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by bubblewand 8mo ago
> you have stats on that? It seems like an outlier No stats, but it’s extremely real. I know lots of teachers. Parents who flip shit if their kids can’t answer their texts while in class are common. Parents who call their kids in clas
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I'd never have guessed it'd be the case, but the number of "educational" games has exploded since I was a kid, while I'm not sure the rate of new ones that are any good at educating (not proportion, actual count) is
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
At least outlawing user-targeted advertising and most of the related data collection & selling (for things like credit cards and magazines, too, shouldn't limit it to just things like social media) would fix an absolute ton of pr
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
You have to make everyone abide by them, for it to not-suck. At a minimum, software and service providers would have to respect settings client agents tell them they have (as in the AppleTV case, it's bordering on pointless for platfor
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Attempting to manage this as a parent is hellish. I can't speak for other parents, but some standards for parental controls—the presence of which and adherence to might be enforced by law, if need be, and need probably would be since n
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I think this line is what did it: > "Groupthink" informed by extremely broad training sets is more conventionally called "consensus", and that's what we want the LLM to reflect. It's nothing to do with how L
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
A spectacular amount of extant writing accessible to LLM training datasets is uninformed noise from randos online. Not my fault the internet was invented. I have to be misunderstanding you, though, because any time we want to build knowledg
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
> "Groupthink" informed by extremely broad training sets is more conventionally called "consensus", and that's what we want the LLM to reflect. Definitely not! I absolutely do not want an LLM that gives much or a
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
> Do you lose your keys? It routinely takes me two to ten minutes to track them down, yeah. Every now and then, longer.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Indeed, that Docker is functionally a cross-distro rolling release package manager, configuration standard, and service supervisor[1] is the appeal to me. Any isolation it achieves is necessary for that to all work reliably, but is not wh
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Pretty sure the oldest stuff I've read was around 4,500 years old (in translation, but still). Volume I of Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature. There are a couple incomplete tales in that 3-volume work and I really wish they&#
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
> That's the real solution. I don't understand why people still store ssh keys on disk when hardware keys are simple, easy, and significantly more secure. At work, every place big enough to maybe care about this was so “enterpr
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
This understates the failure: it was about as close to “immediate” as it could be. The whole structure was pointless just about as soon as the new state began to operate. The electoral college is basically an appendix, except it was never
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I read that as “when you use them correctly”. “Correctly” means building consensus so capitalists can expect the new trade framework they're operating under to be reasonably stable, signaling what you’ll do well in advance, then phasin
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
The SC should be formed by lot from judges in the lower courts, every so often (every session might work OK). We form other courts by lot. Constitutionally, there just must be a Supreme Court. It doesn’t say how it should be composed. Packi
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Votes? That’s pre-9/11 stuff. We already bombed Iran and launched missile strikes and a special forces raid to capture the head of state of Venezuela without Congress voting on it, within the last few months. They don’t appear to be pl
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I've seen into some moderately high levels of "prestigious" business and government circles and I've yet to find any level at which everyone suddenly becomes as competent and sharp as I'd have expected them to be,
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
It really bothers me that something like 10% of US GDP is just the amount we over-pay for healthcare compared to peer states. It's basically a privatized tax that buys us nothing (or, to stave off pedantry, certainly nothing remotely w
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Trump addressed the press a little while ago on this topic and claims he's not issuing any refunds until courts force him to. He chastised the Supreme Court for not telling him what to do about refunds, and essentially pleaded helpless
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Second carrier's not arriving in-theater until tomorrow at the earliest, and the latest report I saw on its position made it look more like Monday or so. They might go without it, but if they're waiting on the Ford, they'll b
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
A hallmark of the Roberts court is leaving something technically intact, but practically gutted and dead. You can still technically bring charges against the president for things they do while in office. Practically speaking, after that
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Maybe I’m an odd duck, but my key trigger to brush my teeth is an aversion to how gross my mouth is if I don’t, not habit. The reward is immediate, and the task fast. Noticing my mouth is gross catches any failure of the habit of teeth brus
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Immense numbers. Quarries destroy them by the (enormous) truckload all the time, unexamined, god knows what cool unknown stuff has been ground up. Entire kinds of rock are basically made of fossils, not even always the really tiny kind (n
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Seeing an actual "Lucky Ducky!" in the wild is always a trip.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
If you follow the fairly common path of "various expensive, intermittent medical problems for a couple decades, a handful of years of very-bad medical problems, nursing home, then hospice care" in the US, and you don't have
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Adult coloring books are a thing. I could definitely see a person enjoying a version of that, that also had a purpose beyond killing time.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Yeah, I buy a very high percentage of my clothes on eBay (and also Poshmark, but it ends up mostly being eBay). What I don't buy used: - Socks - Underwear - Gloves - Knits in general, as they're too likely to be messed up, though
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Now that is an interesting dimension (ha, ha) of this I hadn't yet appreciated. I'm used, as a dude of fortunately-normalish proportions and skinny-enough (but not actually skinny) size, to only looking at a single measurement f
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
If you think you can pull it off, I've become a strong proponent of blazers and sport coats. I call them "wearable purses for men". For me, this is basically an evolution and refinement of what I guess I've always been t
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
The outer measurement will also be larger than the inner. If your waist measures precisely 32", a 32" outer-measurement waistband ( sans some stretch) will be too snug.

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