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by apothegm 8mo ago
I wonder if the lower immune response in women might have something to do with the need not to reject zygote implantation.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Although also people who have shitty stuff going on in their lives are both more likely to turn to substances for relief and more likely to need therapy.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Do you already do any work over SSH? What do you do if you need to edit any files in that context? Learning the essentials of vim was the sort of skill that for me took about 10 min per day over a couple months and has come in handy almost
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by apothegm 8mo ago
It’s becoming increasingly common in women’s fashion.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The JS ecosystem is a hellscape. But there’s no reason you have to use it. I’ll stick with straightforward Python frameworks and HTMX with a bit of vanilla JS sprinkled on top. Most importantly: no JS builds, no deps that can’t be included
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Also the potential for abuse to destroy competitors.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
What it is is a teaser for what will undoubtedly be a giant load of far-right propaganda.
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Perplexity AI drops ads implementation plan to keep user trust(msn.com)
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Does it solve a burning need that most people can’t solve for themselves and that’s severe enough to be worth paying for? Start doing direct outreach (but not AI spam, please). Have friends who are editors or staff writers at major (topical
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by apothegm 8mo ago
How are people supposed to have heard of it at all? What’s their incentive to switching to an unknown OSS solution that may or may not be maintained in a year, from their current stable and maintained solution? How can they be confident you
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by apothegm 8mo ago
If you have any income with which to pay for anything whatsoever.
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Quotes around headline missing.
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Not their only goal, but definitely on the list.
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When most apps are bitty throwaways and it takes an hour and $5 worth of tokens to throw up a marketing site, it becomes increasingly difficult to guess which new apps are worth using, which are giant security holes in the making due to bli
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by apothegm 8mo ago
And that’s from the Heritage Foundation, which is pretty far right by anything but the last few years’ standards for far right in the US.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Yes. The current obsession with high contrast in LED screens absolutely contributes to fatigue. It’s fantastic for sunny locations or for watching films. But absolutely terrible for eye strain when trying to read in the absence of direct su
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by apothegm 8mo ago
If only among that massive onslaught of features Posthog would invest a bit in making the existing ones more usable and less buggy.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
It’s not clear from this what they controlled for. Mutually causative factors (people who got the vaccine being better off socioeconomically, or simply more interested in taking care of their health) could account for much if not all of the
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by apothegm 8mo ago
From art or English lit? Nope. From MechE, marketing, architecture? Perhaps.
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Sell for cheap to big corporate farming conglomerates. At least until the market is so saturated that even the conglomerates have no use for more. Meanwhile, a few here and there will be snatched up by people from coastal cities who have ma
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Out of curiosity, I submitted this prompt to both ChatGPT and Claude. I have always kept history disabled on both. ChatGPT jumped into analyzing my personality based on the system prompt, and when challenged about the behavior it should hav
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by apothegm 8mo ago
“Equity” in this case is an excuse meant to make a propaganda strong-arming move sound well-intentioned to those who aren’t paying attention.
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It’s different at each place. Current is unmetered, and they claim to encourage taking a minimum of 20 days/yr but I haven’t been here long enough to gauge how true that is. I’ve had anything from 10 days combined vacation / sick
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by apothegm 8mo ago
That’s awful. The worst I’ve had in the US, even with tiny companies, was 10 days combined vacation and sick time, plus bank holidays.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The compiler catches certain classes of errors. And AI can spit out unmaintainable code or code with incorrect logic or giant security holes a lot faster than humans can review it.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The US has refused to sign onto international climate agreements. Who’s going to enforce that policy against the US?
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This is sarcasm, right?
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The Communist Manifesto is the seminal work. It’s fairly short.
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A couple paragraphs in, I had to scroll to look for a publication date. Yup, 1929.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
They knew about and could identify solstices, which gives you day of the year. So then it’s just a matter of matching years, which can be done on the basis of things like comets. Supernovae could also play a factor. Or using tree rings to i

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