Balgair

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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, people aren't going to try to have kids if they think that their immediate futures and longer term futures aren't worth bringing people into. Like, if you think that your future is a good place, then you're more likel
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> There is a certain cowardice in how we deal with death in the contemporary west. It's because we have a dearth of true elders right now. Not in age, but in temperament and learning. I got interested in story telling during COVID a
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'm not trying to be glib here, but I'm not entirely certain that you have worked for a long time in a large corporation, right? If you have not, I would like to introduce you to one of the best pieces of writing on corporate work
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The manager is responsible for $X but only gets paid their salary. I'm their day to day, hiring is a pain. They need the extra hands, but they have to go through more work to get that person onboard. The activation energy is high, high
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That's a half week of work without breaks at one resume per minute-ish. I agree that it is a very important decision, but that's also unreasonable for a manager to set time aside to look through. You've just set the other pro
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by Balgair 1y ago
Kevin Kelly says that 7 'why's are enough. As in, if you ask 'why?' 7 times, that's about as deep as you'll need to ever go. I've heard that if you read the top 3 books/articles in the subject, that&#
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by Balgair 1y ago
The Amish do eat a lot of unpasteurized stuff, at least the ones near me did. But they also have the benefits of modern medicine when things get really dicey, as far as I know. I'd ask for an Amish voice here to chime in, but, you know
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by Balgair 1y ago
I had a family member that used to work for the county in the SNAP-like assistance program. He was aghast at the state of the average family. No, not the average one coming to the county for assistance, just the average. The average househo
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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, also, when was the last time you had your oven properly calibrated? How sure are you that it's actually 350 F?
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by Balgair 1y ago
Wait I thought Gris Michel went extinct?! Where oh where on God's green earth did they survive and can I get them shipped!?
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by Balgair 1y ago
It didn't make it out much in the news that day, because obviously, but only the shooter died as a result of his terror. The other two injured students are expected to live, thankfully: https://coloradosun.com/2025&#x2F
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by Balgair 1y ago
Perfect Wallace and gromit film right here
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Multiplayer version where the bee side is in a cutesy bubble primary colors bright animation style. And the apiarist side is grimdark raining gothic horror style. Release it as two separate games, tie the back ends together, never actually
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by Balgair 1y ago
One thing I noticed here and elsewhere online today is that I've not seen any memories of Charlie. It's all been about the politics and ramifications of the assassination. But nothing about the man himself and how he positively im
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, that is the thing. Like, the task I sketched out is the bare basic sketch of what you can ask a new grad/hire to do. Which ends up being ~80% of their job anyways. I really don't think the average person could do that task (
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Is that your rate or do you have a AI system that will do the thing I asked for? Like, um, no joke here.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I don't have access to this yet, so can someone who does tell if: it can take a .PDF with single table with, say, a list of food items and prices. And then in a .docx in the same folder with a table with, say, prices and calories. Can
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by Balgair 1y ago
And who is going to set those milestones and hand-offs? Sure, yeah, the USG can try that, but for the millions(?) of contracts you'd need over years of hand-off with red-tape and poorly paid 'refs' with no experience in the f
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by Balgair 1y ago
Probably not? I can't find the link, but I think Bret also had an article on how nomadic cultures had generally worse lives than settled ones, from what little we can know. If I recall correctly, it's hard to tell, as nomadic cult
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I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but source? Genuinely curious.
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Aside: Bret Devereaux has a series on the remarkably similar lives of a peasant farm laborers throughout time and space here: https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an... TLDR: Holy shit,
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by Balgair 1y ago
Nothing new under the sun: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/210z3FRgTPU Carry a clipboard around too. Maybe a paper notebook is the new clipboard these day though, some moleskin hipster thingy, nice fountain pen with a n
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by Balgair 1y ago
Any audits will be quickly farmed out to yet another AI for review, is my guess. I'd imagine some system like YTs appeals system, where everyone is maximally unhappy. One anecdote from my SO's time as a grader was that pre med stu
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My SO was a TA in college, so I can echo this. You'd get a stack of 120 blue books to grade in a week's time a few times a quarter. The grading was entirely just checking if the student used a set of key words and had a certain le
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by Balgair 1y ago
Depends on your assumptions. Measles requires 92-95% immunity for hers immunity. Here's a likely scenario for a K-5 school of 600 children, 100 per class, assume incoming post requirement drop is 1/5 students: Year 0: 96% immune (
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>it is weird to argue it is leading to monoculture. As an outside that has visited your large continent a fair few times, yeah, you guys are pretty monocultural. I know that such a statement is just literal nonsense to y'all and qui
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Strange! I used to watch the YT channel that was just the Star Wars theme with the yellow wall of text being someone grab of the NYT's war section. I've always wanted to do that again but with an Ai summarizing the news and making
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Aisde: Hey, whats the prompt you're using for a summary of the news events?
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The 'kid crash' is a real thing. The demographics aren't going back up. We had peak child in the US in ~2002 I think.
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As a former gear head there is also the perception issue. Look, no way about it, most of the drivers of muscle cars today are grey headed old men. They're the only ones that can afford them. The next big demo for muscle cars is via exo

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