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by ahelwer 4y ago
This is true of basically all literary journalism. How do so many interesting things happen to these people that they can write about it? Easy, they make it up. David Foster Wallace is another example, said as someone who enjoys his essays.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Starting a crusade against anime pfps (one of the most ubiquitous styles on the entire internet) after you watched a youtube expose of an evil online forum is not a reasonable thing to do.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
"I saw some random crap on the internet so now other people have to start behaving in a certain way" is certainly one of many possible ways to navigate the world.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I bought a Turris Omnia used on ebay for about a hundred bucks. Very powerful, open source hardware & software, good community, adblock server built in if you're too lazy to set up a pihole, enough compute power to host lots of nea
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Not an emacs person myself (yet!) - Carl Thuringer created tla-mode that apparently uses the grammar: https://github.com/carlthuringer/tla-mode Haven't tested it out myself. Happy to take any PRs if emacs needs it
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Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software(ahelwer.ca)
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by ahelwer 4y ago
How much did you pay for the meter? Last time I looked into this measurements for various metrics were basically useless (unless you're only looking at relative, not absolute numbers) unless you spent at least a few hundred bucks and o
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I wonder about the longest stretch of silence that has passed in a negotiation because both parties read the same negotiating self-help books and attempted to apply them on one another.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but "giant list of media to consume in the future" be they games, movies, books, or blog posts is antithetical to me actually eventually enjoying that media. The value of having a list of thing
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I don't know why you think we can possibly come up with a competitor to something that, left alone for 20 years, builds itself into an incredibly strong & versatile building material, while sequestering carbon, using what amounts t
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by ahelwer 4y ago
So go to a different instance or even start up your own! That's the beauty of it, now you don't have to care what person C thinks - you can just go elsewhere.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
You've given no actual reasons you find this hard to believe, just running on 100% vibes. The data reported to regulators doesn't lie. Tesla really is that far behind the competition.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Per a recruiting email I received last year, I believe anti-cloud computing is called "fog computing".
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Get an AMD graphics card and use wayland.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Yep. I went from being sick roughly one week out of every 1-2 months before covid to only getting sick maybe once a year now that I mask in public places, thoroughly wash my hands with soap every time I arrive somewhere, and occasionally wa
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by ahelwer 4y ago
There are plenty of non-old-white-boys at McKinsey doing heinous stuff. I wish fixing things was as simple as increasing diversity, I really really do. Improving diversity is laudable goal in itself; don't count on it to fix these sort
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Well thankfully I haven't been in school for over a decade at this point, so rarely (never?) encounter these hard-cutoff no-second-chances trivia situations. I operate in the real world, where continually making something that's n
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Pop history generally is so far from accurate that I don't think you really have much to worry about. Nearly 100% of fun historical facts upvoted to the front page of reddit are basically incorrect, for example.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I could easily imagine an ordinary person giving this exact same wrong answer (confusing Hobbes and Locke) - we're talking about value-over-replacement here! In the process of learning things we take in wrong information all the time.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I finally went ahead and tried ChatGPT this morning (along with everyone else seemingly - it is now heavily rate-limited!) and I am truly blown away. I ask questions about various things (in my case, embedded systems development on the Pine
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I don't see why people are so attached to the pi when much more capable computers - 2013/14 era used Intel NUCs or Mac Minis - are available for a hundred bucks on ebay. Maybe lots of people are using the pi for low-power-draw pro
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by ahelwer 4y ago
A specific landfill project to... what? > The referendum asked whether voters approved or opposed the landfill work at Henoko Bay for the construction of a new United States Marine Corps base. Can you explain how this is dishonest?
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by ahelwer 4y ago
There is such a staggering quantity of electronics (or just stuff, generally) wasted that if you're putting something to literally any use at all - like your ipad clock - then you're miles better than standard. I also encourage ev
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It is just fundamentally strange that you are including gig economy work in a discussion of automation. That isn't automation! The people shopping for you are not automatons just because your interaction with them is mediated by an app
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by ahelwer 4y ago
If you're hosting your website with a static site generator on github/gitlab/sourcehut etc., check the documentation for whatever theme you're using. I'm using the Beautiful Hugo theme and switching to self-hosted f
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by ahelwer 4y ago
This sounds plausible enough until you examine it and realize you're turning viewing ads into some kind of moral duty. "Have you witnessed the requisite quantity of behavior-modifying media today, Citizen? Remember, we all have to
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It was a whole lot of motivated speculation about how some people were thinking hundreds of years ago and how they would interpret contemporary weapons. It is indistinguishable from a reddit post with fancier words. Scalia would have been h
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I kick myself every day for not pulling the trigger when they were that cheap. That's less than some higher-tier electric bikes!
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by ahelwer 4y ago
The car you're looking for is a used 2015 Nissan Leaf. Absolute top-tier city driving car.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Being an effective altruist doesn't make someone an intellectual. They teach the boy-in-pond thought experiment the first week of any college elective ethics class. They hand out The Life You Could Save to all harvard undergrads in t

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