dw_arthur

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by dw_arthur 3y ago
I always feel a little dirty when I have to go on a discord to find some information.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Watching it is enough for a lot of people. Watching 1080p first person extreme sport videos on youtube is almost too compelling to me. I have to turn it off because it feels addictive.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
The trades are underpaid. If you have other options why would you tear your body up so people can get services "at a resonable price"? Think about how people in the trades feel seeing people who work from home make multiples of
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Well a bunch of men proposing that they have a solution to make women have babies is ridiculous on its face. And decreased birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon cutting across all different types of societies, economies, and races. I thi
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
People may say they want kids but their actions say another thing. I always get a chuckle out of seeing right wing people talking confidently about how they could increase birth rates.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Some sort of lightweight material/string that gets caught up in the blades might work. Use it in flak guns and have it float down to the earth saturating the airspace. You could also use it in a barrage balloon manner. Nets are also
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
I think a washer died around 35 years ago and her current washer is 35 years old. It seems improbable that so many 40+ year old appliances survived in one home if reliability rates or ease of repair were not significantly better in the pas
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
They're name brand appliances, kenmore and whirlpool while the deep freezer is a revco. They don't look like top of the line models, probably just whatever was mid grade at the time. I thought about telling her to throw them awa
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
I don't buy the survivorship bias thing for the most part. My mother has her original dryer, washer, deep freezer, and refrigerator all running at her house. These are all 40+ years old except for the washer which is probably 30ish y
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
my version of .. function ..() { local temp_dir=$PWD cd .. for token in "$@"; do cd .. done OLDPWD=$temp_dir } so you can just type .. to go up once or .. [word] to go up twice and so on
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
I do code in a gate around a few registers for macros and marks. I hate recording a macro and then accidentally overwriting it.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Sofrin HS10 headlamp $20. https://www.sofirnlight.com/products/sofirn-hs10-mini-headla... All those times you're trying to use a flashlight around the house you probably would be better off using a headlamp. You
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Damn that's nice. If you don't need the sockets the Icon mini ratchet set works well for $39 and it also has a flexhead.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
A better tool for basically the same price is a OLFA LA-X. It's a Japanese designed box cutter which has a retractable blade on one end and large dull metal pick on the other end for quickly stabbing packages open.
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by dw_arthur 3y ago
Google/OpenAI or whoever will start paying experts to seed these systems with answers. Imagine paying twenty infectious disease experts to interact with your LLM for 6 months. That's chump change for one of these companies and t
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
50 years of living under "there is no such thing as society" is what has happened. That's why you see some people trying to retreat into nuclear families and wall themselves off. That can end up being their own hell if it g
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
The power to seriously harm nations may be in the hands of tens of thousands of individuals within a few years. Things might just be different this time.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
American society has always been ruthlessly capitalist, I don't think that explanation holds for why there is a recent increase in depression. People have gone through much tougher times and seemed to thrive once the bad times ended.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
There's something really satisfying about using a tool that makes you more productive, even more so if you built the tool.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
Here is the autojump function for fzf/bash https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#autojump You'll have to comment out the j() function in /usr/share/autojump/autojump.sh
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
I figured they knew that google search hasn't worked for years and were working on solutions that no other company could match. Guess I was wrong.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
Doctors won't be replaced by medGPT. They will be replaced by a nurse practitioner using medGPT. The financial incentives to replace highly paid doctors with nurse practitioners are just too high.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
I stopped eating out when the pandemic started and I can't remember the last time I had a meal out where I was satisfied with the price and quality.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
This is a huge part of the problem. In my large metro area there are two local grocery chains and they are known for squatting on properties to block competitors from coming in. Thankfully in recent years other grocery chains have slowly
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
The lump of labor fallacy says nothing about a particular type of job. A category of jobs can become non-productive versus a technology and the workers within those jobs should get reallocated to more productive jobs.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
Monoculture won't be coming back since a part of it was everyone watching or listening to something at the same time. If you missed the finale of Seinfeld or Cheers you'd have to wait a long time to see it again. No one is keepi
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
So many people liked to brag about how they only do 2-3 hours of work a day. Gonna be a whole lot of "So what would you say you do here?" conversations.
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
I'm worried when kids and teens see the capabilities of LLMs they will no longer be motivated to learn skills that the LLM easily demonstrates. Being able to write at the level of a college graduate used to be worth something. A pers
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
I think what you say goes for most jobs. Why would GPT know much detail about being a machinist or luthier? Eventually job and role specific information will be fed into these models. I imagine corporations will have GPTs training on all
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by dw_arthur 4y ago
We can't predict what is coming. I think it probably ends up making the experience of being a human worse, but I can't avert my eyes. Some amazing stuff has and will continue to come from this direction of research.

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