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Context: kitboga[1] is a streamer on Twitch.tv who makes a living of wasting scammers' time. He uses voice modulation and a variety of tools (such as a fake banking website) to increase credibility in the eyes of the scammers he gets on the phone.

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

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My take on this: if we want vision ML to succeed at recognition in the same way as humans, perhaps we need to pre-process and present visual information in the same way as the human vision system? As far as I'm aware, we get a lot of info from our eyes about lines and orientation that assists in recognizing shapes.

I'm not well-informed about the current state of visual recognition DL, perhaps someone who is can tell us more about whether that approach makes sense.

Eh, I'll get to it later.

> not verifying and going with your gut

...which is exactly what "arguing from a position of ignorance" means. Once you attempt to verify medical advice (in good faith) you are no longer ignorant.

That is a ridiculous straw man and I'm pretty sure you are aware of this. At some point, there is trust involved. You balance the credibility of authentication guarantees based on the level of trust required for the transaction you're making.

Not to belabor the point, but... "copyrightable".

You never know when you might need some new fork handles.

Finally, we'll be able to tell people to go Duck themselves while in polite company.

1password actually supports password generation of the 'correct horse battery staple' variety, bypassing this issue entirely.

It may help in the moment, but any action that reinforces the (faulty) belief that your obsessive thoughts are relevant and worth paying attention to will worsen OCD over time.

The right approach is to teach yourself to be OK with the uncertainty of the door being locked or not. This is what behavioral therapy for OCD, specifically ERP, aims to do.

Containerization doesn't strike me as a common feature of an init system.

What it really comes down to is that the Challenger exploded due to man's folly in exploring outer space. /s

I don't have the patience to actually play DF, but I always love reading people's play-throughs.

Your own opinions with regards to depression are factually incorrect.

I like go as a language, but its lack of package management is the single reason I no longer use it.

Water is pressurized. However, it is not compressed. That's an important distinction.

> all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug

But who would force them?

Why do people care about affiliate links? Serious question.

Are you extremely surprised at this, or not at all? Just from context, I can't quite decide which it is.

And a Real Programmer™ makes salsa.