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by jmcqk6 5mo ago
Libraries also do a lot more than just provide books. $35 per resident per year for everything that libraries do provide is forking cheap, and we would be greatly impoverished if they were to disappear.
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by jmcqk6 5mo ago
I don't see how we are disagreeing. Emotional self-awareness is an aptitude, one that is fundamentally experiential, and so talking about it is inherently difficult. I agree that many people who talk about it are not necessarily expe
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by jmcqk6 5mo ago
I think many men don't even understand what emotional regulation looks like. They tend to spend much of their time disassociated and thinking that it's normal. I tried speaking to my father about emotional health and he thinks i
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
Yeah, it's not indifference or apathy. It is overwhelm. There are too many things that need attention and not enough attention.
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
What do you think about the mis-alignment between goals here? For medical research, the goal is to find general practices that will broadly help, and identify risks with the intervention. Even then, with many interventions, it's under
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
Am I understanding you correctly that you believe that all of academia has aligned behind "one true way?"
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
It sounds like you have a particular bone to pick though you're only doing it by talking in generalities in the OP, and now you're talking about programming credentials. I don't know of any required credential to write softwa
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
Credentials are a way to externalize trust. The trend with AI is to further erode trust. There will be a reaction against this eventually, and it's likely that more mechanisms to externalize trust will be found, not that they will bec
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by jmcqk6 6mo ago
> That there exists a decoder that can decode the space of useful programs from a much smaller prompt space. I love this. I've been circling this idea for a while and you put into words what I've struggled to describe. > &q
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by jmcqk6 7mo ago
They saw a social network full of bots and didn't want the competition.
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by jmcqk6 7mo ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I think I can explain it this way: The quality of life of a human being is directly related to the amount of free energy (i.e. thermodynamic free energy, not free as in no cost) they have access t
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by jmcqk6 7mo ago
Making global declarations about introverts isn't really useful beyond the basics. I'm an introvert and my life has gotten noticeably better once I started intentionally talking to people more. I still need to have my own time t
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by jmcqk6 7mo ago
He has proven to be untrustworthy much longer than his trip down the right wing rabbit hole. For me, it started when he through out the accusation of pedophilia against the cave diver trying to rescue students. And since then it's be
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by jmcqk6 9mo ago
> the Mozilla CEO shares your political views I think treating every human with equal dignity goes beyond politics. While the specific context here was political, but that is only the context, not the principle.
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
I own a Jeep Wrangler, and you're right the electronics are terrible. The rest of the vehicle is really solid though. The only problems I've had with it in three years are electronic in nature. And I've really pushed it to
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
> For 9 out of 10 self hosted programs you can have them up in ~5 minutes with a docker compose and env file. That is a very small part of operating. How about keeping it update and running? Data backed up?
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
Oh so you're talking about replications in a very specific field, one completely different from the example you're using elsewhere of climate change. Your first step is "It's a group of scientists and their work was revi
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
You're making a chain of assumptions and deductions that are not necessarily true given the initial statement of the scenario. Just because you think those things logically follow doesn't mean that they do. You also make throw aw
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
In a world where Target can figure out a women is pregnant before she knows herself due to her shopping habits, the line that separates sensitive data is pretty ambiguous.
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
> Refusing to use something because of who created it or who benefits from it is a bit too much I think, to the point of being unworkable depending on the case. Having a hard and fast rule that can always be applied about this is impossi
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
Unless your name is nationally known, I doubt this is the case. It's not local people who are deporting you. There are numerous cases of well connected people beloved in their community getting deported. There are no consequences fo
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
Most companies are wasteful. Perhaps not as wasteful as a startup, but still incredibly wasteful, and it scales non-linearly with size.
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by jmcqk6 1y ago
It's useful to remember this when tempted to make arguments that assume there is a Right Way to do things. We are exploring a massive possibility space where components interact in non-linear ways. There isn't a right way, there
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
This is a distinction unworthy of merit. The slave labor creates the profit. The only reason it exists is because of the profit.
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
Profits are bad when they exist due to unethical cost cutting. Profits are bad when they artificially lower the cost of the good by exporting the costs to other people. If a clothing company is profitable because they use slave labor, that
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
I don't think that's broadly true. The unfortunate truth about our profession is that there is no floor to how bad code can be while yet generating billions of dollars.
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
Wow so not a single white/chinese/indian male has been funded since 2013? For over a decade? That's an incredible claim. Literally.
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
It's almost like you can't really make generalizations about what good human groups look like.
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
sqlite is actually public domain. https://sqlite.org/copyright.html . This is also the reason why they are closed contribution. It's a strange combination in the free software world, but I'm grateful for it.
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by jmcqk6 2y ago
No matter what we've tried so far, the request ends up being sent. The first time I was just watching, determined not to press the button, but when I received the response, I was startled into pressing it. The second time, I just stepp

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