throwaway_19sz

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by throwaway_19sz 27d ago
Theory: There are more smart, happy people than it seems. It’s just, that particular combination tends to come with a reduced inclination to question their feelings and to engage in discourse about feelings.
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by throwaway_19sz 1mo ago
You are mixing up what authoritarian leaders want to know with what they want the public to know.
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by throwaway_19sz 1mo ago
If you measure ‘bang’ by hardware metrics, they’re clearly orders of magnitude better value today. But if ‘bang’ means usefulness at solving life’s problems, it’s harder to compare, because the problems have changed so much, and so many of
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by throwaway_19sz 2mo ago
That is a glaring false dichotomy.
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by throwaway_19sz 3mo ago
Can someone who got past the paywall tell me what the definition of “fully autonomous” is here? I’m guessing it means the software selected targets based on something the human operators decided when they launched the drone? Is the criteria
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by throwaway_19sz 4mo ago
You’re missing the point. OK, it’s not ‘thinking’ in a pure sense; the point is it’s private notes. If someone says something to you, they are allowed to privately prepare it first (thinking, jotted notes, LLM rewriting, running it past law
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by throwaway_19sz 4mo ago
I disagree with the sentiment. The prompt is not what you meant to say. It is part of the private act of thinking, of choosing your words. The thing you send is what you meant to say. There has always been a vital distinction between what y
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by throwaway_19sz 4mo ago
Funny story no one will believe, but it’s true. A good friend of mine joined a startup as CTO 10 years ago, high growth phase, maybe 200 devs… In his first week he discovered the company had a microservice for generating new UUIDs. One endp
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by throwaway_19sz 5mo ago
I have read it. I don’t think you get my point. I said ‘access to’. If you think about it, there is plenty of data freely available about the company in most job applications (often including actual salaries they pay their staff - literally
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by throwaway_19sz 5mo ago
What are you talking about? You have access to far more info on them than they do on you.
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by throwaway_19sz 6mo ago
You are not under attack. It’s just someone disagreeing with you. Please keep things civil.
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by throwaway_19sz 6mo ago
I think that’s normal, I would expect RAM use to dwarf network transfer on most modern JS-heavy sites. If a page downloads 1MB JSON, that could easily take 10MB (maybe much more?) RAM when parsed into an object. And JS code itself probably
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by throwaway_19sz 6mo ago
Because it’s a lot easier to refuse to buy an expensive gadget for your kids than to refuse to press a few buttons to set them free.
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by throwaway_19sz 6y ago
You can't really 'sacrifice' data. A more technically correct phrasing would be "I'm happy to reveal some data about me in return to get top notch search results". But even that obscures the most important cons
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by throwaway_19sz 6y ago
No one suggested that driving a cab is not work. The ruling was about whether they are employed by Uber or self-employed contractors.
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by throwaway_19sz 6y ago
I don't think there's anything unreasonable about your feelings towards the NYT, and maybe if you'd expressed them in a standalone comment it might not have been downvoted. It's just you wrote your comment as a reply sta
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by throwaway_19sz 6y ago
You are wrong here, at least in my case. I feel very strongly that the NYT was wrong to dox Scott Alexander, and I cancelled my subscription over it. But I also downvoted the comment you are referring to, because I think it lowers the quali
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by throwaway_19sz 6y ago
Upvoting/downvoting is not supposed to be used to express agreement/disagreement. It's about whether the comment contributes to the discussion. The comment from DarkWiiPlayer was very weak, especially in contrast to the origi
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by throwaway_19sz 8y ago
I would write back to them very politely, something like this: Hello, Thank you for your email. I initially reacted by pulling the extension, in fear of possible legal consequences. But on reflection I would like to propose a better solutio