nswango

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by nswango 11d ago
So 1/40 of Reuters annual revenues, 1/1000 of Facebook annual revenues, is being wasted on ... lobbying governments against internet censorship and cross-subsidising translations into less popular languages? How dare the most usef
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by nswango 13d ago
A strange take. Everything indicates that while the best human chess and Go players will continue to be incrementally better than all previous humans, computer players will improve much faster and leave all humans behind in very short orde
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by nswango 13d ago
Idiomatically a handicap is a disadvantage not an advantage. So if Shin had two extra stones, KataGo had a two stone handicap.
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by nswango 17d ago
Your father did not buy those so that isn't a counterexample to what the GP said. Clearly, something your father made with his own hands will have a different value to something he bought.
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by nswango 18d ago
I have encountered many. For example if you find a password in plaintext in source control, you don't assume the person who put it there had a good reason, you assume they were deeply misguided.
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by nswango 18d ago
Maybe your responsibility is to push back against the pressure put on you to deliver short-term.
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by nswango 18d ago
My version was Chesterton's Facehugger. Something which, as soon as you discover it, you should immediately respond by trying to remove it, without asking questions about where it came from or what its purpose might be.
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by nswango 1mo ago
I think a more likely scenario is that GPU time in the cloud will be very cheap. If LLM use/profitability doesn't follow the expected path, new deep learning applications could be heavily subsidised.
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by nswango 2mo ago
This sounds like you are urging people not to disregard racism when comparing superpower regimes.
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by nswango 2mo ago
Whataboutism is a very useful game to reveal whether people are being honest or not. If someone is vocally complaining about country A doing some oppressive activity, while ignoring country B doing 100x the same activity, the comparison doe
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by nswango 2mo ago
Disagree. When tool limitations meant that this was the way people had to work, many people could do this. It was much more inefficient, because it's easier to find bugs after compiling or running the code. But it is perfectly possible
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by nswango 2mo ago
You don't think neural networks are going to be a factor in drone wars? How far out do you think this prediction will hold?
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by nswango 2mo ago
You know that when there were COVID related supply chain disruptions to microchips coming out of Taiwan, Europe and the US actually found it impossible to make the right number of cars?
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by nswango 2mo ago
Offshoring into China was literally invented by Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese companies. We see high quality tech products coming out of the countries and assume that they're very good at building things. In fact they are extremely go
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by nswango 2mo ago
It's not a lot of reviewing if you simply find the first thing that makes the document unusable and call them out on it. If it's genuinely hard to find that single bug .. perhaps the document has reached the quality required for c
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by nswango 2mo ago
Just keep on spinning cotton thread the old way, ignore what they're building in Manchester..
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by nswango 2mo ago
Don't know if you are serious, but why become part of the problem? Why not just review a single document quickly, find an error which invalidates the document, and send it back saying "Policy paper 1 mentions X as being on the bus
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by nswango 3mo ago
I think that's exactly the grandparent's point. Those conflicts are all the pretexts - they believe that it's actually class war and the other labels are all used to avoid calling it by its name.
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by nswango 3mo ago
This is not true. Plenty of Europeans have credit cards which work exactly like US credit cards. The main difference between credit cards in Europe and in the US is that poor people can't get them here.
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by nswango 3mo ago
No offense to the OP but this game is much more fun.
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by nswango 4mo ago
Does history record whether Hitler was using the good ol' giggles-and-joy pseudoephedrine meth or the evil psychosis-inducing P2P biker meth?
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by nswango 4mo ago
Have you ever been an addict? I have, and the argument that everyone addicted had some other issue going on is pretty pointless imho. Yes, they had some other issue, and now before fixing that issue they also have to deal with being a drug
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by nswango 4mo ago
This is complete rubbish. The peak years of the war on drugs had a variety of hard drugs available on street corners across all major cities. At best it kept some amount of some drugs less visible in some suburbs and communities, while maki
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by nswango 4mo ago
The original Atlantic article, which this one is trying to refute, also doesn't present any evidence for the theory that 'new meth' has significant different effects on health. After a fact dump about different types of meth,
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by nswango 4mo ago
Any exact number of countries is offensive to several groups of people.
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by nswango 4mo ago
I mean tons of back pain is medically unexplained. It's not like physiology has a perfect record here that can be used to dismiss alternative theories.
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by nswango 4mo ago
In California weed is legal but highly regulated. It's easy to buy weed in the legal market but very difficult to be licensed to sell or grow it. The result is that the illegal market dwarfs the legal market. The legal suppliers simply
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by nswango 4mo ago
Umm no, they submit thousands of random pages of business communication and system spec in discovery. This does not include the source code of their algorithm, which in any case if not stored in any form which can be recreated and shared. I
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by nswango 4mo ago
The "transaction outside usual hour range" seems pretty basic. I don't usually buy gas, coffee or snacks at 2am. But on the very rare occasion that I do, I'm dealing with some kind of personal emergency and don't al
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by nswango 4mo ago
But I used nonstandard nonces!

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