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New comment by throwawaylolx in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

throwawaylolx — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:51:13 +0000

"Learn to reason like a robot"

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Google Down"

throwawaylolx — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:33:16 +0000

Back up already.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time"

throwawaylolx — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:08:57 +0000

The emperor of "Byzantium" literally was the emperor of the Roman empire; it was not merely a claim like in the other cases but an administrative and historical fact. It is more accurate to say that "the Byzantine Empire" not being the actual Roman empire is merely a modern claim.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:05:56 +0000

Not really buying it. I mostly liked the same type of books all my life. I read a lot out of my comfort zone and I never particularly enjoyed it, nor do I think they impacted me much. I read what I am, not the other way. Maybe others are more influenceable.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Mourning Google"

throwawaylolx — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:26:59 +0000

None of this is relevant to my comment.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Mourning Google"

throwawaylolx — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:06:19 +0000

>It’s not that I think the companies are the problem, it’s the machineries and imperatives of Late Capitalism, which for a while we foolishly thought Internet companies could route around.

A pseudo-communist critique of Google.

>But those Ten Blue Links surfaced by the PageRank-that-was had a special magic. I found them intensely human, a reflection of the voices populating what remains of the Web, the only platform without a vendor. This was true when I was there and I said so, but was laughed at.

A nostalgia-driven critique of Google.

This post is a bit of a mess. There is valid criticism too, but it sounds like the author doesn't know exactly what he doesn't like about Google anymore.

I can also say I used to find better articles on HN but clearly the userbase of this website has changed, despite the guidelines trying to insist HN doesn't change and it's just a "semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills". No, HN is worse just like most of the tech space.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "The Rust project has a burnout problem"

throwawaylolx — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:06:22 +0000

Do you think that the difference between journal publications and blog posts are the use of capitalisation?

New comment by throwawaylolx in "uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox"

throwawaylolx — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:37:22 +0000

"Cosmetic filtering" sounds unimportant, but it's what most people expect from ad blockers. It's a bizarre term.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Who Was Duns Scotus?"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:11:53 +0000

There's no need for an ecumenical council to reject every single doctrine other confessions come up with. The Orthodox believe that the Fall changed human nature, which means that every human after Adam was affected. Since Mary was also a human, she was also affected. It was the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Exaltation which allowed human nature to exalt itself back to regaining communion with God. So the Immaculate Conception is rejected by the mainstream Orthodox faith and there is no need to have a council about it.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Who Was Duns Scotus?"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:19:57 +0000

>Yet all the Eastern Churches agree that Mary is sinless. [..] They agree that Mary never sinned, before, during, after birth, during her life, and that she entered Heaven with body and soul intact.

Not a dogma in Orthodox Christianity.

>So IMHO, the East agrees with the West in substance, but not in form.

You don't seem to care to make distinctions between Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox, so maybe that's why it seems so to you.

>The Eastern Orthodox Churches, typically, will deny that they accept any such thing that comes from Rome (the Immaculate Conception is a novelty, they say) and they will deny that their doctrines agree with Catholic doctrines.

Correct, Eastern Orthodox dogma does not give Mary's birth special theological status. So if you want to refer to Eastern Catholics rather than Eastern Orthodox, you should do that rather than arbitrarily ascribing your beliefs to other denominations.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Who Was Duns Scotus?"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:14:53 +0000

>Yet all the Eastern Catholic Churches have accepted the underlying dogma

Ah, when you said Eastern Churches you did not mean Eastern Orthodox Churches then.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Who Was Duns Scotus?"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:07:32 +0000

What are you talking about? The Eastern Orthodox reject giving Mary's birth special status, you're just hand-waving doctrines with no explanations, entirely from a Catholic perspective.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim"

throwawaylolx — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:08:48 +0000

One of the best software I've used. A timeless standard for quality software. Rest in peace.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "The Open Buddhist University"

throwawaylolx — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:35:38 +0000

>It’s just a title to a web page meant to be interesting

It's called clickbait and it's widely acknowledge to be a dishonest method of promotion.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked"

throwawaylolx — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:40:01 +0000

Is that all revenue, including subscribers, donations, ads, etc.? The numbers are not that large considering it's data for almost 2 years and a half.

edit: I saw it mentioned in that /g/ thread that these numbers are without the donations.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

throwawaylolx — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:31:27 +0000

When I noticed HN was loading slowly, I already knew FB was down.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:28:20 +0000

>Thank you for proving me right fellow HNer.

Well, who do you think does the censoring in the West? Companies that employ people browsing this very forum.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "OnlyFans drops planned porn ban"

throwawaylolx — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:57:08 +0000

Opinion pieces can be framed to dictate whatever narrative the author wishes to promote, and a nice story isn't substitute for evidence.

New comment by throwawaylolx in "OnlyFans drops planned porn ban"

throwawaylolx — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:42:47 +0000

That's about Visa, MasterCard, and PornHub. This thread is about OnlyFans and _banks_, not payment processors. Are banks swayed by religious groups to block payments related to adult materials?

Edit: Also even for PornHub, it is alleged that Nicholas Kristof's actions [1] had an important impact on the decisions surrounding PornHub, and Kristof is a self-described progressive who doesn't seem to act on religious grounds, so I don't really see sufficient evidence that religious groups play a significant role at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kristof#Child_pornogr...

New comment by throwawaylolx in "OnlyFans drops planned porn ban"

throwawaylolx — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:34:34 +0000

It matters because that's where their customers have accounts and presumably they don't wish to make a new account for each new person they want to follow.