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by dimal 2y ago
Somehow, I think that using a bureaucracy to fix this bureaucratic tendency won’t solve it. Not that it’s not well-intentioned, but at some point we need to expect that individual humans to behave ethically, or else we’re doomed. Over and
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by dimal 2y ago
Wikipedia isn’t the cesspool that X is, but yeah, it’s not as reliable as many people think it is.
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by dimal 2y ago
A screenshot on X? It must be true! I’m sure those links back up the assertion. No one would just post something misleading on X, right? /s Maybe the assertion in the tweet is true and maybe it isn’t, but to me, this is the real reason
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by dimal 2y ago
What I described was a specific health issue which was relieved by dancing. This indicates to me that this kind of movement is biologically essential, not just a passion. Dancing also improves mood. Depression is rampant in our society. Peo
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by dimal 2y ago
I’m 53 and use LLMs all the time. I admit I think my pre-LLM process was different than many people. I’d create the first version that barely works, then spend a lot of time refining and refactoring, simplifying things, bit by bit. I get th
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by dimal 2y ago
I tried navigating to youtube-nocookie.com and got an http cert error, so that doesn't seem like an option. The support page you linked to talks about "Privacy Enhanced Mode". The language there does not sound like it really
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by dimal 2y ago
> Dance wasn’t critical. Says you. For me it is. I suspect for many others it is. I have restless legs syndrome. It’s a neurological disorder that makes your legs and feet feel like they have to move. A lot of people have it. Doctors pre
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by dimal 2y ago
It is capitalism, and I think this is inherent in all stages of capitalism. The goal of any corporation is to maximize profit, period. In earlier forms, monopolists and oligarchs may have used different levers of power, but it’s all ultimat
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by dimal 2y ago
That sounds like a typically glib and dismissive comment made without really trying to understand the situation. Until relatively recently, I never thought of myself as disabled, but in the past year I found this model helpful in understand
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by dimal 2y ago
Off topic but I love the YouTube player interface. Instead of loading it by default (and adding invasive Google tracking to the page), you get the option to opt in. Very nice.
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by dimal 2y ago
> She started getting frustrated, “it’s my fault, I don’t know how to use this thing properly.” This is heartbreaking. The woman is being excluded through no fault of her own, and she blames herself. I find this to be a common for people
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by dimal 2y ago
I’m autistic and find that well crafted typography helps me to read things more easily with less distraction. It’s not just dyslexics who might struggle with bad typography. I also know some ADHD people with similar issues to me. And 20% of
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by dimal 2y ago
Holding up Florida and Los Angeles as models for development doesn’t seem like a good argument to me. No thanks.
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by dimal 2y ago
I think I understand the argument but this sounds like it would make things worse. The argument that new features almost always make the language worse doesn’t hold true from my perspective as a developer. (I could imagine the perspective o
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by dimal 2y ago
Honest question, why is breaking news important? How exactly does knowing unsubstantiated details about an event immediately male one’s life better?
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by dimal 2y ago
Off topic but why do product blogs always exist on a separate domain, with no link to the product website? I never heard of GitButler. Reading this is making me curious about it. But the home link in the top left goes to the blog home. If I
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by dimal 2y ago
A lot of hate in the comments but I’m excited for this. I don’t think I’d ever inflict it on teammates, but this looks like a much nicer way to use functional idioms without making the jump to something like PureScript. I’ll definitely try
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by dimal 2y ago
The quote I provided was from the article. I’ve read the whole thing and I’m still parsing it (and your statement about both being fed shitty diets) as going against your original assertion: “Studies of caloric restriction in monkeys didn’t
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by dimal 2y ago
Are you reading that right? > The investigators were comparing median survival between the CR and control (CON) groups, not longevity or lifespan per se. As I read that, it wasn’t that the study showed that caloric restriction didn’t ext
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by dimal 2y ago
And psychiatric drugs don’t ever make things worse? As someone who was severely injured by FDA approved, scientifically validated medications, I’d say some healthy distrust of a corporate-captured bureaucracy is warranted. Remember, OxyCont
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by dimal 2y ago
> we do not know, really, what goes on in there when you take a drug like Psilocybin FYI, same goes for SSRIs. The scientific consensus is that the serotonin deficiency theory of depression was wrong. When SSRIs actually work, we still d
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by dimal 2y ago
I was at the T-Mobile internet trucks in Asheville and the woman next to me was obviously stuck in some automated voice menu hell — you know when some one is sitting on the phone quietly listening to whatever the question “What can I help y
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by dimal 2y ago
Yeah, this looks like the tutorial I needed. Thanks.
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by dimal 2y ago
How did you find learning Effect? The sales pitch sounds great, but when I went through the docs it seemed pretty confusing to me. I’m sure there are reasons for the everything but I couldn’t grok it. In particular, I’m thinking of the Expr
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by dimal 2y ago
Ah, yeah. I was wondering how it could work without an antenna. I guess an FM antenna needs to be larger than the 5G antenna built into phones too.
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by dimal 2y ago
Yeah, I should have posted that. This is the one I use the most: https://text.bpr.org/ I forgot to save the links to the others.
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by dimal 2y ago
What I want is for every smartphone to have an FM radio built in. There are FM radio IC chips available, and apparently some Android phones have them. It seems like a reasonable thing to require smartphones to have them for emergencies. I h
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by dimal 2y ago
We’re dealing with this big time in Asheville now. When cell service came back at all, everyone had shitty intermittent 3G, and none of the websites we needed for basic survival information would load. A bunch of good people created some te
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by dimal 2y ago
Yes, that’s possible with StoryBook. It’s one of the tiny buttons on the top right, I think.
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by dimal 2y ago
I can understand that POV and would love to be able to do that, but as a neurodivergent person, I could never live that way. The default settings for the world are generally intolerable to me. I customize absolutely everything in my life. W

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