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by twright0 21d ago
The biological systems that support human intelligence are notoriously messy and work together only tenuously with a great many failure modes, including "process for the sake of process"
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by twright0 2mo ago
Sorry! Sorry! $#@%! Sorry!
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by twright0 8mo ago
I really encourage interested folks to read the biography (though it's an undertaking). According to Caro, part of the background is that the relevant southern Texas precincts were well understood to have vote counts up for purchase; o
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by twright0 8mo ago
An interesting anecdote, another good example of a reasonably modern example of paper ballots enabling election stealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal Caro covers this pretty extensively in his LBJ biog
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by twright0 1y ago
> Reduce price. Reduce the abominable resource usage. Allow E2E encryption. Increase performance so it doesn't trickle at tens of kilobytes for hours when I have 100Mbps upload and half a terabyte left. How do you imagine that any o
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by twright0 1y ago
For the better part of a decade people have been buying Teslas under the promise that the cars would drive themselves better than their owner could, or would offset their cost by participating in a self-driving taxi service while their owne
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by twright0 1y ago
The last third should have been a short epilogue or a full sequel. It's too much of a pivot in terms of tone and focus, and feels incongruous and mismatched with the first two sections (which are excellent ). He clearly had a bunch of
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by twright0 1y ago
Your calculator won't confidently pretend to conjugate German verbs while doing so incorrectly, though.
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by twright0 1y ago
According to sixty seconds of googling[0], the extra day makes them eligible for sentence reduction for good behavior. [0]: https://kmlawfirm.com/2022/06/23/whats-the-deal-with-a-year-...
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by twright0 2y ago
> He replies, "I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!" This only happens because he was inside a computer simulation of the universe created just for him, so the Vortex shows him he actually is important. Had it happened for real it would
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by twright0 2y ago
The year that I took AP Physics, every single piece of study material and practice test exercised only really simple math - small numbers, everything cleanly worked out into integers, etc etc. I did almost everything in my head or with quic
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by twright0 2y ago
The above was referencing stopping on a city street ("Powell between Bush and Sutter"). You're talking about stopping on a highway. These things are not particularly comparable.
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by twright0 2y ago
Presumably Efani accomplishes that additional protection by maintaining a human support staff they put more resources into training than the average carrier. That's expensive, especially when you consider that it's a relatively ni
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by twright0 3y ago
> (~$400 sweater). From Terry Pratchett: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really
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by twright0 3y ago
Mostly off-topic, but if you find this compelling, you will certainly enjoy reading the short story "There Is No Antimemetics Division" whose chapters are linked from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-divis
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by twright0 3y ago
I benefit from a very robust set of regulatory controls ensuring that food products are as advertised and generally safe for me to consume?
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by twright0 3y ago
Issuing a fake search warrant is presumably a crime, so they would/should be cooperating with law enforcement about it.
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by twright0 3y ago
The very first thing you did is write a program that prints a pixel-perfect "memory reset successfully" message to the screen as if you had just cleared it yourself :)
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by twright0 3y ago
> If you meet anyone who disagrees with any of that, let me know Facebook appears to have disagreed with that; they amplified calls for ethnic cleansing and did not respond to concerns about it, so they must have believed that asking the
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by twright0 3y ago
"Mansions" is hard to quantify; whether a given house was a mansion will be subjective, and doesn't correlate super well with the amount of financial support they gave their child. But if you want to really dig into the detai
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by twright0 3y ago
> how few bad things people can point to that he actually did.. I'd encourage you to read The Power Broker, if you haven't. Some examples that aren't "policy decisions" we can disagree with given our knowledge of
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by twright0 3y ago
Sometimes! My attempt with GPT-4 yields a response where it acknowledges the print/len swap, but does not produce correct code in the end - it sort of loses track of what the original goal was. https://chat.openai.com/s
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by twright0 3y ago
Dihydrogen monoxide too!
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by twright0 3y ago
I suspect that this comment section is going to fill up with such anecdotes, but his OCW lecture series on Linear Algebra got me through a college course with a less than inspired lecturer. Had no idea he'd been doing it so long, extre
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by twright0 3y ago
Most image viewers ignore bytes after the End Of Image in the jpeg format, so you can stick whatever you want on the end.
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by twright0 3y ago
What gives you confidence its explanations are accurate? > write and explain me more optimised algorithms for certain cryptographic operations This domain in particular strikes me as a poor choice for this approach. "Don't roll
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by twright0 3y ago
> Maybe a real life reading group or something would help. This is what it took for me - having a few other people agreeing to a schedule and meeting to talk about what we had read. I ultimately very much enjoyed GR but it is really diff
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by twright0 4y ago
This doesn't seem accurate - the scenario needs to be imaginable , but that doesn't mean it's a prediction by the author. I could write a story about the downstream effects of discovering FTL travel in 2030, but that doesn&#
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by twright0 4y ago
I think it's more than this - it feels pretty unclear that the "league" feature is real in any sense. There's no particular reason to believe that the other users and scores in the league you're in represent other r
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by twright0 4y ago
Do you have a source for this? I've seen content around GMs finding stronghold-style setups that the AI cannot find a way out of, and theoretically getting to repeated move / 50 moves without capture draw scenarios. But I'm n

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