ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
1d ago
ulyssessword
1d ago
The dictionary definition is useless on its own. As an example, this scary cave diving sign checks all of the boxes.
ulyssessword
4d ago
...coronavirus lockdowns. Again we are being expected to tolerate draconian government interference with our daily lives...
How disruptive are ICE's activities in Minnesota? I have a hard time imagining that they create 1/10 the interference of the COVID lockdowns (averaged over their respective worst month-ish, counting everyone in the city except those properly targeted for arrest, and not counting the actions of protestors).
How many businesses are shut down? (Probably some, because their employees got arrested) Are they required to get identification and documentation before they serve customers? Are the schools still open? Can you visit your friends?
I'm not on the ground there, so I don't know exactly what's happening (or what their COVID measures were, for that matter). I'd just be very surprised if it was even in the same order of magnitude as the lockdowns.
ulyssessword
7d ago
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8d ago
ulyssessword
9d ago
I've been really diligent about implementing good practices like...
I wonder how long it'll be before "implementing" those practices is as simple as writing a good initial prompt for the coding agent to follow. And how long after that that "do it well" (or nothing at all) would sufficient for it to follow those practices by default.
Remember that LLM capabilities will only improve over time (barring severe government action, at least). Also remember that GPT-3 was released in 2020: Getting all the low-hanging fruit (never mind all the incremental improvements) from a novel technology in six years would be a fantastic achievement, so I don't think we're anywhere close to done.
ulyssessword
12d ago
I got to the first ending of Blue Prince (there are apparently a couple more), then the RNG dependence got to be too much. Once you need three or four checks to all pass within a single run just to check a theory, not necessarily to progress, it becomes a slog.
ulyssessword
15d ago
Do a partial exit strategy where you sell off any gains?
That's easier to do when you're looking at numbers on a screen. Seeing your position stay constant at $X while your number of shares goes down is one thing. Seeing a half-empty treasure chest where the value is only visible all the way over on the computer (and a couple calculations) is another.
It's about hit rate, not miss rate. If 90% of women are ACABers and 2.42% are badge bunnies, then their dating pool has ten five women per man (better than college, which is around 1.5). As long as the selection effects aren't too severe (and the numbers are anywhere close to my wild-ass guess), that sounds pretty good.
See also serial killers. They are unattractive to the vast majority of women, but still massively outnumbered by female fans.
ulyssessword
24d ago
but their price tag is >$5k
That's crazy. I went to a local lawyer and paid $130 for will and power of attorney. I know that it's a good deal and my case was simple, but $5000 seems like way too much.
ulyssessword
24d ago
Just in Minnesota (mostly Minneapolis, AFAICT). They announced another thousand last I heard, but I don't know if they're there yet.
ulyssessword
24d ago
The second encounter presumably follows from the first. If an officer was identified once then harassed a hundred times, I'd count that as one true positive.
ulyssessword
24d ago
How many people accused of being ICE actually were ICE?
At most 2000 (i.e. every one of them), for an error rate of 0.2%. It's three times the rate just with those anecdotes.
ulyssessword
26d ago
I still fondly remember Heroes' Bane, Bioshift, and Gyre Sage (and a bit more) giving me about 22230 power/toughness, which was completely useless against a Hundred Handed One with Holy Mantle.
ulyssessword
27d ago
It's achievement-based. You have to have two kids to unlock the perk.
ulyssessword
29d ago
2000 (with more on the way), or about one per 50-60 illegal immigrants. Compare that to the UK police's one officer per 400 residents, most of whom aren't of interest to the police.
ulyssessword
30d ago
Ford. They fixed it in later model years, but still. I'm kind of with you on that now.
ulyssessword
30d ago
For some of the people confused about why Minneapolis is such a big deal still, it's not a scissor event, it's a mask off moment and puzzling how some people aren't just reasonably disagreeing, but out of their fucking minds.
From Sort By Controversial:
If you just read a Scissor statement off a list, it’s harmless. It just seems like a trivially true or trivially false thing. It doesn’t activate until you start discussing it with somebody. At first you just think they’re an imbecile. Then they call you an imbecile, and you want to defend yourself. Crescit eundo. You notice all the little ways they’re lying to you and themselves and their audience every time they open their mouth to defend their imbecilic opinion. Then you notice how all the lies are connected, that in order to keep getting the little things like the Scissor statement wrong, they have to drag in everything else.
You're exactly describing a Scissor Statement. From your view, it's not just true, it's trivially true, and you're pointing at people who are (inconceivably) holding the opposite view.
Everything is no longer fine; the system is breaking; its replacement would only be worse; beware of helping it along.
At least you aren't at this part:
How do you know there’s not an issue out there where, if you knew it, you would agree it would be better to just nuke the world and let us start over again from the sewer mutants, rather than let the sort of people who would support it continue to pollute the world with their presence?
ulyssessword
30d ago
Companies increasingly recognize that any small "lifehacks" or perk can be monetized,
My new car doesn't have cruise control, because I didn't think to check or choose the $2000 upgraded trim package (not that I could. It was used.).
ulyssessword
1mo ago
At least Bush had 9/11. That justifies breaking some campaign promises IMO.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Well, not anymore, but you could have maintained a charitable stance right up to the end of his trial.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I mean if you hit somebody with a car you are always gonna be at least in jeopardy...
Then don't do that. Or if it's unavoidable, argue the point and easily win in court.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
What's preventing good drivers from avoiding charges? As far as I can tell, the drivers can simply drive well and not get charged with anything.
I'm not seeing it. If you're going to blame the police for creating a speed trap that constrains how people can drive, then you might as well blame construction workers for creating a work zone for the same reason.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
they can't convert every situation
That wasn't my claim. I'm saying there's none, ever. Either the suspect chose to assault the officer by their own free will (constrained by the situation, of course), or there was nothing a reasonable person could have done and it wasn't a justified shooting.
Kind of. Half the country is in the midst of something that could charitably be called a buyback.
The Federal Government has zero credibility on the issue, and they haven't taken any of the obvious opportunities to improve. If you properly file for the buy"back", then they won't guarantee any money, nevermind guaranteeing a fair price. They capped the payouts at about $250M, planning for 136k guns (vs. industry estimates of 500k+).
I also heard (and subsequently debunked) that they were giving themselves two months to do the paperwork, not that they were giving gun owners two months to apply. That tells you something about the current state of affairs.
Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Yukon are all obstructing it to various amounts because Trudeau was disastrous to national unity, both with specific policies (like this) and with his general attitude.
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