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by aeturnum 5y ago
Yah - there was a "collective social moment" that was how people came together around exciting new (at the times) forms. That's a kind of irreplaceable moment that is always happening for some community somewhere, but it neve
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I have never understood people who mourn the death of the "old" internet because I do not feel I have lost it. Particular communities come and go, as they always have, but I have found that the I can find the same sorts of gatheri
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There are areas where I am more skeptical of how patents are used (see: publicly funded medical research that creates privately owned patents), but I just don't see this as a problem in this case. This isn't an essential technolog
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> Set up an anti-phishing code I believe this is a system where you give a website something that you will recognize (I've seen small images used as well as text) that they agree to display to you in their layout. It is supposed t
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Oh wow! That is amazing. The examples I was describing were in anime so I have no doubt they were in ASS as well. Very cool.
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I would also love to a more responsive subtitle format! I've seen some really wonderful custom jobs where people use different subtitle colors for different speakers, place subtitles near the speaker in the frame, etc. I think there is
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I also use them regularly in my native language! Very helpful in noisy environments.
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This would be a lovely option to have and I find it hilarious that anyone imagines that subtitles are some kind of problem we are trying to get out of. Adding text to movies has a huge array of advantages: it preserves the original performa
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I think the gullible take is to imagine that the wealthy and powerful maximize their gains in an unstable system. They don't care about stupid people, but they care about the instability that comes with people getting taken in by scams
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> I’m prepared to treat this like I’ve treated the flu: by basically not worrying about it and living my life normally. I wish I could feel this way! I actually have little to fear from the initial covid infection and, if covid were
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I didn't understand anyone to be saying that Python is the only language to have this flaw. Also, I personally don't mind this approach to string concatenation. I think it's a fine compromise between easy formatting and clari
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mypy is a great project and I agree that basically every project at scale should use it. However, I think you're wrong about the strength of the Python type system and what a good type system can "get" you. I think mypy both
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I love how simple and forgiving Python is for small projects. The "trailing comma creates a tuple" situation comes out of, as far as I can tell, a desire to create maximally convenient syntax in the scenarios where tuples are inte
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The high-level goals of python end up creating these little syntactic landmines that can get even experienced coders. My personal nomination for the worst one of these is that having a comma after a single value often (depending on the surr
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by aeturnum 5y ago
So many wild things in this, but I was curious about this aspect: > It also helped that I was unemployed. I had time to court her properly. Does anyone find this kind of situation helps their relationship health? I've started rela
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by aeturnum 5y ago
That makes sense - and congrats on getting any revenue out of a side project! It seems like a good experience even if it's hard to judge it on economic grounds alone.
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I would be really interested to see a rough $/hr estimate from OP. Like, if he really did get $200/mo for 1-2 hours of work a month - that's ~$100/hr! It's a good rate! But any increase in time demands is going to s
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> Is this to imply that some other method exists to study long term harms? Not that I trust? But I think it's important to note that this study has epistemological value within a certain set of axioms and not everyone in the world
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I mean, I understand why someone might say that, but I think that's actually a critique of western medicine in general rather than this study in particular. In that I think it's understood that studies like this are measuring harm
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> But pretending there is zero detrimental effects is wishful thinking and will lead to people abusing the thing, believing it's just funny candy, and they may end up damaged. I think you're mostly reacting to the framing of
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> if everyone stars in a porno, no one does. I am sorry I missed this because I disagree, I think it's worth considering the legal status of lying. Generally, lying is protected speech (and everyone does lie sometimes), but that&#
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I disagree with that read of the evidence they list, to wit: > In the introduction to a copy of the Final Shooting Script included in the book, editor Spencer Lamm notes that “everything” in the script was filmed but “changes occurred d
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I also think this blog post betrays a lack of understanding about when it's appropriate to draw lines around "the plot" of a series. Like, it doesn't surprise me that they played with ideas that might have contradicted t
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It's interesting to compare this to Ghost in the Shell (1995) a key influence on the Matrix. It also had a re-release in 2008 which brought the color palette in line with the GITS extended universe, but that re-release is consistently
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I had my house burn down as a child and I think most of these are very good! I think #11 is a little circumstantial, but #13 (paperwork) should be twice in bold. The work of documenting your possessions is difficult and long. There is also
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> Porn and AI is gonna get real messy. From a practical standpoint I think it is going to be an unmitigated nightmare: people creating AI revenge porn, fake porn of famous people, etc. From a legal standpoint, I don't think AI cha
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Psychadelics famously impact people in vastly different ways. Anyone who hasn't tried them before will probably have the best time doing a standard dose (1 "tab" of lsd or ~1.5g of mushrooms) around friends with nothing else
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I was hoping to see a collection of texts like the story of mel[1], but I think it's lovely that someone has collected sacred texts on the internet. I also think it would be fun to collect the texts "sacred" to the internet
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I hope we can all agree that NASA pays NASA costs to solve specific, low-N problems. The problem with the blockchain is it wants to spend NASA money on basic translations.
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I do think that the best critique of "web3" is that it's shifting the trust into a different and less well understood space. There are advantages and disadvantages to using computers instead of analog processes to resolve con

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