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by criddell 9mo ago
When LL Bean ended their lifetime return policy, their CEO wrote this: > Increasingly, a small, but growing number of customers has been interpreting our guarantee well beyond its original intent. Some view it as a lifetime product repla
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by criddell 9mo ago
On some podcast I was listening to one of the hosts described her father as an avid in doorsman. I thought that was great and am happy to have a new way to describe myself. :)
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by criddell 9mo ago
No, the quote assumes you want to go faster. I don't really. I enjoy my ride and if I wanted to get to work 5 minutes faster, I would leave 5 minutes earlier.
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by criddell 9mo ago
That quotation pops up on cycling subreddits occasionally and I've always disliked it because I think it discourages people from casual bike riding. I've been biking to work occasionally for a few years now and it definitely gets
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by criddell 9mo ago
In the US, this use would be covered by the fair-use provisions of copyright law. You don't need permission to show a cover when writing a review of a book.
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by criddell 9mo ago
> When it's a streaming service, it might be equally worse IMO, but a bit less so if it's music you own. That's what I was thinking about when I mentioned teleological arguments. A stream is programmed by somebody else and
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by criddell 9mo ago
Is it worse than walking around 8 hours a day listening to music? Having headphones on while washing dishes and walking the dog? I think it is, but it's hard for me to articulate without getting into teleological judgments.
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by criddell 9mo ago
Why not just leave the NAS to be a NAS and get a separate server? You're probably better off not trying to overload the NAS to be everything.
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by criddell 9mo ago
I always complain about the size. I want a 13" so I can read and mark up full-size PDFs (I'm normally dealing with A4 or Letter size documents).
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by criddell 9mo ago
When I ask Siri to play some album on Spotify, it feels like it works about 60% of the time.
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by criddell 9mo ago
The law of comparative advantage strikes again.
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by criddell 9mo ago
Well… the study was partially funded by the German Cereal Processing, Milling and Starch Industries’ Association.
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by criddell 9mo ago
Fiber in oatmeal slows absorption.
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by criddell 9mo ago
If the current situation was every day 40 people die but blame is rarely assigned, would you recommend a change where an additional 10 people are going to die but someone will be held responsible for those deaths?
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by criddell 9mo ago
Orders of magnitude? Something like 100 people die on the road in the US each day. If self-driving tech could save 10 lives per day, that’s wouldn’t be good enough?
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by criddell 9mo ago
This always feels like the result of leadership too scared to build. It's so much safer and easier to tear down. Amazon spent a lot of time and money and built a top-tier workforce. But now they are out of ideas for what these people c
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by criddell 9mo ago
The Whole Foods we go to is in a cellular dead zone. So much time is wasted by people standing there waiting for their phone to load.
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by criddell 9mo ago
Your kids are (and should be) doing all kinds of things you have no idea about. It’s part of becoming an adult. I’m sure you modeled all the right behaviors, and provided every advantage you could. That helps, but you’re influence is waning
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by criddell 9mo ago
I’m similar. I’ve installed the TikTok app a half a dozen times and it just doesn’t click for me. YouTube I enjoy more, but I still don’t spend much time on it. I mostly go on there looking for something in particular and don’t spend much t
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by criddell 9mo ago
Based on this comment, I think we are around the same age. I'm 55 and have two kids born in the early 2000's. I was born in Canada in 1970 to loving and extraordinarily supportive parents and moved to the US in the mid 90's.
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by criddell 9mo ago
I see a huge difference between a bookstore choosing to not stock 1984 by George Orwell and the government prohibiting that book from being sold by anybody or openly discussed. Neither situation is good, but one is way, way worse than the o
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by criddell 9mo ago
I’m more interested in things that might be a first amendment violation in the US. For example, if the US government suppressed discussion of the Kent State massacre that would be similar to the Tiananmen Square filters. Private companies t
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by criddell 9mo ago
Sounds like something from Neil Postman’s excellent book Amusing Ourselves to Death .
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by criddell 9mo ago
What's an example of political censorship on US LLMs?
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by criddell 9mo ago
I've used them with my iPad. I don't have a Mac, but I would guess they work with any Find My-capable machine.
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by criddell 9mo ago
They don't always do the simple things well which is even more frustrating. I do Windows development and GDI stuff still confuses me. I'm talking about memory DC, compatible DC, DIB, DDB, DIBSECTION, bitblt, setdibits, etc... AIs
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by criddell 9mo ago
They might not be for you.
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by criddell 9mo ago
Whoa! What calculator is that?
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by criddell 9mo ago
I think the writer might enjoy Vonnegut's Mother Night. > Vonnegut is not, I believe, talking about mere inauthenticity. He is talking about engaging in activities which do not agree with what we ourselves feel are our own core mora
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by criddell 9mo ago
thats what I see too

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