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aaronchall commented on Horseshoe Theory of Politics   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hor... · Posted by u/consumer451
spankibalt · 3 months ago
Ah, the horseshoe! One of the toolbag essentials of any self-respecting "critical thinker", crank, centrist, or "heterodox" illuminary. :D

Already bizarre when invoking the Soviets of all people, who were socially, outside of some avantgardists which were only tolerated as long as they were considered useful or irrelevant, extremely conservative.

But then again, to many a conservative, a leftist or progressive of any kind, is "a commie", and the difference between social democrats, different breeds of socialists, or communists for that matter, is already as lost on them as code is to a cat. Shit, according to recent trends, Hitler was akshually a leftist anyway. ;)

The same goes for contextualizing political violence; it's all the same, everywhere, all at once.

aaronchall · 3 months ago
> Hitler was akshually a leftist

Have you not read his very consistent and personally defended party platform? He also said that the communists were close enough in ideology to join his party.

The idea that the communists were the opposite of the Nazis and fascists was an idea spread by the communists to create confusion and try to improve their own image.

aaronchall commented on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess   dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
viraptor · 10 months ago
Yes, which means you carry one bit of extra information - "is castling still allowed". The specific moves that resulted in this bit being unset don't matter.
aaronchall · 10 months ago
Ok, then for this you need minimum of two bits - one for kingside Rook and one for the queenside Rook, both would be set if you move the King. You also need to count moves since the last exchange or pawn move for the 50 move rule.
aaronchall commented on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess   dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
viraptor · 10 months ago
Ok, I did go too far. But castling doesn't require all previous moves - only one bit of information carried over. So in practice that's board + 2 bits per player. (or 1 bit and 2 moves if you want to include a draw)
aaronchall · 10 months ago
Castling requires no prior moves by either piece (King or Rook). Move the King once and back early on, and later, although the board looks set for castling, the King may not.
aaronchall commented on How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?   workplace.stackexchange.c... · Posted by u/ren_engineer
andrewflnr · 2 years ago
Yeah, they pretty much explicitly disclaim those questions that don't have cut and dried answers. But I think that means they never should have dipped into topics like "workplace", which has vanishingly few cut and dried topics.
aaronchall · 2 years ago
On these sites the idea is that answers belong in the top-level answer posts where they can be voted up and down for the purpose of sorting the competing ideas and forms of responses to the primary question post. Criticisms should remain in the comments until they are integrated and addressed in the answers, at which point they are obsolete and can be removed. Therefore chats belong elsewhere, and are helpfully moved into chat rooms, which you can click through to and read if you're interested.
aaronchall commented on Why Do Economists Get Paid More Than Sociologists?   noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
billy_bitchtits · 2 years ago
Math is hard
aaronchall · 2 years ago
True
aaronchall commented on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mmastrac
f311a · 3 years ago
> The Nokia G22 will cost from £149.99 shipping on 8 March with replacement parts costing £18.99 for a charging port, £22.99 for a battery and £44.99 for a screen.

So, after a year of use the cost of replacing a battery and the screen will be close the market value of a used phone. A lot of people will go for a new phone.

aaronchall · 3 years ago
Perhaps close in absolute terms but still less than half the total price.

I have never had to replace a screen before, but I have bought new batteries to replace on my own. An easily replaceable one would be nice.

aaronchall commented on GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos   twitter.com/bantg/status/... · Posted by u/ETH_start
uranusjr · 3 years ago
I thought they were contributing to the Python web framework called Tornado (quite popular especially before asyncio caught on, but still well-known nowadays).
aaronchall · 3 years ago
Just reading the comments, I also was thinking this was about Python's tornado library until I recognized it wasn't that. The title needs improvement.

CC @dang

aaronchall commented on Why is it so hard to give Google money?   paulbutler.org/2022/why-i... · Posted by u/paulgb
hattmall · 3 years ago
If you are big enough to matter to Google, you will have a legal department. Your legal department will resolve this stuff by contacting Google's legal department. Even as a small customer, detailing the issue and contacting the general counsel may get you some mileage. Getting stuck in the automated appeal denial loops for these companies is unlikely to ever get you anywhere. But legal > tech when it comes to ultimate authority to resolve disputes.
aaronchall · 3 years ago
This. And then escalate to senior management, all the way to Sundar Pichai.

Additionally, write your congressional and local state representatives, and give them the facts.

aaronchall commented on Why is it so hard to give Google money?   paulbutler.org/2022/why-i... · Posted by u/paulgb
teddyh · 3 years ago
How friendly can people who work at Google really be?
aaronchall · 3 years ago
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence in these threads about how friendly Googlers used to assist with these issues before management prevented it.

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