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by eszed 7mo ago
What's wrong about the glasses? I've been staring at them and trying to figure out why they're unworkable, as opposed to just a quirky pair of specs.
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by eszed 7mo ago
Nice technique! I went straight at it, lol.
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by eszed 7mo ago
That's true. It'd be more accurate to say that the planes are capable, but that a lot about how the air transport system is organized would have to change to take full advantage of that - which we don't want/need to do
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by eszed 7mo ago
OBAA wouldn't have been my choice for best picture, either, but it had some beautiful pieces of film-making. The long shot while running through the Sensei's safe house was great, and the car chase at the end was a) gorgeous, and
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by eszed 7mo ago
That's a really interesting point of view, which puts things in terms I hadn't thought of before. Where it breaks down is the stage where the cronies being put in charge aren't competent, and their only qualification is their
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by eszed 7mo ago
Now define "members". It's both possible and common for an in-group to experience a high degree of trust and care, while those outside that group to... Not. From the point of view of the beneficiaries the social contract is w
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by eszed 7mo ago
At one point, as an acting exercise, I was able to internalize the meaning of this well enough to get it across to others in speech. It nearly broke my brain. I find I've lost it again, and don't feel like taking the time to get i
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by eszed 7mo ago
You inspired me to look, and yes indeed. Every one of the AI images is in contrapposto, which tends to appear both more dynamic and more relaxed. A fairer comparison would be to have had the real images shot by someone with experience photo
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by eszed 7mo ago
I think GP's point is more relevant than your question implies. The vast majority of civilian flights could be flown entirely autonomously right now. (I'm not close enough to the aviation industry to make a confident guess, but +9
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by eszed 7mo ago
I think you're right, and I don't know what to think about it. I enjoy writing, aim to write clearly - a skill or discipline that took a lot of time to learn, and ongoing effort to maintain. I've never sent or posted anyt
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by eszed 7mo ago
> declaring on your own terms what you think the argument actually is isn't respectful Which is usually a strawman tactic, and I agree both disrespectful and useless. But... We will always respond to our own understanding of someone
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by eszed 7mo ago
> Of each of these special pieces I didn't see him making any generalized claim. I recall the things I'm really into better than I do things I'm not, which is all I think he was saying about his kids. (My four year old rem
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by eszed 7mo ago
I'll treat this as a genuine question. No, to "steelman" is to engage with the strongest possible version of your interlocuter'so argument, rather than the weakest. An especially effective steelman case will (genuinely!)
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by eszed 7mo ago
The public do forget (even egregious) things. I usually find that unfortunate, rather than the reverse, and tend to distrust those who count on public amnesia to obfuscate what they do. That's not a partisan, or even political - lots o
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by eszed 7mo ago
No word processor has ever bettered WordPerfect 5.1.
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by eszed 7mo ago
I loved "Tales From the Loop", and wished they'd made more. It has a kind of atmospheric sensibility that sticks (with me, at least) long after the details of the plot are forgotten. That's appropriate, I guess, for so
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by eszed 7mo ago
Thank you! Glad to know what to look up. To be honest, I don't know where I'd rank on an objective severity scale. My floaters often make it difficult to read, and I've got one that can lodge in the wrong place for long enoug
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by eszed 7mo ago
Replying to myself to add that that last ~10% is an enormous time-sink. You'll have to look up every unfamiliar word, which isn't a big deal for a short text, but becomes one for something longer. Worse, though, is that you&#x27
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by eszed 7mo ago
Really? I asked my last ophthalmologist if there was anything to be done about my severe floaters, and he said "no", and that I'd just have to live with them. What's the name of the procedure you had, and what are the
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by eszed 7mo ago
English nerd (and former English teacher) here, and I think for high school students that's a good idea. It's not actually an impossible text, and an introduction to the real thing is useful and interesting, but forcing teenagers
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by eszed 7mo ago
Yep. If you hear Chaucer read aloud by someone who knows the phonetics and the meaning it's instantly like 75% comprehensible. If they give you a bit (like, half a class-period) more help, you'll get to ~90% without any more effor
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by eszed 7mo ago
Thank you. Yes, this is the reason to be concerned. Not because it's extortion, or anything else like that, but because having to evaluate a counterparty's degree of connection to the State before doing a deal is not the way that
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by eszed 8mo ago
Yep. I lived long enough in the UK to thoroughly absorb their social dynamic, and the chattiness of strangers was my biggest culture shock moving back to the US. (West Coast USA, for those of you who think people here rate high on the &quot
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by eszed 8mo ago
GP put "ideal" in inverted commas, and qualified with "best we could make with current technology". I doubt they disagree with you.
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by eszed 8mo ago
> most filthy, corrupt, bribed politicians and corrupt public servants... feel filthy and miserable. Citation most definitely needed. I agree with your ultimate point that some people can't be bought, and I aspire to be one of them
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by eszed 8mo ago
Oh! Yeah, I understand what you mean. "Black hole" (the astronomical entity) and "black hole" (a hole that is black) are said differently, but it takes a good ear, and probably some training, for English speakers to noti
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by eszed 8mo ago
Not the poster you asked, but I think their point stands for (at least many) non-elite liberal arts schools. (Heck, I think it stands for some community colleges, too.) Teachers at those institutions have often attended elite programs, and
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by eszed 8mo ago
> The cases and containers of blueberries were sold in four states: Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Michigan....The blueberries were not sold at retail stores. Do we have to link to the Daily Mail?
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by eszed 8mo ago
Well, it's a linguistic reality - all of which are accidents of history - which absolutely isn't to say it reflects anything definitive about reality reality. My point is that English has a straightforward way of dealing with
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by eszed 8mo ago
Oh, geeze. The progressive transparency effect on the words towards the "obscure" end of their spectrum made the later pages impossible for me to read. I suspect the entire list was produced by an AI entity which had not been prom

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