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by gwd 2y ago
The phrase I've heard is "country wine" -- e.g., any alcoholic beverage in the ABV of wine (10-18%) but not made exclusively from grapes.
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by gwd 2y ago
> Thus, learning Mandarin by reading requires first memorizing hundreds or thousands of words, before you can even know where one word ends and the next word begins. That's not been my experience at all: As long as the content I&#x2
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by gwd 2y ago
In a functioning democracy, the guardrails last until the person trying to break them leaves office, and then that person is not elected again; and if they break laws in office, they are convicted of them. Laws of nature don't care wha
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by gwd 2y ago
This is what confuses me about so many of these "horror stories" about cancelling things like gym memberships or NYT subscriptions. You can't just say to someone "you owe me X because my policy says you do". You o
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by gwd 2y ago
I normally use Claude, but "Ask Claude", but unless it's someone who knows me well, I say "Ask ChatGPT", or it's just not as claer; and I don't think it's primarily due to popularity.
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by gwd 2y ago
I would put a slight twist on it though: it seems to me like kids begin by default with very transactional patterns, and must be taught to have "relationships rooted in empathy and a steadfast commitment to the good of the other&qu
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by gwd 2y ago
> I presume OpenAI kept their traces a secret to prevent their competitors from training models with it At some point there was a paper they'd written about it, and IIRC the logic presented was like this: - We (the OpenAI safety peo
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by gwd 2y ago
Works fine for me in Brave -- neither warning nor ads shown.
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by gwd 2y ago
A lot of cars automatically turn on the AC unit when you turn on the defroster / defogger. This does of course help with fog, but it also ensures that the AC unit gets used all winter. I've been told a problem they used to have
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by gwd 2y ago
The problem with this is that you now have 2x the UX testing to make sure everything is useable and looks aesthetically pleasing. Probably OK for a large website, but as a solo entrepreneur, that ends up adding a lot of overhead.
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by gwd 2y ago
This is a long essay; there's a lot of really good and a lot of not so great. One might compare the first century of Christianity, where the only way to increase the number of adherents was to personally convince each one to make a c
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by gwd 2y ago
> If you grew up in certain communities or religious groups, standard playing cards were forbidden items because of their association with gambling. I was told it was because the face cards were derived from Tarot cards. Playing Uno or
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by gwd 2y ago
I still think it's important that people understand what actually happens. FWIW, as a reasonably clever person (a paper I wrote in the course of my PhD got an ACM Hall of Fame award) who regularly got failing grades until I got into hi
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by gwd 2y ago
OK, point taken; we tell the Emperor's New Clothes even though it never happened. On the other hand, nobody thinks it actually did happen: it's understood to be ridiculously exaggerated to make a point. And there's not a spe
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by gwd 2y ago
> The cargo cult story, as it goes, simply describes the (in many ways fascinating) behavior of humans when faced with phenomena they are unable to understand How can it teach us anything about human psychology if it never actually happ
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by gwd 2y ago
> It succinctly expresses an important concept. So first of all, I absolutely agree that it's an important concept: to me the idea is one of imitating externally observable behavior, patterns, what-not, without any understanding of
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by gwd 2y ago
OTOH, Amazon did start by focusing exclusively on mastering the online book market.
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by gwd 2y ago
What's astounding about this is simply the staggering amount of visual processing your brain is capable of doing in parallel.
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by gwd 2y ago
So the theory behind Guided Immersion is that you shouldn't need most of that. When Priscilla and Aquilla were learning Greek, nobody sat them down and said, "Now definite articles are inflected according to gender, number, and c
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by gwd 2y ago
I'm learning New Testament Greek on my own*, and sometimes I paste a snippet in to Claude Sonnet and ask questions about the language (or occasionally the interpretation); I usually say it's from the New Testament but don't b
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by gwd 2y ago
Then you get a "prisoner's dilemma" situation: 1. No states allow gambling: Everything is normal 2. One state allows gambling and its neighbor doesn't: Gamblers in the non-gambling state use websites / travel to loc
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by gwd 2y ago
Did he "struggle with time", or did he just work harder to find the move a chess engine would choose? Basically in every single stat, Ding plays more like the chess engines; and overall he was able to capitalize better on an advan
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by gwd 2y ago
I mean, SQLite is what, 4 developers? And it's by some estimations is one of the top five deployed software modules of any description: [1] https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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by gwd 2y ago
I've got a counter-flow heat exchanger, but it looks like they're using a different design: > Each OpenERV TW4 module has a very quiet pair of fans, pointed in opposite directions, and a heat exchanger in a 6 inch pipe, that go
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by gwd 2y ago
Having been only lightly exposed to MISRA, my impression is that in MISRA the "Required" label doesn't mean "You must always do this"; rather it means, "You must do this or document why it's necessary and
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by gwd 2y ago
I was surprised to see "Business Strategy and Operations" as #6, at 5.7%. Part of me finds it somewhat concerning; but then again, I'm using Claude for that purpose myself, and found it pretty helpful, so...
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by gwd 2y ago
Wow, that's a really fun video -- thanks!
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by gwd 2y ago
> I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating their offering directly to people who may be interested.” Right, but the people who sent those mails -- what reason do they have to think that you're interes
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by gwd 2y ago
Yeah, "Try to make sure the person you're emailing is experiencing pain that your service relieves" is good, and if every cold email I got was that targeted I wouldn't mind at all. "Use a VPN and inbox warming techn
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by gwd 2y ago
That's why TFA recommends buying multiple domains. He literally has a formula: (Desired Daily Volume / 60) x 1.1 He recommends that each domain have only 3 inboxes, and each inbox sends max 20 emails per day. So if you

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