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by jgwil2 7mo ago
> Those who liked being able to be able to rent a movie without planning days ahead are stuck with streaming now. Just want to point out that public libraries often have great DVD collections (also music, games, and more) and are often u
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by jgwil2 7mo ago
It's interesting because it's undoubtedly true that bias and prejudice affect one's interactions with the world. At the same time, it's true to that this can contribute to a vicious cycle via self-fulfilling prophecy. I
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
They're not hired to swing a hammer hard, they're hired to swing it at the right thing, and if they can't swing it hard enough they pick a different tool.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
Not sure how you feel about them as a company, but I use Cloudflare because they sell domains at cost.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
> If human labor really does become superfluous, that’s not a world where “ordinary people” are okay by default, but rather a world where the entire economic operating system needs to be redesigned. Oks treats this as a distant concern.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
Calculus may have seemed easier because you actually learned a lot more than you thought you did in school. Just having been exposed to the ideas before may have allowed you to develop an intuition that you didn't have access to the fi
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
The examples in the article are conspicuously unpolished. Autocorrect catches all of this stuff nowadays. Somebody had to make an effort to write that badly.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
*Whoever wrote that. The person who wrote is the subject of that phrase, not the object.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
> Never mind that every country we idolize, e.g. Japan, Scandinavia, are essentially [ethnostates]. In Sweden 25% of the population has foreign background, in Norway 19%, in Denmark 14%. Hardly "ethnostates" at all.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
If any weapon can be remotely shut down by anyone, that should be a deal breaker. But is there any evidence that is the case?
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
The commenter above is saying that your suggestion that there is some contradiction here indicates a mathematical error. The post claims 60% have read a book; you claim 20% can't read at all; both can be true.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
I think that ship has sailed.
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by jgwil2 8mo ago
A classic never dies.
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by jgwil2 9mo ago
Do you mean that they were dinged if a PR they opened received too many comments? Can you elaborate on how the communication style changed after this? Like they were more willing to seek clarification/discussion?
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by jgwil2 9mo ago
That seems to have become the received wisdom on the subject in certain circles but I do wonder how strong the evidence of this dynamic actually is.
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by jgwil2 9mo ago
But "using wealth" precisely means spending money, doesn't it? That is to say, the opposite of hoarding?
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by jgwil2 10mo ago
Just sounds like typical marketing copy to me.
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by jgwil2 10mo ago
This pretty much matches my preferred workflow for scripting with LLMs: don't ask it to do the task, ask it to write a script that does the task, then validate and execute or refine.
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by jgwil2 10mo ago
This is great. Another great resource for CHIP-8 is Octo: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo It's a CHIP-8 emulator with a few extra capabilities and the readme collects a bunch of other resources.
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by jgwil2 11mo ago
I think that a lot of the assholes behaved that way because they were naturally charismatic and people wanted to be their friends despite their being assholes. They were never socially punished for their behavior because they could turn o
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A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up 'Trump'(nytimes.com)
2 points by jgwil2 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 11mo ago
That doesn't have anything to do with grammatical gender, it's because of noun declension that that is possible. It's only incidental that nouns of each of the three genders decline differently; case distinctions could still
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Use the racket #sicp language: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Language.html
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Isn't the endpoint of that kind of thinking an even more centralized and fragile internet?
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America Needs a Mass Movement–Now(theatlantic.com)
5 points by jgwil2 1y ago|0 comments
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Right-Wing Outlets Attacked Wikipedia After Charlie Kirk's Shooting(slate.com)
10 points by jgwil2 1y ago|15 comments
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$5M Judgment Against the MyPillow Guy Vacated(slate.com)
1 points by jgwil2 1y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 1y ago
They could have a similar phenotype without being genetically similar.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
All else being equal, yes, less alcohol consumption is better. But I worry that this trend is related to the decline of in-person socializing in general.
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Consider the Hermit Crab(slate.com)
3 points by jgwil2 1y ago|0 comments

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