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by encomiast 3mo ago
There's another misdirection here as well. Much of this mess doesn't just affect children. It's really pretty bad for everyone.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
Oh wow, that is impressive and gorgeous. I love that I can get a bespoke horsehair leather brush for my binder. Not sure I would be allowed to write in it without a matching Japanese whiskey.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
I've been trying binders instead of notebooks (especially the mini-binders from folks like Maruman). Binders allow you to easily remove and add pages (and tabs, dividers, etc). This gives you the satisfaction of making something aesthe
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by encomiast 3mo ago
> Democracy came about because it was optimal for a power seeking government, not out of the kindness of their heart It's not clear in this context what you actually mean by "government." You are assigning agency to someth
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by encomiast 3mo ago
I guess it's obvious, but haven't really thought about this. Back in the day we had media companies and advertisers. Magazine publishers/newspapers/TV Studios on the one hand and the Leo Burnetts/Ogilvy/Wieden+
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by encomiast 3mo ago
Meta seems to be completely tone-deaf when it comes to products and features. I wonder if this is a function of a single person, surrounded by people with little incentive to disagree, having all the decision making power in a company.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
Same. Stopped after two words. Gave me the same feeling as taking a timed software developer screening.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
Did a similar thing, but went with Kagi + Orion. Also happy to have a few more free cycles from not thinking about Google.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
Of course you might be right. But if we look at our past ability to predict the future by extrapolating from the present and recent past, you might also say it is naive to think that _this time_ is somehow different, that this time the futu
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by encomiast 3mo ago
> ChatGPT launched in November, 2022. Opus in December last year. Do you see where this is going? Maybe this is tongue-in-cheek, but in case it's not. No, nobody does. Consider that a person in their lifetime could have seen the Wri
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by encomiast 3mo ago
I feel like having an account on a Meta site is today’s equivalent of being a smoker.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
When I was in school we started with "manuscript" writing, which is detached letters similar to a typical sans-serif typeface without the two-story `a` and other fanciness. We then progressed to cursive.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
If anyone is interested, here is a link where you can download the study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221770027_Correlati... I few interesting bits — it does involve cursive, but it's Arabic and it&#x
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by encomiast 3mo ago
That's been my experience as well. I'm just curious about cursive writing specifically.
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by encomiast 3mo ago
> I think everybody should be able to write cursive As someone who has hated both reading and writing cursive since middle school, I'm curious what is significant about cursive specifically?
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by encomiast 4mo ago
It's not just CORS that's hard to understand. Many (most?) developers don't really understand the threat model. And even when it's explained it hard to see why it's a big deal. Part of this is that backend developer
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by encomiast 4mo ago
Yeah, Amazon has been garbage for a while with old books, especially classics. It seems like everything is just keyed off title/author so it takes a ton of effort to make sure you are getting the edition/translation you want. It&#
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by encomiast 7mo ago
If you are really talking about dependencies, I’m not sure you’ve really thought this all the way through. Are you inspecting every line of the Python interpreter and its dependencies before running? Are you reading the compiler that built
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by encomiast 7mo ago
This optimism in the face of the current state of government made me chuckle-sob.
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by encomiast 7mo ago
It's you.
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by encomiast 7mo ago
I think this is a useful way to look at things. We often point out that LLMs are not conscious because of x, but we tend to forget that we don't really know what consciousness is, nor do we really know what intelligence is beyond the J
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by encomiast 7mo ago
Point taken. Still, isn’t an activity like learning a new library, language, or platform a fundamental part of being a software developer? Haven’t we all complained at some point about companies hiring react developers because we all know t
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by encomiast 7mo ago
It was meant metaphorically. It gives you something, but it asks for something in return.
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by encomiast 7mo ago
uh...okay. The legend of Faust is the classic work where a person sells his soul to the devil for power/knowledge/pleasure. Goethe has Faust make a wager with the Mephistopheles: show me the good life (pleasure, power, knowledge,
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by encomiast 7mo ago
Goethe answered this in Faust. The answer is always: your soul.
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by encomiast 7mo ago
"so as long as I maintain my ability to reason about code…what’s the issue?" It seems like that is the open question. The article suggests that people don't maintain this ability: "The AI group scored 17% lower on concep
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by encomiast 8mo ago
I think domestic servitude is probably an understatement. We are looking at serfdom.
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by encomiast 8mo ago
One thing peculiar about the final image is how desaturated it is. It doesn't actually represent the spectrum, which is by definition the pure, fully saturated colors. It's rather a gradient of a bunch of desaturated hues. For exa
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by encomiast 8mo ago
I've tried this approach with Lowes when I buy 2x4s. About as effective.
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by encomiast 9mo ago
Agreed. This is one of the worst mobile sites I’ve used in a while. Blown away (in the sense I’m never coming back).

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