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by adriand 2y ago
I think the key is ensuring that “we” get to choose what society looks like in the AGI era. In the world today, even marginalized people have power. Look what happened to Assad. Look at the US - whether you believe they made the right decis
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What a simultaneously sad and beautiful thing to share. Thank you.
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Is this your vid / your rat? This is insane. Makes me want a rat!
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But the thread says, “When reached, they could not explain the reason for the cancellation: Them: - We sent you an email. Us : -We did not receive it, can you please resend? Them: - We can't” Was that on a phone call? Because if not
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> Hang on, Hetzner literally deleted all their data without warning? That’s what the post said. But of course we have no idea if it’s true or not. No evidence was provided, and we are only hearing one side of the story.
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Thanks for this suggestion, I’ll try it. I have also been frustrated with Spotify for replaying the same stuff over and over. I tried their new AI playlist feature and prompted it for “tracks with fewer than 10,000 plays”; it correctly name
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If you add up all the aid from the US and compare it to aid from the EU plus European nations, I think the share of contributions is roughly equal. But if that’s right (and I did the math in my head while scrolling a huge spreadsheet on my
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“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. If we distanced ourselves from everyone who made a mistake or who believed something different than we believe, we would have no relationships at all.
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Your dad is surely still suffering from this loss and if I had to guess, is probably awfully lonely and misses you. Life is too short to estrange family members over their political beliefs. Have you tried finding common ground in other are
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He also said, "My heart just dropped". That's a curious thing to say.
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Also: accept that what you make is ephemeral. No one pauses in the middle of building a sand castle on the beach and wonders if their sand-sculpting skills are adequate. Anything you make, even if it becomes one of humanity’s most cherished
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Or we could invent a listening device that also serves as everyone's primary communications channel, and we could ensure everyone carries it with them at all times, and encourage them to record their most intimate thoughts with it, and
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I'm sorry about what happened to you!
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> How is this any different than "guns don't kill people, people kill people?" In terms of guns, the reality is that people with guns kill people. An intent to kill plus an instrument designed to do so easily is often a le
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I tried Cursor and found it annoying. I don’t really like talking to AI in IDE chat windows. For whatever reason, I really prefer a web browser. I also didn’t like the overall experience. I’m still using Copilot in VS Code every day. I rece
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It happens but Ctrl-R has helped me get much better at finding commands I’ve used even just once before based on some tiny thing I remember about them.
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How sure are we that these so-called title drops are what this article purports them to be rather than the name of the film coming from the content and/or dialogue that is contained within it? An analogy: when someone writes a song and
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> Anything you put in an oven covered completely in aluminum foil —like a baked potato — is only going to end up baked, not roasted. Actually, this produces a steamed potato. Covering it in foil is a poor technique for this reason. To pr
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This is certainly true, although many of us have to deal with problems and projects large enough and time-consuming enough that if they prevented us from sleeping properly, we’d never sleep properly. It takes practice, essentially. Experime
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I had the 2015 MBP and I held onto it until the M1 came out…I still have it and tbh it’s still kind of a great laptop. The two best laptops of the past decade for sure.
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I started describing the situation and then realized doing so is a breach of her privacy, so deleted my comment. I did have parental controls on it in terms of the apps she has access to, but had not limited the time spent (my mistake). I w
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It’s true. My daughter didn’t have a phone until 9th grade, which she just started. She had talked about getting a dumb phone because she wasn’t very into the smartphone thing, which I was supportive of. However she now takes public transit
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> Lots of non-trivial programming tasks can be broken down into pure, trivial sections. Then, the non-trivial part becomes knowing how the entire system fits together. I think that’s exactly right. I used to have to create the puzzle pie
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That’s what I’m going to tell myself when I stand on the bathroom scale in the morning. “I’m not fat, if I just compute my dry mass, I’m in superb condition.”
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Journalism and a robust news media are a critical part of democracy. We can’t have a functioning democracy without them, just like we also need an independent judiciary, independent educational institutions and so on. As such, journalists a
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A friend of mine said to me a few months ago, “all existing software is technical debt”. Meaning that owning software now is, in many cases, a burden not an asset since you can spin up new greenfield software using the latest tech so quickl
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Agreed. I don’t even know what this elegy is for. “what was wonderful about the web, was that here was a machine for finding people with similar interests and experience, anywhere in the world. That’s the web I want back.” Is that no longer
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You can find heaters using the term "parabolic infrared heater". This is what I use for my basement studio, where I frequently produce music and thus do not want a heater with a fan (like many basements, it's quite a bit chil
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That’s so interesting and also kind of crazy. Do these forms of speech come with their own verb conjugations and so on, making them difficult for people who learn the language as a non-native speaker? What about young children, do they unde
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Interesting point - I assume this would be helpful given I could reasonably promise them huge rewards for protecting me. Is that what you meant, or do you think this would actually increase the danger level?

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