MildlySerious

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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Can you explain where you hope to take this conversation? I don't seem to understand the point you're trying to make regarding books.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
> Numbing is the opposite of stimulating. Your point being? Over-stimulation in the short term can be numbing in the long term by building up tolerance. And that's assuming that stimulation is somehow a one-dimensional thing and it
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
All stimulation is not the same, obviously. Social media is very stimulating, after all. It just happens to be in a numbing, harmful way for little to no benefit. Gaming has the same if not more potential than shows and movies have, it just
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
I consider those different in that these alternatives do a lot more hand holding. While all media is geared towards being engaging and accessible, the results are different if you're going the route of most common denominator visual co
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
There is .valueAsNumber. input.value returns a string, regardless of the input type. Making the return type dynamic would be worse, imo.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
This[1] article might shed some light. [1] https://jacobin.com/2025/01/trump-executive-orders-project-2...
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
The Project 2025 that he disavowed until he didn't, of which the writers are sitting in his cabinet[1], and the policies are getting implemented with executive orders right now? [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11&
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
To extend on the parallels: Project 2025 sets the foundation for persecuting queer people. The Project 2025 mandate both suggests categorizing gender affirming care for children as child abuse (p 5) and suggests the death penalty for, among
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Trump's entire campaign ran on curbing immigration, closing the borders and deportation of illegal immigrants. The one exception to that (the H-1B story) caused a lot of upheaval in his base. Among the many crazy things he said were th
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Hah, I'd be up for that. This could be dissected so much further. As for my own situation, I have been watching for a while. I didn't know I was, until the pandemic hit and all the alt-right and conspiracy talking points all of a
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
> I suspect the problem is larger than that. My take is that this is a symptom of something else. Populism has existed for a long time, but it feels to me that the environment we created also created the perfect target audience for it on
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Typst[1] is, imo, worth adding to the conversation. I recently used the CLI (and VSCode extensions) to put together a flyer, and I am testing it for invoice generation. So far I am quite enjoying it as a way to put together PDFs programmati
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Yup. UT holds a special place in my heart, and the abandonment of UT4 cut deeper than it should have. It's not like they couldn't have afforded a small team to continue working on UT4. Not getting more Unreal Tournament, and not g
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
During the pandemic it came down to just a few singular accounts, apparently.[1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Of the currently operating ones? I doubt that. Even just within that list there's a significant percentage of link rot present. Beyond the top ~5000 or so sites I would wager the longevity of adult content sites is pretty bad on averag
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
36,046 lines. Somehow I didn't expect it to be that substantial.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Instead of trying to fix the homepage, for the last 10 or so years I have been going straight to my subscriptions. Combine that with uBlock and one of the countless extensions that hide the sidebar and comment section, and Youtube is as bea
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
I'm aware it's being done already. But I'm not sure it would be a good starting point when designing a new set of notes. Euro banknotes are mostly made from cotton, and a lot of thought and effort is going into reducing the e
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Plastic doesn't seem like a good solution, considering that notes are moved, stretched, flexed a lot and endure a lot of friction. Seems like a needless source for more plastic particles shedding into the environment.
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by MildlySerious 2y ago
Plugging into a USB-C port in the center of the bottom side feels a lot less sturdy than plugging into the audio port closer to the side. Decreased the lifetime of the wires by a lot as well, it felt like. I've tried for a while before
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
Here[1] are my "personalized" Twitter ads. The ones that at least match the language of the content I want to see, not the geo I'm in. I use the PWA on mobile. No ad blocker, no pihole, full consent to collect what data they
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
windmill.dev got linked in the Bun release thread earlier, and I think that looks promising. Haven't tried it yet.
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
Previous discussion[1] 10 days ago with ~250 comments [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949931
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
Tangential: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
One approach seems to be to just double down[1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/1...
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the first major acts of eco-terrorism (for lack of a better term) were to happen. Peaceful protestors, as is tradition, were largely ignored. Acts of civil disobedience were ignored. Acts of obstruction are b
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
> But he is undoubtedly in the firing line. Billionaires are uniquely positioned to be, because they tend to get away repeatedly with things that would be career- or life-ending for others.
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
The skill to filter out a lot of bullshit at a glance. What I mean by that is seeing or clicking on a link, news source, article, video, etc. and immediately having a strong hunch on how skeptical I should be towards it. I'm not a trai
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
That makes sense. Thanks.
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by MildlySerious 3y ago
Industrialization, growing wealth and rising standard of living of impoverished regions were thoroughly accounted for in the IPCC scenarios. Now the parts of the world who got us here in the first place are burning through the remaining CO2

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