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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Way back when I was in high school, the most important part of essay writing was figuring out how to expand the topic I cared nothing about to the required X pages. I'm unsurprised that college students would default to the same thing.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
The problem there is that not even the physicists completely agree on the details, because we know black holes definitely exist, but every explanation breaks one rule or another that should apply from different disciplines. It's part o
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Wild-ass guess: maybe the aftertaste of peppermint oil twice daily leaves people who are already unhealthy wanting to snack less, leading to minor weight loss.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
I suspect this case has origins less to do with the programming itself, and more to do with UK bureaucracy just not giving a shit, as with the post office scandal where authorities, including the legal system, blindly believing in the outso
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
It's one of those items way down on the list of "Falsehoods programmers believe...", way below everything on the names list ( https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... ).
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
That's some real nightmarishly passive-aggressive wording. It reads to me like the kind of thing intentionally structured to leave people confused until after the deletions are already done, so then it's too late to argue about th
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Apple is decent. The internal processes are opaque, but you can always pretty easily talk to a real person who can and will escalate things to real internal support teams as soon as the CSR scripts no longer apply.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
See also "Am I German or Autistic?", which despite the cheeky title, does a pretty good job showing the balance between cultural and mindset patterns and autism spectrum traits. https://german.millermanschool.com
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
If not for Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, I'd probably had just completely bounced off Shakespeare's works in high school.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
> “the x”, with x having not only no antecedent but also being a coined word or quasi-synonym for something that is already named in the code base It does the same thing if you try to get it to do analysis of text or turn data into summa
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Because storing PBS archives is a voluntary public service, and storing other random peoples' stuff isn't.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
From personal experience when I was younger: Spending a month traveling on European trains with a backpack will teach you a whole lot about what you actually need to pack, and what you will want to just leave behind and purchase again local
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Japan has buildings addressed by block rather than by street ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system ), which is a legacy inherited from older systems and can be a nightmare for finding places (web sea
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Here in California, we have Carmel-By-The-Sea, which has had no street addresses for more than 100 years. The town is finally implementing them after endless resistance entirely because the basically static population has finally aged out e
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Genuinely effective protests are rarely entirely legal.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
The housing part never 'decayed', it was actively blocked by the people who already had homes. That's why you see things now like California actively overriding local zoning.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
For people looking for treatment for long-term tinnitus, notched sound therapy has been statistically shown to help by reducing brain activity in relation to the perceived tinnitus frequencies ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
> LLMs write better than anyone I've ever worked with And yet every time I see AI-written documentation, there's paragraphs worth of throat clearing and space-wasters like the word "genuinely" for things that could ha
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
For me, step 1 of trying to make Claude even vaguely usable is putting in a hook that just tells it 'FUCK YOU, STOP USING PIPES' whenever it tries to chain multiple bash commands.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Also, give it another couple of years and there's going to be a lot of work for any moderately experienced developer fixing broken slopcode hitting the hard wall of bad design.
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by crooked-v 2mo ago
Reading between the lines, I would bet the bail jumping charge was based on him crossing state lines back and forth, and was dismissed by the court when it became clear he wasn't actually running away anywhere. Thus the cops hunting fo
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Those are the mechanisms I'm talking about.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
So, uh, how did this random site get the rights to republish Bradbury? Or, to judge by their front page, did they mistake Bradbury's works for public domain?
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Electric motors so every building didn't need its own steam engine, and cheap interchangeable parts manufacturing for the mechanisms that needed to be perfectly consistent in every installation to be reliable.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
The problem is the seams. Seam durability has been the driving force in a lot of "obvious" clothing inventions over the ages, and is why things like medieval crotchless hose were around for so long.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
What baffles me isn't even the AI part, it's that the judges showed absolutely no taste and just picked the thing with the most pointless pixel-filling detail in it.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Yeah, my takeaway here is less about AI, and more that these judges have no sense of taste and just gave more points to whatever packed in the most pointless details.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but that font and its layout feels extremely recognizable to me as the "AI image sign font" that I've already seen on posterboards for a bunch of restaurants in SF.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it. It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowin
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
I would suggest making the wording something more like "Launching soon, contact us for pre-release information". Same end result but it avoids the association with overpriced enterprise providers.

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