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by esperent 1y ago
Performative environmentalism, standard operating procedure for every big company. Shift the blame onto the consumer, make them feel guilty because they set their screen timeout to to more than 5 minutes. Gamification is a great tool for ma
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by esperent 1y ago
> hardcoding API keys? ignoring errors? disabling lints? These kind of "rookie mistakes" are not things that any modern LLM is likely to do. Indeed, I had to argue quite strongly with Gemini recently when I was learning a new t
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by esperent 1y ago
> It's about stopping some of the addiction and damaging effects I used to think this was a valid point, but I read something that changed my opinion completely. Pornhub, plus other large sites, have a lot of attention on them. They
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by esperent 1y ago
Clicking on pictures of motorcycles, while annoying, is a very different thing than having to show your ID.
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by esperent 1y ago
I've heard this said before, and I understand the reasoning, but I don't think it's good enough. We should be aiming for equality at the start of a race, not giving the better people a head start. If qualifying races are brok
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by esperent 1y ago
This is what I do. Chromium for Facebook, banking, and Google (photos and map). Firefox for everything else. It's a very tiny inconvenience to switch between browsers for these tasks.
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by esperent 1y ago
Nonetheless, follows have always been public information on Twitter and Bluesky.
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by esperent 1y ago
That wasn't the question.
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by esperent 1y ago
Does gold pay dividends? Would you say it's a bad investment? I'm also someone who owns zero crypto.
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by esperent 1y ago
Gold (and land, jewels, antiques etc.) are bought and held during times of uncertainty because people believe they will retain their value through virtually anything. Stocks don't work that way. In times of uncertainty, gold should inc
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by esperent 1y ago
The question was about people using crypto to buy things. The person above me was implying that because it's going up in value, people are using it that way. I replied to say that it's (mostly) just speculation. Which is a kind of
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by esperent 1y ago
> Bitcoin is higher than ever That's just speculation though. I saw a cynical comment on reddit yesterday that unfortunately made a lot of sense. Many people now are just so certain that the future of work is not going to include ma
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by esperent 1y ago
I have Google Lens and Translate. Lack of an English menu is a very small problem these days.
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by esperent 1y ago
I've opened up my MSI laptop a bunch of times - upgrading RAM, SSD, repasting, cleaning the fans. Maybe six or seven times over four years. Repasting in particular involves removing a lot of cables and screws, then lifting of the large
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by esperent 1y ago
> it still requires advance planning for a place that used to be a casual, walk-in experience So, much like every restaurant that becomes popular, anywhere in the world?
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by esperent 1y ago
Ok, so the WHO recommendation is for curcumin. That makes sense.However, the supplement this woman was taking is quite unambiguously referred to as turmeric in both articles. At this point I'd say we should just write it off as terribl
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by esperent 1y ago
In that case, I'm very disappointed in the journalist who wrote this piece, and it's significantly lowered my opinion of Ars Technica that they allowed it to be published in this state.
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by esperent 1y ago
> Have my healthy living behaviors jeopardized my studies, finances, or career? I have met people who are so deep into healthy living that it becomes unhealthy, and their hyper focus on what is healthy - often, these days, fed by TikTok
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by esperent 1y ago
> in the top 1% of people who can recognize this I've never had an AI respond to me with this kind of phrasing. General psychophancy, sure, but nothing that obnoxious. I haven't used ChatGPT much in the last year though, does i
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by esperent 1y ago
There's probably hundreds of brands of turmeric and black pepper though, it's a common supplement combination.
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by esperent 1y ago
I carefully read the article before commenting to check in case it was actually curcumin. They clearly call it turmeric supplements, not curcumin, throughout the article. The main source given is this NBC article, which also clearly calls i
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by esperent 1y ago
The article very clearly states that she was taking turmeric supplement, not curcumin.
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by esperent 1y ago
> According to the World Health Organization, an acceptable daily dose is up to 3 mg per kilogram of weight per day—for a 150-pound (68 kg) adult, that would be about 204 mg per day. Mohan was taking more than 10 times that amount I thin
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by esperent 1y ago
Presumably you're getting the whole Slack app, and if you're landing on their 404 page (for reasons other than this thread), then presumably you're using Slack. Which means you would have downloaded and cached that already. T
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by esperent 1y ago
> I wouldn't trust a random open source project for my day-to-day browser. Given that you're working on a direct competitor, this comment reads as fearmongering, designed to drive people over to your product.
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by esperent 1y ago
Isn't the Firefox code notoriously hard to fork and work with? I'm sure that nearly all of these Chrome forks would prefer to fork Firefox, but there's a reason they don't.
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by esperent 1y ago
I think there's two different cases here that need to be treated carefully when working with AI: 1. Using a well know but complex algorithm that I don't remember fully. AI will know it and integrate it into my existing code faster
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by esperent 1y ago
> when people start talking about "echo chambers" it's usually because they are upset that I won't listen to bigoted alt-right hate Maybe you're in an echo chamber when it comes to echo chambers then? I usually h
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by esperent 1y ago
Even Irish people whose main language since birth is English do this. There's a verb in Gaeilge which does exist in English but is translated as "does be". Examples: - He does be eating his breakfast - She does be out walking
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by esperent 1y ago
The Great Wave is a deservedly famous piece of art, but if it's the only thing of Hokusai that you know, do yourself a favor and look up some of his other work. Waterfall penance is my favorite. https://www.tremontauctions.c

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