deanCommie

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by deanCommie 2y ago
Sure, but overlap also exists. If you live in LA or San Diego, you can live close to the beach and go there all the time. Most people there don't, but if that's important to you, you can achieve it. If you live in Vancouver, BC or
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Every instinct I have agrees with you. Yet I can't help but wonder if people also said the same about the telephone (which enabled socialization without colocation) and television (Which enabled entertainment as a passive indirect cons
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I'm a Canadian who lived in Luxembourg for 4 years and agree with 100% of what you said. I find the US too extreme in one direction and Europe too much in the other. Canada has many problems (from both places) but by and large IMO stri
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by deanCommie 2y ago
"Chinese person: Racist against Indians" is hardly a newsworthy headline. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. I live in Vancouver and I'm apalled to hear some of the things my Chinese friends sometimes say about Sikhs
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by deanCommie 2y ago
It is crushingly disappointing to me how many of the comments here are about funerals. When the point of the article has nothing to do with funerals. The thesis is this paragraph and I think it's quite striking and important > &quot
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I've wanted this to exist my entire life.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
But...literally part of the explanation is this email and what it represents? Apple participated in an illegal anti-competitive anti-worker chilling of the market. If they hadn't, perhaps some of the people that worked on iPhone over t
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I can't negotiate with people who have such a deep distrust of Government that they belie that the Government will kill it's citizens if given incentives to do so, or from pure $-based miscare. This to me feels like a very dystopi
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Does it? Or is this what anti-euthanasia advocates are spreading as misinformation around to acquire the support of progressives to their cause (which is driven not out of a care for homeless and disabled people, but out of religious/c
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I'd be curious how much of this changes once you account for a few basic fundamental things like: * Being over 25 * Having a college degree. The people who worry about marriage because of these stats are typically in this category. I b
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by deanCommie 2y ago
> Attacking him for wearing a wristband? That's an ad hominem attack, and not worthy of my time to counter you on. I picked my words very carefully and I would appreciate if you responded to what I said, not what you think I implied
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by deanCommie 2y ago
What if we are? And by injecting entropy into it, we are actually hurrying (in small insignificant ways) the heat death of those universes? What if we keep going and scale out and in the future it causes a meaningful impact to that universe
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I don't want to judge people by their cover, but I want to confess to having those feelings right now. In this day and age, I feel an immediate sense of distrust to any technologist with the "Burning Man" aesthetic for lack o
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by deanCommie 2y ago
To put a counter-point on your counter-point: * Divorced parents aren't representative experiences for most parents. (The oft-used statistics that >50% of marriages end in divorce miss that those with one divorce often end up with N
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Major "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." vibes. This is the first release of something new and groundbreaking.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
In the LLM space, there is a definitive 1st (OpenAI), a definitive 2nd (Anthropic), and then there's "everyone else". Depending on how you measure you could claim Facebook is 1st if you grade them on a different scale for bei
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by deanCommie 2y ago
A perfect example that illustrates the problem. The difference to me between whether a company is able to do something amazing vs. a person working at that company does, is whether they're able to productize it/do something with i
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by deanCommie 2y ago
The innovator's dilemma is really interesting. Whenever a new incumbent gets on the scene offering the same thing as some entrenched leader only better, faster, and cheaper, the standard response is "Yeah but it's less reliab
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I mean isn't the news story itself essentially an ad?
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Ditto. I skipped most of high school through an accelerated program and wound up in university before I was 15. At the time I was happy. It was the first time I was surrounded by peers as smart or smarter than me. First time I wasn't b
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by deanCommie 2y ago
The other problem with it is that there are other variables involved besides pure speed, which is CONSISTENCY of speed. Folks are always surprised to see just how fast Java is able to perform on benchmarks - it has a reputation as such a sl
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by deanCommie 2y ago
What's Microsoft's Bedrock?
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by deanCommie 2y ago
4K is overrated for streaming. Most people's connections can't handle it so it always ends up getting downscaled. pisses me off. physical media for the win, tho.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
So long as we live in democracies, we are responsible for the actions of our governments. You can certainly go "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" during domestic discussions of displeasure of the ruling party. But, in intern
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by deanCommie 2y ago
> Even the combined resources of Amazon and Microsoft weren't enough to overcome this. Pedantically, their resources were never combined. They independently tried to compete, and they independently failed. For what it's worth t
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I think the problem is there is academia the calling, and academia the profession. Academia the calling is the pursuit of knowledge, truth, the advancement of humankind. It sometimes needs flexibility, other times rigor. Sometimes a full te
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by deanCommie 2y ago
It was to stop a genocide. Just because they weren't "defending a NATO member" doesn't mean that the operation was "offensive".
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by deanCommie 2y ago
I wish people took this incident to realize that Germany should be investing in energy independence, the way France had.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
Your profile says you're in Lithuania. Lithuania is part of NATO. IF this was an officially sanctioned mission by a NATO country, then you're part of the "we". That's kind of the deal with alliances.
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by deanCommie 2y ago
There is no one "Amazon" here, there are at least 3: * Twitch: Essentially invented live streaming. Fantastic. * Amazon Interactive Video Service [0]: Essentially "Twitch As A Service", built by Twitch engineers. Fantast

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