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New comment by psyc in "Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3"

psyc — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:50:01 +0000

9 of 10 recruiter emails I get have 3 or 4 paragraphs leaving me none the wiser about the company, the product, the role, or why they thought I'd be interested. At most I get a vague idea of the sector. I hate to say it, but the only ones that aren't always rancid corpspeak are the ones I get from big tech. I expect GPT-3 to set a slightly higher bar. At least GPT-3 fools me once in a while. Recruiters never fool me into thinking they contact people with care.

New comment by psyc in "Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach"

psyc — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:57:04 +0000

And let me get you out the way so gp doesn't get sidetracked. Nobody needs pedantry when the subject under discussion is existentially important, and every normal person already knows what the problem is.

New comment by psyc in "Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach"

psyc — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:49:24 +0000

And that just makes all the difference, don't it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

New comment by psyc in "Marijuana use is outpacing cigarette use for the first time on record"

psyc — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:56:23 +0000

That’s a funny way to say cigarettes are vanishing, and weed is more legal. Stay classy, journalists.

New comment by psyc in "Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement"

psyc — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:59:14 +0000

Someone needs to coin the “We live in a society” fallacy already. We could call it the “Mark Renton Fallacy” for short. There’s no such thing as society, and even if there is I most certainly have nothing to do with it. Save for at tax time.

New comment by psyc in "Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?"

psyc — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:47:07 +0000

Things that have worked for me, an introvert, include emailing former employers and coworkers, and responding to calls for help on social media including sometimes right here.

New comment by psyc in "The Big [Censored] Theory"

psyc — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:39:42 +0000

I don’t think you know what word salad is. If you do, way to use sly accusations of mental illness to discredit, supporting their point that you can’t win an argument without cheating.

New comment by psyc in "Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:50:59 +0000

I am this kind. Jeez, how old are you and how many life-shorting conditions do you have stacked against you? My strategy has always been to visit each hobby round robin. I'll spend x weeks on music until I'm not feeling it or I finish something, then switch to animation and do the same, then game programming, etc, etc. I've always felt like there's way, way, way, way too much time in a life time but that's because I spend half of it suffering crippling depression. I'm supposed to be working on animation today but I'm here. Imagine how many planets I'd have conquered single handedly if Eliezer Yudkowsky had never started mentioning this frikkin site. Time to go make some use of that freedom.to subscription.

New comment by psyc in "At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:34:43 +0000

> But the current state of discourse on this topic is a complete joke.

I want to make it clear that I agree with you 100% on that much. We're more polarized this year than last year, and we already thought it was very polarized then. I was born in the 70's, I'm an attentive and perceptive dude, and I've never seen anything close to this. People tell me it was worse right before I was born. Someone here gave me a book about the Weather Underground but I haven't finished it yet.

I think it's a blessing in a way that everyone lives in their phone. If the culture war were playing out predominately in meat space, way more people would be dying.

The kids call ideas from 20 years ago reactionary. Wait, hold up. Too many of the kids -know- and believe they -need- the word reactionary, what the fuck, and I'm not talking about vocab.

But I still maintain that the policed do not bear more responsibility than the police. The police are the professionals, and they're the ones empowered to kill people.

New comment by psyc in "“Is there a heuristic we might use to identify and flag questionable papers?”"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:34:48 +0000

Just ask yourself if you dislike the conclusions or implications. If so, the paper isn't credible.

I was under the impression we knew this method for a pretty long damn time by now.

New comment by psyc in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:31:17 +0000

This might have actually stung a bit were it not for your pattern of posting in this way. You lot are on your 4th Eternal September since 2009, by my count.

New comment by psyc in "At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:23:07 +0000

That's exactly what I said to my ever-so-slightly conscious girlfriend 25 years ago. I still feel embarrassed about it to this day. Even my long gone grandparents wondered so, socratically.

A bit more constructively: I suppose if everyone everywhere taught their kids the police are there to help, the way the Electric Company taught me, then that specific problem might be alleviated. Perhaps with unintended consequences. But I basically had to unlearn it, and for them it would require a comfort with a level of cognitive dissonance that I'm sure no individual can sustain, let alone a whole community. At least if you accept their history is separate. Like, my ancestors on my dad's side came here in the 1600's too, but they were on the top of the boat.

New comment by psyc in "Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:18:42 +0000

That's good stuff! Reminds me very, very vaguely of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapZZdog0NI

Here's a small sampler. I include one that's maybe a bit similar, the one called 'crsh'

https://soundcloud.com/w37hlwyq0a/sets

New comment by psyc in "Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:55:53 +0000

I started asking my father, a concert pianist, composer, and teacher - this question when I was 4. He explained. In my head I said, “Bullshit.” I continued to press him on it periodically until I was a teenager. I still shook my head and thought, “What is wrong with these people.” Now, I can read sheet music just fine, but I still feel like … never mind. I’ve done a ton of composing without once taking any notice of what key any of it was in. And it all sounds fucking great. I prefer to do as much as possible “by ear”. I’m unbelievably stubborn.

tl;dr - Somebody really should have picked up on the autism when I was 4, and MIDI rolls don’t give a shit about keys and accidentals.

New comment by psyc in "At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt"

psyc — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:18:01 +0000

I was detained for 20 minutes for cutting across what I perceived as some empty field, 300 meters down the street from my brother's house. Turns out it was private property, and we weren't in the UK. I presume some busibody at their window called the police. It's a pretty posh subdivision. The land is literally much more valuable than other people's, and I went and walked on it like a wild animal.

But that leaves the fact that white me had no reason to get my back up, because I knew the white cop wasn't being racist. So I handed him my ID and sat quietly on a privately owned rock until he was done with it.

New comment by psyc in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

psyc — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 14:37:18 +0000

Not all of us, no. Or rather, yes and no.

I could as soon say to you, "At least go to Google News, search 'hunter laptop', scroll, read, and then think, if you can still manage it."

95% of you will just say "Well, this one isn't credible" or "That one is a right wing conspiracy theory." Or at least the ones emboldened to type replies will. So don't ask me to throw myself to you hyenas by linking specific sources. Google News isn't that many more clicks. I'll be busy holding my breath until the attorney general indicts his own direct reports and makes his own boss look worse.

What the FBI said may not technically have been a bold face lie. We don't have a transcript. It's a prime example of not letting the one hand know what the other is doing.

New comment by psyc in "One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants"

psyc — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 08:36:25 +0000

You can find thousands of comments of the form “This is no different from…” which exhibit temporary amnesia about the devil in the details. It’s hard to know if something is a harmless analogue of something else. And too often the precedent isn’t even a good precedent.

New comment by psyc in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

psyc — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:45:06 +0000

One answer is: more frequently each year.

New comment by psyc in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

psyc — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:42:26 +0000

They haven’t. But a eulogy is premature.

New comment by psyc in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

psyc — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 07:40:18 +0000

I realized 15 years ago that close to 100% of people who talk about him, don’t have the first inkling who they’re talking about, when they could easily have at least a better idea. One of the biggest problems big brain people face is that it sounds more clever and worldly to assign complicated self serving ulterior motives to basically everyone. If they have incalculably higher influence than oneself, one can hardly refrain.