enthulhusiastic

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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Two seats are free on a plane, but each is in a row of three, and each of those rows already has a couple. Book 2 seats side by side. There you go, algorithm geniuses
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Oh… hackernews…
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Seat booking is hard. If a parent chooses the option of unattended seating, that’s just the reality of limited resources. The OP is acting like parents and kids are the only people who will ever want to sit together. What happens when OP
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
> The intent is prevention, not justice. Civil liability doesn't stop a dog from jumping a fence and eating a kid's face. You can already be held liable for the actions of your animal. No amount of scaring people with [insuranc
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
A deterrence doesn’t have to be 100% effective. If deterrence is ineffective, turn around and look at the dog owners again. Why do people get aggressive dogs? The fraction of people who: - get an aggressive dog (because they’re afraid of s
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Yes, but imagine all the free fire we’ll have.
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
The focus on insurance over criminal charges or even personal civil liability is wild.
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
As a non-expert who has basic fucking sense: first mistake is to approach an animal you know is hostile. Also that specific owner of the lip-biter should be in prison. If someone actively being bitten in the face can maneuver a door closed
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Most of the computation is suffering, but not wasted. It still benefits us. And the computation has to be done even in simulation. Just better to shortcut the suffering. I think bioengineering is a good goal. I think cyborgs are a bad go
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Because our bodies are already peak technology. I think the 6-million-dollar man thing is a weird goal. Better to regrow, implant, perhaps supplement. Full-on replacement isn’t just a “when” but a “why” and a “how do you expect to do better
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
but is changing the economy as a whole a fair characterization of UBI? That’s a disservice to the existing complexity of modern economies. Valid arguments not downvoted pls
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
nice try, sneaky prover (thank you)
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
Lots of people appreciate “technically good”. Personally I can’t stand all but a few guitar solos. “Technically good”
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by enthulhusiastic 2y ago
ELI6 why SPAG is better than just the default pretraining method (token context statistics?) of an LLM.