frmersdog

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by frmersdog 5d ago
On a tangential note, watching the documentary on her was the first time I viscerally understood that people with very different ideas about how to live can agree on some fundamental political principles, and don't have to stuff themse
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by frmersdog 5d ago
Maybe don't use him as the archetypal example if he's not even an example of it. He seems to do well for his constituents. The problem is that people outside his state keep (stupidly) choosing not to be his constituents.
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by frmersdog 5d ago
Are you planning on hand-implementing any of the features he's vibe-coded? The search functionality in particular seems like a basic consideration.
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by frmersdog 8d ago
Prompting me to call it Super-American Africa.
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by frmersdog 8d ago
You think those "losses" aren't (to a degree) calculated? They are going to try their damnedest to win enough seats to do what they want, without winning so many that they'd have to do what they must.
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by frmersdog 11d ago
The most interesting insight was the way it connects Silicon Valley culture in general, and the effort to build artificial intelligence specifically, to race science. I didn't know that a seminal figure in both was essentially a eugeni
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Independent Lens – Ghost in the Machine: AI's troubled history, current impacts(pbs.org)
3 points by frmersdog 11d ago|1 comments
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by frmersdog 17d ago
Oh, this is just getting started when it comes to upsetting traditionalists. I'd wager that the majority of map-reading happens on a screen these days, using software maps that can be rotated without changing the relative orientation o
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by frmersdog 21d ago
They walk everywhere. That is, they have a transit system that allows them to walk (and bike) everywhere. That combines with smaller portions and strong social pressure to remain trim. Couple caveats: 1) There is a tradeoff in lower average
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Anon explains why search has become so bad(boards.4chan.org)
5 points by frmersdog 1mo ago|2 comments
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by frmersdog 1mo ago
I acknowledge their bloviating as I would a tough-talking teenager: with a wariness respectful of their capacity for violence, paired with an understanding that, 9 times out of 10, they're not going to do jack shit. Probably important
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by frmersdog 1mo ago
If someone shoots some more CEOs, they'll have a change of heart. (A lot of people are going to be very mad at me about this comment, without having the awareness to understand that this is the inevitable conclusion to, "You wanna
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by frmersdog 1mo ago
If you've been paying attention this past week, you'll know that Tetsuya Nomura isn't just making new games, he's making his old ones, too (to raucous hype). EDIT: I'll add Daisuke Ishiwatari and Fumito Ueda. It&#x2
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/zoology/maoris-hunt-... >The extinction of all moa species occurred relatively swiftly, between 1380 and 1440, making it one of the most rapid extinctions in history. Con
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
It's still mistaking correlation for causation, even when considering multiple instances, if you can't describe an unfalsifiable mechanic as the cause. There are two problems here: 1) It hasn't actually happened every time. E
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
There wouldn't be too many new grads if all the capital wasn't locked up in a few Death Stars. A robust job market needs oodles and oodles of dumb, doomed small businesses and start-up companies chasing stupid products and ser
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
That's mistaking correlation for causation. I don't have proof, but let's consider an alternative: that the climate change that made those areas newly-hospitable to humans made them inhospitable to megafauna. Can you falsify
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
Off the top of my head, events in popular science fiction that have "already occurred": First Laughing Man Incident - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2024) Third Impact - Neon Genesis Evangelion (2015) Fourth Co
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
People who don't take $1M net worth and use it to secure their simple needs somewhere that they can live cheaply (providing attention rather than financial capital to their dependents) are ironically the reason why $1M net worth isn&#x
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
So was mine, but time saved driving didn't justify the amount of maintenance I would have had to do on my car/sanity with 5 min in car + 2 hours on a coach vs 50 minutes fighting interstate traffic + paying for parking.
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by frmersdog 2mo ago
Genuinely wish I had done so when I lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic. I've dumped so much money into a vehicle that's falling apart, which I've driven probably less than 25k miles since. If you can't justify
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by frmersdog 3mo ago
I called it infamous not because I have a particular problem with it, but because of the way it's characterized by (Western, at least) fans. They snicker at and make jokes about the scenarios he apparently employs. (Admittedly, it does
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by frmersdog 3mo ago
You're probably not going to get it. And he has decent reasons for not wanting to bother. The nature (infamy?) of his activities over the past few years should also be noted. (And maybe chuckled at if you have a bit of a dark sense of
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by frmersdog 3mo ago
The author is an over-opinionated a*hole, so not taking him seriously is perfectly fine.
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by frmersdog 3mo ago
Well, you're both right, sort of. Most people aren't making SV-style money out of college; they really should be paid more. But the ones that are making those types of salaries, should absolutely be paid less. So should their seni
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by frmersdog 3mo ago
Hey, hi, yoohoo whistles . Everyone gather 'round and reread this part: Lacking proper training and a viable salary, many young animators don’t feel they can keep going. The Japan Research Institute estimated that a quarter of the
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by frmersdog 4mo ago
? The bureaucracy is not the body of law or the judiciary, which were the only government-related targets of my criticism. I agree that the legal system needs to be more accessible to non-lawyers. At the heart of that grievance is the profe
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by frmersdog 4mo ago
The legal system is captured by legal professionals. The average American is bound by a system that they can't engage directly with. The middlemen who most people must hire to navigate through it generally will not help unless there&#x
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by frmersdog 4mo ago
>No they haven't: I said corporate, not PE. >And then you rent from someone else because in reality large corporations own only a small percentage of rental units. Most of the rest are owned by medium-sized corporations that use
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by frmersdog 4mo ago
You don't know what you're talking about. The corporate takeover of most rentals (apartments and homes alike) near the roadways and transit these people need to get to their jobs (let alone in areas where they wouldn't have t

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