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by gen220 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this! Pretty much every single gallery on his website is awe-inspiring, he's an incredible artist.
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by gen220 2y ago
On the other hand, I've heard it said that the Steam Deck's sticker price is almost wholly justified as a single-purpose Baldur's Gate 3 device. Let alone Skyrim, Civ, etc. Just because steam sells games that do in-game profi
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by gen220 2y ago
It's ironic that we're re-discovering this in 2025, it was pretty transparent in the late 1960s and early 70s, to students protesting their govt-funded universities' involvements in supporting the Vietnam War. The demands of
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by gen220 2y ago
The systems of governance pre-ACW and post-ACW were two distinct systems. The pre-ACW was essentially two competing systems of power duct-taped together with the 3/5ths amendment. The post-ACW was one dominant system of power that had
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by gen220 2y ago
In the Haudenosaunee system of governance, whenever they needed to make a consequential decision, the family-clan-appointed leaders would nominate some sub-group of the circle to represent the interests of the unborn 7 generations in the fu
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by gen220 2y ago
FWIW I went down the path of automating as much as I could about this process. These days, though, my process is more manual. Around every 24 or 48 hours, or immediately after making a transaction, I'll record the transaction in my led
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by gen220 2y ago
The history of the border between the DDR and FRG is quite nuanced and interesting. The Iron Curtain was more of a cooperative effort, especially early on, and especially outside of Berlin. Worthwhile reading on the subject: https:/&#
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by gen220 2y ago
Hey! Asking because I know you're a fellow vimmer [0]. Have you integrated LLMs into your editor/shell? Or are you largely copy-pasting context between a browser and vim? This context-switching of it all has been a slight hang-up
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by gen220 2y ago
FYI, this is a really handy website for identifying these breaches. https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf Insurers are required by law to submit breach information to this site. It doesn't ha
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by gen220 2y ago
Yeah and similar to lead (and asbestos as someone else mentioned), once you see it you can't really un-see it. The idea of re-heating food by microwave in a plastic storage container, or purchasing anything acidic or liquid from the gr
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by gen220 2y ago
I understand the semantic argument you're trying to make. I think you have more to gain from loosening your grip on the boundaries of the word "art", for purely selfish reasons. It makes the world more nuanced and interesting
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by gen220 2y ago
"The noble person that goes to work and pray like they s'posed to? Slaughter people too, your murder's just a bit slower." - Kendrick Lamar
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by gen220 2y ago
On my keyboard (en-us) it's ALT+"-" to get an em-dash. I use it all the time because it's the "correct" one to use, but it's often more "correct" to just rewrite the sentence in a way that doesn&
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by gen220 2y ago
I’m sure the same argument was made about tobacco? If you want your children to not smoke tobacco, just be a better parent. How dare the state prevent children from purchasing tobacco? The state is not your parent! For network effect produc
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by gen220 2y ago
What I did (helped me eventually delete them) was offload the "bad" apps on my phone so, if I wanted to access them, I'd have to wait for them to re-download. This is an iOS feature where the pointer to the app and the local
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by gen220 2y ago
It’s because companies in the S&P 500 have pricing power, meaning they can raise their prices to outpace inflation. Which means if their revenue growth was going to be X regardless of inflation, it’ll still be X in an inflationary envir
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by gen220 2y ago
People really don’t understand interwar period Germany, and helpfully pluck out a narrative that suits their interests today. Treaty of Versailles and “dolchstoss” myth included. Thank you for sharing the truth. It’s worth understanding why
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by gen220 2y ago
Deflation favors debt payors instead of debt issuers/servicers, and our whole economy is constructed to favor the latter group, because having a "healthy" system of debt supports faster economic growth than a system with no d
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by gen220 2y ago
I was also a mid-2012 MBP user. I eventually got the M2 MBA because I was investing in my eyesight (modern displays are significantly better). I was never impressed with the touchbar-era macs, they didn't appeal to me and their keyboar
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by gen220 2y ago
Partially it's because this is a false dichotomy. The most efficient and safe system isn't something that erects permanent barriers between pedestrians and cars – because a system like this creates ugly cities and undesirable walk
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by gen220 2y ago
Speaking for myself, I 100% would have bought an iPhone Mini, but I purchase new phones on a 5-6 year cycle. My iPhones were the 4S and the XS. Now that I'm ready to buy a new iPhone, the Mini has been discontinued! I think the Mini wo
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by gen220 2y ago
I didn’t say the author was obscure or that his ideas were not relevant, but rather that this particular text was rare. I was overly dismissive in referring to its contents as tangential (it’s a framework for analyzing media that makes some
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by gen220 2y ago
I agree, that it can be a coping mechanism. You find something that's esoteric enough that you can project your goodwill onto it and use it to justify your weird behaviors. I also agree that if you're doing good, your work speaks
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by gen220 2y ago
I like the pet theory! just quibbling on profitability. it's not ostensibly 80%, it's 80%. gross margin != "net profit" != cash flow positive, thanks to GAAP. Compare the margins (gross, operating, net) here [0]. Observe
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by gen220 2y ago
When you onboard at meta (circa 2020) the execs like to make vague references to this rare out of print book on media studies that they say presaged everything and explains a lot about how they think about their role in the media ecosystem.
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by gen220 2y ago
The whole book is quite good, btw! And it looks cool on a bookshelf.
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by gen220 2y ago
Yeah, I've been using HTMX with UIKit components. Having a modern, stateful, and dynamic website is definitely not incompatible with HTMX.
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by gen220 2y ago
Most people are incapable of assessing quality and defer that to others. Or their spectrum for quality is so narrow GPT's output spans it. If you accept that we live in a world where blind lead the blind, it's less surprising.
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by gen220 2y ago
IDK, Berkshire Hathaway sure has a big stockpile of cash, and they're emblematic of capitalism. The cash in this model would be considered a "dead cost", as it's "wasted" by not being immediately invested in eq
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by gen220 2y ago
That institutions who purport themselves to be Christian support violence does not change what Christ himself taught. I interpret Christianity to be following the teachings of Christ, rather than following post-Christ dogma that is frequent

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