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by clbrmbr 3y ago
> The average American will spend over six months of their life behind a traffic light. Yeah if you spent 8 hours a day at a light! I think somebody applied the *60 operation twice…
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This is what the article is about. It’s a good read. Very clearly explained.
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> I bought a Thinkpad [t480]… For my hostname I chose “dell-latitude-e5430”. I don't know why. Wait, what would possess you to use that hostname? It’s like buying a Honda Civic but referring to it as your Ford Focus.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Programming Pearls, Bentley (1986)
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Could there be value in cultural diversity analogous to value of biodiversity? I think of Andrian Berry’s warnings about a world state. I fear a world monoculture is one step in that direction. (Just googled him, seems time has been unkind
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How frequently do such faults occur?
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
This was a new one for me, too.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Anyone else here like to eat milkweed? (Asclepias syriaca) My favorite way to prepare is gently steaming the flower buds when they are about 2/3-grown. But the young greens and young pods are good, too.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
By “kind” are you referring to a species or a subspecies? To my knowledge Asclepias syriaca is native only to North America. But there are other plants——most infamously Phragmites australis——where it’s native but there’s an invasive subspec
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate your sharing your experience.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Really important comment! Is having a bad recessive a “pre-existing condition”? Or do genotypes form already legally protected classes? Clearly we need good lawyers here, or careful regulation, or public medical insurance. I hope it doesn’t
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
My experience is the converse: when distracted, I assume I am the author of my thoughts, the doer of my actions, but when I really pay attention, I notice that thoughts and intentions arise unbidden. I identify with consciousness, and the o
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Btw I love inky caps. Just had a marvelous flush of shaggy manes in the yard here, fed by wood chip paths.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
I’ve wondered how that works. Quite a risk to take out such a loan! I’ve never had that level of confidence in my employer.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
You have me there. Worked most my life in angel-backed startups or government-funded research, so it’s hard to conceive of a going concern! Everything in tech feels boom-or-bust.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
“Conscience”, there’s a word I haven’t heard in a while. If an act is “unconscionable” well then it’s legally indefensible. But the broader idea of “having a conscience” seems to have receded, to the point I don’t really know what it means.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
I predict the rise of anti-technology cults as the moral panic over AI and “Social” takes hold. The millions of displaced workers and disillusioned social-users will need refuge.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Totally agree about diversification. Reliance on a company pension fund is terrifying. That said, the old pension model forced workers to make large contributions. The 401k model does not. (Unless your company has some amazing match deal… I
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Re: predatory landlords: if they are not breaking the law, are they really blameworthy? Seems like the previous landlord was naïve, or at least operating on an outdated worldview where local reputation mattered. (Hard to show up at the loca
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
But the labor market is not that liquid. May be easier to fight for changes at current employer than pound the pavement. This is compounded by seniority perks, insurance (COBRA costs), relocation costs (financial and personal), and to some
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
What’s the alternative? How can an employee expect to get paid a salary and own the company?
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
But you can hear the other “fist”. (If using a straight key or bug). Btw, original American Morse had extra symbols!
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Wait, wasn’t leaded gas banned in the 70s? Are you telling me all these aircraft that fly over my house are filling the air with lead? How much environmental lead contamination are we talking here?
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
14lbs/in2 adds up fast ;) A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a 100m sphere would have 600 million pounds of force on its surface area.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
It’s certainly a grand experiment. Going to have some population-level impacts soon.
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
> water Weights you read are dry weights. > tincture Tinctures at least homogenize. So a “0.05g” dose of a tincture is consistent within the batch, and more consistent between batches. This is how medicine worked up to the 19th centur
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A similar story could be told about genus Papaver.
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Vi keybindings?
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One day I got a call from RMS’s assistant asking if I could help sell books for FSF at a conference. Not even bothering to ask what kind of conference it was, I said “For Richard Stallman, anything!” Two days later I found myself selling bo
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by clbrmbr 3y ago
Actually, can you expand on this? What philosophy leads one to put the bedtime story example on top? I’m genuinely curious about the different political/spiritual views that are growing up around AI. So maybe my question was not so rhe

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