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by dleink 2y ago
You are painting the mentally ill with too broad a brush. There is a difference between 'ill' and 'dangerous'. We should not engender a society that encourages people to toe that line.
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by dleink 3y ago
If not for suburban zoning laws from the 20th century there would likely be more midtown-style skyscrapers in NJ/LI/CT.
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by dleink 3y ago
> I don't think [things created by humans] would contain anything novel. That's quite a proposition.
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by dleink 3y ago
both can be true.
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by dleink 3y ago
Android has a 70% global market share. You really only communicate with one person of that 70%?
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by dleink 3y ago
Any good resources on screw-cutting? That sounds like a rabbit hole I'd like to lose a few hours in..
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by dleink 3y ago
I do that somewhat often but I started mainlining gratitude a few years ago so I might be an edge case.
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by dleink 3y ago
Same! The camera is the only part of the phone I want to spend real money on. Beyond personal preferences, I live and work in an area of California where people could greatly benefit from easily accessible phones so I'm interested in w
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by dleink 3y ago
But AI can never replace the human dorkiness I bring to a project.
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by dleink 3y ago
I want to research this route more but the camera is an important component to me. I suspect their is a model of phone from 5-10 years ago that has a an under-the-radar stellar camera and I would find "perfectly adequate". ("
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by dleink 3y ago
Are the rates comparatively expensive?
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by dleink 3y ago
Try this on either your favorite GPT or favorite kid learning stats.. "What are the actuarial odds of an American male born June 14, 1946 in NYC dying between March 17, 2024 and US Election day 2024?"
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by dleink 3y ago
Hi Ron! In ~2000 I drove from south Jersey to deep Long Island and only realized while staring at a server rack that I brought the bag o' CDs that we used for windows deployments, not *nix. Thanks to Robert Moses, the drive in the midd
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by dleink 3y ago
A broader goal is to have the kind of society that engenders large vibrant research communities and the benefits that come with them.
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by dleink 3y ago
> Long-term they will likely make no changes because human desire, habits and behaviors are rarely unknown to us. It seems like this thinking leads to desires, habits and behaviors remaining a mystery to us.
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by dleink 3y ago
Do you retain after effects on behavior from the zeal phase?
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by dleink 3y ago
Yes, But for "confidence in inputs" the difference doesn't matter.
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by dleink 3y ago
I was perhaps broadening "skin colour" to include "ethnic" or "national" or "racial" distinctions, but I think that's a distinction without a difference. If we want to say "The US has been b
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by dleink 3y ago
Wow, that's a great way to phrase it. I'm currently setting up a basic laptop with speed like you're describing as a goal. "Confidence in my inputs" is an underrated value in HCI. Of course websites have to implore
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by dleink 3y ago
I would like to hear more about your trajectory. I'm in a similar place.
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by dleink 3y ago
> Also: I know it's trendy to make everything about skin colours these days, but that's a distinct USA-ian bias. The rest of the world doesn't work that way. Europe's industrialized genocidal tribalism of 20th century
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by dleink 3y ago
took a contract job where I was writing a thing in perl to connect a billion dollar collection of ecommerce sites to facebook ads in 2019.
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by dleink 3y ago
A good summary. I would add, mental health illnesses tend to present themselves in high stress situations. So while not the cause of the illness, being unable to afford reasonable housing while also being unable to find work with reasonable
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by dleink 3y ago
What takes up most of your time? Do you work with vendors to create and then produce the product or just do the design phase?
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by dleink 3y ago
Any recommendations for books on the history of computing from that period?
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by dleink 3y ago
"The art in the Fountain" is an interesting construction to describe the piece.
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by dleink 3y ago
I agree. In the CLI I have a blinking cursor. If I press keys I see characters. If I press enter I get a response[0]. I do need a further invocation to get help, but that's easy enough. [0] admittedly a holdover from the typewriter, bu
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by dleink 3y ago
Even if it's a closed system (I'm not sure it is), it's definitely not a zero-sum system.
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by dleink 3y ago
ah yes, I am decent Vim user but hadn't thought about it in that context. Thanks for the context!
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by dleink 3y ago
Count me as another who would be interested in this youtube/blog post. I'm currently at the beginning of a similar project.

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