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by dontwannahearit 8mo ago
You also have the problem that the pass rate for tests has changed massively in the years since most 50 year olds took their tests in the UK. Anecdotally, it is not at all uncommon for young drivers to fail the test 3+ times (at least amoun
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by dontwannahearit 9mo ago
I think the fact that this happens on HN, where the users are generally more tech-savvy is signaling that trust in media in the online age is in severe decline. As AI gets better (and there seems no reason to believe it won't for video
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by dontwannahearit 9mo ago
Not for everyone but if you can, get a dog. Dogs are icebreakers. People like to meet a cute dog. They won't know your name at first but you will be "Fido's Dad" or "Dave's Mom". Other dog owners will gree
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by dontwannahearit 9mo ago
This too shall pass. In 2050 people will say "Do you remember social media?" and someone will say "Oh yeah, those online systems where everything you said was used to build a marketing profile of you? Where every picture you
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by dontwannahearit 10mo ago
Confused. Is ‘fuck’ fast or slow? Or both at the same time? Is there a sort of quantum superposition of fuck?
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by dontwannahearit 10mo ago
And the challenge is making management understand the difference!
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by dontwannahearit 10mo ago
A quick read of some British press and you'll realize that the British are going through their own self-hate moment, so everyone is aligned. This is what living in the ashes of an empire does to you. Will come for the USA in time.
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by dontwannahearit 10mo ago
I like this approach. I am especially drawn to the idea of making custom components this way but every time I have experimented with this I get burned by the context which has to be passed down through all functions. A jinja/django tem
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by dontwannahearit 11mo ago
With respect, I am not insulting people dealing with the issues of ASD diagnosis. Autism is real and can be debilitating. The comment I replied to said "...claim to be autistic" and that is what I am refering to. I am calling out
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by dontwannahearit 11mo ago
I think a lot of it is peverse incentives. There are social (cut me some slack, I'm autistic) and in socialized medicine systems, financial benefits to an autism diagnosis. So yeah, why wouldn't you claim to be autistic, what&#x27
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by dontwannahearit 11mo ago
I read the article. I found it hard going so probably was not for me but the impression it left me with was: "I let the internet f ck with my mind, now I want to un-f ck it." USE the internet, don't to let it use YOU.
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by dontwannahearit 11mo ago
Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, Penguin Classics (1981 edition). Extremely tortuous phraseology. But I finished it, with gritted teeth at 15. I have long since abandoned the desire to finish every book I start. Life is too short.
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by dontwannahearit 11mo ago
And it can also be a burden. If you are born on US soil to non-US nationals and therefore become an accidental American you are subject to US tax laws on worldwide income. In the UK at least banks will not sell you financial products with t
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by dontwannahearit 1y ago
Anthropic worried about Rokus basilisk maybe?
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by dontwannahearit 1y ago
Totally with you on the facehugger thing. The way I think of it is in the early 2000's you used the internet, but now you have to take care that the internet is not using you.
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by dontwannahearit 1y ago
UBI would basically be a massive transfer of wealth to rich landlords. There is no fixed price for housing, it's based on what the market will bear. If suddenly everyone has X to spend on housing then the landlords will decide that the
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by dontwannahearit 1y ago
Steve Jackson and Ian livingstone Fighting Fantasy books, mentioned in the article. PDFs may be found online…