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by esperent 1y ago
I worked as a freelance contractor for years. Being available is not part of the job, in fact not having to be available at specific times, aside from occasional planned meetings, is one of the major perks of the job. If I was expected to b
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by esperent 1y ago
Unless marketing blogs from any company specifically say what model they are talking about, we should always assume they're hiding/conflating/mislabeling/misleading in every way possible. This is corporate media lite
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by esperent 1y ago
> out of your ass If I wanted to be spoken to this way I'd make a reddit account.
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by esperent 1y ago
I like to talk seriously about art, representation, and culture. What's wrong with that? It's at least as interesting as discussing databases or web frameworks. In case you feel it needs linking to the purpose of this forum, the a
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by esperent 1y ago
Also many traditional foods like cheese would probably get classified that way if they were invented today.
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by esperent 1y ago
Every representation I've ever seen of Anubis - including remarkably well preserved statues from antiquity - are either a male human body with a canine head, or fully canine. This anime girl is not Anubis. It's a modern cartoon ch
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by esperent 1y ago
Lab grown meat isn't necessarily ultra processed (in the sense that it should be automatically assumed to be unhealthy, of course there's a lot of processing involved). At least, I don't know enough about it to jump to that c
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by esperent 1y ago
Many countries don't have coins unfortunately, including the one where I live. Also, is that true for all coins in every country?
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by esperent 1y ago
> 0.1g is rare, and these usually cost more, especially if they're actually reliable. You can buy a coffee scale for $10-$20 that has 0.1g to 2000g or 3000g accuracy. I run a cafe and have tested these using our much more expensive
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by esperent 1y ago
Great idea. Does it work as a VPN? I always run into the problems with those: 1. You can only run one VPN at a time 2. My banking apps detect when there's a VPN active and won't run
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by esperent 1y ago
What different options are there that provide anything like the same features and control?
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by esperent 1y ago
> Making a more read/annotate/write web is near and dear to my heart Isn't that basically Wikipedia? I can't imagine a much simpler system that could work at modern web scale.
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by esperent 1y ago
I've seen this before, and I like the design. It's cute yet functional. It would fit in well on European roads. One thing that stands out to me is the front wheels protrude beyond the body. I don't recall ever seeing that on
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by esperent 1y ago
I pass multiple proof of work checks from Cloudflare everyday using this browser (Brave on Android). I have JavaScript and cookies enabled. Plus, I did manage to pass it once at least.
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by esperent 1y ago
Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl. Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing. EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cr
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by esperent 1y ago
The GPT-5 one is much better and it's also exactly 50 words, if I counted correctly. With text-davinci-001 I lost count around 80 words.
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by esperent 1y ago
> If you want to experience games as the developer intends, don’t play ports that use compatibility layers A few months ago I would have assumed you're correct. But recently I've played some games on my laptop with Lutris on Ub
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by esperent 1y ago
This is utter bullshit. An American CS degree might cost that much, but why would someone from a developing country (who isn't rich or getting a scholarship) want one of those? The actual cost of a CS degree varies a lot depending on
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by esperent 1y ago
I recently played South of Midnight, which is one of the best games I've played in years. I'm really surprised it didn't get more attention. I think it has the best sound design of any game I've ever played and beautiful
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by esperent 1y ago
> Paper (for GNOME shell) introduced a new tiling window manager paradigm: scrolling workspaces I tried Paper for a couple of days and it didn't click, I found the amount of motion on the screen very distracting.
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by esperent 1y ago
6/10 for 4o. However for several responses I would have preferred a "neither" option.
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by esperent 1y ago
I've been testing Cinnamon on my Ubuntu machine recently. I was close to deciding to switch from Gnome but I keep running into an issue whenever I have long running tasks in Blender. In Gnome, Blender becomes unresponsive but everythin
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by esperent 1y ago
> the chains start in English but slowly descend into Neuralese What is Nueralese? I tried searching for a definition but it just turns up a bunch of Less Wrong and Medium articles that don't explain anything. Is it a technical term
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by esperent 1y ago
> that would mean not taking any drugs ever. It would mean quantifying the risks of side effects versus the risks of not taking the drugs, which we should be doing anyway.
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by esperent 1y ago
Health in old age is something that you invest in, much the same as wealth. Of course you can suffer an accident, or lose your investments from bad luck. But in both cases you're guaranteed bad results if you don't put the effor
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by esperent 1y ago
That's why I always zip anything important before sending.
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by esperent 1y ago
Probably far fewer things than you think, though, as long as you're healthy. You can still have love affairs, travel the world, go to festivals, climb mountains, learn to dance well into your 70s or even 80s, as long as you are healthy
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by esperent 1y ago
> none of these are available direct to consumers This is the big problem with this "trick of the trade". It's not a trick, it's gatekeeping that excludes anyone without a university affiliation.
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by esperent 1y ago
I already have fatigue from too many chats and channels. Please don't make me track and check another ten. A single rambling channel sounds like a good idea though.
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by esperent 1y ago
Here's a simple example that's currently very hard to do and requires all kinds of hacky and unsatisfying workarounds: 1. A 3d model, say of a statue in a museum 2. Add annotations to the model drawing attention to specific featur

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