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by eszed 6mo ago
> Trust is not rebuilt with meta-analyses. It is rebuilt in exam rooms, one patient at a time, by physicians willing to say... "Let’s talk about what the evidence actually shows".... If we can’t have that conversation, we are n
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by eszed 6mo ago
I know, which seems absurd to me. Like, TUIs are 1) a solved problem, b) performant, and c) right there, on every single computer in the world. (Someone please correct me, to point out that there's some weird OS somewhere that doesn&
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by eszed 6mo ago
How much of this was written using / by Claude? Not hating or snarking, BTW, just curious. Why (especially if the answer above is 'yes' / 'most') do we collectively think Anthropic built such a heavy interface?
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by eszed 7mo ago
I've argued (mostly offline, for my sins) with far more libertarian-ish people than I care to have, and I think piekvorst has a) been a more congenial conversational partner than you gave him credit, and b) approached the subject from
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by eszed 7mo ago
Yeah, I think our difference on "public interest" is semantic. I wouldn't even quibble with your "interests common to all" definition, so the next step would be to draw lines about what, in practice, that means. Fra
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by eszed 7mo ago
Ha! Where I'm from a "dolly" was the two-wheeled thing. The four-wheeler thing wasn't common before big-boxes took over the hardware business, but I think my dad would have called it a "cart", maybe a "han
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by eszed 7mo ago
A government > standing in for many individuals who share a common injury. Sounds like a synonym for "public interest" to me! Is that a semantic difference, or do you think there's something substantive to it? I'd lik
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by eszed 7mo ago
> the government is orders of magnitude more powerful than any corporation. As a practical matter, that's untrue in many, many places around the world, and there are no reasons why it couldn't become true in the USA, or any o
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by eszed 7mo ago
Yeah, that guy got unnecessarily personal. Let me try. You're right that civil judgements (and, though you haven't mentioned it yet, reputational brand damage through public exposure) are important checks on harm, but they break d
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by eszed 7mo ago
The Wind is Rising , by HM Tomlinson. It's a diary of the first year or so of the second world war. It has an unforgettable first line: "All we hear from Berlin is the music of marrow bones and cleavers," and is similarly vi
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by eszed 7mo ago
It certainly does for the bees. All of the hives are in very close proximity, traveling thousands of miles on trucks, for days at a time. The bees are under a lot of stress, mites and diseases spread among them, and some hives don't ma
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by eszed 7mo ago
You are correct. On the other hand, Patel's emails "appear to show a mix of personal and work correspondence". We already know that people in government - this isn't a partisan point: folks of all factions do it - use pr
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by eszed 7mo ago
Fun fact: queen bees can be artificially inseminated, and most commercial queens are. Beekeepers prefer naturally-inseminated queens, because they're stronger, but "nature" can't keep up with commercial demand. You'
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by eszed 7mo ago
This is me. I tend to order projects onto their own desktops[0], each with several app windows open. With an external monitor there's plenty of space, and... Yeah: with command-tab thoroughly committed to muscle memory it usually doesn
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by eszed 7mo ago
Morels contain several volatile compounds which cause gastric distress. (Forgive me for not looking it up at the moment, but one of them is/was a compenent of rocket fuel, which teenage me loved.) They have to be thoroughly cooked to b
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by eszed 7mo ago
I agree with you about that, but why would an ill-defined report be kept open in the first place? It shouldn't be. Give the user an opportunity to provide more detail - for my own use I have some auto-text "scripts" set up, t
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by eszed 7mo ago
Sure. So try to reproduce on a current build, and close with a "No longer reproduceable on ___". That'd be good practice. Closing silently because no one can be bothered to evaluate at all is horrendous, and creates the use
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by eszed 7mo ago
This is exactly the mindset to which GP and I object.
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by eszed 7mo ago
I get you. I'd say I had three good teachers, one absolutely awful one (that I would likewise condemn to hell), and the rest... meh. I hated their classes at the time, but with an adult perspective I can say that they didn't do
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by eszed 7mo ago
I lived in a 19th century house in San Francisco that had gorgeous plaster work medallions on the ceilings - think cherubs and fruits - in the middle of which were the light fixtures. One day my dumb-ass flatmate made an ill-advised attempt
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by eszed 7mo ago
I know this is a throwaway comment, but I can't let it pass. > why do you think nobody who you'd actually want teaching public school actually teaches public school in the US? We're currently doing school visits for our ki
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by eszed 7mo ago
Reagan fired a bunch, and then (naturally) hired a bunch to replace them. ATC work, generally speaking, for twenty years (that's when their pension vests), so twenty years after the strike there was a "cliff", with a larger t
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by eszed 7mo ago
Sorry, I didn't fully explain the idiom: "centre lane" refers to the right-most (what in the US would be left-most) "fast" lane - the one closest to the centre of the highway as a whole. To your point, I think the m
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by eszed 7mo ago
I last lived in the UK a decade ago, so maybe it's not in the current vernacular. <shrug>
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by eszed 7mo ago
> it's customary to leave a path in the left 'passing lane' for any traffic that wants/needs to go faster than you. A custom that (where I live) is becoming more honored in the breach than the observance. It makes dri
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by eszed 7mo ago
Thank you. Yes, that's precisely what I mean. I've floated the same idea a few times on this forum and others. I've asked, but have yet to see someone point out a systemic downside. (I'm not any kind of financial sophist
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by eszed 7mo ago
How would it work if we treated money obtained by borrowing against stock holdings as "realized gains"? That seems like a loophole that could be closed.
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by eszed 7mo ago
> Nominally I don't really follow NASCAR, but from listening to my (huge fan) father-in-law, that word is doing some work. His best (or, at least, my favorite) are the creative ways teams find to bend the rules - or blatantly cheat!
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by eszed 7mo ago
Ooo. Yup! Thank you. :-)
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by eszed 7mo ago
> if you flood the market with 30% more housing units like Austin you get the Econ 101 effect According to TFA, it seems so. Which is great , because it's further evidence that we should do the same thing everywhere.

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