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by dorkwood 3y ago
I used this same technique to induce lucid dreams when I was younger. My theory for why it worked was that one part of the brain was sending a 'roll over' signal to another part of the brain in order to check if it was ready to en
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk’s plan was to tank downloads so that the news media would write about X, increasing publicity. Kind of genius, really.
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I would care. There’s an active community of artists and developers who regularly post images of their work, as well as educational material. I can also conceive of other such communities that I’m not aware of whose members would feel the s
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by dorkwood 3y ago
While it’s true that it’s harder to form close connections while working from home, it’s actually managed to broaden my network considerably. I now have friends and former colleagues stationed all around the world, instead of just the US.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
One at the top is usually fine. Ten or so is a bit excessive.
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Anecdotal, but I can remember receiving a survey like this at school when I was around the same age. They didn’t tell us what it was for. I had no idea who would be reading it. On a lot of the questions, I lied, and said I was doing things
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I had to look this up. Looks like he won an academy award for the documentary in 2013, and then a little over a year later jumped in front of a train. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Bendjelloul
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by dorkwood 3y ago
There’s a channel that explains how to pronounce words that is a particularly bad offender. They talk about the history of the word up front, but without ever actually saying the word. They only pronounce it in the last few seconds, right a
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by dorkwood 3y ago
My point is that we don’t know the forces that the simulation is intending to model. There may be water flowing in/out along the z-axis, for example. Or there could be wind. Assuming that the author intended to simulate the same condit
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I think when the parent wrote "us" they were referring to humanity. My doormat has a non-zero chance of killing me, but zero chance of killing humanity, for example.
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I thought the same thing when looking at the ocean the other day. I found it very unrealistic that it was still moving about after all this time.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Did you ever use Twitter? If so, what sort of people did you follow? Why were you there? I see no posts by racists or nazis. I use Twitter to follow a vibrant community of developers and artists. I haven’t found any other place like it onli
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by dorkwood 3y ago
The top-voted comment on any article is usually a comment claiming the article is wrong. We're definitely counter-something.
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Bhangmeter(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dorkwood 3y ago|0 comments
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I do think it's important to look at a person's past accomplishments when deciding whether to listen to them or not. I'd even say it's the most important thing. But is there a line where a person's present actions s
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by dorkwood 3y ago
> Bozo the Clown didn't build anything Following his retirement, Frank Avruch, the first nationally-syndicated Bozo the Clown, launched his own website -- bostonman.com -- which, like the “Man About Town” segments he did for WCVB-TV
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Vela Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dorkwood 3y ago|0 comments
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Could this all be part of Musk's plan, though? As Sun Tzu said, "when you are strong, appear weak". There's no denying that Musk is highly intelligent. If a play of his seems completely bone-headed, there's a good c
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Currently if you try to DM most people, you'll get the message: "Get verified to message this user. Only verified users can send Direct Message requests to people that don’t follow them. Sign up for Twitter Blue to continue."
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I get freelance work through Twitter, as do many other people. The other day Musk silently changed users' DM settings from "allow message requests from everyone" to "allow message requests from verified users only".
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by dorkwood 3y ago
Just to clarify, when you said you used automated customer support to "cancel orders, cancel subscriptions, change a broadband package, arrange a return/refund for faulty goods", you're saying you used UI to do those thi
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by dorkwood 3y ago
One great thing that came from the NFT gold-rush was that it exposed a lot of well-known figures as grifters -- Tobi, the Shopify CEO, being one of them. After that ordeal, this kind of thing doesn't surprise me in the least.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I’ve been walking around thinking I’ve never had a panic attack before, but after reading this I think I’ve actually been having them all my life.
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by dorkwood 3y ago
How come when the negative-mass ball encounters the force of the red ball pushing against it, it moves towards the red ball, but when the negative-mass ball encounters the force of a wall pushing against it, it moves away from the wall? Sho
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I know that Discord has a poor implementation of this technology. I once spent 10 minutes trying to upload a photograph before I realized that a pig’s snout was tripping its indecency detector. I had to put a black bar across the offending
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To be fair, it’s still early for crypto. The best use cases of the technology are yet to emerge.
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> Tools are sometimes important, but 80-90% it's about the proficiency of the wielder. It probably depends on the domain you're working in. In the motion graphics industry, for example, if you're not using the right tools,
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I’ll be honest, I’m one of the people that needs instructions for Apple products. I’ve been buying them online — each time becoming frustrated with the lack of instructions and the assumed knowledge necessary to use them. Oh, you didn’t kno
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I couldn’t log in to Instagram for over a year due to a bug with my account. At first, there was no recourse. Then, they released Meta Verified, which offered customer support for a monthly subscription fee. It took about 50 emails back and
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by dorkwood 3y ago
I was about to agree with you, until I noticed they called it a "text-based conversation app". I just scrolled through my Twitter feed, and out of the first 50 posts in my feed, 46 of them were accompanied by either an image or a

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