geraldalewis

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   by geraldalewis 10mo ago

   Apotheosis of enshitification.
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   by geraldalewis 1y ago

   > rightsholders
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   by geraldalewis 1y ago

   This seems like a parody, but I think it's not.
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   by geraldalewis 1y ago

   > weren't just laborers I'm trying to read that in a charitable way: you're pointing out that, to a person who is fine with being cruel to laborers, they might not be comfortable with the cruelty and humiliation if it impa
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   by geraldalewis 2y ago

   This seems to me like the apotheosis of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - super cool!
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   by geraldalewis 2y ago

   I give this project five bags of popcorn and a little commemorative octocat keychain.
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   by geraldalewis 2y ago

   I think this glamorizes and engenders an unhealthy relationship to work. “Rock star” and “ninja coder” works the same lever Steve Jobs used in the 70s to take advantage of smart people without enough sense of self worth. And don’t lie to pe
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   by geraldalewis 2y ago

   I thought it was interesting, but I think citations are needed.
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   by geraldalewis 2y ago

   Sorry for the meta-commentary, but I don’t think it warrants its own post: wow the Overton window has shifted right on HN. I’ve noticed it with other comment threads but this one drives it home. Not good for discourse.
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    This seems like barely-massaged LLM content and/or just a bad marketing page.
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    > All I want for Christmas is a GPT-4 level model with less obnoxious RLHF, and if it heils Hitler occasionally while crapping out awk code, so be it. What an ignorant thing to say.
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    I have only seen the first two images, but Paul Bourne + something that looks like non -Abelian sand piles!
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    I think the latter -- I encountered the same thing.
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    Sometimes Gandalf adds punctuation unprompted!
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    > For most people, performance on one type of cognitive task (e.g. verbal reasoning) is highly correlated with performance on the other types of cognitive tasks. It's cool that that's your understanding, but you're wading
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    He went through the trouble of citing his sources, you should too.
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    by geraldalewis 3y ago

    I think this video by `Shaun` is informative and well-researched (articles and books are cited). It's long; the creator isn't especially succinct, but it's as entertaining as the material allows, and the subject's comple
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    by geraldalewis 5y ago

    Being scared/stressed/panicked by a nuclear attack during a pandemic is reasonable. Trying to be conscious about taking care of your mental health during a traumatic event is hard to do, but it’s important. Some people need to be
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    by geraldalewis 5y ago

    The comments here are silly. You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock/paper/scissors. If you’re far enough away from the point o
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    by geraldalewis 5y ago

    It's 90 minutes, but ContraPoints' videos are really great. Here's her perspective on J.K. Rowling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us
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    by geraldalewis 5y ago

    I think up-voting folks need to re-read this article with a more critical eye. It's def not up to the standards I'm used to seeing on HN.
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    by geraldalewis 5y ago

    Holy smokes, there are some tone-deaf comments in here
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    by geraldalewis 6y ago

    Reporters like Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins were writing about the threats extremists were making before Jan 6th. That's not "junior high hall-monitor tattling"; that's reportage that I wish more people would have tak
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    by geraldalewis 13y ago

    That is the most beautiful handwriting I have ever seen.
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    by geraldalewis 13y ago

    Thanks! Interesting that mine's off by one...
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    by geraldalewis 13y ago

    I'm not a math guy, but I was thinking about a number series the other day, and 42 popped up. Do the numbers 1,806; 3,263,442; and/or 10,650,056,950,806 happen to have any significance as well?
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    by geraldalewis 14y ago

    That's precisely the idea behind a friend's startup! http://tennishub.com/ (TennisHub) (Thanks @chrisabrams - fixed)
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    by geraldalewis 14y ago

    Also, there's a little issue with @raganwald's counterexample CoffeeScript code. Here's a working version: methods = ['remove', 'show', 'hide', 'stop'] for method in methods do (method) -> # *see notes below
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    by geraldalewis 14y ago

    > they're simply a way to sell more tickets. That doesn't sound like taking advantage; that sounds like quid pro quo. Developers are buying tickets to attend a hackathon.
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    by geraldalewis 14y ago

    > My primary issue with CoffeeScript: people that use it insist that it's JavaScript. Because, semantically, it is the same as JavaScript (for the most part). It just looks different.