Apocryphon

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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Okay, that’s fine for yourself, but as seen in this subthread, other people have different tastes, and needs.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
How do you know those routes have a roughly equal amounts of traffic? Or that there’s only two routes? I usually see at least three possible routes with my commute (with some forking), and at least one shortcut. During heavy traffic one opt
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
The response is to “it didn't occur to me that people might not remember how to get places in real life”, which is a rather limited understanding of why people might use navigation. I am not here to preach to you the benefits of this t
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Again, it's also helpful for warning realtime issues like poor traffic conditions, road obstacles, speed traps, etc.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
If 23andMe's genetic records were acquired (along with the company itself) by a different entity, why wouldn't this data as well?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
It used to be breathless startup hype and gossip, which it might still be in some capacity.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Perhaps this is a use case that's worth investigating, to invent better, less-destructive scanning processes! Or some way to rebind them afterwards.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Open a restaurant?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
You could donate that to the church archives of his denomination or the religious studies department of a university or at least some sort of local historical society.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Okay, then it should be acknowledged if a work was AI-edited-written, or AI-ghostwritten.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Anecdotally it feels like comment threads are a lot like "megathreads" on forums now, where there might be hundreds of replies. Wonder if there's been a surge of users over the last three or four years.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Musk pulls a Howard Hughes and goes into Hollywood producing just to bring back that franchise, just just for the letter X.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
SpaceX, the everything company
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
> The floor plan of my office is basically glass doors along the perimeter with private offices for executives and cubicles throughout for the rest of us. Highly normcore. It’s normie these days to have cubicles, instead of being in an o
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
In the South Valley, the pre-data center nemesis were distribution hubs, lambasted for the traffic they caused. Ironically also a key component of Amazon’s physical infrastructure.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
One would think the true efficiency gains are better quality cars that last longer and require less replacement
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
People like to maximize time they see their families
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Tech workers have the IEEE, and the ACM. We need an IEEE/ACM with teeth.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Without film industry unions, might the offshoring have been undertaken even earlier?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
For all of the high compensation tech workers can make in specific regions, at specific firms, how is it that they lack the leverage to demand something as basic as remote work, or as simple as not working in open offices? Consider the ub
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Within the last four years?
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
ZIRP era perspective
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
"probably in our lifetime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroQCyWwEgE
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Their lack of sovereignty is blocking the .eh TLD from being realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eh
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Is it any different from Disney being criticized for filming Mulan (2020) in Xinjiang? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/disney-criticized-for-film...
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Okay, well I don't mean the sense of a perfect notebook that's pristine, so much one that is a panacea for one's knowledge-management needs. Like any productivity trend, it seemed like the bullet journal method inspired a cot
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
I think it’s less notebooks or typed notes, and more the issue of cargo cults built around frameworks and systems. Bullet journals are a handwritten PKM, aren’t they? And they were definitely a fad around the fetishized ideal of creating pe
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
From the comments: > I will concede that using LLMs in software development is a different category from fiction, insofar as the languages and APIs are much smaller and more tightly constrained and in software you actively don't w
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
What is the (unlabelled) left line even doing.
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by Apocryphon 2mo ago
Hey, worked for Richmond. https://www.nlc.org/resource/reimagining-public-safety-impac... https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/health/cash-for-criminals-ric...

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