globnomulous

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by globnomulous 4d ago
Ah, I see: I'm a moron. Thanks for the correction.
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by globnomulous 4d ago
> RSI For anybody else who found this confusing: "relative strength index," not "repetitive stress injury."
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by globnomulous 21d ago
Illegal immigration does not create queues or waitlists for legal immigration. But I'll be honest: between the uncited numbers, the clear-eyed, neutral potted history, the italics, and the all-caps "LEGAL," I'm starting
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by globnomulous 25d ago
> Ruthless pruning is unneeded with an LLM and it can take me twice the time to say half as many words. Right, but LLMs use one word where they need ten; by your own admission you do the opposite. I don't think you owe anybody an ap
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by globnomulous 27d ago
Is this a reference to Fahrenheit 451?
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by globnomulous 28d ago
> Which frustrates me immensely, because I feel that society at large did everything it could to convince me that parenthood is terrible. Movies and TV shows portrayed only the bad. Teachers told me that becoming a parent was the worst t
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by globnomulous 1mo ago
There was brief time when Pinterest automatically logged in Google account users if you made the mistake of clicked an image in Google search results. Popups sound downright civilized and principled by comparison
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by globnomulous 1mo ago
> because LLMs can only reason with written language Is that right? Think of code that draws a square, the representation of that code in storage, the movement of electrons, and the 'actual' square on the screen -- these are al
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by globnomulous 2mo ago
This essay: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-hav... is so bad, so dogmatic, and so obnoxious, verging on something that feels to me like intellectual dishonesty, that I ended a friendship with s
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by globnomulous 2mo ago
Sorry, I don't follow. Did I make a dumb mistake and fail to notice? Am I a total hypocrite?
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by globnomulous 2mo ago
> > A website shouldn't be pinning CPU or GPU. > That's exactly what I was saying. Rendering a few widgets shouldn't pin your CPU or GPU because it's so little work. Your comment doesn't say this at all: &g
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by globnomulous 2mo ago
This is astonishing. How could a person go to the lengths of writing an entire book without ever looking up this sort of thing?
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by globnomulous 2mo ago
My mother?
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
There has never been a vaccine requirement for voting. It has never been voted on. It has never gone to committee. It has never been proposed. If you nevertheless are certain that that was or is the goal of one of the US's two major po
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
> The choice between a galloping right wing and a stagnant center-right is no choice at all. American elections are a facade for decisions already made on top. This critique had its heyday in the 2000 election. I can't fathom still
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
This is nonsense. HN is very lightly, and fairly, moderated.
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
No, digital subscriber line, obviously
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
Interesting idea. How does it, or how should it, perform in huge monorepos, where git performance suffers? I spend most of my time in a repo that contains hundreds of thousands of files, where just a simple `git status` can take >3.5 sec
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
Agreed. Another comment in the thread describes the author's horrible, abuse-filled upbringing as the child of young parents who both weren't prepared for children and, in at least one case, didn't want them and blamed him fo
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
Yeah, I don't agree with the guy you're answering. I know plenty of great people who just don't want kids and don't find time with them to be rewarding or gratifying, and there's nothing wrong with that. Having kids
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
Alng the same lines: movies and tv shows have taught me that there are no door knobs in the future.
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by globnomulous 3mo ago
My love for my daughter and my wife enrich my life and contribute more to my happiness than anything else, by far. As you wrote, the majority of the very, very hard work has fallen to my wife. I wouldn't fault any woman, or man, for no
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
> Whether anything is conscious is about as important and amorphous as whether God exists Whether something is conscious is important for many reasons, not least the ethical implications. You and I have internal lives, and we expect othe
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
If an LLM contributed to a piece of writing, the author should say so, very clearly, at the start of the piece, not at the end.
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
I am stunned by the beauty of these. The Tufte template is particularly unexpected and lovely
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
I wouldn't call this nitpicking. This is how people who are careful with money think. I learned embarrassingly late to stop justifying purchases by making predictions about future returns. I treat everything as having zero value as soo
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
Hi, Tomhow, would you mind reviewing my exchange with the user voxl?
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
The comment isn't a diatribe, and your experience as a teacher and advisor does not make your argument correct, let alone make your request any less a nonsequitur. If I disagree with you, I will always, I promise, say so. Asking that I
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
> The reality is that a human will learn, given any materials including LLMs, but only if they truly desire to learn. We've had MOOCs, gigantic libraries, all full of free information. You can obtain a PhD level understanding in any
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by globnomulous 4mo ago
> The LLM has terrible judgment but an encyclopedic knowledge Bingo. Claude can bang out nearly correct code when I give it an idea, but it doesn't have the idea and repeatedly misjudges both how much work remains and what kind. On

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