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by hirundo 3y ago
I was't planning on leaving Evernote after many years of use. But I went to do a full export yesterday, just in case. It locked up mid way through four times in a row, 3x after fresh reboots. Now I'm planning on leaving Evernote.
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by hirundo 3y ago
"Stories are powerful and can be used to effectively cage us ..." Stories are one rhetorical device that a service like boringreport.org can shield us from. But that certainly does makes content more boring, which leads to consumi
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by hirundo 3y ago
Is there a possible Crafter benchmark that is too high for safety? For instance, a number beyond which it would be dangerous to release a well equipped agent into meatspace with the goal of maximizing paperclips?
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by hirundo 3y ago
You can pray, which many people find useful. You might be able to phone home and say goodbye. There might be a bomb squad technician on the plane.
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July 4th injunction bars feds from encouraging social media to delete content(reason.com)
66 points by hirundo 3y ago|30 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
I have a good mechanic. A bunch of locals discovered we have a good mechanic in the neighborhood, and the guy got too much work and had to stop taking new customers. As an old customer he still works on my vehicles, after a month or so on h
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by hirundo 3y ago
> If social science teaches you anything, it’s that sweeping generalizations are a poor framework for understanding anything. Here are some sweeping generalizations that seem to be helpful: E = mc^2 a^2 = b^2 + c^2 F = ma
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by hirundo 3y ago
A half cow fits comfortably in a medium sized upright freezer. I'm considering trying to also fit in half a lamb, but it would be close. As infrequently as I go into it, the upright is as efficient as a chest freezer, but saves more sp
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by hirundo 3y ago
Yes, buying in bulk is just cheaper. The rancher makes about two phone calls per cow to round up his customers, then delivers it straight to the processor. I drive about 250 miles to the processor to pick it up. There are no grocers or tran
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by hirundo 3y ago
True. $1,500 for my last half cow, higher than ever. According to my improved lab results, for me it's a health expense, paying more for food now to pay less for diabetes, heart disease, etc., later. On the other hand it makes me more
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by hirundo 3y ago
Grass fed beef should be an exception. I buy half a cow at a time, which isn't practical for everyone. They feed on ranch land that's untouched other than a few water tanks, with no time in a feed lot before the processor. The ran
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by hirundo 3y ago
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
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by hirundo 3y ago
On page 23: > As then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explained: “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Seems like the lisps are already both as written, and any language that can be rendered as an s-expression is either.
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by hirundo 3y ago
It isn't hard for me to believe that he really wants to make our species multiplanetary since I strongly identify with that goal.
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by hirundo 3y ago
Like watching Wilbur land the Flyer I and wondering if that was peak aviation.
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by hirundo 3y ago
> Stereotypes are rarely accurate Citation needed. And it should contradict this one: https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/stereoty...
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by hirundo 3y ago
I cook 99 out of 100 of my meals, and 9 out of 10 meals I cook in a small counter-top air-fryer. The whole gadget costs less than a good pan. That 10th meal is probably eggs in a non-stick pan, so that pan lasts years longer now. I bought a
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by hirundo 3y ago
In our case those are indeed separate in the database, so that we can type the value as a numeric, which is very necessary for many operations. Those fields only get combined in the serialization.
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by hirundo 3y ago
I think I looked at this when I laid it out: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/international-cu... So we put the ISO code at the end and ignore whitespace. But including a prefix sign as with `€1.234.567
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by hirundo 3y ago
Please don't take your skill in this for granted. It's a gift. I've been using cast iron pans sporadically for four decades, following all of the common advice, and failing magnificently every time. I still use one occasional
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm generally not a fan of overloading fields, but we took the opportunity to add the currency code when we decided to encode monetary quantities in JSON as strings, e.g. "0.02USD". This has worked well, particularly because
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by hirundo 3y ago
> I'm new, but I'm also Asian. I've experienced what I call "unintended racism." I don't think it's done with ill intent, but I have gotten comments and gestures. > People will ask me: "Where ar
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Nature on AGI Risk(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by hirundo 3y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 3y ago
Tl;dr: The author believes that too many D.C. residents (mostly black) are exercising their constitutional civil rights, and that this is dangerous and too little attention is being paid to it. He says that the public defense office is prob
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by hirundo 3y ago
I have opted out of all rating and feedback requests by default. I now just give them rarely, for things that are out of the ordinary. And by preference I use email and my own words, rather than a form. The constant pummeling of these reque
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by hirundo 3y ago
Here's a highly rated one for $26 https://www.amazon.com/Veepeak-OBDCheck-Bluetooth-Diagnostic...
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by hirundo 3y ago
I'm considering switching to GrapheneOS but the fact that it only runs on Google phones makes me hesitant. Yet the other Android replacements look a lot less compatible. Am I being paranoid?
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by hirundo 3y ago
This gives them an advantage in the supply of material for fecal microbiota transplant bacteriotherapy. Unless they use the proceeds to stop eating like hunger-gatherers, which seems to be the usual path. I know some modern Californians who
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by hirundo 3y ago
Moral hazard alert. When you pick up their dog's poop, other developers may immediately come to rely on it and stop picking up any poop. Better is to ask them to pick up their poop. Best if you can automate it so that they can't m

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