Exoristos

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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Mantine is brilliant, I can build anything in it quickly and then extend it or completely customize the theme or individual components, but there is a learning curve. I would not call it a giant learning curve.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Perceiving plant gods and spirits is religion.
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Yes, it rather begs the omniscience of the researchers, doesn't it?
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
There's no reason to think that birds and trees don't routinely exuberate with joy, since cooperating with our needs in needful proportion brings us humans exuberance.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Interesting to me that you employ religion as the pejorative comparison here, when it's the inherent human religions that have perceived in plants gods and spirits since before the beginning of recorded time.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Americans were great researchers at the time, as well. During the Cold War era, Soviet culture included an ambition to rival and surpass American research and technology.
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"It's sad, but true. The courses that I used to offer here have to come to end. ... Honestly, I thought I might be teaching these courses into my retirement, but the enrollment numbers don't lie. Since 2023, there has been a
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Yes, it's basic QA. If tests missed this kind of thing, they would be of much more limited use than we generally expect them to be. It raises questions about the authors' background.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
It's because they don't have money to spend.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
I think it would have to be more of a professional organization, and realistically that would require a lot more rigor and discipline in our profession. Maybe to start with, model something like LOPSA[0]. 0. https://lopsa.org
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
This is a very thorough overview, well put together. As someone who was hired into manufacturing just before the jobs collapse detailed here, I have vivid memories of the way things were. Being employed felt valuable. Acquiring skill felt r
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
> Starlink ... is much pricier than mobile internet, and often costs more than even fibre broadband. The service ... halted new subscriptions for seven months to maintain connection quality. ... [T]he weather can mess up the signal: &quo
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
At this point just use a JetBrains product, get deterministic assistance, and 5x your speed. It's unfortunate the resistance to a true IDE just keeps going up. The blind lead the blind, I guess.
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Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses(theverge.com)
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*food
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
Boiled would have included braised -- but there were meats that you grilled, because they were young and tender, and meats that you "boiled" to break down the collagen because they were mature and tough. Nowadays we rarely consume
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
If you wanted Chinese fits in the 1800s, you went to a "chop suey" shop in Chinatown.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
You'd think implementing OAuth2 were splitting the atom the way so many dev teams won't even consider rolling their own or using the multiple well-tested free libraries.
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by Exoristos 3mo ago
So they're not just selfish, but delusional.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
I'm reading sentencing guidelines for material support of terrorism.[0] It looks like they normally max out at 15 years (20 if in support of certain orgs). I saw somewhere that a study of 261 cases found an average sentence of 13 years
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
"Family members and supporters ... called the punishment cruel, callous and starkly disproportionate to the defendants’ actions." The defendants were convicted "on a variety of federal charges, including riot, material suppor
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
I'm transitioning to freelance (independent consultant, full stack and Cloud), and I find I'm working alongside AI in business manager's hands. It's an uncanny mode of competition.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
What, in your evaluation, are the top two or three attributes of an attractive resume?
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
* cite > There is always a period of chaos before normalization. In this case, it's the normalization period that has people terrified.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
You're diffing very large assets?
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
Not every lottery winner has a detailed strategy.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
There was nothing inadvertent about it. A decade of cultivating and harvesting millions of examples of this kind of pseudo-writing from underpaid internet piece-workers preceded LLMs.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
Everyone should read through the (very short) skill file. Are we supposed to be this naive or dimwitted? LLM marketing is a transparent swindle at this point.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
A deathly calm.
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by Exoristos 4mo ago
Your post was quite relevant, as the Ezekiel writer is referring to and contrasting with that well-known passage of Mosaic law you quoted. As for your doubts about the discussion here, that's what makes study rewarding -- and the first

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