skolskoly

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by skolskoly 26d ago
A lot of it is hedging and using lots words to avoid saying something that isn't true. That way, it looks a lot like text that contains meaningful information, even though it doesn't. The speaker can pass the scrutiny of an inform
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by skolskoly 26d ago
Also, the 'before' segment didn't contain any mention of custard tarts, football, crowded trams, mixed feelings, etc. The original had a very positive travel agency type of tone, which was replaced with a lot of very odd soun
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by skolskoly 3mo ago
As far as I can see, there is still one tell that was missed/left in: >Grok showed discipline, despite its goblin-like nature.
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by skolskoly 3mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220202042136/https://www.fda.g... https://www.tga.gov.au/safety/safety-monitoring-and-informat... Did some further reading, and it seems likely that th
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by skolskoly 5mo ago
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MTbRmLY8L._AC_UF894,10...
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by skolskoly 5mo ago
My mind went to that immediately. This does reek of being a copycat, doesn't it?
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by skolskoly 5mo ago
I was weathering the excessive and confusing analogies and then I read: >introduced a level of cognitive complexity that makes Kierkegaard read like Hemingway. and I fucking lost it.
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by skolskoly 6mo ago
>Sentence fragment. Sentence fragment. Sentence fragment. That's not X, that's Y. I can't even call this LLM smell at this point it's a stench.
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by skolskoly 7mo ago
To be clear, I don't disagree with you, and to say otherwise wasn't my point. I do think people get confused to the point where they for some reason start labeling all sarcasm as type A or B, and the entire value of the term gets
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by skolskoly 7mo ago
>Sarcasm happens when the observed irony does not extend to the speaker. This seems... dead wrong. In the examples in the article, both comic frames function as sarcasm, because everyone involved has no illusion that anyone is going to d
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by skolskoly 8mo ago
We have a word for that: Lawyers!
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by skolskoly 11mo ago
Fake it til you make it is good. But, better yet, we figured out you can just keep faking it until some other sucker wants to hold the bag.
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by skolskoly 1y ago
On some level they deeply desire for everyone to pay attention to them at all times, and they fear being ignored and irrelevant. Someone like that will struggle to understand that others don't get the same enjoyment out of being watche
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by skolskoly 1y ago
gotta smooth it out somehow
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by skolskoly 1y ago
Any live band performing a song is subject to mechanical licensing as much as a recording artist. Typically the venue pays it, just like how radio stations pay royalties. This system exists because historically, that's how music reprod
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by skolskoly 2y ago
>Any new system leads to a temporary increase in focus and productivity. I used to try to be very organized and adopt different systems to do so. Unfortunately due to the variety of things I do, I ended up creating the XKCD "you now
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by skolskoly 3y ago
I had an issue, but I figured it out. The rhythm is not the same as the one on the wikipedia page - which I was already familiar with. After looking at my recordings I realized I was playing it straight, but the default knock recording has
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by skolskoly 3y ago
>seminal book Don't think that we don't see this.
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by skolskoly 3y ago
>One could also include the computer's hard drive as addressable memory, in which case it has even more states when viewed as a finite state machine. If you are creative enough, you can consider the entire physical universe to be me
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by skolskoly 3y ago
The consequence of user-feedback ranking systems tends to be that content needs to be either novel and attention grabbing, or already popular amongst the user base. Discussion that is niche, or just mildly interesting, is often given less a
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by skolskoly 3y ago
https://based.cooking/
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by skolskoly 3y ago
>'petertodd' is a terminal disease that ultimately results in death. >'petertodd' has no natural predators because it killed them all. >'petertodd' is the 'I' in 'Team'.
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by skolskoly 4y ago
>But my theory is that the cell phone is iatrogenic for that purpose. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762051 Just saw these back to back within an hour or two. I'm speed running baader-meinhof. Or maybe the p
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by skolskoly 4y ago
and this is why I have to use nitter or invidious to avoid the wrath of the complexity demon
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by skolskoly 4y ago
Clearly the software industry is more evil than the FF villains though. Wasted computers are not alive, and yet they WANT them to be sentient.
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by skolskoly 4y ago
>Also, I’m envious and have a mimetic desire to model you :) Well, what is the model then? I would say I roughly understand the sentiment, but if you asked me, I would say that the envy stems from a past positive or negative experience.
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by skolskoly 5y ago
Doesn't seem like anyone has posted the bug free implementation so here it is: int main(void) { char the_terminal[] = "Hello World!\n" return 0; }
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by skolskoly 5y ago
>Bookmark this, and come back in 5 years to see how it panned out. Just like I did with zefrank.com, but that stuff was free!
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by skolskoly 5y ago
You might have misinterpreted me. I did not say there was ever singular in-group for the word, aside from the aggregate of all the groups that used it. The point is that the aggregate now includes everyone, and you can not have an in-joke t
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by skolskoly 5y ago
There is no in-group anymore. The term "meme" no longer serves as a shibboleth for any particular subculture, and anyone on major social media platforms has seen them and knows what they are. Memes have become the equivalent of gr

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