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by jorgesborges 4y ago
My paperwhite did an update a month or so ago around the time I started getting emails about this. It’s been nice not converting to .mobi before transferring (sorry Calibre, I don’t need you anymore) but there are still a few glitches readi
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I don’t know why but the veracity of Jaynes’ hypothesis was never important to me. It’s such a creative and extraordinary leap. It challenged me to think critically about assumptions I might make about our humanity and its history, kinda li
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I listened to a wonderful poem linked below. The author wrote it for his son when he turned 12. On a sad and tangential note, years after this poem was published, he “pulled strings” to get his son to serve in WW1. Hi
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>Unsurprisingly, the increase was bigger for citations by lower courts... The researchers suspect this is showing that Wikipedia is used more by judges or clerks who have a heavier workload, for whom the convenience of Wikipedia offers a
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Whoa. I’m assuming our solar system has moved through various interstellar mediums throughout history, and from reading above it sounds non-trivial. Is it? Do we know anything about how this may have influenced the development of Earth? Lea
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Yup. When I was signing up at MEC I gave the clerk a fake number but accidentally included both the area codes for my city as the first six digits: “Whoa that’s weird, never seen them together like that before.” It’s easy for me to remember
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
I agree. Also I think Shopify is centered in Ottawa, Canada — where I suspect he’s also free from being accosted in restaurants and bars.
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Who preserved Greek literature? (2020)(kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)
78 points by jorgesborges 4y ago|24 comments
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
Recent email from Amazon: > We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you’ll no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your Kindle library. > Compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can send to yo
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
I agree that brand and marketing is of paramount importance here. But to say this is sophisticated and well-thought is a stretch. It's funny precisely for its lack of sophistication, for how many millions of dollars and countless hour
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> More people paid to watch others ride these early coasters rather than ride themselves I had no idea roller coasters have been around this long. The photos are laugh-out-loud terrifying. I was shocked that anyone would pay to ride them
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Tarot with YouTube: an interactive reading experience(tarot.withyoutube.com)
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This is spot on. There’s an abundance of disposable e-cigarette brands here in Canada that resemble something I could manufacture in my garage. It’s scary. When I was using them — to quit smoking — some clearly had a worse and almost immedi
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
Cool, I'll check it out thank you!
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> easier to maintain I’m a huge fan but maintaining tailwind projects is actually a huge pain in the ass. I could maybe improve it by factoring out the classes from my html into a separate sheet using @apply when I’m “done” a project, bu
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
Funny — I made a Cineplex account recently and had the same uneasy suspicion. 2FA is mandatory and via phone only — and they send a code EVERY time you login, despite cookies or whatever. It’s jarring. I left thinking okay they made a deal
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
There's me trying to evaluate intent, context, talent -- when instead I should look for blurry edges. I imagine a future when AI is so sophisticated and human-like they're granted all the privileges of living, sentient beings but
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
A lot of my early experiences on the web involved being banned from places (forums) until I learned to be civil or at least contribute something interesting. The bans weren’t designed to be an excommunication but an inconvenience. I’d sign
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by jorgesborges 4y ago
I haven’t verified this but I have a colleague that works in a different province than mine who said the government planned to create an app for snow something or other and it was in production for years and finally released a buggy mess an
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
Why does he need to give his money away before building something "ethical"? He did build Square, which was inspired by a neighbor in his hometown who had difficulty selling artwork. At least in my neck of the woods Square is ever
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Introducing WestJet-X: Affordable Space Travel(westjet.com)
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This is cool. I’m learning a lot reading through the docs. Why is subversion so instructive? I’ve read about SSL certificates a gazillion times and it’s simple enough in theory but for some reason this is making everything click. What’s the
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
He didn’t exactly stop. He could have quit poking around once alarm bells started ringing but he wanted to see how bad it got so he continued to poke around. Knowing when to stop should probably be a white-hat quality.
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
I’m sorry to hear about your situation and I’m wishing you, your friends, and your family the best of luck. I don’t consider you or anyone in your situation an enemy. Take care.
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
Thank you. The ambiguity really reflects my own feelings though. I feel uncertain and precarious, like many people regardless of where I sit on any issue, and this divisiveness is exacerbating everything which is part of my point.
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I agree in a sense. But my point is that the memes don’t carry purpose or urgency because the possibility of a catastrophic world war feels remote. Just like the possibility that our democracy might vanish in an instant.
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I’m becoming more convinced that the future I’ve been planning simply won’t be possible in the decades to come. The world is scarcely recognizable. And having experienced nothing but peace and prosperity makes me feel woefully unprepared. T
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Thank you for that comment, very helpful.
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
This was posted here last week and I installed it yesterday. The excitement and joy it brings me is entirely nostalgic. I want to admit it’s ugly but I can’t.
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by jorgesborges 5y ago
A key difference is that Chinese citizens, soldiers, and leaders won’t lionize against the state. Nationalism is total. But no doubt China is taking notes.

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