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by djur 2y ago
The period that "nonplussed" started developing this contrary meaning was the most literate and educated period in human history.
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by djur 2y ago
"Unruffled" is an odd word. I know what it means but I wouldn't use it as the definition for another word. "Unfazed" feels like a stronger word meaning the same thing. I think people just didn't know what &quot
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by djur 2y ago
It's the term Bryan Garner uses for words that are inconsistent in meaning in a way that makes them difficult to use effectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term I'm not sure what his origin was fo
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by djur 2y ago
The word is skunked at this point. Using it guarantees that readers are going to have to pause and refer to the context, and depending on the context it may not even be possible to confidently disambiguate. Luckily both meanings have ample
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by djur 2y ago
Thank you! Your work really helped fuel my interest in programming, and it's always stood as my exemplar for how to explain a concept efficiently.
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by djur 2y ago
You're making several unfounded and false assumptions here. There is also no world in which I would accept the proposition that a pair of goggles that covers half the face and juts out past the tip of the nose is "incredibly tiny&
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by djur 2y ago
That isn't one of the buildings we were talking about. Indeed, in the post you responded to, I contrasted them with > hulking concrete bunkers like some of the institutional brutalism you see. Please make more thoughtful responses i
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by djur 2y ago
They don't. Are you telling me that you look at this and think "what a lazy design"? https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/sacred-modernity-b...
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by djur 2y ago
The Vision Pro straps completely around the head and weighs more than many bicycle helmets. Where's the exaggeration? The comment you were replying to said "without the content _to make it shine_". The implication here is tha
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by djur 2y ago
I don't see it that way at all. A lot of care and thought went into these designs, and they evoke the kind of awe you would expect from a god's house. These aren't just hulking concrete bunkers like some of the institutional
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by djur 2y ago
But I already have a computer that doesn't require me to put a helmet on.
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This takedown is not based on trademark, but copyright (you can tell because the article mentions the Digital Millennium Copyright Act). It's true that you have to defend a trademark, but that doesn't actually mean you're req
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by djur 2y ago
Douyin is available in the US iPhone app store?
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Congress has been working on this for 3+ years. This really started heating up after Shou Zi Chew's poorly received testimony to Congress in March 2023.
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by djur 2y ago
The value proposition for TikTok for the vast majority of existing users is that it provides a zero-friction source of Content. Maybe 5% of them have even heard the term "sideload" and most of those wouldn't bother. A VPN wil
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by djur 2y ago
Yes, if TikTok wanted to provide an .apk from a non-US server that connects to non-US servers to operate, that would not be prohibited by this law. I'm sure there are hundreds, even thousands of current American TikTok users who would
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by djur 2y ago
The law doesn't technically prohibit this, but the President has to sign off before the app becomes un-banned, and the law does specifically call out "any cooperation with respect to the operation of a content recommendation algor
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by djur 2y ago
This has been in the works for at least 2 years, so "rushed" doesn't seem right. The difference is that Mark Zuckerberg will put on a suit and go and get yelled at by members of Congress for a few hours.
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by djur 2y ago
The wildly unsuccessful companies also run as absolute monarchies, as well as the wildly successful companies that became wildly unsuccessful due to poor decisions made by the monarch. Most CEOs barely understand how their business operates
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by djur 2y ago
The law doesn't require or permit blocking access to Chinese servers, and virtually no current TikTok users are going to use VPNs to access it.
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by djur 2y ago
Can you connect to the Internet in China and visit google.com?
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by djur 2y ago
The law doesn't authorize blocking access to servers outside the US.
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Isn't the obvious alternative "split TikTok and sell TikTok USA"?
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The law requires the President (i.e. executive agencies) to verify any such transaction, and it specifically calls out "cooperation with respect to the operation of a content recommendation algorithm or an agreement with respect to dat
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by djur 2y ago
Chuck Moore's alternative to the modern OS is Color Forth. The man is brilliant and he is also a crank in the way brilliant people can sometimes be. When he says "you" he's really referring to programmers (and he's
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by djur 2y ago
Because it's tuned to be as positive as possible about anything you give it. Try asking it to review your poetry sometime.
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by djur 2y ago
Homo habilis existed as long as 2.8 million years ago.
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by djur 3y ago
What makes you say that?
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by djur 3y ago
Why does anyone care about anyone else's opinions? I think it's pretty reasonable to take issue with others assuming that you made a particular decision because you hadn't fully thought through the consequences. Do you like h
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by djur 3y ago
Like all alternative authorship theories, this one is based on a fundamental misunderstanding, that being that "great art" is necessarily biographical or reflects the "soul" of the artist. Once you've made that erro

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