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by Fricken 4y ago
At a high level all games depend on a great deal of practice to excel. Chess is not distinct in that sense.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Modern sources of entertainment are dressed up in a lot of fluff. Blow all that fluff away and you're left with nothing that is any better than games and stories that have been with us since forever. The kids these days are drowning i
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by Fricken 4y ago
In a millenium the vinyl records will be playable, and the players buildable.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The fastest known time is 9.5 hours, set by Matt Cecil in August 2014.
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by Fricken 4y ago
There has been a total of 126 cougar attacks, 27 of which were fatal in North America in the last 100 years. I wouldn't worry too much. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks...
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by Fricken 4y ago
Sundar was chosen following a series of failures by megalomaniacal executives Larry had appointed/approved to head various departments, including Andy Rubin, Tony Fadell, and Anthony Levandwoski. Sundar was a move in the opposite direc
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by Fricken 4y ago
I only visit Buzzfeed through sites like HN so all I see is their better half.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I only link to buzzfeed through sites like HN so all I see is Buzzfeed's better half.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The youngest of those products is 15 years old.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Which assumptions did the parent make?
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by Fricken 4y ago
Leaving poo poo on things is a popular passtime for many dog people.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Deaths of despair in the US are highest amongst rural white men. (Urban white men aren't too far behind.)
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by Fricken 4y ago
We've decided violence is only good when carried out by the state, but if you take a look around, it's quite popular. Our entertainments dwell on subjects of human violence, and many of our recreations are forms of simulated viole
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by Fricken 4y ago
Nobody expects the image generators to produce images of real life. The LLMs are doing the same kind of thing with words. I'm at a loss as to how people who presumably understand how it works to expect it to be factually correct. It&#x
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by Fricken 4y ago
And Motorized Wheelchairs are micromobility. Cycling infrastructure is well suited to them.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I feel like I'm being too obvious here but a significant portion of any urban population can't drive either.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Sophisticated debates have been going on for decades. Now that the cat is out of the bag, there isn't much to be gained from arguing about what to do with a cat in a bag.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I've only seen one stat and it shows that, in Atlanta, following an E-efooter ban, average commute times increased 10%. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-city-of-atlanta-banned-e-sc...
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by Fricken 4y ago
The US initiative to block chips and chip fab tech from getting to China cites preventing China from getting their hands on advanced AI as the main reason. This report from CSIS (good read) is titled "Choking off China's Access t
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by Fricken 4y ago
With Dune, even though they sent a full crew and cast into the Wadi Rum dessert, they also ended up shooting a bunch of dessert scenes on a sound stage under a projection dome.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Any institution's primary objective is to secure it's own power (the second is to expand those powers). It's as true for governments as it is for corporations, religions, and even the home gardening club.
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by Fricken 4y ago
As Marshall McLuhan said, "The new medium starts out imitating the old medium"
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by Fricken 4y ago
Here's some more from a different user that were posted on the midjourney sub. They are way too fucking good: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11wox6c One big change in V5 is that they're no longer nerfing cele
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by Fricken 4y ago
A year of public transit in my city costs $1200, which is commensurate with the most I've spent on a commuter bike. I've had 7 bikes stolen in a quarter century of commuting, and I feel like I'm getting a pretty great deal wh
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by Fricken 4y ago
My commute in Jr. high was 7.7 km each way, I started doing that when I was 11.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The risks you're concerned about are not statistically relevant.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Sterling Anderson, the second autopilot director, was fired by Elon for insisting on the importance of Lidar. Sterling went on to cofound L4 startup Aurora, which Elon then, shortly after, attempted to sue into oblivion with a frivolous tra
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by Fricken 4y ago
There could be permanent consequences either way. Children of overprotective parents tend to live less: https://neurosciencenews.com/overprotective-parents-child-lo...
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by Fricken 4y ago
It's not a "kids these days" thing. It's a modernity thing. The first person to make a lot of noise about this was Georges Herbert, a French physical educator who is regarded as the inventor of the military obstacle cour
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by Fricken 4y ago
And you can feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing you're helping to make teenage girls suicidally depressed.

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