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smallnix··on Still Love Telnet
Any good resource recommendation for a concise overview how to use netcat for connectivity debugging?
smallnix··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
I think you got the analogy wrong. It's rather that probably some games are actually rigged but the fans are not complaining about exactly these.
smallnix··on Germany’s solar power generation hit record high at weekend
Per capita or total?
smallnix··on 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
You do what's best for the majority of users.
smallnix··on Language models cost much more in some languages than others
Because not everyone knows Hangul and could learn something wrong.
smallnix··on The war on Japanese knotweed
This title is ridiculous
smallnix··on EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees
Following that logic, would it be more correct to say: "It belongs to the taxpayers nations public"?
smallnix··on Google Mars (2005)
> (As employees!)

Cracked me up

smallnix··on “Advice to Bride and Groom” by Plutarch (C. 100 CE)
I agree that it is good to not be only selfish in a relationship. But the quotes from Plutarch paint a picture of a heavily skewed relationship.

E.g.:

> A wife ought not to make friends of her own but enjoy her husband’s friends in common with him

> a virtuous woman ought to be most visible in her husband’s company and to stay in the house and hide herself when he is away.

> If therefore a man in private life, who is incontinent and dissolute in regard to his pleasures, commits some peccadillo with a paramour or a maidservant, his wedded wife ought not to be indignant or angry, but she should reason that it is respect for her which leads him to share his debauchery, licentiousness, and wantonness with another woman.

For me this paints the picture of a fearful, unfaithful husband who lacks confidence.

smallnix··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
> In the southern french parts the risk to sink into poverty is even higher than in some parts of Germany!

I don't know about the validity, but I love how Germany (as one of the richest countries in the world), is used in this comparison.

smallnix··on GPT-4
Is my understanding correct that a llm will not put it's "reasoning" in the reply but rather some text which is plausible?
smallnix··on GPT-4
Reminds me of the (false [1]) "Einsteins driver gave a speech as him" story.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/driver-switches-places/

smallnix··on What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?
What does that mean?
smallnix··on Mapping hidden corridors and chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza
They are so old, even the damages are of historic value.
smallnix··on IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution
I guess op meant "proper English " as in "not literally but semantically translated"
smallnix··on Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?
"Chemotherapy today? No again!"

That "too many days in a row" is the critical part in this piece of advice in my opinion.

smallnix··on Ask HN: What is your system for learning new things?
If I am serious about retention I will summarize learnings and write them down with pen and paper.
smallnix··on ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
I perceive that as: misunderstood a riddle, but understood the language
smallnix··on Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
I understand that you mean zero censorship for adults. I am interested in your position regarding people younger than 21/18/16 (exact age depends on the country I guess).
smallnix··on Critique of the mind/body problem
> [...] the least plausible theories may turn out to be the correct ones

It might seem pendantic, but I believe it's always worth the time to replace "correct" with "better models" in such descriptions. Not doing it muddies the water and some folks might start to believe today's scientific models are "correct". Not professional scientists, but laymen like me.

smallnix··on Stop developing this technology
Maybe not the origin but here is the story told by Alan Watts: https://youtu.be/j4TZMxkxySc
smallnix··on Stop developing this technology
That a law is broken by people does not mean we don't need it.
smallnix··on Unconditional Love
It is as easygenes put it:

> Perhaps you are ascribing a more holistic view to the idea of what someone “does”.

I think nothing is left for another person to love if you take away everything they do, have and how they appear. Because that is all you can ever know about another person.

But I now understand what you wrote as "I love you now, as you are, as a person and not just any one particular thing you do" and to that I agree.

Edit: I think I misread "anything" as "everything"

smallnix··on Unconditional Love
> I love you now, as you are, as a person and not anything you do or have or appear to be

What is left of a "person" to me if excluding those?

smallnix··on Two research teams reverse signs of aging in mice
> so far found no

Different from a claim that there are none.

smallnix··on Four thousand weeks
Or consider this, a person that manages to take out a loan and then dies before repaying can cheat the bank.
smallnix··on I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
Isn't gumroad still a one man show? They publish their business numbers on Twitter afaik
smallnix··on HoloKit relaunched, $129 AR Headset accessory for iPhone
> make myself vulnerable to assailants

Also be a nuisance to everyone

smallnix··on The expanding dark forest and generative AI
But what about the reader? The reader can suffer or have other feelings when consuming such generated content. Doesn't this give it meaning?
smallnix··on Why on Earth are flowers beautiful? (2018)
I believe that is the job of politicians. Pulling together experts of different fields to give them information to make such large scale decisions.
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