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Thanks, but I've already got a pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatics. https://odysee.com/@NoVax:c/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-...
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Bear in mind I'm interpreting the previous comment. I'm familiar with many things Bayesian thanks :) However, I wouldn't assume everyone else is, even here. Are you familiar with the meaning(s) of the word jargon? https:&#x2
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I understood the point to be about using accessible language rather than jargon.
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ITT: Tails wag dogs. Ads are, in the vast majority, toxic shit. Endemic income inequality and unicorn worship has produced VC-backed hustle culture where "creators" spew "content" over platforms, and slap ads on top to g
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"It's not stupid if it works" :)
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Nice. Here's a version with snow falling down instead of up. clear ; while true ; do tput cup 0 0 ; tput ri ; head -n 1 /dev/random | cut -c "1-$COLUMNS" | tr -c '.,x*oO@'$'\n' ' ' ; do
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It won't get cheaper, the non-ad version will get more expensive.
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Some speculation in this thread about the causes of tinnitus. There are several, including hearing loss, which (as someone here points out) possibly produces tinnitus in a manner similar to how limb loss can cause phantom limb pain. The ner
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Mochi and red bean paste I already enjoy, so I was curious about 卵かけご飯 but frankly it's just made me consider egg fried rice as a legit breakfast option :)
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I appreciate the frank honesty, I'll be taking the same approach :)
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I really like roadmap diagram on that site. It gives a good overview of progress and where work is required, so an order of delivery can be inferred.
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Nice, can you share info on the rpi setup?
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A piece of sound art in which Alvin Lucier repeatedly played back and re-recorded his voice in a room, until his words became completely unintelligible, and only resonant frequencies of the room remained. It's a pivotal piece of minima
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I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)(en.wikipedia.org)
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I can still see these examples as auto-completed conversations between two "people".
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Love it. A small piece of feedback: On mobile, the page jumps after the electron cloud PNG loads. This causes the dreaded 'tapping something I didn't mean to tap' effect. Could you set the height of the space before the image
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Not sure I follow. You disagree? Why, on what basis, etc...?
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Whenever I read about sun exposure, I remember tWilliam McElligott who accumulated sun damage on one side of his face after being a delivery truck driver for 28 years. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/An-authentic-ph
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This is reductio ad absurdam. Planetquake. Or just quake. Incidentally, Sol isn't an 'official' name for our sun. The term 'solar power' is more like a brand-name that's been genericised.
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Oh well, it seems we're talking past each other. I had no intention of moralizing at you, and no intention to suggest my experience is universal. Not at all, it's a grumpy interpretation. We see the same things and interpret them
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> Where I see self-checkouts, I see customers choosing them voluntarily Yeah there are confounding factors at play here, such as there being many automated checkouts but only one with a person. > staff ... "training" less-sa
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Orthogonal to what? :) Loyalty schemes, staff reduction, staff deskilling, foisting unpaid work onto customers, etc etc are all perfectly aligned. I'd disagree with your point about effective nagging. A human might get the message, par
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"Solved" seems an odd way to view self-checkout. I find it a hideous experience. Everyone is irritable, staff and shoppers. The handful of staff have fewer tasks that involve any degree of skill, so they are reduced to simply keep
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Oh dear, far more damning. Thanks for the links.
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The post you link uncovers apparent frauds in research from 2012 and 2020. Ariely's reply says that he received the data in good faith, and that it was provided by private insurance companies. He also thanks the post authors for their
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A term to pop into PubMed or similar would be "non-specific effects". There's a ton written about it.
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Just FYI, the ASCII art on the website front page is broken on mobile, it's all very misaligned. Firefox on Android.
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This conflates the ends and the means. They're different and both deserve consideration. Some reading: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_end_justifies_the_mean... https://saylordotorg.github.io&#x2F
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For those unaware, Libet's experiments appeared to show that conscious decisions to move a body part follow unconscious preparation to perform the movement. One interpretation is that consciousness is merely an 'observer' o
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It is legit, but it's rare and old-fashioned.

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