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by damontal 3y ago
Sometimes I pass a place I've passed before while listening to an audiobook and have an immediate recall of what I was listening to at the time. It's like the place is associated with what I heard at the time.
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by damontal 3y ago
It’s not saying it can’t remember. It’s saying it doesn’t have the ability to do what it did.
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Some Airlines Avoid Twitter, Putting a Popular Travel Hack at Risk(wsj.com)
5 points by damontal 3y ago|3 comments
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by damontal 3y ago
There are entries for Castaneda on that wiki.
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by damontal 3y ago
I first heard of this as a sort of practice based on the writings of Carlos Castaneda. He wrote these very interesting and entertaining books about his anthropological studies of a Yaqui Indian shaman which were later revealed to be mostly
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by damontal 3y ago
My kids play it because its one of the few games not blocked at their school
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by damontal 3y ago
Are you confident that its responses are accurate? I’ve had it just make up facts or tack made-up facts onto actual facts. It will also fabricate references to research papers.
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by damontal 3y ago
There was someone on YouTube showing elevated radiation levels in Japanese green tea after the Fukushima incident.
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by damontal 3y ago
It was so much fun filling up your queue after first signing up, finding films you always wanted to see, being able to add entire tv series, changing priorities, etc. It was a unique kind of fun that I can’t seem to reproduce anywhere else
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by damontal 4y ago
What is the significance of the core's shape? Looks kinda like a bullet.
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by damontal 4y ago
I can't learn guitar looking at fretboard diagrams like that. They completely confuse me. The only way I learn shapes like that is by repeatedly playing them.
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ChatGPT Reciting Dickinson
2 points by damontal 4y ago|1 comments
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by damontal 4y ago
You can use Calibre to download the Economist each week and send it to your kindle.
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by damontal 4y ago
The novels based on the game by Rand Miller were really good. Shame they seem to be out of print.
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by damontal 4y ago
Happened to me. Then a few years later they used my kid’s ssn. So now we all have pins.
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by damontal 4y ago
Here’s what I see: Something Bad Has Happened At Twitter Twitterrific users are currently unable to access the service via the iOS app. As of this writing we have heard nothing officially from Twitter and are trying to learn more. This may
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by damontal 4y ago
Hitchens didn’t really address Buddhism in any meaningful way. He made a quip once about the Buddhist saying this glass of scotch isn’t really there and Hitchens’ response was something about how he rejected that take because he enjoyed the
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by damontal 4y ago
I’m really jaded towards guitar solos but that solo always makes me stop whatever it is I’m doing. The song plods on and on and is a bit boring but the solo just bursts out of it and wakes you up out of the trance induced by what’s going on
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by damontal 4y ago
“There’s a man who likes eggs with his pepper.” I think of this line any time I put pepper on my eggs.
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by damontal 4y ago
or we are in a simulation
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by damontal 4y ago
I was in the hospital with a blood clot and was told by the ER doctor that I could die at any moment. Quotes like the above, ideas, feelings about meaning, thoughts about my wife and kids all were completely absent. I just felt blank and co
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by damontal 4y ago
does mate actually have cancer causing properties or does the cancer come about from long term sipping a hot drink through a straw?
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by damontal 4y ago
I asked for a poem about red chickens and it gave me something passable. Then I asked for a poem about blue chickens and it was basically the same poem.
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by damontal 4y ago
My HSA upstated their app and the update is a real step backwards in usability. I wanted to write a complaint but was too busy and figured what’s the point? Just put a few details into chatGPT and now have a pretty good letter to send.
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by damontal 4y ago
I want to zap the pram and fire up Myst.
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by damontal 4y ago
I read Jude the Obscure recently after seeing it on the bookshelf of a character in the HBO show Westworld. It was a very controversial book in its day because of its portrayal of marriage. I found it pretty bleak and yes shocking. It made
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by damontal 4y ago
I tried learning shorthand after reading Samuel Pepys’ diary. If you’re good at it you can write as fast as someone speaks but I never got good enough at it for it to be useful.
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by damontal 4y ago
It's up 79$/year now for personal accounts.
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by damontal 4y ago
Why would i buy a full price audiobook through Spotify when I can just use Audible?
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by damontal 4y ago
I'm still bummed he never finished his "Programmer's View of The Universe" series

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