ericdykstra

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by ericdykstra 28d ago
AI didn't X, it Y. Where Y is write this post.
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by ericdykstra 5mo ago
The Artisan of Glimmith is so good! Biggest surprise of the year for me so far.
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by ericdykstra 7mo ago
I got 12/18 on faces as an American-born Caucasian living in Japan for over 10 years. Since the subjects were photographed in New York City (and from the other comments, at least a decade ago), cues from fashion and makeup only helped
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by ericdykstra 7mo ago
I won't ever put my name on something written by an LLM, and I will blacklist any site or person I see doing it. If I want to read LLM output I can prompt it myself, subjecting me to it and passing it off as your own is disrespectful.
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by ericdykstra 8mo ago
I studied poker a lot in high school, and it still influences how I think today. Probabilistic thinking about the EV of your decisions is a good framework, but "Just keep making good decisions" is the hard part. Same as in poker,
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by ericdykstra 10mo ago
There is a bit too much emphasis on the relationship between the manager and individual subordinates as the only thing a manager does. It's certainly the relationship that programmers have with their manager, but it ignores the reaso
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by ericdykstra 1y ago
I've seen it work in a few ways; these are not mutually exclusive: * You have someone whose job or as part of their job is to it is to discover these kinds of internal organizational efficiencies and automate them. Something that organ
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by ericdykstra 4y ago
RTS has always been my preferred competitive genre. Yes, basic build orders are pretty well mapped out. In Starcraft 2, for example, the first 1:30 or so for beginners, the first 3-4 minutes for intermediate players, and the first 8-9 minut
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by ericdykstra 4y ago
This article, like Duke's book, has a solid premise, but fails to provide any actionable advice aside from a simple risk/reward framework. When I read the book, I was hoping there would be more information about how to properly ha
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by ericdykstra 5y ago
There's a kind of vicious cycle here where people feel disconnected from their surroundings and communities, and attention-stealing apps make a business of providing a surrogate through parasocial relationships and infinite access to t
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by ericdykstra 6y ago
I like the feature of being able to select what equipment you have available. Lots of us lost access to a gym with COVID and don't have the ability to put a power rack in our abode. A simple concept, but great execution! PS: Do you kno
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Many companies implemented work-from-home policies very quickly, almost all public events (sports, standardized tests) were canceled, schools and sports gyms closed, and some companies that didn't go to remote work had employees stagge
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
All the extraneous ads, tracking, etc in Windows 10 has made it so I have never bothered upgrading from 7. It seems like it would be a huge pain to go through and disable or blocking everything, and even then how confident could I be that I
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
There are certainly a number of factors, but the prevalence and addictiveness of entertainment technology is without a doubt a major factor. Plenty of hikikomori in the safe, walkable Tokyo. What's keeping them inside?
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Your great-grandparents were right, it's just hard to imagine listening to radio with family being "destructive", when today people have less friends than ever and are literally choosing Netflix, video games, and pornography
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Mass extraction and consumption of oil and coal will happen until these resources are too sparse to warrant building new plants or maintaining existing ones. I don't really see any future where this doesn't happen. If you remove c
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
This sounds a bit like Bill Gaede's Rope Hypothesis, but I'm not very well-versed in the topic to say for sure. Can anyone confirm/deny?
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Humans are complicated creatures, and just replicating the macronutrients (and even micronutrients) into an ingestible substance is not a replacement for real food.
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Can we stop trying to replace every last natural source of calories with some combination of soy, corn, perfume, salt, sugar, and vegetable oil?
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Peer pressure is stronger, that’s why it’s important. Sure, it’s evolutionarily adapted to benefit the group, which may sometimes go against your individual interests. Overall, however, you just have to look at the results to see whether
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
I don't doubt that you can do it, personally, but you only have to look at American obesity rates to see that a lack of self-control is a system-level problem, not just an individual making a bad decision. If we "figure out how to
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
A big part of it is the cult of individualism. Do you really think that you, by willpower alone, are going to be able to resist all the temptations of multinational corporations who collectively spend billions researching how to manipulate
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Amish are not anti-technology, they are technology-skeptic and will only adopt a technology if they see that the benefit outweighs the cost, and they are very conservative about their decisions. http://amishamerica.com/techn
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
So Twitter broke their platform, and they show ads. This is vastly different from a message board that shows all messages to all users.
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Twitter isn’t a phone call, but it also isn’t a message board. You only see the tweets of the people you personally choose to follow; it doesn’t matter if there are 100 billion spam accounts posting ads to nobody. There are millions of Twit
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
This sounds right, but what if the corporations are more powerful than the government? What if they have enough money to collectively rent enough politicians so that they never have to face the scrutiny that Naval is talking about here? If
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
This seems pretty good to me! One of my most vivid memories from visiting the Netherlands as a child was the simple, but delicious breakfasts that consisted of a choice between a variety of delicious breads, and a few cheeses or other toppi
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
YouTube doesn't seem to be interested in hosting any content that isn't manufactured from a giant media corporation or just vapid clickbait entertainment. Just take a look at the trending tab to see what YouTube wants to promote:
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
How does restorative tree planting work in the long run? Does it eventually lead to a stable ecosystem, or is it something that ends up less stable or otherwise worse off when compared to a natural recovery?
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by ericdykstra 7y ago
Plastics are bad news for your own health, the environment, and ecology generally. I've been cutting out my personal exposure to estrogenic items (a good list here, check the guy's book if you're interested in the gritty deta

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