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by adsteel_ 4mo ago
That's my memory as well. Early '00s, I was also in college and seemingly one year campus went from a broadly friendly, social place to one with a lot of people, headphones in, focused on their own little world. There were Walkman
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by adsteel_ 4mo ago
Is waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay somehow less severe than elsewhere?
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by adsteel_ 5mo ago
Not just due to code generation, but to AI code scraping and inspection.
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by adsteel_ 6mo ago
A pidgin is just a simplified form of language that hasn't evolved into its own new language yet. There are many English pidgins.
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by adsteel_ 7mo ago
I bought the official ear pad replacements for my PXC450 back when those were available, for 1/4 of what the headset cost. They are so terrible that I stopped using the headphones entirely. I lost faith in Sennheiser after that, now I
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by adsteel_ 8mo ago
I talk politely to LLMs because I don't want any impoliteness to leak out to my interactions with humans.
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by adsteel_ 8mo ago
My romantic views of wood smoke hit reality when I first camped in Canada's Banff-Jasper national parks, where you could buy unlimited firewood for the night for $5. Everyone bought it, it seemed. Trying to breathe downwind of a campgr
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by adsteel_ 10mo ago
It looks great, but it's missing the one thing I want most in the site - the ability to select the version of the language documentation in some way other than editing the URL directly. I use ruby-lang almost exclusively for the docume
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by adsteel_ 1y ago
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all th
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by adsteel_ 1y ago
I only realized last week that Tres Comas tequila is just a bottle of 1800 Reposado with a different label
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by adsteel_ 1y ago
In less poetic terms, the progression I talk about is "copy, choose, create". First, we learn to copy a solution. Later, we know enough solutions that we can choose the best for the situation and copy that one. Finally, we know en
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
I love your optimism about steps 4 and 5.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Privatizing is a key step on the path to full oligarchy. So I would guess that yes.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Rails is set up for that, but it doesn't force you to build like that. You're free to build in other patterns that you design yourself. It's nice to have simple defaults with the freedom to opt into more complexity only if an
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
There was even a computer program in that book that was constantly rotating the sofa, trying to find a way for it to come out. If Adams didn't know about this, he certainly had a sixth sense.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
I only learned this in adulthood, too. I had to discover and memorize those shortcuts. Now I know that some of the "brilliant" math students I went to high school with had simply learned these skills the rest of us didn't.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Have you been able to try trailer.app?
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Hm, the CSS and JS don't appear to load for me. Not even a <body><html> set of tags in the HTML response.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
It makes me think of long COVID and CFS, where patients complain of a lack of "unrefreshing sleep" and "brain fog". A lack of perfusion resulting in waste not being sufficiently flushed out could possibly result in those
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
I'd like to learn more about the washing. Do you have a link or word/phrase to Google?
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
My experience with JSON API is that it doesn't come with the out-of-box tooling that GraphQL comes with. GraphQL is declarative enough that just writing the queries, mutations, and types gives you UI documentation and a GraphiQL playgr
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
That was my thought. They might even need to periodically re-verify in person. And ideally they should verify in person with a witness, like getting a driver's license or passport.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Not just AI music, but "ghost artists", which are real people paid bottom dollar to create generic playlist music in a theme, under a different name. https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/music-streaming&#x2
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Powerful almost always means rich. Rich people who divorce lose out on a richer life, maybe because they pay alimony, maybe because they lose social status, maybe because they just don't get to join finances with another rich person. C
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched toward me in unison.
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
None of those are examples of ochlocracy, even if they involve mobs. Mob rule is an "oppressive majoritarian form of government". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_rule
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Mermaid is fantastic for diagramming architecture. A little quirky, but not too bad. If you're using GitHub it's supported in any markdown file, and therefore accessible to any other dev with repo access. No permissions issues, ed
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
The report also notes that while employees worked on average 1.5hrs/day less on home days, they made up for that with longer hours on office days and weekends. They attribute this to their "rigorous performance management system&q
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
The author says he scrolled past it quickly, so it "may have been an honest mistake," ie not malicious. Unwanted? There's been a big cultural shift over the past 100 years about addresses. Papers used to print subjects'
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by adsteel_ 2y ago
Rim brakes/pull-brakes/v-brakes are great even for serious off roading, though you may want to upgrade to long caliper pads, which make a world of difference. Disc brakes aren't helpful until you're doing serious downhil

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