tbrake

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by tbrake 2mo ago
That's just a parallel fact, no one's "acting" like anything? What were you actually trying to say?
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by tbrake 2mo ago
> This is a short trip in an automobile, essentially a fancy uber ride. We need a regulatory body that can fine people for making analogies this bad
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by tbrake 2mo ago
> What's the goal of the US/Iran war? kneecaping china by cutting off a huge source of its oil imports. Russia will not be able to make up the difference.
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by tbrake 8mo ago
HN is a beautiful lesson on the hard limits of a contrarian's usefulness.
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by tbrake 9mo ago
unfamiliar with chess.com but correspondence chess(day/move) and rapid (game 30+0) should fall under two different rating classifications. Having different ratings between them is to be expected. And while people tend to make __better
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by tbrake 9mo ago
interesting to see in the replies such incredible pearl clutching on behalf of the poor, poor businesses whenever unionization gets brought up. brain folds lighting up like a fireworks show just to combat the idea of [checks scroll] uhh not
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by tbrake 11mo ago
Reframing someone's disagreement as them "struggling with something" is incredibly patronizing and condescending and dirty conversational pool.
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by tbrake 1y ago
Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation edge case. unless you want to go full kyube
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by tbrake 1y ago
I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind. It hits me every summer like clockwork tbh - leaving a nicely typed 2 minutes notice o
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by tbrake 1y ago
Kinda but kinda not. I'd agree that 75% you speak of is generally hostile to the mere concept of PMs, but that's usually from a misapplication of PMs as proxy-bosses for absentee product owners/directors who don't want t
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by tbrake 1y ago
I think you shouldn't presume to know better than the author what they meant.
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by tbrake 1y ago
having known dozens of friends, family, roommates, coworkers etc both before and after they started them. The two biggest telltale signs - 1. tendency to produce - out of no necessity whatsoever, mind - walls of text. walls of speech will h
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by tbrake 1y ago
What if we're just not onboard with the premise that campers/squatters need to be pandered to in the first place?
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The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy(self.com)
28 points by tbrake 1y ago|34 comments
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by tbrake 1y ago
well, using larger denominations helps.
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by tbrake 1y ago
Well, almost always. There was that brief period in 2023 when Bing just started straight up gaslighting people instead of admitting it was wrong. https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-b
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by tbrake 1y ago
I'd say it's actually completely useless. The definitions of "weak" and "strong" are extremely malleable depending on your own subjective assessment of the person/people. It's an almost-aphorism; near
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by tbrake 2y ago
How would more AI help? "given this goal with these parameters, figure out if another AI will ever game it into eventual thermonuclear war. " Feels halting problem-esque.
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by tbrake 2y ago
I feel most bad for the other frogs in roles whose pots haven't even been put on the AI stovetop yet. I have general feeling they feel they're safe. Looking at you specifically, Project/Program managers with little output oth
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by tbrake 2y ago
Deep down I believe such things about both dogs and cats to some degree. But also this is also a survey of pet owners about their own pets' behaviors, and I can't shake the feeling there's more than a bit of projection/a
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by tbrake 2y ago
"Seeing" something in your imagination isn't a literal hallucination. It's an altogether separate form of visualization that doesn't interfere optically.
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by tbrake 2y ago
> They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. I wonder if they have good answers as to who will buy their pro
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by tbrake 2y ago
Before you asked the first question did you try to put yourself in someone else's (running) shoes and figure out their motives? If you haven't, try. Steel man the case for running and getting better at running before you just decl
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by tbrake 2y ago
Though unaffiliated myself, I still have very clear opinions on policies. This leads to voting exclusively for one party anyway. It's just the label and tribalism I reject, not their stances or some desire for a mythical "middle p
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by tbrake 2y ago
That is not suffering and you should be embarrassed to type like that.
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by tbrake 2y ago
I'm really only interested in weakly solved, i.e. "forced draw from starting position" like the 5x5 variant, not a perfect play tablebase from all possible positions. Given that 5x5 is (weakly) solved, even though your rough
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by tbrake 2y ago
24 pieces on an 8x8 is a nightmare, sure. However, other smaller chess versions (e.g. 5x5 w/ 20 pieces) are at least weakly solved and given the piece/pawn/move restrictions of this 6x6 variant, I wouldn't be surprised i
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by tbrake 3y ago
I think there's a positive knock-on effect in a lot of "I stopped eating X and everything got better" stories that usually go unsaid - once you decide to cut something out, it forces you to actually start _paying attention_ t
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by tbrake 3y ago
There's a phenomenon where a lot of tech types begin treating discussions and conversations as adversarial pursuits instead of collaborative exchanges. I definitely recognize that behavior in young me. It has a side benefit of being a
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by tbrake 3y ago
The old "everything is politics if you really think about it" gambit, eh?

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