dualvariable

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by dualvariable 23d ago
> Additionally, they've redefined that a pandemic is (removing severity from the definition) 2009 pandemic H1N1 was not severe, and was called a pandemic.
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by dualvariable 23d ago
No, it is literally a russian propaganda method. Spread flat earth theories, get influencers to question if sunscreen is actually harmful, etc. Spread enough contradictory information so that gradually, people don't have any idea what
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by dualvariable 29d ago
> HN never seemed to be very full of joy or whimsy to me (the culture seems to afraid of "being like Reddit") Reddit is full of the same hundred jokes being endlessly recycled in slightly different variants, along with people d
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
Republicans are the party of pulling up the ladder behind you. They don't give any shits about free market economics or struggling entrepreneurs. They care about protecting their own money. And it isn't about big business; that&#
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
> I'm of the opinion that, if your solution requires perpetual majority control of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, your solution is in fact a campaign slogan. You mean like overturning Roe v. Wade? Can't ever ha
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
LLM content immediately distracts my attention to the fact that it is LLM content, and I focus immediately on that "meta" issue to the exclusion of whatever the content is. And generally I find that the content isn't that hig
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
> the data says they have enough loyal-to-a-fault customers honestly, this is the biggest problem with american capitalism these days. consumers that just act like zombies and never modify their behavior, no matter how much they get abus
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
They're probably going to figure out how to aggressively monetize and enshittify LLMs at some point. We're likely at the "golden age" of LLM-assisted web searching and summarization. Hopefully open models keep it cracked
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
Bug bounty programs were overrun with low-effort slop nearly a decade before LLMs were introduced; I can't imagine what they're like now...
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
The weather app isn't a native app either: > According to Windows Latest, the high memory consumption is due to the fact that Weather is not a fully native Windows application. Instead, it is essentially an MSN Weather web app built
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
> Let's just pause for a second and steep in the irony of "we're all in on AI, except where there are visible consequences." I've got Alanis Morissette jamming in my head right now.
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
> At first I was gonna say that if a person prefers the response of an A.I. to yours it is a reflection of your own lack of understanding, articulation, effective communication, etc. I think that people in general need to be better at re
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
People used to Google for information; before that, they used to read books. If you use LLMs for that kind of information-gathering purpose, and then do the work to read and check the references, it wouldn't be any more harmful. The pr
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
> but it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded, it's politicians and the voters who put them there. Disagree there. Tech companies and their owners are part of the system of monied interest
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
Cause civilizational collapse then. And of those nuclear tests, 528 were above ground, and only 200-300 of them were probably true airbursts. And all of them were in areas like atolls, deserts, and Arctic tundra where nothing burns. Their
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
Yeah, arguably the war in Ukraine is teaching everyone who is listening that nobody is willing to be the first to use nukes and destroy the planet, which means that nuclear powers can actually fight wars--which is incredibly dangerous, of c
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by dualvariable 1mo ago
https://xkcd.com/793
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Yeah, if we had a country that was run by Unions, rather than Corporations so that abuses of power by those that ran the Unions was a big deal, I'd have a different opinion. But right now, I'm pretty happy to blindly back Unions,
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
From the intro to the paper: > In J. C. Maxwell’s 1873 treatise on electricity and magnetism he discusses the number of equilibria of the electric field generated by n point charges [5, §113]. Apparently unaware of this, M. Morse and S.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> What's the benefit of this type of stacked PRs over a well-curated set of commits, and reviewing per commit? What I can see is that you can easily append commits to e.g. the first PR in a stack, which would insert them into the mi
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm on a gaming Discord where the 30+ year-old game modders who run it had to ban memes. If you don't, you'll end up with 15-year-old kids spamming memes into channels because that's just how they "talk"
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Liberals are going to find it very comforting that they're not one of "the lowest white men". The people the quote is referring to won't be persuaded at all. It solves nothing. There's no solution offered to the
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
And the condescending tone of that quote only further strengthens the culture wars--liberals love it.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> All the stuff all these people post on X is just regurgitation of 4chan circa 2016. You can trace a lot of what is wrong with 2026 back to the right-wing countercultural movement on 4chan, probably along with meme culture in general.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
They've leveraged the culture wars to the point that a good chunk of the rural, economically disadvantaged voters are cool with a northeastern elite billionaire looting the country.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Yeah, this is just regulatory capture. Make the safety tests abusively expensive enough to run, and if you're not a trillion-dollar corporation, you won't be able to certify the models.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> I personally believe laws should always be enforced and followed. Laws are written by imperfect humans. Bad laws exist.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
Cumulonimbus has been separated from its etymological roots. It now refers to the physics that can produce deep convection, high clouds, and the formation of an anvil shape (along with lightning, etc). The convection that produces a cumulo
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
I couldn't get through it. I find it exhausting trying to read anything that smells remotely like linkedin AI slop at this point.
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by dualvariable 2mo ago
> As someone who’s had bikes stolen and car broken into, I sympathize with the desire for surveillance (especially in San Francisco). That isn't what it is being used for. That would still require cops to be investigating petty the

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