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by erelong 3mo ago
"Yes, legalize all drugs for adults" Simple
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by erelong 3mo ago
well, it's a sign of societal failure to provide more + better wages / housing, etc.
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by erelong 3mo ago
or, of getting rid of "intellectual property" legally so information is just shared more freely and widely
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Stevie: Vim Predecessor ("ST editor for vi enthusiasts")(en.wikipedia.org)
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by erelong 3mo ago
this is why open source [is important] [(or truly "free" software?)]
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by erelong 3mo ago
sounds like some software projects to work on, being able to reboot back to like exactly where you left off (I've been trying to figure this out more for my own computer)
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by erelong 4mo ago
tl;dr you probably should get a few minutes of sunlight daily on your unexposed skin without sunscreen for the "health gains" (you can also wear clothes to block sun instead of sunscreen so you don't necessarily need sunscree
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by erelong 4mo ago
Happy Tau day, OP and HN
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by erelong 4mo ago
...hopefully as other comments said, that LLMs make us abandon the confusing idea of "intellectual property" so we don't have to ask questions like this or get in to torturous questions if this or that thing is "infringi
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by erelong 4mo ago
Willing to discuss it but I am definitely one who thinks it's a "scam", "mainstream" example articles on ineffectiveness: "Flu vaccines didn't work that well in the US, officials find (2026)" https:&
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by erelong 4mo ago
We probably need to plant more trees or be diligent about ones we remove, but this seems to proceed from an erroneous worldview
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by erelong 4mo ago
there's things like "tool libraries" and it might be good to see more lending beyond books; some of the libraries I've seen have morphed more into like makerspaces and/or meeting spaces rather than just places to ge
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by erelong 4mo ago
I think soemthing ignored in the discussion is that there are "good" students who can make use of AI to further their learning versus "bad" students who use AI as a crutch that prevents them from learning well Acknowledg
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by erelong 4mo ago
The opposition is a fad that will pass; until then I guess people could investigate workable ways to use AI in the circumstances people object to
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by erelong 4mo ago
HN is an extremely biased hivemind like Reddit The anti-AI stance seems like a fashionable contrarianism, not sure what will end up changing it What's really interesting to me is seeing people who are pro-technology but anti-AI, like..
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by erelong 4mo ago
Pretty much; as people experience AI work better than the previous arrangement it will simply be adopted and this antiquated approach will likely be phased out
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by erelong 4mo ago
But does this drop in "aggression" also destroy good "assertiveness"? In other words there's a concern of creating metaphorical "zombies" who lack a "force of will"
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by erelong 4mo ago
It gets boring dealing with these people who can't take a joke and want to ban everything
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by erelong 4mo ago
I honestly don't feel there is much atrophy or this is an issue at all As if for example someone's skill lessened if they switched from assembly to a higher level programming language over time (like, does it matter?) If you for s
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by erelong 4mo ago
idk how many articles I have seen as variants of this but what you do when things get easier is... go try something more difficult If before it was hard to build one software thing And now it's easy but building 10 software things is h
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by erelong 4mo ago
lots of moving parts on this discussion but I'll boil it down to: the ratio of the average individual's wealth to 'illionaire's wealth feels "wrongly asymmetric" for a lot of people (CEOs making ~300x that of a
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by erelong 4mo ago
Pretty much this Also for the other comments there are gloves and face masks but I think most people do fine without them unless you're working outside For the nerds here working indoors during the hottest times of the day... they may
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by erelong 4mo ago
certain long clothes allows for skipping sunscreen entirely in perpetuity
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by erelong 4mo ago
Couldn't read article - paywall - but parking costs might be paid for in other ways rather than charging for parking
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by erelong 4mo ago
You kind of couldn't trust people before either though This just makes that fact more visible
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by erelong 4mo ago
I've heard of collecting water with tarps and assume this is like a vest form of that: https://www.campingsurvival.com/blogs/camping-survival-blogs...
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by erelong 4mo ago
> "no" Sometimes human effort doesm't have to be complicated though (concise communications)
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by erelong 4mo ago
Experiment and see what works for you Maybe track half the time and YOLO the rest
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by erelong 4mo ago
I use perpetual night mode blue light filter, it just feels cozy enough Grayscale was a functional problem because some pics communicate with color (like colored maps) so it nudged me away
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by erelong 4mo ago
So let's create moments or days of observance to make people aware of preventative measures taken

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