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by jancsika 3y ago
Unfortunately, that's the opposite of what I would consider a practical solution. The system you describe doesn't exist. If it did then Sci-hub would already be using it. Instead, Sci-hub is subject to essentially the same risks o
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by jancsika 3y ago
> "Fear is the mind killer". I wonder if anyone has ever done a cross-check of the "fearlessness" lit authors for signs of toxoplasmosis.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Translation here may help: > "You never do the dishes" means: You ignore how much more difficult it is to get rid of those little pantry flies, roaches, and/or ants once they find a food/crumb source vs. consistently
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by jancsika 3y ago
> We can't have progress if we don't get over this inane sentimentality(?) over how accidents, deaths, and dismemberments are just 'how things are' so long as they are caused by people and 'Safety of the travelin
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by jancsika 3y ago
What's the legality of throwing an object on someone's car without their permission?
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One distinction: "guess culture" isn't easy to discern from low-self-esteem culture. But "ask culture" isn't easy to discern from narcissist culture. Service people have to cater to the lowest common denominato
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> If you’re basically forced to do it, it’s not a sacrifice. You just declared this by fiat. People are forced into making sacrifices all the time, and there are no logical fallacies up their sleeves.
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I like the idea that getting a massage releases all the toxins in your body because you need to drink water after to flush them out.
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Paw paw, or paw-paw AFAICT. Accent is on the first "paw." So that's a no on papaw which would suggest pronouncing it "puh-PAH," or perhaps even "PAP-paw" which would create a name clash with the backwoodsi
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Wouldn't it be slightly easier to just, you know, visually obscure the opponent's base?
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Generally, I have little tolerance for people who would sign up for a free trial and then complain that it was difficult to freeload off the service. Then I kept reading this article, and I am now forced to agree with the author. These are
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by jancsika 3y ago
So even here on HN, we've got a thread which: 1. starts by suggesting devTools, which is simple, elegant, and wrong. 2. improves by suggesting the "Work Offline" menu option of the File menu, which is hidden by default on bot
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> Even from a purely self serving perspective, why would they do this? Because nearly nothing in the world works on the level of individually self-serving, containerized ideas which have direct one-to-one causes and effects. As an exerci
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> Various companies make a lot of money by implementing "dark patterns", such as getting customers onto subscriptions and then making it hard for them to cancel. They can't admit that this is why their revenue went up, so
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by jancsika 3y ago
> On the specifics of the lawsuit.. well if the law us bad, then change the law. The March on Selma and Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins agree with you. > But not following the law is not nice. The March on Selma and Greensboro Lunch
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by jancsika 3y ago
OP would presume they covered that in their last OR branch: > or I'm actually stupid and about to see my business model crash and burn In other words, they wouldn't be able to reach their long term goals because one of the 20 o
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by jancsika 3y ago
Academia sounds very similar to writing pull requests on a large project, or working retail, waiting tables, serving on a Church board, going to court, teaching a master class, interacting with strangers, and growing up in a large family.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Looking at this setup makes me think it would be interesting to have a public-facing chat service on a 30-second clock where the user has to pad tweet-sized messages with a pre-determined number of zeros and complete sending them off before
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by jancsika 3y ago
The entire argument shifts if you think back to the spirit of say, file-sharing in a college dorm in the late 90s. A bunch of kids running local LLMs to generate art and entertainment doesn't sound dreary or scary in the least.
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Because the current capabilities are insufficient, yet people are using those capabilities as if they are self-driving options. So when Tesla owners get overconfident about their assisted driving mode it ends up adding to the problem. I eve
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> It’s astounding to me that Americans accept this constant death and destruction as part of a transportation system. Just to be explicit-- do you think the impending growth of self-driving vehicles (as they are currently implemented) ov
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> As a result I think we'll see detectable pressure for only risk taking narcissists to run for public office. Even beyond what is usual for politics. I love the word "detectable" thrown in here for good scientistic measur
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I used to bullseye DNA clamps with AOH1996 back home.
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> I have little interest in hearing lectures about the spirit of open source from open core proponents. None, actually. I maintain an open source project. I'd like to lecture you on how Red Hat is violating the spirit of the open so
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> I just don’t understand how we got to a place where the way things worked for decades suddenly doesn’t work anymore. You're making up a past that didn't exist. During the entire period where caller ID existed in the U.S., I c
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That's why I wear an rpi connected to four lcd's on my face that display randomly chosen beard tiles. It's also why I started Our Lady of the Anonymity Pool where we gather for music and fellowship, and to recharge and distri
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They can , and probably have . Just not in a copyrighted, published work. Not sure if this is what you meant, but it's worth being clear: training LLMs to interpret copyright as if it were natural law is a famously bad idea.
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So it's apples vs. oranges. How much energy is used by upright 60s/70s vintage fridges? If anyone has data I'd like to know it.
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> Like it seems like every writer who has more than a few paragraphs on DFW is someone obviously inferior? That seems like a crank opinion, at least wrt Franzen's writing and your italics around the word "obviously."
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> it costs me only about a dollar a month to run The low end Frigidaires are estimated at $56 a year, perhaps $8 less per year for an Energy Star one. I don't know anything about chest freezers, but there's no way a general pur

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