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by feintruled 4y ago
Great write up, thanks for posting.
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by feintruled 4y ago
I think it was Isaac Asimov who wrote an article once speculating on a future utopia where there would be total information freedom and transparency - everyone would know everything about everyone's movements. You could see why it woul
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by feintruled 4y ago
Indeed, I had heard of that fascinating experiment. But I assume they were working from the prior example of domesticating wolves - I was wondering how you would get the idea of doing it with no prior example. From my research (*cough* YouT
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by feintruled 4y ago
Quite a bold claim I think to say that wolves were domesticated for spiritual reasons rather than as hunting companions, the latter being much more a much more intuitive and immediate benefit. It is quite a mystery to wonder how domesticati
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by feintruled 4y ago
I imagine the intent of something like this is not really that people should install it, just a fully working PoC to show that your deleted messages are not really deleted and you should act appropriately if you type something you shouldn&#
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by feintruled 4y ago
Yes, indeed.
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by feintruled 4y ago
Shades of Alex Jones' lawyers asking for a mistrial due to their own screw up.
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by feintruled 4y ago
I love how their comments section censor any mention of him to D**k. Big PKD fan myself, some of his stories seem impossibly fanciful and he does bang on about drugs an AWFUL lot but the stories can have a lot of insight in them all the sam
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by feintruled 4y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote from my wife's uncle, who has a such a site on his land (also somewhere in Ireland, I'll not get too specific!), a burial site covered with a large stone. He told some researchers in the university about
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by feintruled 4y ago
I feel the fact that the flight changed time on you is also useful information. Say if they feel that because they can dynamically update the original email it absolves them of the need to specifically make you aware of this change. Then yo
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by feintruled 4y ago
The point is the same here though - electric cars don't have them, so it'll die out just as quickly (the fall off being even more precipitous). It'll be more missed here than in the states, where it sounds like it is already
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by feintruled 4y ago
His six hour day thing reminds me of a wheeze a manager tried in my old company when it was coming up to crunch time. He sent an 'inspirational' email where he said that if we all were to simply work an extra few hours after work
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by feintruled 4y ago
Well, he was of his time of course. It's not realistic to expect him to have an anachronistically enlightened view of animal rights (beyond what might be considered common even today). It wasn't anything he wasn't prepared to
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by feintruled 4y ago
It was a real morale hit to the men as they had grown to really like the dogs. I guess the lesson is to never to make friends with something you are going to have to eat. Though the effectiveness is indisputable given Scott's failure.
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by feintruled 4y ago
We actually walk in, just my observations. No need to sermonize at me, and the goings on in Nicaragua are not remotely germane to the discussion of using shameless actions to advantage.
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by feintruled 4y ago
Observed this tactic in more mundane circumstances - our kids school has punishing traffic access, leading to gridlock and frustration when dropping them off. Certain parents however just drive right up to the access strictly forbidden zone
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by feintruled 4y ago
Well, that's what they think isn't it? That's what I understand the steelmanning technique to be. Frame the argument as best you can in the way they see it, then you discover the assumptions that led them to their conclusion.
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by feintruled 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I recently read of steelmanning too by coincidence and have been fascinated with how it might work in practice. I think it also means you should assume good faith too, right? So if someone says they are anti-ab
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by feintruled 4y ago
Nice analysis! As James Randi said of Uri Geller “[he] may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.”
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by feintruled 4y ago
It's not acceptable for 2022, it was bloody amazing in 1985. Obviously you pick the apps you run, so if you stuck to well behaving apps (and there were plenty) the multitasking was great. Crashes were a fact of life to be sure - one wa
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by feintruled 4y ago
I worked with a older guy, a tester who had retrained from some other industry. He was pretty good, very thorough - but I noticed he had a strange habit - he double clicked everything, even web links. I guess he was just told that was the w
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by feintruled 4y ago
I'd love to believe it could have been fixed naturally, at the time that branch of treatment all seemed woo-woo, be fascinated to hear if there is any hard evidence for it working now. But anyway, sorry for the previous sharp reply. It
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by feintruled 4y ago
Well, it's my eyeball and I can do what I like with it. Calling something barbaric is a nonsense to me when it doesn't hurt and is done with informed consent (and it works!) I'm sure there are risks, and you might have some h
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by feintruled 4y ago
No, you don't. You get eye drops to anaethetise the eye, that's it. BUT.. it's not as horrible as it sounds. Even this initial cutting of the flap is all done with a automated thing that covers your eye, it's not like so
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by feintruled 4y ago
Absolutely. The older the better in some cases, as your prescription will change over time. I'm actually starting to get long sighted now as I age.
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by feintruled 4y ago
Agreed. For me, it was the coolest living in the future thing imaginable. My eyes were crap, something that in days gone by might have condemned me to the scrapheap, and it got fixed, by science. With a LASER. Just an incredible barometer o
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by feintruled 4y ago
I was so self-conscious about wearing glasses, I hid my myopia for years. And I was really short sighted! I noticed first when our class got shuffled around and I was moved from the front row to the back and I suddenly couldn't read th
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by feintruled 4y ago
Yes! Came here to post just this. Train hat guy! https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-whats-happening-inside-fallout...
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by feintruled 4y ago
I had the same problem funny enough! My wife has an Irish name that Google cannot pronounce (Alexa is much better in this one area) so I can't message her unless I try to match the mispronunciation (which I balk at out of self-respect)
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by feintruled 4y ago
> Even without that, after switching, should you switch back? The equation given argues you should switch back, so obviously the equation must be wrong. Ah, that observation is very clever! Even if you let yourself be bamboozled by the l

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