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by apothegm 6mo ago
This article is literally just someone else’s blog repackaged.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Tech for its own sake is dull and pointless. Always has been. So are trends. In anything. Buy things that solve real problems you have; save money on the rest. On the SWE side, if you don’t want to get out of software entirely find somethin
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by apothegm 6mo ago
The first line pegs this as written by an LLM.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Something something leopards faces something something…
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Define “global”, “famine”, and “soon”. Intense food shortages in some regions? Reportedly already happening due to the closure of the strait of Hormuz. Absolutely every region experiencing food shortages to the point of widespread starvatio
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by apothegm 6mo ago
The war in Iran and just generally undermining the economy at home have done thousands of times more damage to the petrodollar than domestic wind production ever could. The only logical explanation here is cronyism. Or bribes.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Fwiw, on the train it may be an attempt to signal “I’m not available to be approached and hit on. I just want to commute in peace”.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
“My family did something somewhat dangerous and died because it was made a zillion times more dangerous than it should have been by the choices of a foolish and greedy CEO” seems publication-worthy to me.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
They were fine up until about a year ago. Amazon has finally started to put their fingerprint on this acquisition, and of course it’s at the expense of the fantastic customer experience that used to be the selling point. Instead it’s all ab
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Bookmarks are great for that thing I don’t need to look at for months but want to go back to to get so and so for their birthday. They’re annoying AF for active projects. Bookmarks require organizing them; folders worth involve waiting for
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by apothegm 6mo ago
I believe it has to do with competition with other bacteria. The gas-producing ones have to die off, too, and they thrive on non-bean diets.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
> Individuals with HAQERs that conferred greater language skills were also more likely to have larger heads, but in order to walk upright, humans need narrower pelvises. The evolutionary conflict between the two traits is why HAQER varia
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by apothegm 6mo ago
This is an ad.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
I’m the same way. Phone is around 250 right now because I cleared out all open tabs about a year ago — was never going to look at them again. About 20-50 open on the personal laptop at a given moment, bursting higher when researching or tro
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by apothegm 6mo ago
And also something that it’s dangerous to try to do stochastically.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
The foods she talks about eliminating are processed foods, not ultra-processed foods. Processed foods aren’t quite as good as fresh foods, but they’re not bad for you or addictive the same way ultra-processed foods are. So I’m not surprised
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Sounds like this might just be serving as a proxy measure for undiagnosed ADHD!
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Someone remind me: which work of dystopian science fiction are we living in this week, again?
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by apothegm 6mo ago
I have some theories about that,but they sound a bit paranoid if not tinfoil hattish.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Fair. At the time I wasn’t working in corporate.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Dominated? They were pretty niche. Most people just kept using floppies, or eventually CD-Rs.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Since it’s clearly written by an LLM, why not just let them talk to each other instead?
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by apothegm 6mo ago
So the same thing that’s been going on since 1988?
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Not clear whether this was controlled for socioeconomic confounders.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Yeah, because these guys are so well known for their desire to abide by agreements like treaties.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Indeed. But radiative cooling in vacuum is much slower than conductive cooling per unit surface area (even just in air at sea level on earth, air being a fairly poor conductor) unless you manage to concentrate the heat in your radiator at a
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by apothegm 6mo ago
Vacuum? It’s a terrible conductor. Closer to a perfect insulator.
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by apothegm 6mo ago
I’ve never had a problem with a Mac forgetting the monitor layout when plugging/unplugging — even after months. Forgetting which windows belong on which monitors, yes, sometimes (though less often lately).
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by apothegm 6mo ago
True of 9 but not of 6 (trivial example of the latter: 36).
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by apothegm 6mo ago
“Effective altruism”. (Recommended to be researched with a healthy dose of skepticism.)

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