jimmytidey

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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Do you think your 'selection criteria' are the same as other people's? I expect you've seen people who you think are perceived as attractive but are not yourself attracted to? I'm sure your 'selection criteria&
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
One effect you might be experiencing is over-familiarity. I find magazines fascinating for a while, then you understand their house style, the quirks of the recurrent columns, their political stance, and you know what they are going to say
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
This is such a fascinating insight, I have not sufficiently considered how many people might be using the algorithmic feed. The main problem I experienced with their 'curated' feed was that the news was so old. If I'm watchin
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Am I missing something? I have Twitter set to show the timeline of tweets as they happen, which although I accept it requires a deduplication algorithm is broadly non algorithmic. I realize there is also another 'curated' timeline
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
It really is fantastic :)
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I think there's a fair amount of 'status quo' bias here. Mastodon isn't going to be a massively federated system that recreates every nuance of the Twitter UX. It could still be a worthwhile alternative to Twitter. It wo
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I think I'd take the opposite lesson from these examples: if an individual gets sufficiently powerful, they will change the constitution irrespective of how much you formally considered it an 'unchangeable bedrock'.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
So essential - how often would I want the formatting in the obviously completely different context? I used to paste things into the URL bar to remove formatting. I've discovered a colleague does the same.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
This is a context where people are used to seeing errors that they don't know what to do with. If a web app pops a well written error it is much more likely to be acted on than an unmotivated dev seeing a some (probably badly formatted
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I think you might be forgetting what being a teenage boy is like! I think a noisy car is straightforward 'look at me' peacock tail behaviour.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I'm afraid I can't see this as freedom of expression, what idea are they expressing? If this is about freedom of expression, isn't fly tipping a type of expression that should be protected? In terms of general freedom, the qu
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
You can have humans 'embark' and 'disembark' the freight, the same way we do now...
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I think non-human payloads make more sense for virtually every kind of innovation: -- Radically reduced safety margins, if the vehicle itself contains no humans. -- You can often move cargo at any time of day or night, and therefore do a mu
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
CCC often reveals new software vulnerabilities. I don't know if it's deliberate, but if they reveal those vulnerabilities at Christmas, they ruin the holiday of whoever is responsible for fixing them - quite likely someone working
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Trent Telenko also has some fairly unconventional opinions about electoral fraud in the US which, for me, cast his opinions in a different light. He's entertaining but it's always a bit unclear what his specific expertise is.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
How do you know you have picked the topic at random? Maybe you've subconsciously seem adverts for that thing and that is why it is salient to you. Once you write it down, it becomes actually conscious and you start noticing the ads.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I'm open to being wrong, but it seems highly unlikely a requirement for being healthy is drinking half a litre of milk a day.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
What is the point of the traffic signals? A big part of it is safety. I promise you, no matter what cyclists are doing at red lights, cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous than cyclists. Cyclists should obey the law, but people focusi
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
The pattern: -- A car squeezes past you at high speed -- Less than 30 seconds later I pull in front of it as we both stop at a red light. In fact, a car coming too close and knocking you off your bike is not a common cause of injury. It cer
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I have a PhD from an arts university. My impression was that arts eduction is generally an exploitative scam. As someone (Grayson Perry?) said, they teach all of the stuff you can't learn and none of the stuff you can. You'll spen
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
HS2? I understand your vibe though.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
What are flying squirrels if not an in between state rodents evolving to fly?
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Fantastic title
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Lots of (formerly) less affluent people owned houses in the area and now live close to much better facilities than they did before. Nothing 'yuppie' about a nice park, Westfield shopping centre or a train station?
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I built a project that supported my PhD in Meteor. My memory of it is that Meteor is fantastic, but Mongo is a nightmare. I spent hours carefully designing my database so I didn't need joins and adding indexing, but it never ran as fas
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
How do you know that people use the app because they are already highly committed to the service, rather than the other way around? IE, the whole thing is a selection effect?
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Your broader point might be correct but an anti tank grenade would not be likely to knock out a modern tank.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I absolutely understand the appeal of ic cars, and (I assume), everyone will still be able to hear an engine roar at a race track or other private space. Engines roaring in a city might be nice for some, but for most it's just noise po
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I did a bad PhD, here is what I learned(medium.com)
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I take this back - I'm surprised to see Trump has expressed quite a few opinions about music: https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/e5e4572a-0676-4120-9eb3...

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