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by ghurtado 11mo ago
To pretend that the US "green party" has anything to do whatsoever with the environment is beyond naive, it's completely disconnected from reality. Neither their policies nor their electorate support the idea that people like
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
That could even be argued (with an honest interlocutor, which you clearly are not) The usefulness of your comment, on the other hand, is beyond any discussion. "Anyone who disagrees with me is dishonest" is some kindergarten level
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
The lock-in is that it's a big pain in the arse to use anything but their IDE. Most vendor lock-in isn't "it's impossible to do the thing" but "it's hard enough to do the thing any other way, so this is ef
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
No we don't. I have dozens of Arduinos that I will never use. With a similarly priced (sometimes cheaper) platform like the amazing rp2040 / rp2350 which is roughly 100 times more powerful, I have no idea what the niche is for the
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
I mean, compared to arson, sure. Compared to growing psychedelic mushrooms, I don't think so.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
After going through several brands over the years, both domestic and foreign, that's the best set of driver bits that I have ever owned. Kinda pricey, but well worth it.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
We've come around full circle, I suppose
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
You're right We like to pretend that we are immune to that, but we've all made similar mistakes. And there's an entire Internet of websites trying to trick us.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
I do, of course. My point is that it is neither a tool unique to this scam nor an application of the tool that is particularly surprising. In other words, if I can be a little histrionic, it seems to me like saying "using ELECTRICITY
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
Very good guess: it was actually exactly that. Carvana shopping for a used car. He clicked on something and got charged the downpayment of the car to his CC. He got his money back, but I'll never not be surprised by what some older peo
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
Seriously. To pretend that you need the advanced capabilities of an AI in order to trick older people by email is somewhere between ludicrous and clickbait. My father in law just bought a car online this weekend on accident . And nobody
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> and especially how the author was talking about them. To really get the best out of this book, you need to realize that it was written in 1936. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much without regularly having this fact top o
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> Winning by Jack Welch Why do I get the impression that this book is very much in line with Charlie Sheen's personal philosophy?
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
I would take it further and say that the more light we bring to this subject, the less it becomes the exclusive domain of snake oil salesmen and the "sales tips 101" type books, and the more inoculated the general public becomes t
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
If you read "how to win friends and influence people", you'll realize that these two things are inseparable. It's pretty much in the title of the book already: it's an ironic title because "influence people&quo
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> they've gotten so cheap because of all the other slimy stuff Not really, they've gotten so cheap because the individual components they are made of have become much cheaper due to economies of scale. The same thing happened w
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
I don't see anything in your comment that directly disagrees with the one that you've replied to. Maybe you misinterpreted it? To me, It was simply saying that the flaw in the EA model is that a person can be 90% a dangerous soci
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
In lucid dreams there's a whole category of things like this: reading a paragraph of text, looking at a clock (digital or analog), or working any kind of technology more complex than a calculator. For me personally, even light switches
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> accept a digital invasion It looks like the possibilities are endless once you throw semantics out of the window, so I could see why you're so fond of doing so.
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
Semantics are literally the only reason we write laws down and argue endlessly about exactly which words to use Outside of law, I have never once heard "that's just semantics" in a context that made sense, or said by an intel
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
Either solution sounds more verbose than the example and require writing code in at least one other source file
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by ghurtado 11mo ago
> Pretty sure the only thing computer vision does is math. That is only marginally less pedantic than saying that the only thing computer vision does is run discrete electrical signals through billions of transistors.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I didn't mean either of the things that you are wondering whether I meant, so i can't give you evidence of those things you made up yourself. If you have questions about my comment, I'm happy to try to explain myself better &
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by ghurtado 1y ago
People downvoting a request for supporting evidence is peak Hacker News.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Claim: "modern cancer research is a scam" Proof: "colloidal silver has been used to attempt to cure cancer". Solid logic.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> any memories "re-surfacing" in therapy are in fact newly created, You're saying that those memories are exactly the same as all the other memories. Every time you "recall" something, you are not pulling up some
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I realize you're making a joke, but there is no such thing as "unreferenced memories", as in, something that is no longer in use and has been removed from the brain. Every memory your brain has ever produced is still there, e
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by ghurtado 1y ago
That's the opposite of what any reasonable engineer means by "constant".
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Something something Nintendo video games....
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by ghurtado 1y ago
There's also the fact that the road to useful is littered with useless, because how else would you make progress?

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