Auracle

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by Auracle 2y ago
I feel like people overshoot. I live on 15 acres, mostly woods. I can only just barely see my neighbor’s houses through the woods in the winter. I’d like more land still - I grew up on 60 acres - but I still basically have complete privacy.
512.
by Auracle 2y ago
$600 for veneer? Inflation-shock still gets me sometimes.
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by Auracle 2y ago
I would much rather companies “spy” on me than the government.
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by Auracle 2y ago
Except in insulin’s case all they did was cap out of pocket costs, meaning insurance takes up the rest of the bill…which means the rest of us pay for it - and worse yet, it effectively stops any pressure on those companies to lower prices.
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by Auracle 2y ago
I don't really know why I'm supposed to be upset that the phone doesn't lie flat. It's pretty rare I set it down on a table, to begin with. Even when it is...so what? I can make it jiggle when I poke it, I guess.
516.
by Auracle 2y ago
I'm a pretty greasy person and while obviously it's not as good as rubber I don't feel the same way about glass phones. They're obviously smooth but glass on skin is pretty grippy, overall.
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by Auracle 2y ago
You don't need to put a case on phones. I've had an iPhone 11 since it came out, with no case, and quite a few drops onto hard floors. It's still fine. Obviously there's some luck involved but the only time I put a c
518.
by Auracle 2y ago
Because I don’t want to stop existing. I want to be able to see my daughters (and hopefully grandchildren someday) grow up. Sure, once I’m dead it won’t bother me, but I’m alive right now and it does.
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by Auracle 2y ago
I know a lot of people share similar sentiments but I doubt many feel that way when they’re on their deathbed. Personally, I don’t want to die. There’s so much to do, see, and experience. One lifetime isn’t even close to enough, and that on
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by Auracle 2y ago
Maybe, but even people with chronic conditions might not go to doctors often. They see an ad for a new medicine for their disease, they go to the doctor, it works better, and hooray. Maybe doctors should be able to send out email blasts to
521.
by Auracle 2y ago
Two. One is almost 3 and the other is a baby. The toddler somehow hasn't broken anything yet other than an entire carton of eggs once, which was so hilarious it was worth it. I assume the other people commenting though aren't ch
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by Auracle 2y ago
I mean, I don't think many people with Alzheimers are having kids. And while mice are genetically similar to us the 'Alzheimers' they're made to have isn't the same disease so we might have been chasing our tail fo
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by Auracle 2y ago
If it's a big enough effect size you wouldn't need many people taking it, at least for something like Alzheimers. If it stops/reverses it in just a few people out of 10 you'd know to scale up. I'd take whatever the
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by Auracle 2y ago
I don’t think I’ve dropped a glass or plate on my slate floor the entire time I’ve lived at my house - 10 years now. I think my wife maybe has once or twice. Ya’ll are clumsy.
525.
by Auracle 2y ago
Marketing gets them more money, which then increases the amount they can put into R&D. They aren’t spending on marketing without expecting a return.
526.
by Auracle 2y ago
I had an old classmate buy a French bulldog as a puppy, and found out two days later it needed major surgery. She posted this to Facebook as a “poor me” post. Infuriating. Bring the dog back and get something healthy instead of encouraging
527.
by Auracle 2y ago
The process of renting a car would take just as long as charging on most people’s “regular” long trips. (Almost) Nobody is going to rent a car to visit their family that’s 3 hours away every 2 months.
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by Auracle 2y ago
That’s pretty wrong. The BMI cutoffs were established in the 90s when people were less sedentary than today. Sure, if you’re a bodybuilder it’s wrong. For the vast majority of the population it’s wrong the other way. It’s not the most accur
529.
by Auracle 2y ago
“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.”
530.
by Auracle 2y ago
Nah, I was more envisioning something like a multiplayer game where each player has spells they can learn by doing certain joystick/mouse/vr controller movements (or whatever), and both those movements and the spells themselves ar
531.
by Auracle 2y ago
Nobody wants to replay the portion that they’ve figured out again and again to get to the part they haven’t. It took game developers a long time to figure that one out, for some reason. Heck, they still sometimes put a checkpoint too far b
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by Auracle 2y ago
You know, for younger kids I can see the appeal. They might not have a device they can easily use to go on the internet, so you’d be able to do things your friends can’t and vice versa. I’ve long mulled on the idea of some kind of game wher
533.
by Auracle 2y ago
I suppose what models should have are some instructions of things they aren’t good at and will need to break out into python code or what have you. Humans have an intuition for this - I have basic knowledge of when I need to write something
534.
by Auracle 2y ago
One of the first things I did when GPT 3.5 came out was to give it some medical symptoms I had when I was a teenager that was wildly diagnosed by my primary care doctor that I finally (at least partially) figured out by doing my own researc
535.
by Auracle 2y ago
Set the wake word to “Computer.” It’s harder to say and will buy you a few months ;)
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by Auracle 2y ago
I’m no expert but I don’t believe it’s similar to testosterone in that it could be suppressed for life after doing replacement therapy.
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by Auracle 2y ago
There are various forms of HRT and not all cause an increase in cancer. It’s a shame that notion has stuck around when it could be so helpful for so many women: bone density, hot flashes, vaginal atrophy, etc. They do tend to cause an incre
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by Auracle 2y ago
It’s weird to me that even after his debate performance people are still ascribing things to him directly. Clearly he’s just been stamping his name on the DNC agenda, though I definitely think the chips act is good in theory. We’ll see how
539.
by Auracle 2y ago
Democrats are the party of “wouldn’t it be nice if?” Republicans are the party of “yeah, but…” We need both types of thinking, and it’s a shame there isn’t a party that actually merges the two instead of this crappy tug of war we have going
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by Auracle 2y ago
I should have put a big asterisk and mentioned that my comment didn't apply to straight-up math.

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