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oh_my_goodness··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
TFA has data.
oh_my_goodness··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
Sci-fi premise. Somewhere [1] there is a message board where developers openly celebrate those feelings of dislike and disdain toward users.

On that board, silently deleting a user's files is obviously justified. What would be out of line is complaining about software silently deleting user files.

[1] Long ago. Galaxy far away.

oh_my_goodness··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
That does nothing to solve my real problem, which is too little surveillance.
oh_my_goodness··on LG says we're fake news [video]
If you don't have laws, or don't enforce them, people will do whatever they want.

I can remember when this simple point was obvious to almost everyone.

oh_my_goodness··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
>There is absolutely no reason to read those contracts any more

For another perspective, check out the comment you're replying to.

oh_my_goodness··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Absolutely. First let's install an extreme surveillance state and give them full police power unlimited by the Constitution. Then, later, if we have any regrets, no problem. Just restore democracy.
oh_my_goodness··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Seems clear that's begun in the US now.
oh_my_goodness··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Your link confirms that the cuts are illegal.
oh_my_goodness··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Cuts must come from congress. Read Constitution.
oh_my_goodness··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
>This so exaggerated

No, it's just what's happening online.

>If you think some of the people you know are assholes, that's fine. If you think all of them are assholes,

Wrong thread? Doesn't seem to correspond to anything in the article.

oh_my_goodness··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
>The standard complex exponential and complex logarithm functions are defined exactly in the same way, because they are also multi-valued, so the same kind of equalities like yours would also be true for them.

Example values of e^z and 1^z:

e^2 ~= 7.389

1^2 = 1

e^(i\pi) =-1

1^(i\pi) = 1

e^-7 ~= 0.000912

1^(-7) = 1

e^(1+i) ~= 1.46869394 + 2.28735529 i

1^(1+i) = 1

oh_my_goodness··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
1^x = 1 for any complex x. So that library can be very simple and fast!
oh_my_goodness··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
The author's not talking about doing math, but about porting math into code. Counting turns is the same as counting cycles. People do that all the time. It works fine.

And this math is kind of a mess. exp(x) is its own derivative but the log is not. (d/dx)log(x) = 1/x

But, agreed, if you're going to do calculus, use radians.

oh_my_goodness··on Beware Management Consultants
I've also seen public information (from SEC filings) being sold by a consulting firm as competitive intel. Which I guess it kind of is competitive intel, but you can download it for free.
oh_my_goodness··on Beware Management Consultants
1. When I was 8, my mom told me that people got paid what their work was worth to society. When I was 12 she told me not necessarily. She said this: "You were only 8. I was trying to make it simple for you."

2. Management consultants get paid by shareholders to outsource blame for decisions made by management.

oh_my_goodness··on NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Please understand that the goal of these policies is to weaken scientific research in the US. The people who push this stuff acknowledge openly that they oppose science, experts, and accurate information. This isn't a misunderstanding or a fumble.
oh_my_goodness··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
I think it's just shouting. The 'netiquette' nerds [1] noticed that all-caps comes across as shouting. For once they got something right.

[1] bless their hearts

oh_my_goodness··on Saying No
Find a temperature that both sides can accept. Also, the dozen other people affected by the air conditioning? Do they pay rent too?

This feels like a story from someone who just crossed the threshold into adulthood and thinks that makes him the "dad" now.

oh_my_goodness··on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
Stalker vibes bro.
oh_my_goodness··on Google has abandoned Google News?
Kagi search works much better than Google search for me. But I don't use it for news, so I dunno.

I have nothing to do with Kagi. I've been a user for a few months.

oh_my_goodness··on It's not empowering to hand off the details
Yeah, I think the peak expectation for AI is that the user gets to be the manager of a very smart team. But we've all seen that. If the manager is clueless about the technology, the results are disappointing.
oh_my_goodness··on My falling-out with the rationalist community
Yes. It's almost as if the author felt that long, long, long chains of explanations might be somehow undesirable.
oh_my_goodness··on Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel
There are graphics, it's real-time, but you type commands to control the drones.
oh_my_goodness··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
Has anybody worked out quantitatively whether the total dot-com boom was a decent investment in hindsight?
oh_my_goodness··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
Does anybody know how much AI is earning?
oh_my_goodness··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
How are the earnings different this time? Can you add any color to that?
oh_my_goodness··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
Financial news tends to be written for people who can fill in a lot of blanks themselves.
oh_my_goodness··on Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)
How has CPR (or CPR data) changed since 2011? What type of medicine do you practice?
oh_my_goodness··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
The subject in chemistry isn't theory. It's what actually happens in nature. Even immense levels of theory just don't close the gap.
oh_my_goodness··on The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
>NOBODY IS ATTACKING YOU

Somehow this captures a lot of the culture for me.

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