Loughla

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by Loughla 1y ago
I'm saying you don't even need a substitute. Genuinely looking back, I was more anxious when I would browse reddit in my free time. I promise, disengage from social media (and the doom news cycle for that matter) and you'll b
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by Loughla 1y ago
Once you have an IP that's massive and you know people will buy regardless of if you're a trash monster or not, there's zero incentive to do the right thing. Until people stop buying games from these places nothing will chang
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by Loughla 1y ago
I left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
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by Loughla 1y ago
The publishers are playing shit games with faculty and providing free access for them to high quality instructional materials. To the point that the faculty doesn't really have to do anything for online classes(which is a whole other b
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by Loughla 1y ago
>The advent of a new transmission route in the US these days is pretty much a miracle event. Having had three major transmission lines for energy (two electric one gas) come through the area I live in the last 8 years, this is just false
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by Loughla 1y ago
The problem, when it comes to smartphone bans, isn't the kids, believe it or not. My experience (consulting with multiple k-12 institutions) is that it's the parents. If the parents can't be in CONSTANT contact with their kid
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by Loughla 1y ago
I love the ring world series until all the furry porn. He really should've stopped before coming up with rishing.
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by Loughla 1y ago
I have a tattoo of the tree ship yggdrasill. The consul's tale should be required reading for anyone working in the tech field.
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by Loughla 1y ago
The things I took away from reading Niven was transfer booths. The world has homogenized because information and people were transmitted instantly one from corner of the globe to another. Ooohhh boy.
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A polite tone also helps cover absolute dog shit nonsense arguments. You see it in the YouTube "debaters" that dunk on college kids. They keep a level head while college kids get angry. This hides that most of the debaters' &
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by Loughla 1y ago
I got really into fractals and attractors when I was also really into mushrooms, lsd, and dmt during my graduate studies. It actually shaped my post doc work quite a bit and shifted my focus from individual classroom education to strategic
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by Loughla 1y ago
That's a level of dedication that I have never devoted to anything in my life. That's energy that could change the world if harnessed correctly.
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by Loughla 1y ago
And from an accessibility standpoint, default fonts and colors are very safe as well. They tend to be easier to see and process.
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by Loughla 1y ago
Define low temperatures. Mine struggles if it gets below 30, and might as well not exist below 10. They're not great at low temps.
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by Loughla 1y ago
Our heat pump for HVAC is awesome. Until it gets under 30. Then you can watch the power meter crank when auxiliary heat kicks on. And we only keep it 65 in the house in the winter. Luckily I live in the upper Midwest, so it's only that
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by Loughla 1y ago
Arbitrary or not, States are sovereign things. They set their own laws. Having 1 chamber that allows equal representation And Having 1 chamber that allows proportionate Is a good system in theory. Otherwise, States (which are again separate
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by Loughla 1y ago
No, I like the way the Senate runs in theory. Equal representation for the states regardless of size. Only if it's alongside the house with proportionate representation. That seems like a good theory that would keep itself in check. In
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by Loughla 1y ago
Rural areas especially, but most small towns in the US don't have crosswalks. The closest crosswalk to my bus stop as a kid was about 45 miles.
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by Loughla 1y ago
(St)Roads where the kids have to cross a busy road to get to the other side where their house is. In my case, a rural highway where traffic goes 55mph. Is better to stop all traffic than force kids to figure out how to frogger through traff
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by Loughla 1y ago
Also if you go to the Midwest US, they're still everywhere in the summers. I assumed the firefly deaths would be easily explainable by chemicals, but they seemed prevalent over soybean fields (which would be treated with pesticides at
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by Loughla 1y ago
Do they? The institutions I've worked with shut off e-mail access between 6 months and 1 year after a student is no longer active. I wonder what the benefit is.
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by Loughla 1y ago
There's a difference between doing research into a car and doing research into whether or not a company is lying to me.
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by Loughla 1y ago
Until this impacts their bottom line, how is that unexpected? Will we see mass exits from their service? Who knows. My money says no though. How many companies can just ride the "but it's not our fault" to buy time with custo
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by Loughla 1y ago
The Minds call it Infinite Fun Space. The space of all possible mathematical worlds, free to explore and to play in. It is infinitely more expressive than the boring base reality and much more varied: base reality is after all just a speci
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by Loughla 1y ago
That's valid, but I can still hope for better and dread that result. I genuinely believe we'll see technological world war 3 in my child's lifetime. And I'm not a super supporter of that.
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Is it? How can you tell?
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The problem is that AI and advanced robotics (and matter synthesis and all that future stuff) must come with a post scarcity mindset. Maybe that mindset needs to happen before. Either way, without that social pattern, I'm afraid all th
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by Loughla 1y ago
That's. . . That's not great.
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by Loughla 1y ago
I'm learning that hn isn't great at understanding satire. I find that interesting but I'm not sure why.
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by Loughla 1y ago
Why? Unlimited speed and unlimited compute means it can spend its time in Infinite Fun Space without us. It could simulate entire universes tweaked subtly to see what one small parameter change does. The reason AI won't destroy us for

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