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by sgentle 6d ago
Could be a useful way to force user-interaction-gated flows. A "your computer is infected, click this button in 10 seconds or it will crash" type button which, at this point, most modestly-knowledgeable users would know not to cli
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by sgentle 18d ago
I think there are two opposite causes here: either an overly-aligned or completely unaligned mental model. For developers, bug-blindness tends to be because their mental model is so close to the system's model that both have the same b
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by sgentle 2mo ago
> It's not calculated, and not personal. It doesn't have to be either of these things to be intentional. Pretty much every large system is too complex to be calculated or personal in the way we would apply those terms to a huma
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by sgentle 3mo ago
Your thought experiment asks: what if the banned book library contained out-of-print white supremacist books instead of historically banned books? The answer should be obvious: it would be a white supremacist library. Given that the present
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by sgentle 3mo ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his net worth demands he not understand it.
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by sgentle 3mo ago
More precisely, you need the idea and mechanisms to prevent competition, such as proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale, and branding.
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by sgentle 3mo ago
Would the National Labor Review Board's legal opinion count as an incorrect summary? https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380791-NLRB-Advice-... > statements about immutable traits linked to sex—such as wom
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by sgentle 3mo ago
I think that's a really fun idea and I'd love to see it if you do it :) One thought is maybe you don't need the numbers? Like for n<=2 they're redundant anyway, and maybe it's good to discourage ratios that are m
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by sgentle 4mo ago
Unfortunately this is my broad experience of medical systems across multiple countries and, weirdly, it strikes me as one of the few problems that isn't caused by rent-seeking in the healthcare industry, or at least only very distantly
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by sgentle 7mo ago
At some point, every man comes face to face with the lie of his potency. We're told our willingness to turn ourselves into ruthless avatars of purpose makes us powerful. Unstoppable. We can do anything if the call is great enough. Is i
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by sgentle 7mo ago
A curiously frivolous way to frame the decision to get involved with a notorious sex trafficker. Nothing to do with values, integrity or culpability, just some boys missing their mommies.
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by sgentle 8mo ago
Market cap and it's not even close. Turns out financialisation is the classic you-get-what-you-asked-for-not-what-you-wanted of capitalism. We told the optimiser to make number go up, and number has certainly gone up. China's numb
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by sgentle 8mo ago
You know how it's considered a kind of low-effort disrespect to answer someone's question by pasting back a response from an LLM? I think equivalently if you ask a question where the best response is what you'd get from an
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by sgentle 8mo ago
And "picturing" is just a florid way of saying "imagining", no? The art of language lives in its redundancy; every unforced choice is a venue for self-expression.
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by sgentle 9mo ago
> What I am saying is that women make bad choices [...] and later regret it Yes, especially when those women are also children. One of the many reasons it's illegal to have sex with them and especially illegal to rent their bodies t
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by sgentle 9mo ago
Only time I've ever been successfully phished was the App Store. I have an Android phone but I wanted to try the ChatGPT app on my iPad and naively clicked the first result, which was of course a scummy clone. I have since wised up and
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by sgentle 10mo ago
Getting strong The Scorpion and the Frog vibes from this situation. Unfortunately, this is just the nature of a profit-maximising entity. Profit is the gap between how much it can take and how little it can give. It concedes nothing without
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by sgentle 10mo ago
DXMT has been advancing very quickly: https://github.com/3Shain/dxmt
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by sgentle 10mo ago
It's been like this for decades. Remember Google+? Remember Google Talk/Chat/Hangouts/Meet/Allo/Duo etc? The company simply values internal political advantage over coherent product development or user experien
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by sgentle 10mo ago
Do you not think there might be a relationship between the lack of due process and the choice of terms? Like, maybe the defining difference between arrest and abduction is whether the action is the output of an accountable system of justice
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by sgentle 11mo ago
That's a very... pre-1748 kind of philosophy. Hume, Keynes, Russell, Popper and others have written at length about the limitations of prediction from past experience. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by sgentle 11mo ago
Really fun. Thanks for sharing! Some random ideas: It'd be cool if you could start the growth engine from manual mode. Maybe for breadth-first growth you could add all the placed characters, and for depth-first just the last cell you c
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by sgentle 11mo ago
Same link :)
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by sgentle 11mo ago
I think you're not getting his key point, or you are but you're being coy about it. He did say skin colour, in the form of "native Brits". How do you know that? Because of the article he linked, defining the terms he w
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by sgentle 11mo ago
As I said, the Wikipedia article is what the words "native Brits" links to. Here's the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London Here's what the article says: > In 2011, it w
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by sgentle 11mo ago
To quote DHH: "when much of the media reports a story like this, it's often without citing the specific words in question" I think you lose a lot when you abstract away someone's words as "positions that alienate&qu
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by sgentle 11mo ago
It's a bit tricky because velocity and altitude are floored every step, and you can only burn on whole timesteps so you can't necessarily hit the target velocity and altitude in a single burn. I'm not sure if it's optima
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by sgentle 11mo ago
I've updated the shader – I think the issue was just that I was initialising the states to random values instead of running a proper degree calculation. The behaviour looked pretty similar to me either way, but now it matches exactly a
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by sgentle 11mo ago
As far as I can tell, this isn't adding any meaningful topology. The various notions of graph-connectedness basically amount to a standard finite-state CA with a slightly complex update rule. The per-cell update mechanism, using "

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