WaltPurvis

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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
>The complaint cites several examples when a chatbot provided users with near-verbatim excerpts from Times articles that would otherwise require a paid subscription to view. It asserts that OpenAI and Microsoft placed particular emphasis
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Not trying to be facetious: is a Roomba conscious?
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
I learned something new today (I didn't know decibels were logarithmic), but I still don't understand how it relates to "human perceived volume" as you put it. If a typical electric leaf blower makes 70 decibels of sound
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by WaltPurvis 2y ago
Can someone explain to me what "quieter" means in this context and/or how it's calculated? I don't understand what they mean when they say reducing the noise by 2 decibels made it 37% quieter -- it wasn't makin
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by WaltPurvis 3y ago
Enshittification seems redundant — shouldn't it just be shittification?
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by WaltPurvis 4y ago
Semi-related question: Most contracts and many kinds of forms that require a signature will have two lines, a first line that says something like "Print your name" and a second line for you to sign your name, which has always been
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by WaltPurvis 4y ago
Is this the default on Monterey? This behavior is enabled on my system, but I'm 100% sure I've never executed the terminal command from the linked article.
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Will DoorDash require employees to actually deliver goods rather than just say they did? I recently ordered a small appliance from Walmart and chose the option for next-day delivery, which turns out to mean delivered from a local Walmart
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Yeah, it's difficult to figure out how to act/think/feel on an individual level. I recently read an interesting article related to this: The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. https
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
What's the maximum altitude of these drones? It might help you get funding if you could pitch it as Actual Cloud Data.
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
I have a Fitbit Versa 3 that's gone and bricked itself in less than seven months. But my Apple Watch's battery life is <18 hours, so, for example, it's essentially impossible to wear it during the day and use it for slee
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Even small cars weigh thousands of pounds. Fifty pounds is objectively not a lot. If you're trying to tell me you can tell a significant difference in performance and handling in a car with a 7-year-old in the backseat versus no 7-year
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
That argument seems ridiculous. Gasoline weighs 6.3 pounds per gallon and most cars have 15-20 gallon tanks, so if you keep your tank around half-full your car will be lighter by maybe 50 or 60 pounds. Any performance improvement from that
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
> Journalism at it's finest, just pure, biased, opinion pieces. You apparently misunderstood what you were reading. The author is not a journalist and the article does not purport to be journalism. The author is an executive recrui
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
The National Hurricane Center has updated the forecast for Ida and now calls for it to be a 140 MPH Cat 4 (or greater) at landfall. The previous forecast had Ida topping out as a 120 MPH Cat 3. Storm surge of 10 to 15 feet above ground leve
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Refreshing never worked for me, although I admit I probably never tried refreshing ten times. What does work for me is manually prepending www. to twitter.com in the url.
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
> Melinda is very christian and refused for years to fund contraception or abortions. Melinda Gates has called expanding access to contraception the cause of her life and has funded it to the tune of more than $1 billion. https:/&
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Another vote for the Steelcase Leap. I sit in it for 10+ hours some days, with continuous stretches as long as two hours, and have had no discomfort. (I'm older than you and not in great physical condition, FWIW.)
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
> It's certainly made a lot of people wealthy though. I know the definition of "a lot" is somewhat flexible, but cryptocurrency has made only a tiny fraction of one percent of people wealthy.
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
Almost none of the jobs in question include health benefits, so it's not really a factor.
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by WaltPurvis 5y ago
I actually wanted less —- i.e., I bought the book a long time ago, and have always been interested-but-not-interested-enough to actually read it -- so I'm really happy to discover this essay exists.
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
I experienced an episode of transient global amnesia [1] a couple of years ago. It lasted for 6-7 hours, during which I was transported to the hospital, but every 2-3 minutes I would ask anew "Why am I in the hospital?" — having n
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
America Is Not Made for People Who Pee https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/sunday/public-toi...
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
It was Long Beach, not San Diego, and the situation is, as you say, not that simple. Kroger has talked about closing those two "underperforming" stores many times before. Kroger is a huge company that had record sales (over $100B)
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
Thank you!
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
> it doesn’t link to the NYT magazine article on rationalist retreats from a few years ago I want to read that, but Google failed me. Do you have a link or a clue to help me find a link?
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
In fact it does. The projected 15.1M new homes needed is not the same number as the projected number of new households, for reasons the text explains clearly. It projects 12.1M new households, 8.4M of them either one-person households or ma
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
> Where are they getting the “80% of new households ... will be these one to two person households” stat from? No citation, of course, because it’s not true. Do you have a source to cite for your claim that it's not true? This sou
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
Quibble: One is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for an entire body of work, not just a single novel; Oe wrote many other highly regarded novels in the thirty years between publishing A Personal Matter in 1964 and winning the Nobel Pri
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by WaltPurvis 6y ago
True, but I was talking about the future, not January 6.

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