SamPatt

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by SamPatt 4y ago
Yes. This phenomenon happens all the time. Panics are human nature.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
>The takeaway is that we’re more likely to perceive exercise positively and actually do it when we focus on our well-being rather than our weight. I agree this is the right framing. As a formerly obese person I think obese people typical
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Building something interesting without being too worried about licensing and copyright is a positive signal in my mind. You can clutch your pearls all you like but this is just the digital version of what humans have been doing forever. If
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by SamPatt 4y ago
The older I get the more I believe some version of this. It's related to empathy somehow. I think we're inherently self-centered, but that we also recognize ourselves within others, and don't desire suffering for ourselves, h
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Porco Rosso or Castle in the Sky Spirited Away is amazing too
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Not being able to figure out a tip does annoy me a bit, because when you know how 10% works then you've got all you need, just halve it and add it back on and you've got your minimum 15%, or double it for 20%. It's not like t
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by SamPatt 4y ago
This I highly doubt. Especially when it comes to solar, for which there are many reasons to adopt apart from environmental concerns.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I understand your sentiment but your examples still sound like a lot of energy. If every home ran a server rack for two days a month, or produced 30kg of aluminum, that would obviously add up extremely quickly.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
That's one meter away. Inside your body? Another story.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
>Don’t expect to cover all of that in a few months lol Yes that was definitely what I was thinking
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I can consume 3k a day eating clean, but no more. Eating all that in one meal would require some extremely unhealthy eating, for me. I know sumo wrestlers and other extreme athletes are capable though.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
If computers are better at writing novels than humans then what you gain is access to better novels. I enjoy reading novels, and I wouldn't refuse to read an excellent one because a computer wrote it.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
That's rough. 3k-5k calorie meal? That's an entire day's worth of calories, for someone really active. Strange your body didn't adapt.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
What's left for us is whatever we want to do. People still do all kinds of things which machines and computers can do better than we can. No reason to think that will change.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Is there any advancement people won't decry? Defeating aging would be the most significant achievement in human history. But sure, let's worry about centuries old overpopulation concerns instead, despite having demonstrated them f
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by SamPatt 4y ago
That didn't happen. It was proposed and rejected by Congress. The FAA's budget was not "significantly decreased" as the comment above claimed.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I wish my budget was so constrained. Have you looked at the numbers?
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I think we should have been able to withhold for unnecessary foreign wars.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I'm not a conversative. Presidents don't pass budgets. FAA funding has increased, not decreased. I can criticize my government all I want. You're turning this into a political party thing when it's a government service f
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes? This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell th
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I was playing in our company chess tournament one year and played en passant against an opponent who entered but didn't play much chess. I swear he thought I was cheating. I had to explain the term and have him Google it.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Very understandable how this developed in the era of over the board play. You can't have two queens when they don't physically exist! I always use an upside down rook, somehow there's always one available by then.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Same with their attempt at watermarking the AI output.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I've been zapped too and there's no period of contemplation about what's happening. Just a moment of shock, then pain, followed by lots of cursing and then gratitude it wasn't worse.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
>They gain nothing by helping others than avoiding minor inconveniences. The example was vaccination. Vaccine side effects are sometimes far more than minor inconveniences. Failing to acknowledge this fact is disingenuous. You can blame
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Pursuing self interest isn't poison. There are many examples in history (and in our modern world) where doing the "selfless" thing is just manipulation for serving someone else's interests first. Religious leaders mainta
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Because instead of doing a tutorial I've actually made a couple websites using Node JS, Express, and Heroku. The code it gives seems pretty good but not perfect. It's good enough for me to take it and change it as needed. But the
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I was always surprised that my fellow students didn't do any reading or note taking before the teacher covered something in class. The textbook was usually better than the teacher anyway.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
"Fearing negative impact on learning" Yeah right. I've learned more about coding in the past few weeks using ChatGPT to make a few projects than months of tutorials. This tech can be an extremely powerful tool for learning.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I find when I begin eyeballing things I inevitably start to get them wrong. For example, apples with peanut butter is my favorite snack. I initially measured out and weighed the peanut butter, then used the same entry for calorie counting a

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