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by cam_l 1y ago
self forefilling prophecy?
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by cam_l 1y ago
There was a Japanese architect, Arata Isozaki, who wrote about this idea. Specifically about the Ise shrine, which is famously rebuilt every 20 years. It had been popularised as a piece of architecture on par with the Parthenon. He rejected
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by cam_l 1y ago
regulatory capture?
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by cam_l 1y ago
The BBC that you see in the rest of the world is very much not the BBC you see in England. The English BBC is surprisingly myopic and totally fits the charge of propaganda.
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by cam_l 1y ago
Yeah, none of that was what was funny about little Britain... and I think you missed the point.
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by cam_l 1y ago
One of the things I love about this period of art is that the art does contain a sense of logic and process that can be understood. It was philosophical and communicative - the artists were saying something meaningful and meant to be unders
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by cam_l 1y ago
Aside: Batman (John) is also a well known name in Melbourne, au. He was a kind of founding father. He negotiated a fake treaty to steal the land from the local Kulin nation. He wanted to call it Batmania. Also responsible for organising hun
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by cam_l 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomba_Festival The section on etymology is particularly amusing.
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by cam_l 2y ago
You are going to freak out when you find out how many birds are killed by buildings generally. But you might want to sit down before i tell you how many are killed by cats.
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by cam_l 2y ago
I thought Firefox sync and VPN was end to end encrypted. That is a far bigger wtf than dumb unenforceable tos text.
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by cam_l 2y ago
It is worth reading back on the origin of the phrase 'tragedy of the commons'. There is little evidence that commons always have a tragedy associated with them. The term itself was coined in order to facilitate a transfer of commo
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by cam_l 2y ago
There is value in perceiving and responding to the inherent complexity in things, as it meshes you closer to reality giving you a greater predictive and responsive capacity. This doesn't work as well with other people, with society. Ev
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by cam_l 2y ago
Yeah, nah. Those who default to corporate speak are those who have no power to speak plainly. Sometimes they have no power because they cannot be trusted. But more often it's because whoever they report to cannot be trusted, and maybe
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by cam_l 2y ago
>have no idea how to actually make anything better True, but that is not their intention.
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by cam_l 2y ago
I use root and back up specific appdata and files to a remote backup. I tried backing up the-whole-damn-thing, but it is slow and pointless, hence the picking and choosing.
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by cam_l 2y ago
Restic also works pretty well through termux. I found it easier to setup with include & exclude lists than rsync.
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by cam_l 2y ago
It wasn't the god they tricking, it was the populace (and the next in line to the throne).
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by cam_l 2y ago
>everything seems either identical or has massive overlaps Whenever I find marketing copy like this, I use it to filter out the whole company's product lines. This heuristic never fails, because I don't even know what I am miss
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by cam_l 2y ago
This, i argue, has nothing to do with the amount of work, but everything to do with the simplicity of proving a copy. A specific arrangement of words, music, or light (in the case of film) are well protected. Painting & sculpture, perha
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by cam_l 2y ago
Sounds like a pulp song. * But seriously, can we stop trying to over-simplify everything into neat little black and white boxes because grey areas annoy us, and contradictions scare us half to death. Can we just be at peace with the fundame
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by cam_l 2y ago
Easy, I just spend a few minutes every morning disabling all the new notifications, and the forced full page Microsoft ads, resetting all the settings that changed in an overnight update, write a quick powershell script to uninstall the new
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by cam_l 2y ago
Most landlords only own one or two properties, but most properties are owned by people with more than 3. Both these things can be true. And it can also be true that though most properties are not run through such a system, only a very small
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by cam_l 2y ago
There you go, I just learned a new term.. autological. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/autological
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by cam_l 2y ago
I always thought this, but used it for a while for work and found it was actually quicker work-flow-wise than Photoshop (though Photoshop was better for photo editing) or Krita (and krita is way better for painting). It was like, hidden und
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by cam_l 2y ago
More likely, the word bug itself had different connotations at the time. No surprise that the word bug itself is etymologically linked to goblins or ghosts in the time period referred to. And fits perfectly with the usage in the quoted para
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by cam_l 2y ago
I figure for some people it will work as a crutch and for some it will work as a prosthetic. I guess that depends on whether you need to take some weight off and allow yourself to heal, or if you are actually missing that appendage. Metapho
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by cam_l 2y ago
A brutalist might now argue that rendering wrong in safari is obviously right. This attitude amusingly mirrors the shift from early to late brutalist architecture. Where early brutalist architects were reacting against the inhumainty of the
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by cam_l 2y ago
I wonder how ibecc compares with real ecc, now that it's supported for these lower spec chips. Will it help at all or is it a waste of time?
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by cam_l 2y ago
>the prompt is what you really want It crosses my mind every time i realise I am in the midst of some verbose, contentless, llm drivel, that i would prefer to read the prompt than the garbage that gets spat out. There are a few tools flo
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by cam_l 2y ago
Thankfully, I have already ditched Logitech. After using them pretty much exclusively for 20 years, their newer drivers and weird glitches with some of their later products have made them increasingly unreliable with windows and downright h

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