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pwillia7··on Sweden is investing €104M to bring back printed textbooks
What is new math
pwillia7··on Sweden is investing €104M to bring back printed textbooks
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pwillia7··on WordPress Is in Trouble
haha
pwillia7··on The Origins of Wokeness
The Unabomber manifesto talks about this a surprising amount too -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
pwillia7··on WordPress Is in Trouble
Almost to the letter -- https://www.dalmomendonca.com/rules-for-rulers
pwillia7··on Bad Moon Rising
how do we feel about messing with history trying to repair broken statues? https://imgur.com/a/sAeWnCp
pwillia7··on Agents Are Not Enough
I had the same epiphany about LLM as UI trying to build a front end for a image enhancer workflow I built with Stable Diffusion. I just about fully built out a Chrome extension and then realized I should just build a 'tool' that llama can interact with and use open webui as the front end.

quick demo: https://youtu.be/2zvbvoRCmrE

pwillia7··on Agents Are Not Enough
How would the SIMS that contain the user prefs and whatnot not have the same issues described in the paper as the agents themselves?
pwillia7··on Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
All these people that think big archaeology is wrong because of gobekli Teppe and they now have a couple seasons of the Netflix show referenced in this thread
pwillia7··on Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
The slow movingness of Science with its method and peer reviewing definitely fights against new ideas becoming accepted overnight, but we do get there, and glomming onto personalities with unaccepted ideas will hurt your 'correctness' more than help it.

I watched some of the first season and was actually already open to all the alt archaeology stuff with the precision arguments people make, but the more I looked the more clear it was just BS.

I think the biggest thing about the old world people miss (and thus makes alt archeology so attractive) is the mass use of slaves and general lack of caring about human suffering.

I couldn't believe Red Fort was built in 9 years in 1640, until I had that epiphany, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fort

pwillia7··on Rules for writing software tutorials
I am with you on #1 -- I write a lot of tutorials but I'm not trying to help you learn how to open a terminal. I'd prefer to lose those readers up front rather than frustrate them for 30 minutes.

#2 is too far. If people want to misuse your stuff, shame on them, but don't boobie trap it!

pwillia7··on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
Who like hermits and people that follow asceticism?
pwillia7··on Making a watch from scratch
haha that was my first question/thought
pwillia7··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
I see you're not the OP that said that so I am sorry.
pwillia7··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
Come on -- It's not more presumptive and rude than to take another person's feelings of their own dead loved ones and mortality and call it disgusting and perverse. Please take a moment and reflect on "The Other" and the fact that we're all humans made of the same parts.

I sought to ask questions and learn why your experience differed from mine. I would ask what your goals were entering into this conversation and if that's a quality you want to cultivate within yourself.

Have a great weekend :)

pwillia7··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
You must not have dementia in your family then -- Take that as a blessing
pwillia7··on Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths
Why do you view it as disgusting? I have a great fear of sullying my good name and burdening my family before I get out of here
pwillia7··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
I LOVE IT!!!!!
pwillia7··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
Yeah it is so dumb seeing the shady shit when it's so not needed -- reminds me of that wild Alec baldwin prosecutor
pwillia7··on Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners
Wonder if anyone snuck in some AI images
pwillia7··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
the real unfairness is they didn't have Netflix and dairy queen -- just brioche
pwillia7··on AI Stole the Joy of Programming
Enter artisanal programming
pwillia7··on LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence
This tracks with my feelings making and using Stable Diffusion Loras and fine tunes. Still, with the speed to train and use, Loras have worked for me in most use cases and it hasn't been worth fine tuning the entire model.
pwillia7··on Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina
they can't fetch the memories and psychological traumas so far
pwillia7··on Shopify Is Winning Salesforce Clients, Stoking E-Commerce Rivalry
https://public-media.interaction-design.org/images/encyclope...
pwillia7··on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
Say hello to your new Subscription products
pwillia7··on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
Yeah! If the children want to lay my rail road lines for pennies, who the hell are the regulators to tell me and them we can't do that?!?!?
pwillia7··on Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
How do they even pretend that works when some South Asians are shorter and the Danes are so large? Are the Danish just 100% obese?

This says it's <20% there[1][2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...

2: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/33/3/463/7058153

pwillia7··on Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org
Which word was meant to be used instead of non-profit here?
pwillia7··on Mary Hubbard New Executive Director of Wordpress.org
While I love the use of passive aggressive language, in this case, as it was originally written, "However, if you are not interested in factual information, the answer is: YES" causes some globule of confusion to the primary reader --

Is this to imply that the answer Yes to the question about Matt's control over the organizations named WordPress is _not_ in fact factual?

Dictated not read.

YMHAOS

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