Brendinooo

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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>Impossible things by definition didn't happen. Can things happen that are possible via mechanisms you don't understand, or are incapable of grasping because of your sensory/intellectual limitations? >You're just a
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> modern day scholars Everyone, including you, me, and the most expert of scholars, brings their own biases, assumptions, evidentiary standards that will allow us to accept something as truth. I actually got more dialed into this while l
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> The kingdom of Israel was a regional player with a lot of manpower, but compared to its neighbors of Aram-Damascus and the Sidonians, it didn't really amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Not sure if you mean it this way
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Yeah. > witness something that defies all natural explanation > write about it > people say it cannot have happened because it was a supernatural element You see this too with stuff like "anything that predicted the destructio
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> archaeologist, taking off his glasses: well actually the physical evidence suggests the ancient Israelites worshiped multiple deities > Jeremiah, weeping and sighing: yes I know (That's a tweet that pops up from time to time wh
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>The destruction of pharaoh's army Given what we know about how the Egyptians recorded history, we would definitely not expect to find them writing about stuff that would have embarrassed them. >Records of ancient hebrew slaves
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I tried to word my original comment in a way that allows a broad range of opinions to make a narrow point; I don't think anything you've said here refutes anything I said. I'm not really here to kick off a serious apologetics
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
It injects some really interesting color into the Tanakh/Old Testament - I'm not sure anyone has definitively lined up the Bronze Age Collapse with Biblical events, but it sure seems to have happened somewhere between the Exodus a
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
It's stored there so I don't have to think about managing it.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
What do you mean?
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I agree that this would be a more ideal world to live in (at least as a consumer, dunno about as the kind of smaller-time developer the article is talking about), but I don't see it as something I can practically choose in 2026 given m
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Like I said, I'm paying $30 a year, not $50. A pen and notebook do not provide a database of exercises with video instructions; they don't organize/aggregate my data to show records, chart progress over time, and do the 1RM m
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>You pre-pay for some allotment of resources but get nothing back for unused resources. I dunno. This just doesn't quite compute to me as some universal principle. I paid $30 for a year of Strong (an iOS fitness app), for example. W
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I mean, software is absolutely not the only business where one pays money to gain access to the thing for a certain interval of time...
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
As I said in a different thread[0], the fact that some subscriptions are predatory doesn't mean subscriptions are necessarily predatory. > If you have a subscription for something, and you like it, it will change under your feet. It
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>You can pay for backup services with both google and apple. I could, but I don't because (for more broad reasons beyond of this particular app) I don't want my data storage to dictate what software and hardware I use. And yeah
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> It doesn't need any sort of backend It's far down the list as to why I decided to subscribe, but I do like the idea that if I lose my phone, my data won't be lost forever. >This is exactly the sort of app that should
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> It's in competition with a spreadsheet. I mean, I guess in the sense that any software that stores data is in competition with a spreadsheet? It's in competition with pencil and paper too. And if those things work for you, gr
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I think you're overgeneralizing. I subscribe to a couple of apps (OnX, Strong) and some news sites (Tangle, local sports site); as far as I know none of them started on 1, and 3 hasn't happened yet for any of them. They all provid
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>Like, what's the bull case for Starlink? In a decade, you've got to assume that areas unserved by fibre won't really be a thing in the developed world. Fiber is better once it's installed, but installing it is hard.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
> But chances are, almost none of those coming realises that [Philadelphia] was once part of a little-known Swedish colony known as Nya Sverige (New Sweden). That's all it's trying to say in this sentence. It's not trying
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I would go even further and suggest that "fact/opinion" is just a framing that falls apart under scrutiny. My framework is more or less that anything we might call a fact or an opinion is a statement, statements have varying
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
I would imagine it has a lot to do with the media bubbles you have placed yourself in.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
This is a neat site, honestly this reason alone is reason enough for me to be glad that Grok exists, even though I don't really use it and I have a ton of beef with libertarianism. Just like how people complain about Airbnbs looking th
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Depending on your date range, much of this difference might be the same inflation that has happened everywhere in the market.
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
Seems reasonable to conclude that people might do it to say that they did it, for the same sort of reasons why one might get a warm pint in a run-down, cramped, 500-year-old pub instead of a cold pint at a newly-opened, comfortable pub
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
As someone who was burned by Mycroft going bankrupt: I want to believe
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
How many tokens to the gallon can my car get?
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
>What is dying is acquaintance. The plain, unglamorous intimacy of having fought a particular machine, and lost, and gone back, and finally felt the thing give. I think this is a universal feeling that accompanies any technological innov
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by Brendinooo 3mo ago
uptime: `up 35 days` it feels bad in some sense but I don't like my environment being interrupted!

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