ikanreed

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by ikanreed 1y ago
Actually if you'll read the fine print, you're obligated to be friends.
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by ikanreed 1y ago
By "create new markets" they've always meant "Become useless middlemen by displacing the existing bridge between makers and consumers" Usually their new bridge is modestly more convenient in some way, but opens the
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by ikanreed 1y ago
I can't agree. Because my netflix subscription is cancelled specifically because the "Finding something I want to watch drains my energy" phenomenon. Gradually over the course of like a year I got more and more frustrated wi
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by ikanreed 1y ago
So... immigration services in the US don't use criminal language when discussing how they handle people accused of immigration offenses, because there's a whole legal structure to pretending it's a civil infraction and thus y
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by ikanreed 1y ago
No, I think that's unfair. I, as a user, could very reasonably want a parody or knock-off of Indiana Jones. I could want the spelunky protagonist. It's hard to argue that certain prompts the author put into this could be read a
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by ikanreed 1y ago
Oh, yeah for sure. Children's television is seems more oriented toward addiction than genuine education more often than I'd like.
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by ikanreed 1y ago
Sure, but also as an adult, you're expected to have learned some resilience to failure. You're expected to be able to be able to withstand some criticism and see negativity as a chance to improve. I know it doesn't always wo
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by ikanreed 1y ago
And preschool teachers talk this way because they're desperately afraid of hurting parents' feelings
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by ikanreed 1y ago
Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children. There's subtlety to this, high demands are not high expectations. If there's consequences for not meeting some high standard you set for children, you'
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by ikanreed 1y ago
This is what I want to do as an engineer, but I know damn well it's a waste of time and money.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
It's a heuristic for understanding why you don't need to take some people seriously with your limited time available to approach new concepts. Credentialism should never be a fundamental basis for refuting new theories, but it mig
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by ikanreed 2y ago
I mostly agree, but struggle with saying this with perfect certainty. Understanding in the "have mental model of the world, apply it, derive thoughts from that model, derive words from thoughts" pattern is a thing they don't
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by ikanreed 2y ago
The press release writer was a bit shit at understanding basic scientific jargon. The research only finds epigenetic markers. There are no genetic changes. There are detectable changes to gene expression , and that's it.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
Not really? It's a lot of work, a multi-week project, but reading a couple hundred word speech can be done in 5 minutes, following a checklist in hand, probably 10 minutes. Times 12 categories, and 80 years of history, that's a
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by ikanreed 2y ago
I use python repl as my primary calculator on my computer. 1. I don't have problems like the IOS problem documented here. This requires me to know the difference between an int and a float, but pythons ints have unbounded precision(e
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by ikanreed 2y ago
I was going to say, this is what SPARQL was designed for and it's much better at than SQL.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
Part of me wonders whether it is sincerely possible to violate someone's constitutional rights "in good faith". I feel like being a functional police officer should entail knowing the limits on your power, in the same way y
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by ikanreed 2y ago
No, this is a very recent development in science policy.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
I'm sorry, correcting a story with recent factual information doesn't strike me as undermining the fundamental credibility of a source. Given that they correctly source and attribute the claim that it wasn't tested to a rece
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by ikanreed 2y ago
And it's an interesting time to think about this problem. Because we're about to see how all the structures that were put in place to enforce those ethics react to being told they must instead do keyword searches for forbidden phr
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by ikanreed 2y ago
There are thousands of historic hackernews news items from MotherJones, which has a long history of serious news reporting, and this seems to be researched reporting as well. I cannot understand the basis of your argument.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
It costs over $100,000. That is a decision you do not make for no reason.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
And my guess is there's a touch of ideology to this person that questioning Tesla and FSD's fundamental safety would hurt. "I screwed up" does a lot less to cause cognitive dissonance than "Something I believe is w
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by ikanreed 2y ago
A lot of companies don't actually sell a product that does anything useful, though. They sell an idea that sounds useful to management, and obscuring the truth earns more money.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
But, of course, it would be better if we could generalize and let users describe in conversational language the specific things they don't want to see.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
That very wikipedia article you links makes it clear it's not intended to mean religion is a "Drug" in the sense of being addictive, but rather a sociological pain killer. A tonic that limits how much people react to their o
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by ikanreed 2y ago
Nah, I entered the industry in 2008, and I know enough FORTRAN to know I never want to use it.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
Yeah, there were some other older professors at NC State who had clearly aged out of knowing the state of the art, but Bitzer was an enthusastic teacher who cared about engaging students, and still knew his stuff.
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by ikanreed 2y ago
The theming on this thing sucks. "Quantum climate calculator"? "IR Magic Wand"? "Galactic Soldering Arena"? None of that is remotely on-brand. The butter passing robot was a perfect early encapsulation of Rick
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by ikanreed 2y ago
Could it then be resolved by using the no-gil version of python they just released?

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