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by eszed 1y ago
I haven't seen this, but going by the linked summary, I'd say 'no'. I'm sure it's very clever, but pastiches depend upon familiarity with the source material to work. They also - this is why they're fun! -
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by eszed 1y ago
Fiona Shaw is one of the greats. I've been lucky enough to see her on stage a couple of times. For those of you who don't recognize her name, she's Maarva in Andor , and some minor character (I don't remember) in the H
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by eszed 1y ago
I have a background in education, and I agree with you so hard . Another related mistake educators make: assigning material that could be relevant or interesting to high school students, but then not giving them the sorts of experiences
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by eszed 1y ago
My perception of the psychology is a malformed competitive drive. Competition is fun! But when it gets someone to the place of "Must win at all costs " it can be life-destroying. For the video game cheats, I think it starts out a
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by eszed 1y ago
I'm surprised that China would permit corporations to enter into joint ventures with Indian ones.
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by eszed 1y ago
> private investment firms are failing spectacularly to manage small businesses they acquire (e.g. dentists and vets) and running them into the ground Absolutely, but (and this depends upon the "financialization of everything"
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by eszed 1y ago
> I’ve always identified with my thinking—I have value because I’m smart. Turns out, as with all attachment, this is a mistake. I experienced a period of severe cognitive deficit while recovering from a medical episode. We didn't kn
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by eszed 1y ago
> sits still for a week Why would that be an issue? Planners have to think further ahead, but the threat is only marginally decreased.
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by eszed 1y ago
I associated Pemulis with Polonius based on the phonemic similarity of the names. I don't have the maths background to evaluate the mistakes, but agree that if intentional they "match" with the character's presentation i
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by eszed 1y ago
Same! I even kept a couple of them in a terrarium. And , my dad was a PhD in zoology, so it wasn't like I lacked access to expert advice. It was a "they have toxins on their skin, so... Eh, maybe wash your hands a bit", not
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by eszed 1y ago
Oh, my yes. That is the (literal) trillion (and more) dollar question alive in the world right now. My guess (though I repeat your BWDIK) is that the US military would adapt less quickly than the Ukrainians (if only because it's got a
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by eszed 1y ago
Interestingly, US military doctrine requires this sort of distributed authority. A straight-out-of-academy lieutenant requesting and directing the fire of an entire artillery battery, or calling in air support, doesn't happen in a &quo
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by eszed 1y ago
I switched permanently to 24hr notation after my buddy asked me to pick him up from the airport at "one-o'clock on Thursday". No problem, I didn't have any classes Thursday afternoon, so "see you then". You see
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by eszed 1y ago
Yeah, and accepting the LLM uncritically* is exactly what you shouldn't do in any non-trivial context. But, as a sibling poster pointed out: for now .
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by eszed 1y ago
> All but one of these chairs are in use Which one isn't?
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by eszed 1y ago
I had the same idea as proposed in this paper: dump tunnel heat into nearby buildings. Win-win! However: > This paper for a possible energy segment installation was written during the design phase but the proposal was not implemented. Bl
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by eszed 1y ago
My company is medium size, at least within our industry, and I actively look for little companies. Every complex platform has bugs and un-considered edge-cases and poorly thought out engineering choices. Large companies don't fix the
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by eszed 1y ago
There's nuance to that, as well. Official Adventist theology is that even after the Judgment there will not be an "ever-burning Hell", with eternal torture and suffering, but rather that the unrighteous (even including Satan
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by eszed 1y ago
> dreary, in person, on a cloudy day I mean, what isn't? :-) The tunnels are kinda ick, and there are other bits I don't like, also. There's a walkway I've ended up on a time or two that's just bare and windswept
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by eszed 1y ago
Like - at least in my opinion - many brutalist buildings, it's ugly from the outside and gorgeous on the inside. I've explored it many times, and agree with everything in this article and in the positive comments in the thread. An
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by eszed 1y ago
> For any of you working in tech at the time, was there a similar gap in perceptions around the Internet back in the days of the dot com bubble? I wasn't drawing a paycheck from tech at the time, but I was a massive nerd, and from m
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by eszed 2y ago
Asking the important question: where's this sub-$10 burrito?
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by eszed 2y ago
In my previous life I once taught a theatre production class in which one of my students was a surgical nurse. She was fascinated by the prop table. For those of you who don't know, standard procedure - at least with every Stage Mana
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by eszed 2y ago
Where I live they scan the barcode on the back of the ID into their POS. I don't know what data that exposes, or exactly what's retained, but I suspect it's enough to thoroughly compromise the privacy of that transaction - wi
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by eszed 2y ago
> I'd personally like to see more sites (in general, not just adult) contribute their domain names and CDNs to independent list maintainers (or published in a help article linked via their main footer) This would be so useful. I onc
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by eszed 2y ago
I once applied for a house-share with some people who'd named one of their cats "Tevildo". I knew immediately what to talk to them about! (Unfortunately Tevildo was, indeed, appalling.)
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by eszed 2y ago
It's the most satisfying creation myth I've ever come across. Makes more sense to me than any other "real" culture's idea of how the world / cosmos began. I'd like to live in a world where it is true. (Y
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm sure you know this, but to clarify for those that don't, it goes way deeper than the volume published as The Silmarillion . In The History of Middle Earth , Christopher pulled together all / most of the drafts and publi
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by eszed 2y ago
Around the same time people sometimes posted job openings in the html source of their websites. I never answered any, 'cause I wasn't looking for technical jobs at the time, but it always seemed clever to me. Any, and only, nerds
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by eszed 2y ago
I'm always charmed by museums that feel like this sort of "weird collection". The trend seems to be firmly away from it, however. During the time I lived in London, the Horniman museum reorganized itself and became "resp

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