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by D13Fd 10mo ago
That's not true. The money you use to buy stocks gets you an ownership interest in a company that creates value. The money you put into crypto gets you a line on a distributed spreadsheet. The money that comes out of your ownership sha
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Crypto is a box where a bunch of people put money in and get exactly the same amount out (just distributed differently).
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Yeah. I did the same when I was aged 8-12 in the early 1990's. I'd bike or walk everywhere, go into all kinds of stores and the library, and get into all kinds of minor trouble with the neighborhood kids. I'm very sad that my
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
I wish we had a neighborhood island. The road we live on is a quarter mile long (so, short) with few houses. It ends in a road where cars go 40+ mph. That road is awful - not only are there no sidewalks, but it twists and turns, and the roa
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
I have six young kids. This attitude is absolutely prevalent (and it's insane). I've been chewed out by a cashier for sending an 8 year old into a store alone. I've had a person run out of a restaurant, panicking, and grab my
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
No, not that I can think of. The app comes pre-loaded with a bunch of templates you can insert. I mostly just started from the templates and substituted my own perl or python scripts for things.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
I use Alfred a ton throughout the day. I have many workflows and other settings that I set up years ago that are absolutely indispensable to me. I deal with a huge number of different projects at work, for example. I have a workflow that im
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
> Unfortunately it's easier to train an AI to be convincing than to be correct, so it can look insightful before it's true. This nails it. This is the fundamental problem with using AI material. You are outsourcing thinking in
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
That's one reason why I post comments (and none of my comments are AI-generated). But I think some people cut-and-paste AI responses because they like winning upvotes and running up an upvote counter.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
I strongly disagree. I like the social pressure against people posting comments that feel like AI (e.g., that add a lot of text and little non-BS substance). I also like the reminder to view suspicious comments and media through that lens.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Even if "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" has never made it to the Supreme Court, it's not an ambiguous phrase subject to multiple interpretations. The idea that some class of immigrants are outside the jurisdiction of th
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
> We know the current supreme court will end this. Do we? The language of the 14th Amendment is extraordinarily clear: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of t
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Yes, it works great. I enjoyed it.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Wow that was a great read, thank you. It's funny that it is already starting to break due to all of the links and ad tracking, which is another kind of rot.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
Yeah I re-played Torment recently on the iPad. It holds up really well. It’s just a very well done game all around.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
This is a shame, really. I got a few of these power packs and they have a nice design. I'd be happy to pay 2-3x as much and not have my house at risk of burning down.
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by D13Fd 10mo ago
It’s true though, it’s very risky for men in America to have any kind of interactions with other people’s children. I’m a father of six. One of my oldest kids’ friends wrote me a great little letter out of the blue. I wrote her a short, hea
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
But people are “holding” nothing more than a line on a spreadsheet. The only true value a cryptocurrency has is in enabling transactions. If that’s not what it’s doing, then it will eventually have no value.
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
I think it’s more survival bias than recency. But I strongly agree. There were many bad movies in the 1990’s, we just don’t remember them or have forgotten how bad they were. Two examples off of the top of my head are Johnny Mnemonic and Es
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
I don’t really care that much about the AI junk. But I’m on my very last straw with Firefox. Recent mobile versions just cannot seem to remember any default search engine setting other than Google. It drives me insane that they can do all t
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
This is literal racism.
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
Even though it had a hole in the shell? This article was weird, in that he went through the whole thing about how effective the layers are without also mentioning there was a hole through all of them other than the egg white (until the end)
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by D13Fd 11mo ago
I actually got excited for a second when the parent comment suggested that GIMP was renaming itself. I hate that name.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
I never use Siri except when driving. But when driving, it's really wonderful to have, since my car does not have car play. As a daily user, it's clear they have been actively messing with Siri still, particularly in the last year
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by D13Fd 1y ago
If you wrote the code, then you’ll understand it and know why it is written the way you wrote it. If the AI writes the code, you can still understand the code, but you will never know why the code is written that way. The AI itself doesn’
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by D13Fd 1y ago
I would still call my Python scripts “scripts.” I don’t think the term “scripts” is limited to shell scripts.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
PDF Expert is excellent. It's insane to me that they don't bring it to PC. It would be a gold mine.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
Yeah, if I had unlimited space, I'd love to have a 486 or earlier Pentium PC set up with a CRT monitor for true classic games. Not because it's better, but just for the nostalgia factor.
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by D13Fd 1y ago
But that 1600x1200@75hz is awful by today's standards. I'm typing this on a 120Hz 4K monitor, and my other monitor is a 240hz 4k monitor. I'm not saying they are better because the numbers are bigger, either. The subjective f
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by D13Fd 1y ago
Plus the item you build may not be exactly what you initially requested, and you'll have to decide whether it's something you are willing to accept.

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