DFHippie

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by DFHippie 2y ago
I'm thinking it's bilateral symmetry.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Change how we elect presidents so it's some sort of ranked-choice mechanism and then we have more than two choices.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Tangentially related: a sort of whimsical ASCII art Doom using ray casting: https://github.com/TurkeyMcMac/ts3d Full disclosure: TurkeyMcMac was my son. He wasn't much of a gamer, but he was a pretty good programm
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I believe with black walnuts the juglone, which isn't present in oak galls, is responsible for much of the color. You should be careful with juglone. It can cause skin irritation. Apparently people do make ink from it.
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Yes, this happens. But giving up and letting the lies fly willy-nilly has a still worse record. Every measure to combat disinformation is imperfect. Many are better than failing to combat disinformation in any way. And lumping the Chinese s
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by DFHippie 2y ago
One thing a whiteboard interview does is confirm that you resemble the person described in your application. This is ever more important as many people have an LLM write their application for them. Here's a prediction: as it becomes ev
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by DFHippie 2y ago
It's the cops who said that. I assume that's why the phrase is in quotes. Apparently they themselves believed they performed some arrests that weren't "absolutely necessary". They said this as a threat to influence
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by DFHippie 2y ago
That's a great interpersonal approach. It's my preference for sure. Be honest. People you interact with will learn that you are honest. Then you don't have to pull the long bow to convey an accurate message. It's less cl
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by DFHippie 2y ago
Here's a paradox. If people assume you are alarmist and discount everything you say -- "Oh, you way we need 100. I assume therefore that we only need 20. Here are 20." -- you need to be alarmist to get them to react appropr
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by DFHippie 2y ago
I assume they mean convince enough people to implement the proposed policies that they can fix things through normal, legal means. "Forcing people to do your bidding" normally consists of winning elections and then implementing an
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by DFHippie 2y ago
> Unless - IMO - you want to sound like a snob... Really? I think it's the opposite. One does things like this because one is afraid of being assailed by pedants and made to feel inferior. This is why, I think, I hear people, mostly
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> Which half is wrong depends on which half you're asking. No, sometimes people are actually factually wrong. I don't have any beef with anything else you said.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
If you're single in the US, you have to earn over $578,125 taxable dollars in a year to have a single dollar of you income taxed at the highest rate, 37%. So considering only federal taxes there is no way most of anyone's income g
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by DFHippie 3y ago
"The exception that proves the rule" is an idiom that depends on a different meaning of the word "prove" from what you have in mind.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
If you look at AlexeyBelov's other comments, it's clear he is trying to create conflict wherever, whenever, and however he can. He wants to get people shouting. I would just ignore him. But thanks for sticking up for me.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Thanks. My son committed suicide a bit over a year ago. I was in the room next to him. He did it very quietly. I was the one who found his body. Or our cat was. She kept trying to get into his room. I finally sought to help her and found hi
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by DFHippie 3y ago
I wish my son had tried this.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Maine is sparsely populated, but most of its population is concentrated in a narrow strip along the coast. Actually, this is probably true of Norway as well.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Yeah, the cold hurts the range, but not all that much. The central (I was going to say "main") thing is that Maine is a charging desert. Bar Harbor, the destination of most of the out-of-state Teslas, has almost nowhere to charge.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> I paid about $900 for 3 weeks of charging at Tesla's stations Huh. Did you rent a Tesla and then have to pay separately for the privilege of using Tesla's charging network? I've had a Tesla for years and what you paid fo
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by DFHippie 3y ago
My brother lives in Maine and has two electric cars. I have one and travel in Maine a few times a year. It's a particularly bad state for charging. I'm not sure why that is.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
True.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
When I see "coworkers" I always think "cow-orkers". I don't know what orking is. It should be a thing.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Actually, given English's crazy spelling, it's pretty useful in English. There was a restaurant in my town -- the sign is still up but it's closed -- called "Cooper's Coop". For a while after they put their sig
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by DFHippie 3y ago
If all your attention is temporarily focused on something external to yourself, an onrushing train, say, are you temporarily not conscious? People typically distinguish self-awareness from consciousness. It is not clear that they should, or
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by DFHippie 3y ago
But if you say consciousness is "a specific evolved mechanism, and like the eye, has probably convergently evolved to serve different purposes" then you must have some notion what this mechanism is and what it's purpose is so
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Many years ago now I wrote my kids a very simple chatbot to play with. You'd type in a phrase. It would tokenize it, adding start and stop tokens, then update it's token transition probabilities, using the two preceding tokens to
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by DFHippie 3y ago
From wikipedia: > Because of his asocial and secretive behaviour, Cavendish often avoided publishing his work, and much of his findings were not told even to his fellow scientists. In the late nineteenth century, long after his death, Ja
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> milder influences of Gaelic languages Gaelic is the surviving Celtic language of Scotland, and not the dominant Celtic language of Scotland when the Angles and Saxons arrived, which was more like Welsh. I don't think Gaelic has ha
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by DFHippie 3y ago
It seems to me the fancy demurrage stuff would have had the intended effect provided they didn't know it was going to end in 13 months.

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