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by gs17 9mo ago
> and an _alternative theory of gravity_ For people who haven't read The Dilbert Future: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32627/has-anyone... It's a weird book and not in a great way. He pr
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by gs17 9mo ago
That didn't change if I enjoyed his strip, but it definitely made sure I didn't take anything else he said seriously.
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by gs17 9mo ago
It's shame/guilt/insecurity, whatever you want to call it. You'll get unprompted "Oh, you know, I wanted to be a vegetarian but I love eating bacon too much", or people who try to stump you with "gotchas&q
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by gs17 9mo ago
It seems to assume 100 per day is your goal and so naturally per-week is 700, except per-month it assumes 3,042 (I'm guessing this is the average between 30/31/28/29 day months?) and per-year is 36,500. It really should
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by gs17 9mo ago
If I had to guess, it's probably wintergreen or fennel. It's not the main note of root beer, but I could see it being similar.
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by gs17 9mo ago
Based on how people react to me simply being a vegetarian in their presence, without me commenting on what either of us are eating, people do feel shame. It's just that the shame is outweighed by the pleasure of eating whatever.
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by gs17 9mo ago
> Now, they're using it for facial recognition. They didn't get a facial recognition system by deleting photos, so we know based on the premise that some representation of the data in the photo (your likeness) exists in persist
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by gs17 9mo ago
No, Costco is pretty much just a normal store with warehouse vibes. They mean where you hand a shopping list to an employee at the front and they get everything for you.
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by gs17 9mo ago
> it thought I was trying to steal something and replayed video of the scan where it thought I scanned one time and bagged multiple. Kroger had this too, which made every shopping trip take dramatically longer because the employees would
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by gs17 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure they're told some things to say. I overheard one telling someone the line about how it doesn't matter because there's cameras everywhere so you shouldn't opt out. Bizarrely, the agents seemed to be c
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by gs17 10mo ago
The Whole Foods palm scanner is optional, though. I've never seen anyone use it.
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by gs17 10mo ago
IMO they should have a (second) pop-up that warns you that you only get one submit. Not sure if it should let you know if you've made an optimal solution or not, but since it's not timed there's no cost in slowing people down
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by gs17 10mo ago
Is it any weirder than using "somebody else's" bathroom? I'm sure where you live you don't take the bathtub and toilet with you when you move.
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by gs17 10mo ago
It's a hugely underappreciated option. I'm not sure how accurate it is (or how legitimate the companies doing biochar carbon removal are), but cdr.fyi shows biochar as the top carbon sequestration method that's actually happe
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by gs17 10mo ago
https://elonmusk.today/ has a bunch more, although it's also likely very incomplete since most are >1000 days ago and some kind of did happen (it's been updated this year, but it seems to pretend the cybertruck
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by gs17 10mo ago
I care about it a little, not comparing with friends, but I do like the "X% of players" stats.
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by gs17 10mo ago
> On a different note, I sometimes use Instagram and recently I have seen a ton of ads for a local tech event... but the event already passed a good while ago, so every time I see the ad it's completely pointless. I get a lot of the
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by gs17 10mo ago
> Why do LLMs always become so schizo when chatting with each other? I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine there's a lot of examples of humans undergoing psychosis in the training data. There's plenty of blogs out th
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by gs17 10mo ago
> casue a disproportionate amount of wear & tear on the roads vs ICE vehicles If it was, it would be based on vehicle weight and distance driven. Where I am, at least, it's simply a tax on efficiency.
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by gs17 10mo ago
I wonder if that's the modern equivalent to the Simpsons' "Rocky V plus Rocky II" joke.
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by gs17 10mo ago
If anything, I think it might help kids understand real-world surveillance better. Knowing that there's a device in their environment spying on them as part of a system versus magic man can see everything at all times because he's
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by gs17 10mo ago
> I cannot imagine that anyone suicidal being told in non-specific terms that they are loved is helping anything either. Having gone through some bad depression in my life, it's not helpful. It's not exactly a platitude, but it
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by gs17 10mo ago
I've critiqued it plenty in other comments, including that exact issue. However, that doesn't mean they "gave people surveys with a lot of questions" to p-hack, it seems like a study designed (albeit not well designed) t
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by gs17 10mo ago
Airport newsstands used to sell adult magazines, do I buy a bottle of water from a porn shop every trip?
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by gs17 10mo ago
It does seem to be cynicism, they're convinced the authors "gave people surveys with a lot of questions and then tried to find correlations in the data", but nothing indicates they did more than the 9 questions (plus one more
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by gs17 10mo ago
It's "statistically significant", but it doesn't really say what the title says and they draw a lot of causal conclusions that don't really follow the data IMO. The main result is really that happiness and burnout r
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by gs17 10mo ago
> afaik a study can consist of one single survey It definitely can (and they had interviews too), although there's a lot of limitations with their methodology they don't address in the paper.
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by gs17 10mo ago
It definitely should be in a list of offensive terms too (and offensive dictionaries by language could be even more useful, telling moderators why it was flagged is valuable).
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by gs17 10mo ago
> How do you realistically quantify someone's "overall happiness in life" and "burnout risk" into 1 number ? There's existing survey methodologies for these, and then they added a Mario-specific set of quest
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by gs17 10mo ago
There's a "Yoshi" series now, but they specifically mean Yoshi’s Crafted World and Yoshi’s Woolly World.

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