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by apothegm 1y ago
What would be unsafe about it?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Poor science reporting. Did the study address possible causes of correlation such as people who get poor sleep being more prone to both heart failure and melatonin use? Or people with cardiovascular problems being more prone to poor sleep?
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by apothegm 1y ago
You asked this question at a time when Europeans are just getting up to go to work, and most SV folks are fast asleep. I would not expect responses to reflect an unbiased sample. I’ve also noticed marked differences in average sentiment acr
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by apothegm 1y ago
No, I’m not talking about tipping points. I’m talking about the fact that we’ve already released a ton of carbon and we can’t get it back out of the air. The carbon itself isn’t the global warming. The heat it traps is. Even if we stop emis
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by apothegm 1y ago
Reducing emissions, even to zero, isn’t enough any more. We have to remove the excess carbon dioxide that’s already in the atmosphere if we don’t want the planet to continue heating for centuries to come. The removal is what people claim so
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by apothegm 1y ago
I was massively burnt out and the company was dying. So, yes.
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by apothegm 1y ago
No.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Same. My myopia is minimal but the astigmatism bad enough that I have to squint super hard to read non-giant text without glasses and even then it’s 30% guesswork. So the computer glasses correct only for astigmatism. But it’s almost equall
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by apothegm 1y ago
I have astigmatism and prefer dark mode. I decrease my monitor brightness and contrast when sitting in low light, though, to avoid the stabby feeling. It’s uncomfortable enough in dark mode but headache-inducing in light mode.
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by apothegm 1y ago
In a Sora world?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Oh, NYT… you’re asking this NOW?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Is this due to funding and government shutdown? Or just people unable to make it to work due to severe flooding?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Because people going to the emergency room are going to price shop?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Fearmongering about the alignment of AGI (which LLMs are not a path to) is a massive distraction from the actual and much more immediate dystopian risks that LLMs introduce.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Automation seems to be outpacing drops in population (which due to lifespans lag drops in reproduction rates) by a good chunk.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Try consuming less caffeine, regardless of source. The jitters are from too much. So are the crashes. And you’ve probably built up a tolerance to the focus-inducing effects. You may have a tough time the first week or two after weaning down
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by apothegm 1y ago
Custom scroll bar widgets (as opposed to custom styling) are pure evil. Typically they don’t respond to mouse and trackpad scrolling the same way the user’s native OS widgets do, and that makes them awkward and miserable to use.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Maybe, in three generations. That’s a long time from now. And these job losses are happening in the next decade, during a population peak, at least in the US.
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by apothegm 1y ago
How many people are we willing to leave destitute to save 30c (or less after Amazon takes their cut of the increased margin) a few times a month?
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by apothegm 1y ago
You would have thought they’d have learned their lesson about this with the us-east-1 S3 outage back in 2017 or 2018 or whenever that was…
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by apothegm 1y ago
That they’re each solutions to different problems. Apples and oranges.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Both. You need to know when your AI is bullshitting or hallucinating or just plain producing unmaintainable code. Build hands-on when the goal is to learn. Let AI build for you —- using tooling you’ve already learned —- when the goal is to
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by apothegm 1y ago
“A place for everything and everything in its place”. Each device’s place is on its charger. Done. The exception is my phone, whose place is wherever I am, but I keep an eye on the battery and it warns me at 20% so I’ll plug it in for a bit
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by apothegm 1y ago
Or if you’re not tall, just slam straight into your head.
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by apothegm 1y ago
If you look at sedans from the early 90s, their front bumpers (and especially the bumper extensions that used to exist on most sedans, and which would be the first part to hit) would hit someone my height at or below the knee. Current sedan
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by apothegm 1y ago
Why not both?
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by apothegm 1y ago
If a different party is ever again given a legitimate opportunity to come to power.
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by apothegm 1y ago
They’ve made them louder and louder over the years. That’s because cars have improved soundproofing to keep out the road noise of the tires against asphalt. But that also means it’s harder for drivers to hear sirens. Plus sound systems have
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by apothegm 1y ago
Unfortunately, having elections isn’t the same thing as having free and fair elections.
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by apothegm 1y ago
> Other tools people mention are maybe a little bit cringe-y to contemplate, depending on your tolerance for cubicle signage. Cubicles? You guys get cubicles???

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