normac2

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by normac2 4y ago
I think what you described is what they already have with the "including results for [similar wording]" version of the results page. They also have a link to see the exact results. However, as of right now they only offer it for a
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by normac2 4y ago
As described in this other thread [1], there are already people doing it freelance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324723
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by normac2 4y ago
This sounds 1) very cool, but 2) also a monster risk for spreading COVID and other diseases (literally pairing people up for close contact in as many combinations as possible).
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by normac2 4y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/767/
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by normac2 4y ago
I think it's because you are going to cross through New Mexico or Utah first (unless we represent "you" as a point, line, or other zero-width object, and have it traverse a 45° line through the infinitely small point of inter
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by normac2 4y ago
I've heard the exact opposite, that the online community is toxic and one of the main downsides. I assume both are true in different cases, and you just have to be careful what part of the community you get involved in.
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by normac2 4y ago
At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad minotaur girl lies in street in Italy while tourists watch
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by normac2 4y ago
It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing
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by normac2 4y ago
How much fine-tuning and repeated-running did you do to get these? Some of them are just ridiculously awesome.
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by normac2 4y ago
This might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hair off the map of the kind of taste you usually get in i
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by normac2 4y ago
Seems like this could create a group of kids who were formerly driven to school and live out of schoolbus range, but their parents go to work too early to be able to drive them now. I wonder if there are provisions for this in the new plan
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by normac2 4y ago
> In case you were interested, there's a section devoted to that in RFC 3548: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3548#section-4 with the tl;dr of `s/[+]/-/; s/[/]/_&#x2F
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by normac2 4y ago
I think Trello and Atlassian went well (massively different scale, though). I think the rep is that Atlassian mainly does well by leaving the companies alone as independent organizations, more like investment positions rather than actually
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by normac2 4y ago
One of the definitive examples has to be Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely [1]. 2 or 3 great frisson moments in there. The big one is toward the end, when the strings decay and smudge into atonal textures (very very heavily influ
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by normac2 4y ago
Just FYI, John Lennon actually was a popular poet! [1] Mostly nonsense verse, influenced by Lewis Carroll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Own_Write
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by normac2 4y ago
A lot of this is way over my head both mathematically and philosophically, but could we get away with saying that the reals exist in some slightly weaker sense, more like how a function exists? I.e., reals are number-like entities that are
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by normac2 5y ago
I think what they're saying is that by making devs use a less familiar language, you're going to end up with at least as many security bugs, just ones not related to memory safety. (Not weighing in either way, just clarifying.)
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by normac2 5y ago
Is the idea that the product (once it's caught up) will be as good or better (and/or at least reach more people) than the original? Or is he OK with people being worse off than if your company never existed and the better product
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by normac2 5y ago
The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corporations automatically generate long lists of Hebrew ch
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by normac2 5y ago
> Whenever I come across something I don't understand, I will try to figure it out. If it seems utterly weird, that's even more motivation to figure it out! I really can't imagine this mode of thought where you read someth
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by normac2 5y ago
To me, it goes beyond being hard to read, and I take it as obscurantist in the strictest sense of someone going out of their way to be hard to understand. I have a theory that most STEM people simply don't think like most humanities pe
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by normac2 5y ago
> supposedly obscurantist, sophistic style of various disciplines of the liberal arts. Would you say there is absolutely no kernel of truth to this? Check out, say, the abstract to this paper [1]. Is there nothing obscurantist about it?
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by normac2 5y ago
gwern is an amazing resource and has great articles on a range of topics, including productivity stuff; his posts on nicotine [1], modafinil [2], and melatonin [3] would be 3 highlights. [1] https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine [
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by normac2 5y ago
This. There's also Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, and others. More here: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
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by normac2 5y ago
Some of this highlights an issue that I think about a lot (and it's obviously not just me): the duty of corporations to maximize profit of shareholders (as represented by the majority vote of the board, as I understand it) over all oth
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by normac2 5y ago
Well, I can agree with all that, probably more so than 80%+ of other naturalists. Although naturalists tend to actually be pretty open to the powerful psychological effects that can happen via natural means, as you need that to explain thin
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by normac2 5y ago
> But if you must, start with something like Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Don't just pull out the Goetia and start summoning demons. Reality may or may not be mutable, but our perception of it certainly is. Would you re
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by normac2 5y ago
Interesting take. It's analogous to religious arguments defending the idea of miracles. I don't say that in principle the world must be causally closed and bound by natural laws; only that it seems very likely, as it enough to exp
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by normac2 5y ago
Yeah, to be honest, parts of this message I'm having trouble even parsing as information. If you've had/seen interactions like this where the other person just seemed too literal-minded, I'd ask you to think about whethe
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by normac2 5y ago
Fair enough. Then would you say the spiritual plane that can be accessed or interacted with via these rituals, couldn't be fully described under the laws of physics as we currently know them? (Obviously almost any phenomenon can&#x27

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