ of population(independent.co.uk)
8 points by devnonymous 4y ago|4 comments
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Note that there are other 'cues' as well that casteists use to identify your caste, such as the food you eat (veg/non-veg), the social rituals/ceremonies or religious practices you engage in. In fact, you'd see enou
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by devnonymous 4y ago
If you were born outside of India, it would be pretty much like any other national /racial identity -- inferred from family (based on family names for instance). Like mentioned in the GPs write-up: > Unlike race, it’s easier to hide
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Google cancelled a talk on caste bias(washingtonpost.com)
760 points by devnonymous 4y ago|946 comments
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> It's also a tacit admission that they have a QA process that is dogshit and simply expect users to catch bugs Since when did we expect OSS to have QA process that is not the users ? It's telling that the co-opting of OSS by b

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