ConceptJunkie

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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Government is the worst possible way to solve any problem. Therefore, we should only let it solve those problems that absolutely cannot be solved any other way. There are plenty, and this is not a statement that all government is bad, but
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Of course they don't. But what's remarkable, and the U.S. is no exception here, is that the names they come up with are quite often the diametric opposite of what effects they actually have. The "Inflation Reduction Act of
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
You must be an optimist if you think what passes for AI right now could in any way help education. It's an incredibly useful tool, but not in the way you almost certainly are thinking.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Wow. I guess you're not familiar with any philosophers other than Aristotle, otherwise you could never make such a statement.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
WTVR from the 1970s. I was always impressed that they were able to license a huge pop song for the local news in Richmond, VA.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
More realistically, "We don't have a plan for laying off employees at this time. Our plan is for laying off employees next month."
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
I try to work for companies that aren't openly evil.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
This is Google we're talking about. They shut everything down eventually.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
They are legible because my browser uses a reasonable font. Whether they are intelligible is another matter.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
I'm just fed up with modern sound. It never sounds right, and it's just too complicated. I use captions on a lot of shows where there is dialog that is too quiet, etc. I'm pretty sure my sound system is not set up right, b
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Color is going away from too many things. Also cars... and for some reason, Taco Bells.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
One credit is one regular-sized picture generation. If you want to make it bigger or run more steps (in my experience, this is less useful than it would seem), then it can run up to 3 or more credits per generation. That's still 3 ce
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Jason Bonham made a couple of fun records in late 80s/early 90s with his group "Bonham". I'd be up for seeing a reunion.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Hey, I love Rush! "Hemispheres" is my favorite album by them!
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Is it more sturdy and long-lasting? Or does it just have wifi capabilities that put your computer network at risk for no increase in value whatsoever?
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
We have a blender that we got from my wife's parents. It probably dates back to the 1950s, and I love it. It's only got two speeds and heavy as anything, but it's probably the most solidly-built appliance I own. I also hav
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
And apparently you don't know anything about history either.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
But cost about forty bazillion man-hours from people inserting the cables the wrong way.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
I remember "NOT!" being a popular thing back in the 90s, and thought it originated then. Like, "Yes, you made up that original joke yourself. NOT!" only to see Steve Martin doing it on an old episode of SNL. Chances a
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
> social media stars and "influencers" i.e., people who are based entirely on the "selling out" part without having created something to sell out in the first place.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
You can, but everyone starts assuming that it's all lies.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
That is still a crap shoot. I hope his legacy is well-protected, but you could still end up with a Dr. Seuss situation. Or Tolkien for that matter. I get it that Christopher hated the movies, but they were done with great respect and lov
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Sure, but what if there were Calvin and Hobbes plushies, or something similar. Setting aside, of course, all the reasons Watterson gave for not wanting to do that sort of thing. There's licensing and there's licensing. You can b
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
So was XTC, although they were never anywhere as big as Rush. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvO6lrZSxo
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Perhaps, but its the show itself that has declined, not driven by the merchandising. "The Simpsons" as a show used to be razor-sharp satire and commentary, and rather counter-cultural. Now it's everything it used to mock, a
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
Schulz did protect his legacy, as can be demonstrated by what has been done with his creations since he passed away. For example, the Peanuts movie from a few years ago was wonderful, and every bit as much in the spirit of what Sparky did
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
People, have you _used_ enterprise software? Jira is the first piece of enterprise software I've ever used that I _don't_ hate! Well, if Bugzilla counts, then I don't hate that either. But in the past I've been expos
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
It's funny though. Several years ago a coworker did some profiling on one of our server software components and found that it was spending up to 10% of the CPU time in strlen()... for very similar reasons.
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by ConceptJunkie 4y ago
I created a decorator for validating arguments for functions that are receiving arguments from user input. It eliminated _so much_ boilerplate code. I use decorators quite a bit. The feature is incredibly powerful. Once you find @lru_ca
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And to me, this is brain-dead obvious. They completely removed everything that was visually distinct about the packaging and replaced it with blandness.

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