jjulius

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by jjulius 2mo ago
AI will accelerate everything ? Does everything need to be accelerated? If so, why does everything need to move faster?
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by jjulius 2mo ago
There is far more to the world than AI.
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by jjulius 2mo ago
I never said it's wrong to want life to be better. Life is life. If someone finds enjoyment in a different way or pace of life, that's fine. The world's gonna do what the world's gonna do - some people want to be at the
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Why do we always need to be innovating? What's wrong with being content with what is?
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Not to defend the down votes, but it's not just one thing. The article praises the attitudes of Mexicans and French folk, both of which are also capitalist countries. It's capitalism to an extent, sure, but it's also the cu
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Agreed, re: placing value squarely on productivity. The thing is, we're all eventually irrelevant. That's the way the universe works. Every single one of us, after enough time. Claiming we're "doomed" to it is just
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by jjulius 2mo ago
YMMV, but nearly every one I read has a glaringly incorrect comment. I frequently research off-trail mountaineering routes and the incorrect bullshit it confidently spouts at the top of a list of results (results which very much counter the
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by jjulius 2mo ago
They bother with that effort when eating other things , but they keep it simple and go kraft-and-white-bread when making a grilled cheese. They're essentially saying, "While I love putting a lot of effort into cooking most things
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Standalone Garmin for nav and Bluetooth for music is all anyone should need.
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Indie rental shops in many areas did, in fact, have those kinds of fees.
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by jjulius 2mo ago
Every era can be romanticized, and every era has its downsides. Just today, I could ramble on about the ever-increasing costs of streaming services as they reduce their available catalogs, ads forced upon users who have purchased the "
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by jjulius 3mo ago
FWIW, I'm picking up a very aggressive tone from the majority of your responses here. I'm not at all justifying the personal attacks, but I would posit that the tone perhaps invites them to a degree. If there's no aggression
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by jjulius 3mo ago
>Democracies don't handle nuance well. Especially when modern discourse revolves around 140-character hot takes.
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by jjulius 3mo ago
I'm a parent in my 30's. Call me up anytime, for whatever. Always down to chat!
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by jjulius 3mo ago
You don't go into a marriage assuming you'll get divorced. You assume you won't, hope for the best, work not to, and then it happens. You work through those problems with the child so that it hopefully doesn't impact the
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by jjulius 3mo ago
> ...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk. I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk. :)
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by jjulius 3mo ago
I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk.
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by jjulius 3mo ago
Min-max all the things! Overengineer everything! /s
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by jjulius 3mo ago
Or you reach for a certain area of the screen out of muscle memory, but the UI changed "just because" and now you're very distracted.
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by jjulius 3mo ago
There is no self.
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by jjulius 3mo ago
>I think we have the answer to is Zuckerberg a "dimwitted or just evil". It's probably the former. Why is this an either/or? Those aren't mutually exclusive.
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by jjulius 3mo ago
I crave more attempts to find a way to live in harmony with the natural world in a way that still supports us all as best as possible. If, as I've read in other comments here, the problem around Salt Lake is due to man diverting the fl
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by jjulius 3mo ago
Asking because I'm genuinely curious myself, how much of this is unemployment vs the fact that so many more people work from home now compared to pre-2008? Many of those that WFH work a more flexible schedule and probably structure the
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by jjulius 4mo ago
This whole FOMO thing isn't as real, nor as detrimental, for kids as people try and paint it. That's not to say there's not an impact, but kids survive just fine - everyone misses out on this and that, even adults who opt o
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>That said, if I don't use AI at all, since I pride myself on running a technical blog, not detecting technical errors would also be a problem. So it's a dilemma. Is it? To err is human. Embrace the risk of technical errors and
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>Instead we chose to assume scientists collectively behave on a higher plane. People are people.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>It’s the fear, the enshittification, datacenter hostility, and the tech broligarchy It's also peak "tech hubris". The broader world has largely complained about Silicon Valley's "we know better than you" at
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by jjulius 4mo ago
In case folk don't connect the dots, this appears to be Shawn Nunley from the article.
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by jjulius 4mo ago
Am I having deja vu? I saw this exact same thread a few days ago, with the very same comment about the non sequitur. When I search for it on HN, the search results say the thread was posted "3 days ago", but when I open the thread
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by jjulius 4mo ago
>So instead we ended up with the only Calvin and Hobbes items in the physical world being those vinyl bumper stickers of Calvin pissing on things... ... and , of course, all of the various collections of the comics in print form, up to

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