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by 2devnull 4y ago
I think the person you’re responding to was trying to help you be more persuasive. You can ignore his advice, but it may mean that a lot of people just ignore you or think you’ve got nothing to say.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I’m not sure I understand the assumption that Reddit can serve up better/safer info than google. It’s pretty trivial to post misinformation, malicious advice and so forth on Reddit. And how many times do I pull up stackoverflow with a
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Good point. I don’t think they will be a good search engine replacement, but maybe a powerful supplement for some users. And honestly with SEO and other issues even search engines can be manipulated in ways that an average user might have
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by 2devnull 4y ago
You can verify it’s accuracy. The metaphor of “con artist” is a poor one. It has no adversarial interest. A con artist does. Furthermore, con stands for confidence. A con artist manipulates confidence. Gpt and other language models are “wha
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I think what we call academia isn’t really academia, but a system that’s subservient to the desires of the state. The dollars come from somewhere and there are always strings attached. Sure, a tenured professor has more freedom than the ave
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Many bests in this thread, but here’s a few nobody else has posted: Stanford course on NLU was pretty good for basic overview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_Jrc_nRJY (2019, so a bit dated now.) Was recently enjoying Paul
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by 2devnull 4y ago
2 options: 1) gentoo 2) FreeBSD Which of those you choose depends on your needs. I’d try FreeBSD first, and if you find it lacking then I’d go for gentoo. BSD seems like a well kept secret, but it won’t work for everyone. They do have s
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I’m converging on this myself. Very little interest in news tv, especially the highly partisan flavor which increasingly dominates. Sadly some of the better print journalism is paywalled. Sub stack is great but I’m used to free so probably
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by 2devnull 4y ago
You could. There is a labor market. Markets are influenced by supply and demand. With 10’s of thousands of layoffs, the supply of candidates will be very high. But demand for swe is high on average overtime. If you’ve been interested in thi
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Smoking is stupid. Am I missing the point?
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by 2devnull 4y ago
This is a valid point. Film as a media is a far more potent vector for propaganda than print. Increasingly this is being leveraged by bad actors or those who are more interested in persuasion or psychological effect than in presenting truth
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Funny. :) But in all seriousness, I can get a good authentic burrito made by real Mexicans for less than $10, so why go to chipotle and pay 50% more and a side dish of “attitude” from the local high school kids who want to close early.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Cheese is just pure saturated fat, sour cream is … cream.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
“Decent value.” I can’t agree. It used to be within reason, never good value. I went last year, just wanted to splurge and not cook that night, but was made to wait an unreasonable amount of time while the kids running the place chatted wit
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Because they are not the fed! They don’t make rate decisions. And they can’t guess what the fed will decide with any reliability. Those who have tried over the past couple years got hosed. Why do you think people pay so much attention to th
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I don’t have a problem with uneducated people who don’t know what “monetary policy” means. I do have a problem with educated people who don’t want to spend a few minutes to google “Fed’s dual mandate” and consider why that answers their qu
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by 2devnull 4y ago
No sympathy for the average American worker, who is impacted even more so by inflation, which robs them of their life savings and job security at their min wage job. Over-entitled and over payed young tech workers who have displaced poorer
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by 2devnull 4y ago
“only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts” record scratch No! I’ve been visiting daily on the smallest of phones for well over a decade. Please, please, please don’t change anything. It’s gre
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by 2devnull 4y ago
I don’t know about that. A lot of folks seem to have ditched real Linux when Microsoft added Linux in windows. Docker seems to have played a role also.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
This is just bias pretending to be truth. Where was this “expert” in contagion when copycat hiring was taking place? Does macroeconomics have any impact on labor? What is the “dual mandate” of the fed? If you buy this nonesense you signal y
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by 2devnull 4y ago
That is a good question. Not terribly hard to answer either. Things in America cost a lot. Labor costs a lot. Everyone needs a livable wage and good health care, even carpenters. Wood costs a lot, and it should because trees take a long tim
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by 2devnull 4y ago
If you hold things inside, in the long run it erodes your soul. Better to speak your mind and relieve the pressure. Often, by voicing opinions, our opinions change. We think, “oh gosh, cringe at what I said,” and then evolve. As Hemingway p
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Why should everybody get a house and not have a 2 hour commute? It was the norm for the past few decades, and so your post just reinforces the prior post, except the Roth IRA thing. You can save without an IRA.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Good point. It seems a global approach will be needed, which means we need to lead the way and pay more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094...
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Paywalled, but from another piece, “ high California gas prices should encourage supply to be shipped to California from other states. But this doesn’t happen, because no other state formulates California’s unique gasoline blend. If gasolin
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by 2devnull 4y ago
And then, like now, the beauty of the state — or the lure it has, for it seems to be something more than just beauty — brings ever more people. Earthquakes, floods, fires, droughts; where do I sign up?!
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by 2devnull 4y ago
Fair enough! I’ve been a member at some more… high risk gyms, and I’m unusually hard on earbuds and like. Cheap and replaceable may not be optimal for everyone’s use case.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
You obviously don’t care if your phone gets stolen or your Bluetooth headphones get ruined by sweat or have a plate dropped on them. I will personally attest to the Sansa clip + $10 earbuds being the best workout audio combo available.
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by 2devnull 4y ago
For an interesting local take on this era: http://www.sandylydon.com/new-page-16
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by 2devnull 4y ago
We have to be very careful with our language. Extreme weather “is likely to be, based on current models,” more common. We do not know, and overselling our certainty becomes ammunition for the “we can’t know anything” crowd.

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