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by beej71 2mo ago
Is someone tasking you with proofing copy? And you're just feeding it into an AI?
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by beej71 2mo ago
I haven't used fb for years, but yesterday I was considering going there to only repost anti-meta news stories to try to get as many of my followers to quit as possible. But I'm not convinced it will have an effect. And I'd h
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by beej71 2mo ago
Meta is easier for that stuff, I won't deny. Nevertheless, we've managed to get our families into Signal groups that largely accomplish the same things at the scale we need. And the benefits of not needing to wade through slop mak
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by beej71 2mo ago
Well, I'm sorry parental controls are too hard to use, but all of the parents who want all other adults to sacrifice their online anonymity just to make to for it need to get their heads screwed on straight. They're screwing a) th
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by beej71 2mo ago
Around here, similar to the Bay Area, community college and K12 pay is around $65k, and your typical new mortgage is $45k annually.
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by beej71 2mo ago
I'm a pretty bad cook which probably explains why I never had a problem cooking on any kind of surface.
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by beej71 2mo ago
In the US, social security is the angle to take on this one. "Unless you want changes to your social security, you'd better make it easier for youngsters to have kids and for people to immigrate."
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by beej71 2mo ago
Sorry, I'm still trying to follow how bike lanes make me less likely to think about having children...?
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by beej71 2mo ago
The stuff of legends...
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by beej71 2mo ago
But don't lab leaks that result in pandemics still require lockdowns and restrictions when dangerous diseases are leaked?
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by beej71 2mo ago
> I use AI to code review my personal projects. There's no downside I used to think there was no downside, but now I think there is. You're developing the skill of choosing things out of a list to use. Your skill of creating
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by beej71 2mo ago
It seems to me TFA is arguing that it does not.
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by beej71 2mo ago
Edit: I take back my snark. I never understood the "it's really important for us to blame the lab leak" angle. I certainly want to know what actually happened, but some people really, really want it to be a lab leak. Perhaps
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by beej71 2mo ago
Asterisk the director's cut is amazing.
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by beej71 2mo ago
You're not wrong, and you're right to push back on that. The speech pattern is real.
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by beej71 2mo ago
I have yet to be so-accused, but if I ever am, I'm just going to accuse the accuser of being an AI. :)
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by beej71 2mo ago
Look, it's either simple or it's not. ;)
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by beej71 2mo ago
> AI has had a profound and irreversible impact on higher ed, it has changed students completely, it has changed how professors operate, and it is changing how papers are written. University CS instructor here. The above is true, but it&
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by beej71 2mo ago
I was able to do this a while back in my late 40s. Took 7 months off or so, and insurance was $42/month (bronze). I had enough savings for the gap if I needed it, and it was just me, unlike the OP. Ended up getting a job sooner than ex
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by beej71 2mo ago
Or calligraphy class. What a waste! What has that ever brought us except the entire Macintosh line of computers? You never know when something is going to pay off somewhere. You bag on the feminist perspective on Aztec dance, but that'
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by beej71 2mo ago
I'm so glad we rearranged those deck chairs.
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by beej71 2mo ago
> If we did that, meltwater water supply would essentially stop (in somewhere between 8 months and 2 years) If we stopped CO2 emissions today and, like you said, warming would continue unabated for decades, why would the meltwater situat
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by beej71 2mo ago
Since it's email, we probably want to send content of several different types, and MIME is baked into HTTP. And the commonality with email-style headers is nice, as well.
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by beej71 2mo ago
I have a different idea. How about we weight your vote by your fiscal commonality with the average American? No?
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by beej71 2mo ago
And HTTP transports many, many more things than hypertext. It seems like a sensible choice for this use case in terms of capabilities.
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by beej71 2mo ago
Yes? But also I didn't say that was ok in exchange for no ads.
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by beej71 2mo ago
Not the GP, but my daily journal goes in a proper journal book (though I find the cheapest possible one that has semi-rigid covers) and my freewrites go in cheap wide-ruled composition books. The only rationale I have for that is the journa
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by beej71 3mo ago
It should be. How screwed are you if you lose your phone?
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by beej71 3mo ago
And apparently a lot of people can't access their savings with grapheneOS. I know eventually I'm going to end up carrying 2 devices.
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by beej71 3mo ago
I'm not doing that. I'm not going to be coerced into a writing style that's not mine by LLMs. AI detectors think that 30% of the stuff I wrote 20 years ago is AI-generated. If someone wants to think, incorrectly, that my writ

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