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by causi 4y ago
The destruction of meritocracy. Meritocracy forces people to confront things about themselves they don't like and influences them to change. Change is hard and painful. Especially now, when the things people need to change about themse
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by causi 4y ago
I love the Bob series, but I'd recommend against it if you don't have a high tolerance for characters who are supposed to be extremely intelligent missing blindingly obvious solutions to problems.
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by causi 4y ago
Indeed. Real people are just so danged inconvenient . Even just talking to them involves this degree of ritual where the desired communication is bookended with wasted time on introductory small talk and then a denouement you're never
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by causi 4y ago
Careful there. Buckminster Fuller is on the list of "people HN readers irrationally worship, any criticism of whom will make your comment hit -4 in about ten minutes." Fuller had a lot of brilliant ideas but like any human he also
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by causi 4y ago
I'm much more prone to working with a busted Windows installation these days rather than just reinstalling because of what a nightmare it is hammering Windows 10/11 into usable shape. With Windows 7, it was just install, ungroup t
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by causi 4y ago
Why? Most modern PC games come with insanely privileged DRM and anti-cheat measures that lock down and cross-examine everything else your PC is doing. If Denuvo can secure games from being pirated over months of concerted effort, why can&#x
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by causi 4y ago
It's sad. There are a lot of things I love about Samsung phones. Double-tapping the power button to turn the flashlight on, the Samsung TTS engine, DeX mode, always-on OTG functionality. I can't justify the continued anti-consumer
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by causi 4y ago
It's just a program, though. It has no bigotry. You don't punish a machine, you correct it.
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by causi 4y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that getting your feelings hurt by an AI making an offensive joke is the equivalent of thinking you've been doxxed when a random number generator spits out your phone number?
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by causi 4y ago
If you're interested in feats of micro-drilling, I invite you to watch a Japanese game show where a machinist with a micro drill competes against one using an electrical discharge machine to drill lengthwise through a 0.5mm pencil lead
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by causi 4y ago
The ChatGPT content policies are rather over-reaching. It wouldn't even write me a Dr. Seuss poem about "why fat-bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round".
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by causi 4y ago
Vivaldi puts Firefox Mobile to shame when it comes to speed.
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by causi 4y ago
Personally I maintain my opinion that problems getting fixed by HN are a bigger red flag than problems not getting fixed at all. The HN reader Upper Management Person either thinks putting out fires before they become higher profile failure
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by causi 4y ago
What is the difference between something that is undefinable and something that is fictitious?
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by causi 4y ago
This feels like a "god of the gaps" religious argument. Every time we learn more the degree to which two people's perception of color can vary shrinks as we find them functionally identical at every level of our understanding
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by causi 4y ago
which cannot tell us much at all about the experience of qualia. Same brain, same qualia. Your emotional response to the color may be different but the color is the same.
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by causi 4y ago
The question in my head has always been, is what I'm seeing as 'red' for example, the same that others see? Yes, unless you have some kind of color vision deficiency. The human visual cortex has little differentiation among
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by causi 4y ago
the amazing mantis shrimp (see Figure 6) is thought to see the world in more colors than any other animal: some species of mantis shrimp have over 8 different photoreceptors (cones) Mantis shrimp actually have quite poor color vision desp
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by causi 4y ago
Mumble is a much better experience than Teamspeak, at least in my experience.
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by causi 4y ago
It's also a sign of the times that schools have realized it's much easier (and cheaper) to create student outcome equity by preventing exceptional success than by preventing failure.
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by causi 4y ago
Doing cool shit is good for the human spirit.
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by causi 4y ago
I maintain my opinion that "not being utter horseshit" should be added to the list of submission guidelines.
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by causi 4y ago
Dang. The only thing I've found that comes close is a program called PixelZap, but it hasn't been updated since 2002 and the functionality to purchase the paid version probably just sends your credit info to Russia.
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by causi 4y ago
Meanwhile my 2022 smartphone sometimes decides it's going the opposite way down the road because its dash mount is pointed at the driver instead of straight at the back seat.
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by causi 4y ago
Does it support jpegs? Most of the cameras in question don't support RAW output but the problems are individual stuck pixels that are identical between every shot.
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by causi 4y ago
I get not wanting to suddenly put an extra five hundred families onto a road that was only designed for a hundred single-family dwellings. What I don't get is being so nimby that you'd rather have your streets utterly full of ho
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by causi 4y ago
I recently started collecting a few of the digital cameras I lusted after as a kid. It made me realize there's a huge population of cameras out there that would produce incredible photos if not for small details. Details like not havin
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by causi 4y ago
My main frustration was with the "Posting too fast; please slow down" throwing away comments that you spent a half hour writing. It's somewhat expected when you're commenting a lot and your recent comments have been be
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by causi 4y ago
It's a fun fact that the reason for this was for preparation for the introduction of a metric minute composed of 100 seconds that was mandated by the government in the 1960s just as the first digital controls for home appliances were
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by causi 4y ago
Adding little round stick-on mirrors can vastly improve your situational awareness.

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