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shabbatt commented on Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?    · Posted by u/people_not_bots
shabbatt · 3 years ago
I would NOT want to meet anyone from here tbh. I fear what people write here are how they are in real life.

Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation.

You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.

shabbatt commented on AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender   github.com/carson-katri/d... · Posted by u/myth_drannon
shabbatt · 3 years ago
holy cow! this is insane. should be possible to create a mesh, get stable fusion to generate a UV texture map too!

later we should be able to use prompts to generate 3d meshes with full uv texture map as photogammetry picks up pace.

first they came for 2D, then they will come for 3D.

shabbatt commented on Chess is just poker now   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/imartin2k
rybosworld · 3 years ago
The analogy to poker seems like a stretch. Poker relies on bluffing so heavily only because the cards of your opponent are unknown.

The board state is always known. Magnus is saying that at the top level, grandmasters know how to force draws in all of the lines that incorporate best-move, second-best-move, etc. That means that if you want to pull off a win, you have to incorporate unstudied lines that will force your opponent to calculate rather than draw from memory/experience.

shabbatt · 3 years ago
Yes but likewise, the motives and their future intent is unknown by a sub optimal move. So in a sense, it is similar to bluffing when you don't know the actions of the other person, deception is required to make yourself unpredictable.

This is why playing against a maniac (seemingly random and not respecting bluffs or equity) is very difficult because if they get lucky enough times, they are able to "break the game" by getting the opponent to be extremely risk averse OR take on more risks.

I believe this is what Magnus is referring to, its that making yourself unpredictable by questionable moves and no longer playing in a way that has been taught.

For example the common strategy is to go all in with strong pairs like AA, KK but someone beats it with a totally random garbage hand (52o, 37o) and does so repeatedly, no theory can help you win against somebody who is just repeatedly lucky and brash.

shabbatt commented on Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years   pcmag.com/news/heres-why-... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
inanutshellus · 3 years ago
I hate FB Marketplace.

It's actively hostile to buyers.

Like, try to find a "kinda nice" bicycle. You can't find the bicycle category (though it does exist as a sub-group of Sporting Goods), you can't just say "show me bikes" unless you hack the URL, you can search for the word "bicycle" but for some reason people selling a "Specialized Rockhopper" think you know it's a bicycle so don't use that word.

Oh, and when selling, they just suggest random categories instead of letting you choose from their heirarchy. So you get bicycles in Hobbies. You get them in Sporting Goods. You get them in Bicycles. But... You can't search for them by type.

That's not even complaining about the lack of attributes, like "type=BMX" or "type=Mountain" or "Size=Large" or "Frame Material=Carbon Fiber"... all of which are in Craigslist and eBay.

And! when searching, they actively work to inject ebay-like selling (non-local) into the mix by resetting my distance preferences every time I change the search. "Find bicycles" -> "Find bicycles in 30 miles" -> "Find 'Specialized Rockhopper'" -> Why am I getting "Ships To You" results?! Why am I getting non-bicycle results?! Oh. They reset my distance again.

^-- BTW they do this because they actually make money when the sale happens through FB. If you just buy it in-person with cash they don't get a cut. Misaligned incentives, as they say.

And! even if I do find the bicycle category, if narrow the category by searching with a word in there, like "Rockhopper" it takes me out of the bicycle category to do the search!

G. A. R. B. A. G. E.

shabbatt · 3 years ago
Sellers too. Not to mention harassment/racism/phobia when the price isnt "right".

Facebook usage seems to be correlated with reduced cognition, it invites the bottom rung of society

shabbatt commented on Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy   rollingstone.com/tv-movie... · Posted by u/pr0zac
shabbatt · 3 years ago
Book burning used to be a thing. Now its content moderation.
shabbatt commented on Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jbredeche
UncleMeat · 3 years ago
Is your hedge fund manager friend shorting bond funds like crazy? If not, why not?
shabbatt · 3 years ago
One would think so but he is cash and says he is unsure. He thinks that inflation may not be curbed even with low double digit rates!
shabbatt commented on US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years   engadget.com/us-border-fo... · Posted by u/jaarse
mattwest · 3 years ago
That's likely not relevant since during a border crossing your identity has already been verified.
shabbatt · 3 years ago
"how was i supposed to know the phone i bought on craigslist had a payload?"

plausible deniability.

edit: please dont actually do this.

u/shabbatt

KarmaCake day37September 14, 2022View Original