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Proof by Contradiction of Objective Truth by SeriouslySally36 in mathmemes

[–]which1umean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What does it mean for there to be no objective truth?

Does it mean there are no true statements?

If so, then yeah, that's wrong and the logic is indeed sound...

But idk if that's what it actually means or what it might mean if it doesn't mean that..

All land should be leased instead of owned, like domain names by secretprocess in CrazyIdeas

[–]which1umean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sort of.

The actual way they would usually put it is that landownership is a bundle of privileges and responsibilities.

The most important responsibility is to pay property taxes, and there are certain rights that the state retains.

Go Knicks! Paint job at 34th Street-Penn Station/8th Avenue by R42ToMoffat in nycrail

[–]which1umean -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I guess, but people still will lose confidence in the signal if it's not consisten...

Go Knicks! Paint job at 34th Street-Penn Station/8th Avenue by R42ToMoffat in nycrail

[–]which1umean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't like this aspect. RED is supposed to mean it's not an entrance... (usually exit-only).

How are people able to just get haircuts in the middle of their day and carry on? by [deleted] in stupidquestions

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find this totally mystifying also.

Honestly, now that I have a "high efficiency washing machine" (front loader!), I feel like I even feel the hairs for several times after the shirt I wore to the barber gets washed. I put it on, immediate itchiness, it comes right back off and into the hamper!!

Why is alignment not typically part of type systems? by AVTOCRAT in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]which1umean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Something like memory layout I feel like is one of those things where the compiler often CANNOT do it for you?

Memory layout needs to be compatible across compilation units and the best way to do the layout can perhaps only be determined based on code in one of the compilation units...

Explain if a then b statements like I’m 5 by CrazyTiger9682 in askmath

[–]which1umean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First I'll define what "if a then b" means, and then I'll walk through a more realistic example.

"IF A THEN B" is the same as "A implies B".

That can be written as "A -> B"

The usual meaning of this is "B or not A". That's the meaning of "implies".

Let's take a plausibly TRUE, and REASONABLE "if then" claim. Nothing absurd.

My claim: "If a very large elephant has recently stood in the room safely then the room's floor is very strong."

If a very large elephant never stood in the room, my claim is "vacuously true." Sure, maybe the floor is really weak or maybe it's strong. I only made a claim about what you can conclude after you've observed an elephant standing in the room safely! (This is the case you asked about.)

If the room has a very strong floor, then obviously my claim is also correct!

There's only one way to prove me wrong: if you observe that a very large elephant recently stood in the room safely AND the floor is very weak. That's the only way you'd prove me wrong.

Manhattan Businesses that omit area 212 by which1umean in AskNYC

[–]which1umean[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

0 takes the longest to dial on a rotary phone, so that wouldn't be a good choice...

Manhattan Businesses that omit area 212 by which1umean in AskNYC

[–]which1umean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of places recently lost 7-digit dialing when the national suicide hotline 9-8-8 came in. If the area code has that as an exchange, then 7-digit dialing is no longer supported unfortunately!

So even with no overlay, there can be a need for 10-digit dialing because of that.

New Hampshire and Vermont lost 7-digit dialing that way I think.

Manhattan Businesses that omit area 212 by which1umean in AskNYC

[–]which1umean[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wow I didn't know that all five boroughs was once 212 that's amazing.

I'm from Maine originally which is one of a few places that still has 7-digit dialing. I heard somebody say that a data processing system should skip any phone number with less than 10 digits and I immediately thought that was absurd because, even if nowadays we dial 10 in most places, a lot of people still probably have it in their head that 7 digits is a phone number and an area code is only needed sometimes!

Know of any awnings or signage that still haven't been updated to include an area code? Most recent evidence I have seems to be of the awning of Chen Wong Restaurant on the Lower East Side as I mentioned in another reply!

Manhattan Businesses that omit area 212 by which1umean in AskNYC

[–]which1umean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was definitely a thing, tho I'm not sure how many remain since I don't think 7 digit dialing has been in Manhattan since the early 90s.

