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by beej71 2y ago
I also make heavy use of RSS. That's how I find basically everything I read and view.
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by beej71 2y ago
So being better off economically is a goal. But is there anything more specific? About the environment, about overall happiness, etc? The argument is that in addition to money, there might be other reasons to look at and pursue.
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by beej71 2y ago
And I just will never trust these particular "journalists" again.
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by beej71 2y ago
Asked Purdue Pharma... :)
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by beej71 2y ago
Yes, but tfa is asking, "what are the reasons you want that economic growth?"
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by beej71 2y ago
I assume he added up the number of times people have used the image and multiply it by some fee. But he's wrong. If there were a fee to use this image, basically zero people would use it. They'd all go to midjourney and make their
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by beej71 2y ago
Home crap. I thought at first this was advertising an expensive wheelchair. TIL.
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by beej71 2y ago
I ask my college students how much they would pay someone to solve a problem with ChatGPT. They say "zero". Then I tell them that's how much they'll get paid for doing it. They ask, "Then why are we solving this pro
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by beej71 2y ago
I'm also in that minority. And I think there's something to be said for memorizing that stuff instead of letting autocomplete always handle it. I think it might improve your mental tapestry you draw on to solve problems. It might
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by beej71 2y ago
It's upheaval, but it's good overall, I think. I'm enjoying figuring out where students should and shouldn't use AI, and also--holy crap--ChatGPT can write quiz questions like nobody's business. :) I also use it for
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by beej71 2y ago
Indeed. I tell my students it's supposed to be a workout. It's the workout that makes the learning happen.
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by beej71 2y ago
> rejected an offer from the port management group USMX on Monday that included a wage hike over six years near 50%. Way to make me regret my career choices. ;)
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by beej71 2y ago
> So actually just K9 Mail rebranded as Thunderbird. I think that was always phase 0 of the plan. > Looking for something not ugly with general polish, combined inbox, etc. I'm not a good judge of the rest of it, but K9 does have
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by beej71 2y ago
Actions like this are so damaging to the cause as to be pro-oil. I'm inclined to agree with you.
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by beej71 2y ago
I'm only a single data point, but I always wanted to teach at a university. I just didn't for the first 50 years of my life because the pay outside was so much better. But then I finally made the scary decision to quit the track I
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by beej71 2y ago
I can't tell you how secure it makes me feel to know the my pilot and surgeon have been pushed to their absolute limits before I use their services.
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by beej71 2y ago
As an instructor, I suppose I'm happy to tailor the class to the AI's wishes. ;)
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by beej71 2y ago
I think a good compromise here is that if you click it, you land on a page that says you've unsubscribed with a resubscribe button on it.
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by beej71 2y ago
I don't get the max length restrictions some sites have. Why?
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by beej71 2y ago
If I lie to Facebook and say I'm a minor, can I get a non-algorithmic feed? If so, it might be usable again.
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by beej71 2y ago
I don't know what DEI training is like elsewhere, but where I work the focus is on hiring the most qualified person for the job, and making sure that ones biases don't get in the way of that.
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by beej71 2y ago
"Persons in the $1 million income filing bracket in 1963 faced an average effective tax rate of just over 40 percent of their adjusted gross income (AGI) for the year." Let's do that, then.
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by beej71 2y ago
Maybe we should rethink our strategy of making college more expensive and less accessible.
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by beej71 2y ago
These things are fun to find. I've found local routes like this in the western US, and ridebdr.org has a number of them... They tend to have more pavement than 30 km, though!
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by beej71 2y ago
I somewhat agree with you on the surveillance state. When I first saw the headline, I immediately thought that it must be about the UK. That said, toddlers aren't old enough to demand a seatbelt or to know about physics or anything. I
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by beej71 2y ago
Local domain whitelist? Would that work?
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by beej71 2y ago
I think blocking porn is a lot easier than blocking subtle misinformation based on half-truths, e.g. "Trump said he wants to be dictator". I also think the scale is different between FB and SO, and SO has a much narrower definitio
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by beej71 2y ago
What if I rephrase to say the first amendment does not give the government the right to tell website owners what they may or may not publish?
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by beej71 2y ago
> It prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech. And that does not give companies and individuals the ability to choose what they host on their sites?
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by beej71 2y ago
From a practical standpoint, I feel this issue is largely moot with the emergence of AI bots. Will the government have the time to chase them all? And will Facebook have the ability to censor them all?

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