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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Is it too trite to say that if you only need to check for a video being deletion-worthy, you can do it without watching the video? I click around a paused video if in doubt, and/or make it really small. This has saved me several ruined
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Here's an angle to try on - if you hate it, ignore it: Consider the selfishness of your desire. Going by how you mention families with young kids, it seems what you want to do is call a person into existence solely for your amusement a
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
There are now several slick online stable diffusion apps, some fully free, and generally they allow nsfw, etc. This one isn't adding anything. In your first Show HN you left people to guess what "healthy" meant and it seemed
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I can't believe windows doesn't offer an option "this is my laptop, nobody else is ever going to use it". I hate logging in to my own laptop and having a user folder like some loser student in a library
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
movies area poor comparison. the best movie of your life you can watch maybe 10x (20 hours). a game you like, you can play for thousands upon thousands of hours.
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
>It's thinking about thinking. Half of people talking about consciousness are not talking about that at all. They would call that self-consciousness or reflective consciousness. That is about what someone is experiencing. What man
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
>If the virus had come from the lab, you'd expect the early cases to cluster around the lab. No, because it's not proposed that the virus leaked out of the lab building into the nearby air. I presume it's more like a pe
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
the prompt would be informative
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I read around, I can't find any explanation of what that means. It seems irrelevant. Sure, life can be enjoyable, and people love each other - but when you read >Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I suspect having children is similar to keeping slaves, in the sense that we realized that slavery is unethical even though it was "just what we do" since time immemorial, and was necessary for our lifestyle levels. People will re
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I remember stumbling on that video after randomly typing metaverse into youtube search - it's a video with the head of Meta himself personally promoting his intended technique for monetization of the metaverse, and it had about 300 vie
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
What does that have to do with anything? We're talking about Pascal's claim
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
If you reflected on the meaning you might have questioned your impulse to have kids
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Have you thought about people who want to but can't? And the whole range of factors that might be in play as to why not?
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
"The African economy will start booming once they get UNLIMITED access to those 1800s manuals on measuring the Ether and where the best seal clubbing sites are in Alaska." Nobody ever thinks this through. Books are basically worth
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I noticed I feel literally unsafe watching any DIY video on there now that the dislikes are gone. I realize I'm proceeding in a place where I relied on a warning system that has been taken away.
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
I hate to rain on the parade but there's no way FT should be up there with USA today. I clicked these (being the top two). USA today was almost instantaneous. I was excited to get some more serious focus news at what this index said wo
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
the author seems to try to, but immediately fails to maintain distinct concepts of consciousness (experience) and reflective self-consciousness
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Stuff like Ashby's ouvre is forgotten because it wasn't true. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety? Not a law. Just a flowery proposition. The Good Regulator Theorem? Not a theorem, and not true. Just a Sokal-like appropriation o
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
It feels obvious now that kids should not be on tv at all, by the same logic that they can't consent to sex. They can't consent to the huge ramifications of public exposure.
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
On windows 10 I turned on the invert colors shortcut key (in the 'color filters' setting page) which is ctrl+Win+c, for a quick fix for anything blowing out the my eyes. That it's instantaneously, one-handedly on or off makes
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Consider that 10% (probably more like 1%) of people make decisions that effect how society will go. At least in the English speaking world, those people care about what's happening on twitter. The other 90% use Facebook.
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by carrolldunham 4y ago
Possibly all, of the current social topics came to be topics because of academics and minorities leading the culture on that same site that has cache with the various kinds of elites.
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
Hmm you might want to have a look into that particular "nobel prize" category
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
Why does it need a background image?
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
I can't believe all the catty defensive replies. The answer is that programming is designing automation (automatic computation) and functionality of computers. So getting into that mindset naturally leads to "well, what If I can a
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
I'm not surprised because I learned this myself. It's not just the uneducated 'can't find America on a map' people that you are picturing. My highly educated, policymaking friends, when asked responded with an estim
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
So this article is trying to present dim lenses as a feature but it's actually something you can't avoid, right? That was the problem with this tech wasn't it? Also the photo half way down with the guy in the awful googles an
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
For me the start of getting back to normal was someone telling me, as I am telling you, that this is classic anxiety and not what you would be thinking about in a million years if you hadn't got yourself into a phase of anxiety. This i
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by carrolldunham 5y ago
the usual 'no time to reply'. >If you have questions, ask them. I won't be able to answer for a few days, we're in emergency mode, and the work only keeps piling up.

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