rcoveson

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by rcoveson 8d ago
It's a combination of argument from analogy and reductio ad absurdum. It's not a fallacy. You're free to dispute the validity of the analogy, or you can dispute the absurdity, which you did, by confirming that you would indee
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by rcoveson 13d ago
No, but figuring out that you're playing a snake-like puzzle game at all in an extremely general input domain and then solving it in the least number of moves definitely feels like evidence of intelligence.
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by rcoveson 2mo ago
Most of the review is about the art assets, and I doubt the big ones (e.g. the trains themselves) are off-the-rack Unreal assets. An engine like Unreal 5 will cast your assets in harsh relief. Which is to say, if your game's assets loo
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by rcoveson 2mo ago
It's a bit of a trick question. Sarcopterygii, the "lobe-finned fishes", are classically represented by the lungfish and the coelacanth and other fishes that are rather distantly related to what we think of as central fishes,
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by rcoveson 2mo ago
And biology is by far the classifier's least favorite topic. It's not even close. I've had it downgrade to Opus for the following questions: "How confident are we that English and American Eels both spawn in the Sargas
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by rcoveson 3mo ago
I'm very confused by this comment. The era you're talking about is also the era that Facebook was released and it didn't have a voting system, not even likes/reactions. But that's when the term "social networ
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by rcoveson 4mo ago
I could see this image in my mind before I clicked on it, before even consciously considering what it might be. Is this how an LLM feels on the inside?
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by rcoveson 4mo ago
No, the worst part of a KVM switch is the video signal switching. You want as few switches in the video signal path as possible and the higher bandwidth you need them to be the more expensive they're going to be. You're already pa
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by rcoveson 4mo ago
What is this, Humanitarian News?
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by rcoveson 4mo ago
I don't think that criminal negligence is the most helpful legal tool for incentivizing improved security. It's too hard to prove negligence. Instead, there should be standard civil penalties for leaking various degrees of PII pai
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
Your acceptance criteria for a last line of defense is pretty strict. Governments break the rules, a lot. If we tried to overthrow every government that broke the rules we'd be in a permanent state of violent revolution. You don't
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
> That doesn't work with the second amendment though because one side has guns and the other side has guns and tanks and drones and nukes and the ability to control all public communication networks, etc. I don't want to be too
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
It's as much a fantasy as any other "nuclear option", including the literal nuclear option. Violent revolutions are a part of our history, and they still happen around the world today. Unless things go very, very poorly in th
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
Who is blaming the students? If 13 year olds were smoking and we blamed poor sports performance in that age group on the smoking, we wouldn't be "blaming" them. We don't model 13 year olds as little islands of free will.
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
A revelation of a mysterious element of the game which is not revealed in any of its marketing material is a spoiler. The fact that you believe it's a "decent compromise" doesn't enter into it. The proper disclaimer for
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
Jury is still out as to how well it works, but the traditional prompt is: "Be fruitful, and multiply"
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
If I had the thought, in general, that this was a fine thing to do, then yes. Presumably I would do it or permit somebody else to do it and be fired.
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
I'm happy to say that I would be fired if I did this, thought this, or wrote this comment. EDIT: Parent used to say "it's common for salespeople to log in to customer environments to show potential customers what the product
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by rcoveson 5mo ago
It's even more depressing than that framing would suggest, because we skipped over the decades where cars were just fast, powerful transportation tools and went straight from "mind bicycles" to "mind Teslas" full of
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by rcoveson 6mo ago
> You see a crow fly into the tongue of a headcrab and die. You now know everything you need to know about this enemy. But not everything you don't need to know, like it's name. That's a barnacle. But I still love the poin
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by rcoveson 7mo ago
I think that's a little harsh. A lot of the most powerful bits are applicable to any intelligence that we could digitally (ergo casually) instantiate or extinguish. While it may seem that the origin of those intelligences is more likel
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by rcoveson 9mo ago
But there's a reason that caches are always sized in powers of two as well, and that same reason is applicable to high-performance ring buffers: Division by powers of two is easy and easy is fast. It's reliably a single cycle, com
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by rcoveson 1y ago
Speaking from a place of long-term frustration with Java, some compiler authors just absolutely hate exposing the ability to hint/force optimizations. Never mind that it might improve performance for N-5 and N+5 major releases, it migh
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by rcoveson 1y ago
Just 20 watts, the same amount of electricity that powers 2 LED lightbulbs for 24 hours, one nanosecond, or twelve-thousand years.
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by rcoveson 1y ago
Huge oversight by Google. Now they're going to have to invent some other way to indicate that you want to show hidden search results and inodes.
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by rcoveson 1y ago
No disagreement here, but where the literal rubber hits the road, you still have to decide how to act when the ambient semi-aggressive driving population continues to behave in the way that they do. Will you blamelessly be road raged at 50-
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by rcoveson 1y ago
Assigning blame doesn't do anything for safety, even if you're right. Where I live, by far the safest thing to do is to drive ~4 mph over the limit on all non-residential roads. If you drive below or even right at the limit, you w
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by rcoveson 2y ago
There is no year zero according to first-order pedants. Second-order pedants know that there is a year zero in both the astronomical year numbering system and in ISO 8601, so whether or not there is a year zero depends on context. It's
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by rcoveson 2y ago
"Eat cells, not substances" is a somewhat similar rule to "limit processed food intake", but the former would seem to encourage both pasta and rice while the latter would discourage pasta if you're being strict abou
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by rcoveson 2y ago
"Reeks" (stinks) not "wreaks" (inflicts). And for any linguistic archaeologists of the future, yes, this is evidence that those two words are audibly indistinguishable in American English in this time period.

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