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by alwa 2mo ago
I mean Some of these municipal water plants in the US are independently operated by municipalities of awfully few people and even fewer resources to spare, often serving relatively vast areas… It’s probably not how you or I would set things
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by alwa 2mo ago
Oh boy. The human here is effectively assuming the role of a Magic 8 Ball… What a weird species of halting problem…
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by alwa 2mo ago
It's not a conversation at that point, it's a performance. I walk away.
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by alwa 2mo ago
I think knowing what you want (and being able to articulate it with adequate specificity, and detecting when processes drift away from it) is a real skill/field of expertise. I just don't think it's specific to interfacing wi
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by alwa 2mo ago
I’m familiar with cities that conduct time-bounded surges of policing in reaction to specific outbreaks of criminality. When inter-faction violence in a neighborhood escalates to the level of a murder, for example, they surge for a couple w
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by alwa 2mo ago
Suspicious, maybe; but not criminal (like lying to a federal officer in the course of an investigation, or willfully destroying what they’re lawfully trying to search). Probably even more suspicious if you make sketchy excuses when the trut
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by alwa 2mo ago
Chasing eternal profit growth isn’t a fact of life, notwithstanding the mythology of commodification. Neither are all investors motivated purely by profit. Neither is it clear that everything can be improved upon (much less that outsiders c
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by alwa 2mo ago
Is this different from the per-app enumeration in Account —> iCloud —> Storage? That provides a means to delete per app
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by alwa 2mo ago
It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people. What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme l
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by alwa 2mo ago
I mean… not to put too fine a point on it, but… jeevacation@gmail.com
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by alwa 2mo ago
Unless, of course, Cameron Carpenter is involved: https://archive.is/DQQq0 https://www.marshallandogletree.com/opus8 …though it was in fact maintenance costs that did in the I.T.O., may it rest in peace… &g
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by alwa 2mo ago
I, for one, specialize my sonic practice in immersive cat-yowl soundscapes…
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by alwa 2mo ago
It’s the “within their reach” that constitutes the targeting, it seems to me. Maybe “particularized scrutiny” is a better word? Each fancy radio can only be in one place at one time, and presumably with a human operator in the vehicle or we
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by alwa 2mo ago
They also use flock to find and accuse people who did commit crimes and accuse them of having done so. They also find and accuse people of crimes they didn’t commit without using Flock. They also use Flock to skip accusing people who
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by alwa 2mo ago
Maybe so, but four physical trucks, interpreting physical radio waves in their immediate vicinity, allocated across the whole state of Texas… that’s “targeted,” not “mass.”
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by alwa 2mo ago
Are we talking about the app operationally day-to-day, or the app vis a vis the way it helps end users flash encrypted firmware images OTA to the ESP32 (like Chip alludes to in gp comment)? If there are no more app updates, presumably the
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by alwa 2mo ago
What’s more, it’s precisely that genuine love of the game that makes your thing so appealing to the others. Authenticity’s hard to fake!
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by alwa 2mo ago
Sometimes when I feel that way, I take it as a sign that there must be something about it that I’m missing. I try to take that feeling of “why is this here” as my cue not to reflexively kick the thing in front of me, but to reflect more dee
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by alwa 2mo ago
I like that you like it, and that you did it because you like it. That’s reason enough. I’m not sure what’s bringing out all the meanness in the sibling comments here, but I hope you’re able to tune them out. For what it’s worth I think the
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by alwa 2mo ago
I noticed this the last time it came through; it seems very interesting, and I'm glad it's in the second-chance pile. But I don't have a History Today subscription, the usual workarounds aren't working for me, and I&#x27
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by alwa 2mo ago
You are reading gp’s comment correctly as it was written, but it omits the next line in the source study: > Data for the general U.S. population (including the High Net Worth oversample) were weighted to Census targets for education, ag
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by alwa 2mo ago
To echo your point—the “from the dawn of existence, up to this moment” framing seems to me a fairly familiar way for amateurs to reach for gravitas, in wedding speeches in particular, and especially between partners both of a certain social
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by alwa 2mo ago
Love this so far! From the mechanic perspective, sure; but even more from the sheer degree of Philly love and whimsy that shines through. Can't wait for the Show HN.
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by alwa 2mo ago
Or, for that matter—the whole thing where Quechua folks chew coca leaf all day, and have for eons, without obvious ill effect… Coca : cocaine :: kratom : the stuff that just got listed, right?
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by alwa 2mo ago
Feels a lot more like an offer than a hard sell to me. I do sense the same thing you do, though; that there’s something of a religious revival swelling, at least in the West that’s overwhelmingly represented here: https://www.pew
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by alwa 2mo ago
I feel like that presumes that neurodivergence is in fact the “problem” or the underlying concern. Which it might be, and it might not be—any more than we can conclude that the solution to “my throat hurts” is “take antibiotics.” (If it’s b
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by alwa 2mo ago
Definitely! In fact that seems to be a central aspect of the proposition: > Above all, a GA should amplify the principal, and not simply substitute for them for someone else’s purposes or benefit. […] > A GA must be aligned with it
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by alwa 2mo ago
Seems wise to experience at least a little bit of “functioning as an adult in the world” independently of phone habits… It seems like, in this situation, we watch primarily non-phone-enabled virtues save the day: a clear sense of right and
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by alwa 2mo ago
I come back to Babel and the Bruegel image too, although taking from it a little less optimism. I feel these systems rising and sprawling with wee myopic agents developing out their little corners of this unknowably vast whole… a tower with
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by alwa 2mo ago
And stored in the specific forms the machine can exploit. Over a long enough timescale, though… really, really slow solar trickle charge to a space-capacitor bank? A thousand years’ suns, culminating in a glorious orgy of smelting?

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