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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> When openAI made its Nov 2022 chatGPT announcement, why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms? Same reason they hyped up how worried they were about "safety" of the "we have to make sure these things a
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> Willing to work for less than an American, but somehow doesn’t drive wages down for Americans. Yeah, they obviously do. That's plain bullshit. .... ooooon the other hand, we've never tried having an economy without them. We d
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Option+shift+dash, on a default English Mac keyboard. Easy to remember—"modify [option] the dash [dash] to make the biggest common form of it [shift]", or else you can think of it as modifying the underscore (shift + dash) to sit
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Yep, this is all (MAGA's rapid judo-flip and complete capture of the entire Republican apparatus, that right-wing authoritarian nationalism is popular at all, the legal and bureaucratic machinery being in place to enable authoritariani
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I fully expect to see them take on more and more roles that e.g. the FBI traditionally performed. The strategy appears to be to expand, empower, and control them as the "MAGA law enforcement agency" and bypass all the rest, either
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I don't entirely know what to make of a very-small number of companies' valuations going sky-high that fast (and a few completely without any apparent connection to the fundamentals or even the best-plausible-case mid-term future
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
The book Impro treats extensively of what it calls "status games", in the context of building believable, natural scenes of dialog for the stage (or other dramatic purposes) and as a framework for making improvisation interestin
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I Found No Peace by Webb Miller, published 1936, which is an autobiographical work by a reporter and war correspondent. I actually got the dates slightly wrong, this would have been the first decade of the 20th, not the 1890s as I thought
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> I’m still of the opinion that iOS 6 was peak iPhone. You’re not alone. The release of iOS7 basically took us from having one OS that didn’t constantly confuse the non-tech-savvy, back to having zero of those. And it’s gotten a little b
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
The idea of avoiding work by taking a shit, though. Like I could entirely see Julius Caesar’s Gallic Campaign including a bit about punishing some soldier because he always managed to need to shit during the hardest parts of setting up camp
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I wonder what the oldest reference is we can find to this practice. I bet it's very old. Oldest I know of is only the late 19th century, but I bet we could beat that by at least several hundred years. Surely it comes up at least once
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> Hell, the fact that the Supreme Court is a permanent bench of justices versus a rotating set chosen by lot for each case? I've been making noise about this option but it doesn't seem to have entered even the online-politics-d
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> Charlie Kirk. We'll see what shakes out of the trial, but odds are leaning that way, yeah. > The healthcare ceo. Last I checked the guy's history read as right-leaning and it was a personal grievance that motivated it? I r
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> Yea in fact the ACA law caps insurers to a maximum of 15% profit. These are plan-by-plan, not on the company overall, and notably this doesn't apply to: 1) Self-funded plans. Name-brand insurance companies manage these, but big co
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Besides, it also invites the immediate and rather fatal rejoinder of, "OK? So how about we... don't do that?" Any negative response to that must suppose that everyone else would just give up on trying to advance drug R&D
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Solidly in middle age, three kids, plenty of other problems. Still way easier than high school. If next week the world went topsy-turvy and providing for my kids now (for some reason) depended on my attending and doing tolerably well at hig
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> Every once in a while I remember an algorithm for doing something I can include in our app and feel like a God, lol. I can distinctly remember the three times this happened for a team I was on, in my couple decades of doing this, becau
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I own a modal logic textbook used by a course in a philosophy department, and on any given page it looks an awful lot like a math textbook except that the presentation is far friendlier and the explanations are better than are in 99% of mat
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
OK, but I've never been anything but complete shit at proofs, and I'm really good at debugging. They don't feel like the same activity to me at all. This "well actually you're doing math!" stuff feels like some
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
There's perhaps more pressure in a way because you're now responsible for fixing any problems, but kids are exposed to the exact same risks of adult life and employment via their parents, plus some extra ones that adults aren&#x
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Seconding all this. I'm worry that somewhere out there there are kids hearing adults go "high school has to do [shitty thing] to get you ready for the 'real world', which is even harder!" (LOL no it fucking isn&#x27
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I want to disagree with 2, but OTOH it's also so easy to do that I've just accidentally done it my whole life. 20 year programming career and I've never engaged with math beyond approximately Algebra II, in the real world.
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I hated how much 7 bloated the base installation size (10x or more) versus late versions of XP, but otherwise, yeah, it's by far the best desktop OS they've made. (EDIT: Actually maybe it was Vista that introduced the inexplicable
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Would a very-small number of people leaving affect a well-distributed and population-wide metric like IQ in a measurable way at all? I'd expect not. What are you trying to get at? Could you be more direct? I'm having trouble makin
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I distinctly remember the main effect being that everything suddenly looked way, way more "3D". It actually briefly made me worse at batting, in baseball. Took some getting used to.
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
I think it could be pretty damn immediate. What's missing are unions and pensions for long-term job stability, tolerability, security, and clear career progression. What's missing are wages that kept up with the inflation rates of
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> modern culture of company hopping is contributing to this Zero people are doing this for the fun of it. This is entirely driven by incentives, not "culture". Or, rather, not by "culture" of the people doing the hopp
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
> So maybe a case of HN comments being "more on point than the article", but primarily in the way that it directly illustrates what the author is saying: engineers routinely bail out of the politics, to their own detriment. IDK
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
Notably, this administration illegally fired (ignored a notice-to-congress period, and IIRC also didn't state a cause, both of which are required by the law) all the Inspectors General as one of their first acts. These were positions s
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by rockercoaster 1y ago
There was clear, genuine shock even on the right over that event. It lasted a few months, at most, until their talking heads managed to "catapult the propaganda" sufficiently, and various conspiracy theories were seeded, fertilize

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