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New comment by wannadingo in "The three year myth"

wannadingo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:57:38 +0000

We are human, therefore business contracts are subordinate to the touchy feely stuff. Contracts are made solely as a last resort for when trust and communication fail, as they sometimes do. The idea of business as a machine with deterministic rules is not universal.

New comment by wannadingo in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

wannadingo — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:25:38 +0000

Because showing that the mitigation is unreasonable highlights how unreasonable the problem is.

New comment by wannadingo in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

wannadingo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:10:50 +0000

So since incorporating in 1851, let's say they put out 60,000 issues. 1 issue would represent about 0.002% of their output. How do you get to over 5% wrong?

New comment by wannadingo in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

wannadingo — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:31:26 +0000

I think he is saying that once US citizens return to the US, then they will be arrested.

New comment by wannadingo in "A critique of package managers"

wannadingo — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:53:29 +0000

Then again, there is a trope going back to Knuth - "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - which is an argument that it is not clickbait, but merely applying a pattern in discussions about computer programming.

New comment by wannadingo in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

wannadingo — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:50:34 +0000

He is not saying immigrants are like children, he means that as the population ages and is not replenished by children, there will be nobody left to work unless the country accepts immigrants.

New comment by wannadingo in "Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails"

wannadingo — Mon, 26 May 2025 20:02:52 +0000

All your counter-examples directly depend on the part you quoted and are presumably arguing against.

New comment by wannadingo in "I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs"

wannadingo — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:15:03 +0000

Two pitches played together is a dyad, three together is a triad. There may be words for four or more pitches together but I just call them chords. The term interval only makes sense to describe distance between two elements, whether pitches or two marks on a ruler.

New comment by wannadingo in "We will be retiring Alexa.com"

wannadingo — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:26:21 +0000

To enable ones own salary negotiations as a rational economic actor (TM)?

New comment by wannadingo in "Grabby Aliens"

wannadingo — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:10:46 +0000

The books are meant to make you question your own assumptions of what is good or right. I think what many people like about Banks is that he did not write simple morality plays. Iain Banks also wrote mainstream novels so you could say that he wasn't coming from the normal genre writer's perspective.