notdonspaulding

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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
> If you live somewhere that mostly burns coal to make electricity, Which is almost everywhere in the world. Fossil fuels make up around 80% of energy production. > But if they start building wind turbines and solar farms, because th
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
Just a note on your gun death comment. The chance of dying by a gun in the US is very small. Of those killed by guns in the US, less than 3% are killed by anything resembling an "assault rifle". Over half of all gun deaths are
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
They did not have internet. From the article: > You were in a country that really was sealed off from the rest of the world. No internet or social media. All press and TV (one channel) dedicated not for news but solely for the glorifica
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
I couldn't be talking from a more realistic standpoint. I've lived in places where incumbent ISPs don't invest in infrastructure, places where a private organization built out a cable network without any subsidies, places wh
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
> But that is rarely true for any privatized infrastructure alternative. There is often direct financial relations through taxation anyways, either tax breaks for the company or outright having the municipality foot the bill(see most sta
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
> Everybody benefits from infrastructure even if they don't use it directly. ...therefore, by definition, any infrastructure project is to be considered "worth it" and should be welcomed by everyone in the community. To b
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
I've not personally read "Misquoting Jesus", but I've listened to Ehrman on YT a bit. Based on that, and having spoken with a few biblical scholars who have read Ehrman, the general impression I get is that he has a &qu
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
I don't tend to reread many books in general. C.S. Lewis and Tolkien's fictional series are probably the only exceptions. However, I do frequently reread books from the Bible, typically the English Standard Version. And yes, I
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
It is and it is. My dad died of a GBM in 2022, 17 months after his diagnosis. If he had had another 19 months, I'd have made him breakfast this morning. I find it much easier to sympathize with people's desire for additional tim
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
GBM median survival for humans (according to the article) is 15 months. If the effect is linear, the boost to survival time in humans would be an additional 19 months. With the death sentence of GBM hanging over your future, an additiona
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
...and Hong Kong, until it was returned to communist China.
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
I see this claimed all the time, but I don't understand why this is assumed to be the case. GDP rises and falls with economic progress and innovation. If new LLM startups make a bunch of money, GDP goes up accordingly. But government
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by notdonspaulding 2y ago
Arrive home from where? I've got my AI Assistant writing my code, checking in at the gym, running my poker night, and filing my taxes. (Robot, experience this tragic irony for me!) </sarcasm> On a serious note, I agree with
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by notdonspaulding 3y ago
Doesn't it strike you as odd that devs get "lost" often enough to need this "feature"? I've used CVS, SVN, hg, bzr, and git. Why does git stand alone as the only VCS where devs need so many foot bandages?
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by notdonspaulding 3y ago
I came here to mention Dave Beazley's courses and talks. In particular, I recently prepped/ran a week-long, in-house training session of Dave's Python-Mastery[1] course at my day job. We had a group of 8 with a mix of junior
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by notdonspaulding 3y ago
> From start of game to 50 squares left is enumerable. A nitpick, but I don't think you meant to say "enumerable" here "enumerable" means "able to be enumerated, or counted" https://webstersd
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by notdonspaulding 3y ago
> Its the same failure mode regardless if played via everyone paying taxes or everyone paying FDIC... But if everyone is paying FDIC via fees levied against private banks, then the POTUS and Yellen and everyone else can release a stateme
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Your first thought is completely right. Your second thought sounds like a good idea. Let's have another competitor (government) funded by private entities via debt equity (bonds) which is paid back by customer receipts (profits) where
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Fatal flaw for outdoor games: what keeps this from picking up pieces of gravel or debris from the court? Anything sharp or rough it picks up is then immediately headed for somebody's hands on the next pass. And even if it wasn't s
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> My threshold for "serious news organization" is that CNN gets there, Fox News doesn't. I don't put those 2 channels in different categories at all. And certainly they don't divide from each other along lines o
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> > Pattern recognition is not intelligence. > Until we know how exactly our own intelligence work, this is a statement of belief. I would agree, with the addendum that it logically follows from the axiomatic priors of my worldview
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> That's how language models can translate text: they have internal models of understanding that are not tied down to languages or even specific verbiage within a language I would phrase that same statement slightly differently: &qu
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> GPT will happily [make a promise to you] GPT will never make a promise to you in the same sense that I would make a promise to you. We could certainly stretch the meaning of the phrase "ChatGPT broke its promise to me" to m
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
But pattern recognition is not intelligence. I asked my daughter this morning: What is a "promise"? You have an idea, and I have an idea, they probably both are something kind-of-like "a statement I make about some action I
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
I'm not the GP, but I agree with this stance. But the specific policy proposed really matters if this is your goal. Politicians often want to write very narrow regulations which are intended to tweak some small behavior by some specifi
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
They found an object which has now been shot down by a US fighter jet over Canadian territory: https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-canada-o...
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
If I were to formalize my colloquial understanding of the phrase "ripped off" it would be something like: a transaction took place between two parties where upon evaluation of the results of the transaction after-the-fact revealed
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to look and reply. In your first find, yes, your modification helps me understand that code much more quickly. Especially since I haven't looked at this code in several years. In that case, patches welcome!
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
> Sometimes intermediate values either don't have specific meanings or the meaning is obvious from the function name that returns this temporary value. I don't necessarily disagree with this. But even granting that this is tr
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by notdonspaulding 4y ago
In fact, I'm so fanatical about naming things, I'd probably give the two magic numbers and the return value names as well: function bakeCake() { const bakeTemperature = 450; const bakeTime = 45; // min

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