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by flkiwi 1y ago
> For sure. If you are surrounded by a bunch of obese people encouraging you to drink milkshakes all day and making fun of you for working out, that's going to be hard to overcome! But just like climate change, you can't contro
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I knew I'd run into this reaction. Here's the secret: an individual can be fully dedicated to a cause, but the weight of surrounding circumstances defeats them. See, e.g., food deserts. No, it is not more fun to go through live be
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That's quite a leap. Some people enjoy gyms. Some people run at 3am. Some people have bigger houses. And yet, our area has much higher obesity rates than average. It also doesn't address the larger point that _it doesn't have
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Ok, but there's also an environmental (and one completely reasonable mental) factor: I live in a place where it is unpleasantly hot (upper 90s and humid) most of the year and there are few public outdoor spaces generally thanks to ramp
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Not the ones I’ve tried. They make a go of it but their results have been generally inferior, often wildly so. Because they can’t make intuitive connections as easily, I assume they need both the rules and examples of implementations to pro
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I tend to agree with the gist of this, namely that the change is here and "AI" presents some huge potential to save me from having to do the tedious stuff. But we do need a bit of a sanity check. I'm in the middle of trying t
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Our kid effectively taught himself to read very early. We had been reading to him at every opportunity, and I think he teased out what was going on and, on some level, decided to learn on his own. He's been reading well above his age
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That’s the funny part: decision-makers never cause this issue for me. They, generally speaking, are deeply aware of what they don’t know and welcome my input. It’s always the climbers, the middling intellect crowd that play the petty domina
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I keep experiencing absolutely mediocre middle manager types challenge my feedback in my area of professional certification and expertise by citing, with great confidence, "I asked ChatGPT and..." The outsourcing of the most basic
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Right, I was referring more to the commercial project (similar to Pocket ending). I was testy about it because it was one of the best I'd seen in a while ... until it wasn't. I'm glad it's continued on as an open source,
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Sort of peculiar that a company that is based on and makes open source software wouldn't wind down Pocket as a product but release it to the community. I don't have any particular wish to use it--I moved on years ago--but it'
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Don't forget Readeck. I've been super pleased with it. (Omnivore is dead btw.)
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I essentially have that with the templates I'm using with Silverbullet. Organically developed metadata based on categories that don't actually exist anywhere. I'll spin up a Trillium instance soon and see if it's still n
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Trillium is great for some folks (and I would have no qualms recommending it), but I cannot stand hierarchical notes. That's a personal preference. I just want a big mishmash of notes all linking to each other. I don't want to m
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by flkiwi 1y ago
As a longtime Logseq user who was sick of their app focus (it used to be a webapp!) and skeptical of their revenue model, I switched to Silverbullet a while back. It gets the basics right, and I can throw together some Lua and make it do wh
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> "You both need to [do] the laundry, go to the bank, go to Target," she says. To make it fun, "you can stop and get a sweet treat or listen to Top 40 radio." What on earth? Every single expert referenced in this piec
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> You do not need NixOS on the desktop No, you don't need NixOS on the desktop, but for certain people--like me!--it sure is nice. For example, I have this preoccupation with remembering how I configured something. I'd develo
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Teen Vogue has been doing incredible journalism for years now. Seriously. At least 10 years (I remember they lit on fire when DT was elected the first time), possibly 20. They're good enough to be on my rotation of news sites I don&#x2
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Did I miss something or is the tone mapper not released yet? I admit I'm multitasking here, but just have an exposure slider in the image lab (or whatever it's called). Sidebar: I kinda miss when Halide's driving purpose was
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Gig companies violate a lot of things, though workers' rights may well be at the top of the list. They are profoundly unaccountable. Doordash driver screws up your order (or takes part of it)? They'll credit you via an automated s
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by flkiwi 1y ago
VA = "voice actor"? Because, if so, that's the funniest part: having to click A after someone responds, in spoken words as well as onscreen, "Hmmmm". It's almost charming, but it seemed deeply, deeply unnecessa
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Which is why fully moving the Marshals to a department within the judiciary would be desirable, though I think there's a significant ethical issue for the judiciary to contend with re: having to actually enforce its orders. At a sort o
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I tell people all the time that the single greatest tool an aspiring lawyer can have is a background with programming, as the analytical and algorithmic mindset is FAR more important than being "good at public speaking" or any of
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Again, I didn't say it was average and in fact went out of my way to say that I felt like it wasn't average at all but that it was perhaps less groundbreaking than the excitement for it lets on because it appears to share traits w
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I don't mind if there's meaningful choice that can affect later gameplay, but clicking through lines of dialogue feels like an unnecessary step. (Again, I'm completely open to the response that this is just how it is in this
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Having just started (and slogged through the interminable intro piece that is tonally completely unrelated to the main game), I'm keeping an open mind, but it feels like this is scratching a very particular itch for a very particular g
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by flkiwi 1y ago
If we have that kind of unitary executive, that executive isn't going to care what 7 justices say. And then it's a whole new ballgame.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
The Attorney General went out of her way to assure Cabinet members that the US Marshals would not be arresting them. So, well, that's great. Congress needs to transition the US Marshals to the judiciary or expressly codify that the AG
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Me, showing this to my wife: Oh, they made a car for you! She's not wrong, though I'm not at a point where I want THIS much minimalism (or lack of range). What a great product though. Now, the Ineos Grenadier? That thing speaks ri
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Time to dust off my Fark account.

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