abyssin

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by abyssin 2y ago
I was a hardcore book reader in the first part of my life, and reading on the web keeps hurting my eyes. Every typography mistake triggers me the same way a grammar one does. I'd love to have such a tool to fix typography on the fly fo
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by abyssin 2y ago
But is there an evolutionary pressure in this direction because of the decrease in need? That would be Lamarckian then. I wonder if certain traits need evolutionary pressure to stay stable, and otherwise degenerate in some specific directio
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by abyssin 2y ago
I'm happy to learn about it. I've owned trekking/urban bicycles from multiples brands and never found such documents, except maybe using archive.org to get old marketing pages.
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by abyssin 2y ago
Bicycles should be required to be sold with a sheet of all the measurements of replacement parts. I find that buying the correct part is often the biggest hurdle in maintaining my bicycles.
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by abyssin 2y ago
You’re right to explicitly mention the part about the good trip. As always in this kind of discussions, there has to be a reminder that psychedelics should be used cautiously, being conscious about the risks associated with a potential bad
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by abyssin 2y ago
Not sure about the exponential part. Sure the maintenance is different, but with a bicycle it has to happen more often, and the parts aren’t as cheap as one might expect. It’s cheaper, but it has to be balanced with the limited utility of t
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by abyssin 2y ago
Initial cost (6000 euros buys you a decent second-hand car), storage cost (to protect it against weather and thieves), maintenance cost (bike mechanics get paid the same as car mechanics), limited usefulness. I have owned multiple cargo bik
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by abyssin 2y ago
Larry vs Harry is the producer of Bullitt bikes. They're cool, but it's fair to say they're probably biased.
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by abyssin 2y ago
I'm also skeptical. I worked for a delivery company using cargo bikes. These things were needing repairs all the time. Employees were passionate about bicycles and accepting a very low wage. The bikes themselves are expensive. In speci
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by abyssin 2y ago
Could you give an example of how you see it everywhere?
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by abyssin 2y ago
Coming from a family that has a frugal culture, it’s always been easy for me to save a substantial part of my income, even when I had to downsize my lifestyle after losing a relatively high paying job. Looking at how people around me spend
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by abyssin 2y ago
In theory I bet it's an efficient option. But I'm curious about the risks and costs involved in dealing with such "services", and how easy it is to find reputable thugs.
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by abyssin 2y ago
A common evolutionarily explanation for the existence of depression in the case of an illness is that it forces the individual to take rest, and being withdrawn lowers the risk of transmitting an infection. How depression and inflammation a
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by abyssin 2y ago
I’d say lots of behavioural cues, for instance related to dominance. Many people feel like they’re behaving freely because they’ve completely internalized the constraints their social position imposes upon them.
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by abyssin 2y ago
> We ended up selecting five reforms aimed mostly at increasing everyone’s ability to trust the people, algorithms, and content they encounter online: > 1. Authenticate all users, including bots > 2. Mark AI-generated audio and vis
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by abyssin 2y ago
I have only read an interview by the author and while I tend to agree with his analysis, I’m not so enthusiastic about his close ties with the likes of Google, and one of the solutions he offers, which has the undesirable side effect of end
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by abyssin 2y ago
Generative AI could have a paradoxical effect of making slow, human generated content more valuable because the only alternative is free meaninglessness generated from older meaningless free content. The free, machine generated content woul
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by abyssin 2y ago
Thanks for the details. Would you agree to contact me on Signal using the link in my profile?
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by abyssin 2y ago
They have the right to stop operating in the legal zone where it isn't profitable for them.
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by abyssin 2y ago
Could you give more explanations about how you’ve been using ChatGPT to get better?
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by abyssin 3y ago
There is an article in Le Monde diplomatique of February 2024 that briefly tells the story of the first numerus closus in France in the sixties.
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by abyssin 3y ago
I have the same experience in a psychology faculty. I helped a PhD student who was working on some MATLAB code. The amount of code I had to write for something similar as they were doing was orders of magnitude lower, and faster to write. B
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by abyssin 3y ago
For the human beings. Life itself isn't threatened by climate change.
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by abyssin 3y ago
A cheaper and more environmental-friendly alternative is a bicycle.
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by abyssin 3y ago
In 2010 I met a guy who told me that for environmental reasons it's not okay to use planes. I knew about environmental issues before, but I'd say that was the point in time when I started to see climate change as a serious issue,
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by abyssin 3y ago
And that angle is also often visible when socializing with researchers in that field, except they try to hide it.
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by abyssin 3y ago
If you have an iPhone, the scan feature of the stock iOS file explorer is quite good. Just hover the phone on top of the documents and it auto-detects, crops and combines them into a pdf.
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by abyssin 3y ago
My anecdotal experience in a psychology faculty makes me think there is an issue of statistics mastery in the social sciences. There's also an issue of corruption like p-hacking, but so far the statistics courses I've had were poo
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For those interested in reading a great book exposing Deleuze and others like him, I recommend Fashionable Nonsense by Sokal & Bricmont.
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by abyssin 3y ago
I sometimes dream of a situation where we seek status through virtuous behaviour. Unfortunately there’s no religion with sufficient authority at the moment to gather a big enough community where this would take place, at least none that I c

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