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by alwa 1y ago
Part of its pleasure is the way it reduces an intrinsically dense catalog of parts to such a consistent and sensibly-structured interface. Even though it’s never failed to connect me with precisely the part I’m seeking, to this day their
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by alwa 1y ago
And whichever method you use, you’re still accountable to regulators, courts, the letter of your contract, and the consequences of your reputation in a competitive market.
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by alwa 1y ago
Not that photographic art wasn’t getting made, more that the doyens of the Finer Arts would tend to dismiss work in that medium as craft, trade, or low art—that they’d dismiss the act of photographic production as “mere capture” as opposed
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by alwa 1y ago
Those are the only grade levels at which the NAEP is administered. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/guides/scores_achv.asp... I’d be more worried if the author stepped beyond their scope, and went from observ
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by alwa 1y ago
I mean… I have a fancy phone camera in my pocket too, but there are photographers who, with the same model of fancy phone camera, do things that awe and move me. It took a solid hundred years to legitimate photography as an artistic medium
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by alwa 1y ago
Have you had that experience, of being taken as a weirdo? We may move in very different circles, but when I ask to be left out of social media posts I’m always met with respect and understanding, at least to my face. If anything, in recent
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by alwa 1y ago
There’s value in grace. For all sorts of reasons you might be right to do things that make other people feel bad. That’s no reason to rub their nose in it. What’s the virtue in offending people when you could instead be kind? I know one wom
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by alwa 1y ago
A gap in my education that I look forward to filling, thank you! I’m curious about a specifically-online dynamic that the Persuasion author highlights: that is, it used to be the family and community could keep a lid on the crank flat-earth
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by alwa 1y ago
A former senior Bush administration official (writing under a pseudonym) attempts to survey the social and political side-effects of algorithmic polarization and the tech business cycle. Arrives at a similar call for deliberate moderation a
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by alwa 1y ago
https://archive.is/CLbNR I’m not really sure what to make of the thesis, but maybe that’s just “a loser” ( sans riches) talking? > But in the meantime, the Trump brigade is testing a genuinely fascinating philosophical
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Enshittification: The culture war nobody's talking about(persuasion.community)
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by alwa 1y ago
It frustrates me when advocates get righteous about something that they only imagine and don’t take the time to see for themselves (while claiming it’s widespread and easy to observe): “I never actually witnessed this scene myself, but I’v
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by alwa 1y ago
https://archive.is/e5cPl
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by alwa 1y ago
They’re more than willing to hear the case. It’s the lawyer, not the complainant, who the court is chastising. If anything, it scans like the court is concerned, like you are, that this vulnerable person’s case isn’t being presented with th
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by alwa 1y ago
I’m not sure I know what you mean—I’m not sure I’d want to discuss the specifics of my living environment here though. Would you have any examples handy?
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by alwa 1y ago
On an Apple OS running default settings, two hyphens in a row will suffice—
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by alwa 2y ago
It appears that the American Automobile Labeling Act measures domestic content on a value basis (that is, the amount the manufacturer pays the supplier for it): https://www.nhtsa.gov/part-583-american-automobile-labeling-...
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by alwa 2y ago
Or plastic, backed by electric heating! https://www.totousa.com/washlet
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by alwa 2y ago
As I recall, the Guggenheim offered theirs for loan to the White House a few years back… https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-amer...
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by alwa 2y ago
What criteria do you consider when you think about comfort in this sense? The (always-credulous) Guardian seems to go based on photogenic shopping centers/bars and raw square footage: “A flat in Chongqing costs a seventh of what it wo
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by alwa 2y ago
TFA was one such study. “We observed that impolite prompts often result in poor performance, but overly polite language does not guarantee better outcomes. The best politeness level is different according to the language.”
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by alwa 2y ago
I’ve had the same sense. From your examples, I wonder if part of it is that, while the form is that of a platitude, you’re giving it substantive direction too: giving it an indication of what you’re satisfied with, as distinct from what rem
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by alwa 2y ago
Obligatory link to Doctorow’s Unauthorized Bread (2019), a DRM-themed, uh… thriller? polemic?… of a novella. Deals with the themes you discuss: large appliance manufacturer malfeasance, intrusive exploitation beyond the scope of the produ
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by alwa 2y ago
Direct PDF link: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w336... Possibly relevant that the 6 week trial period occurred in the 6 weeks leading up to the American election in 2020.
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by alwa 2y ago
Why would a bad attitude be helpful in those domains? Are the human partners wont to deliver more effort when you’re mean to them? Are we talking about something other than Agreeableness in the personality research sense [0]? The strongest
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by alwa 2y ago
I kind of felt like Apple’s was the right approach, for that reason: they’d tend to support it in high-end video but not so much in image content. Although it sounds from downthread like that might be changing? If the tech does seep into ad
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by alwa 2y ago
I feel like the whole emoji example might favor your point of view, but that, delightfully, grandparent commenter’s example is one of the better counterpoints I’ve seen. Selectively deployed, a glint of extra brightness, above and beyond th
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m not sure which college was involved here, but if I were the person adjudicating this, I imagine the outcome would not have hinged on the comma.
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by alwa 2y ago
I have a hard time imagining this specific threat to be more than bluster. Would someone with relevant legal expertise be able to comment on how likely a ban on foreign enrollments would be to fly in the courts? Surely the administration ha
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by alwa 2y ago
I'm not sure they're much less expensive. To pick an arbitrary weeklong Tuesday-to-Tuesday trip in May, between New York and Chicago, the cheapest direct Amtrak fare—in coach, not in first class as you mentioned—is $336 (and 19 ho

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