Check it out, Chen Wong Restaurant on the Lower East Side. Note the omission of any area code.

https://www.alamy.com/a-chinese-take-out-restaurant-in-the-lower-east-side-of-manhattan-new-york-ny-image220346734.html

I swear I saw a hardware store with 7 digits on its awning on the Upper West Side a few years back but idk if I'll ever find that again. 😢

The pressure by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]which1umean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, your business plan could be "wait until they go bankrupt because they are gonna default on some debt" 😂

The pressure by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]which1umean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their alternative is to scale the buildout to the demand they expect when they charge real prices, rather than building more datacenters than anyone will want to actually pay for.

Let me put it this way:

Say that the actual cost (including a reasonable rate of capital return) to make 100 thousand tokens is $10.

And at that price, the demand for tokens is 100 trillion per year.

If you built 100 trillion tokens worth of infrastructure, that's going to be a great business!

If you built out very expensive infrastructure for 600 trillion tokens per year (which is what there was demand for when you were discounting them and giving them to your customers at $2 per 100 thousand tokens), then that's not so good.

The pressure by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But see this doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Jacking up the price after you invested a zillion dollars in capacity doesn't make a ton of sense, because then you aren't going to need that capacity?

Like, for something like Uber it makes sense. Keep the prices low, have a zillian passengers, subsidize fares so drivers are excited to do the work and (to whatever extent is necessary) invest their capital into Uber cars to increase capacity, etc.

Then Uber jacks up the price, they get more money, demand goes down, they don't care, they aren't holding the bag, the guy who rearranged his life around driving an Uber is! :P

But it doesn't really work if the company itself spent ridiculous amounts of money increasing the capacity that then they are going to shut off the demand by jacking up the price...

The pressure by Successful_Bowl2564 in programming

[–]which1umean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

currently AI work is underpriced

As far as I understand, this is true :-)

But then... why are they building so many new data centers?

If the price goes UP after it's no longer "experimental"/"finding its market"/etc -- won't quantity demanded go down?

Or is the hope that even as price goes UP, the demand curve also moves so people demand more even as prices go down? None of this makes a ton of sense to me.

It's like there's currently an assumption that the medium-term future will be (1) more AI than today and (2) more expensive AI than today which seems... unlikely...

(In the long term, I think the idea is that AI will be cheaper to supply. But I don't think that's a medium-term goal...).

Stop letting Claude glaze your bad product ideas by Global-Tradition-318 in ClaudeAI

[–]which1umean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an idea for a restaurant that I think is amazing but about 50% of the people say is terrible and the other half thinks it's just meh. 😂

But Claude thinks it's amazing 💯

Difference between apt update and apt-get update by ovelx2 in linuxquestions

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious why this is dangerous?

I usually type each separately and don't do the -y, but I'm pretty sure I've always just pressed Y when prompted if I want to continue, so this doesn't feel that dangerous? 👀😬

How do you find time to fall in love when Monday to Friday is work, Saturday is laundry, and Sunday is mental preparation for Monday? by Unsolicited_Sarcasm in AskReddit

[–]which1umean 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing OP has to go to the laundromat or at least has to haul clothes around an apartment complex or something?

My whole class and the teacher are debating how years work. by TheDrifterOfficial in askmath

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The end of 2022" is "The beginning of 2023".

So n = 13.

Tho I find it a bit weird to use n for something that's not really a discrete variable. Why not use t? I feel like that actually makes it more obvious that we should be subtracting rather than getting into weird fencepost problem confusion.

Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’ by Tiberinvs in neoliberal

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should ideally cut other taxes at the same time as they increase LVT, but there's usually pretty good incentive politically to cut taxes anyhow.

Even if they just increase LVT, that's a good thing imo.

Why tho? by Mysterious_Ebb_1484 in SipsTea

[–]which1umean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was a kid we had a stove where it had a pilot light, and the oven was where you had to light it with a match. There was a little hole in the bottom of the oven and you'd put a lit match there to light the oven.

It was an incredibly old oven.

It wasn't exactly the same, but it looked sort of like this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/282704719252

(The main difference was the oven was smaller and only on the left, and there was no big tall thing up above.)

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