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basil-rash commented on CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them   larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-t... · Posted by u/greg_V
internetter · a year ago
In your opinion, what is some misinformation on RFK's page?

Have you read the discussions on the talk page?

If your concern has not been extensively discussed, have you raised it on said page?

Here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.

basil-rash · a year ago
Yes, the top chain in the talk page is exactly what I’m referring. And, as expected, the fair critique of the article for violating wiki guidelines has been shot down by passionate editors who want to push their narrative.
basil-rash commented on CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them   larslofgren.com/cnn-usa-t... · Posted by u/greg_V
Mathnerd314 · a year ago
> unbiased factual reporting

I don't think that has ever existed, but the closest I've found is Wikipedia. It is surprisingly detailed, particularly on current events.

basil-rash · a year ago
For mainstream folks, perhaps. The second you even go slightly outside of what the media has declared kosher it goes off the rails. Take RFK’s page, for instance, which is just a collection of inflamed opinions soured from “reputable“ news outlets.
basil-rash commented on Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park   jhnewsandguide.com/the_ho... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers
avz · a year ago
Phones can easily be oriented either way, unlike most laptop and workstation screens.

Majority of views certainly come from people whose eyes are horizontally next to each other and therefore whose field of view has a greater extent in the horizontal rather than vertical direction.

Admittedly I don't understand where the vertical recording fad comes from. Personally I take pictures and photos that are almost exclusively horizontal except in rare cases like taking a picture of a very tall building.

basil-rash · a year ago
Or… a geyser? Kinda the one thing absolutely known for going up and down.
basil-rash commented on FCC liability for radio pirates operating on your property   jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-n... · Posted by u/nativeit
nativeit · a year ago
> The PIRATE Act [2020, HR583] permits the FCC to fine both pirate radio operators and the property owners/landlords who permit pirate radio activity on their property. The risk for property owners is substantial, with maximum fines of $119,555 per day, capped at a statutory maximum of $2,391,097.
basil-rash · a year ago
Wild. How soon until the standard housing lease boilerplate contains clauses like “you may not transmit any electromagnetic radiation at all under any circumstances whatsoever” as a means of landlords trying to cover their booties?

More seriously, I’d be mighty concerned if I were a landlord and saw someone putting up a ham antenna, regardless of whatever licensing they claimed to have. It’s a bad day for public radio.

basil-rash commented on The one person in America happy about tipping fatigue   thehustle.co/originals/th... · Posted by u/Anon84
zonotope · a year ago
It would work like everything else. That "expensive" grocery store that continues to stock the high quality products that you love would still get your business even though they raise prices. In the meantime, the mediocre one would not, and they would be forced to lower prices accordingly.

I just want to know what the price of something is and make my own decisions about whether or not it's worth it. The social and mental gymnastics over tipping is just exhausting.

basil-rash · a year ago
Except here the grocery store pricing is “name your price” and folks are free to pick the price that suits the level of service they desire/receive.

It’s a leaver we have, and it’s rather powerful if you know how to use it. Doing away with it because “the mental gymnastics” of calculating ~1/5th of a total is too much for some folks to handle is just ridiculous pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I’m happy to receive the best service available at the places I frequent because the staff knows I will compensate them generously. If folks are unwilling to do so, that’s fine: they can still get food/drinks. But they’ll always be further back in the priority queue than me, because I value the time of the wait staff.

basil-rash commented on The one person in America happy about tipping fatigue   thehustle.co/originals/th... · Posted by u/Anon84
basil-rash · a year ago
Personally I love tipping. I’ll tip even for ridiculous things like buying a bag of coffee bean. Guy seemed nice and smiled and tried to answer a question I had - sure have an extra couple bucks. Not a big deal to me, but who knows maybe it is to him. Hell sometimes I’ll even tip an additional 20% on top of the built tip at places where they add ~20% to the bill before you get it, though I reserve this for exceptional cases.

On the flip side, I’ll just as happily tip near 0 at a restaurant when the situation calls for it. If we were somehow to abolish tipping, this would not be possible - prices would just increase uniformly.

basil-rash commented on The one person in America happy about tipping fatigue   thehustle.co/originals/th... · Posted by u/Anon84
goosedragons · a year ago
I'm not sure the law changing will do much unless they literally ban tipping. In Canada most or I think all provinces now have no subminimum wage for servers, yet tipping is still expected. It's honestly sort of silly. I'm not entirely sure why some lady taking my order and maybe handing me extra napkins is entitled to 15%+ of my bill while the McDonald's fry cook isn't when they make the same base salary.
basil-rash · a year ago

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basil-rash commented on Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze   sciencealert.com/physicis... · Posted by u/jhncls
anyfoo · a year ago
That’s algorithmic complexity/“difficulty”, and somewhat assumes that we only care about computers solving the maze.

Since solving mazes is however (also) something to be enjoyed by humans, it’s possible that perceived maze difficulty could be dependent on factors that wouldn’t really matter for a straightforward algorithm. For example, a very “jagged” maze could feel more difficult for humans because it’s harder to follow with your gaze, while an optimal maze solution finding algorithm wouldn’t be impacted.

In cases like this, formulating difficulty can be more of an art than an optimization problem.

EDIT: See also andrew_eu’s reply (which I only saw now), where multiple “interesting” notions of “difficulty” are proposed.

EDIT: Relatedly, humans use heuristics a lot. And there are many NP-hard problems where we can solve lots of “reasonable” points in the problem space in reasonable time (computers or humans alike), at the risk of having to time out, maybe try with another approach, and eventually just give up. Traveling salesmen are actually traveling the country after all. So worst case is not always a good measure for games. But I see you mentioned that already.

basil-rash · a year ago
One rather significant yet under appreciated difference between human and computer path finding in general is that humans cannot BFS. The closest we can get is a sort of modified beam search. But there always will be a latency added when switching heads that computers simply do not have (módulo generally insignificant cache stuff, perhaps)

This has significant implications to search spaces that are very heavily branched with many deep dead ends but a relatively shallow goal.

The number of problems in general life matching that description is… huge.

basil-rash commented on UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties   blog.cloudflare.com/uk-el... · Posted by u/emot
jmkni · a year ago
As somebody from Northern Ireland, I'm really interested in the fact that NI had the biggest drop in traffic as opposed to England/Scotland/Wales after 4PM.

Is this just on that one day or is this normal for NI after this time? Also what is the impliciation being made here?

basil-rash · a year ago
It’s all as compared to the week prior, so the take away would be that folks from NI are slightly more likely to be offline on election day after 4pm than folks from other areas, where they’re more likely to be offline on election day slightly earlier in the day. Idk what more there is to say about that.

The whole piece is more of a “look we’re cloudflare: we process a lot of traffic and can analyze data!” marketing piece than anything.

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