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by jprete 3y ago
Tim Urban’s model is not exactly scientific, either. If I were labeling personalities in my brain I’d have a completely different set.
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by jprete 3y ago
I agree. For me, procrastination is purely about the emotions I have regarding the task - uncertainty, disgust, or fear of failure. It has nothing to do with the delay or size of the reward, because I’m already dealing with a large and imme
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by jprete 3y ago
Isn’t that the same as a penalty? Unless there’s a big category of submissions that are neither right nor wrong….
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by jprete 3y ago
Is there any evidence Jobs actually wrote this or sent it to himself? This sounds like an inspirational fake-quote chain letter from the 1990s, the kind of thing that Snopes once specialized in debunking.
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by jprete 3y ago
This is an absurdly uncharitable description and sounds like a bad caricature. There are lots of good criticisms of libertarianism, I don't see a reason to resort to something like this.
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by jprete 3y ago
Put in that light, self-driving cars feel a lot like enshittification. The motivation isn’t the same but the effect is - our cars are no longer actually under our control. We just borrow control until someone out on the network decides it’s
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by jprete 3y ago
Being fat has numerous social penalties. I think they originate from instinctive reactions embedded deep in peoples’ brains, and those reactions are flat-out not going to go away from anything we can do today.
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by jprete 3y ago
That’s a bit too judgy, I think. I don’t drink at all, and still had to stop using semaglutide because the nausea/stomach-slowing was very difficult to tolerate.
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by jprete 3y ago
Semaglutide made me feel more like I was full and simultaneously made me feel less like I was hungry. The stomach slowdown helped as well. I had some of the less desirable side effects of that, and those were really unpleasant but also show
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by jprete 3y ago
I think people vary greatly in how much they enjoy exercise. I don’t, unfortunately, so it’s very hard for me to keep up any aerobic exercise program. I simply don’t form a habit, I have to push myself every time. I don’t think it has anyth
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by jprete 3y ago
Having taken it, I can say that attempting a half-dose of Wegovy pens would have wildly varying results. The smaller Ozempic pens can easily titrate down, but Wegovy pens are not at all designed for it.
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by jprete 3y ago
It's possible that the open Web simply cannot be defended. The advantage is generally on the attacking side rather than the defending side, after all.
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by jprete 3y ago
I am very sympathetic to people who are using it to write better in language X when their native language is Y. I think most other people should not use it for writing, because the hard part is thinking about (A) what you _really_ want to s
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by jprete 3y ago
This is a more serious problem than that, because AI does in fact make stuff up, and will bullshit logical connections that make superficial sense but don't match the system under discussion. I think a better analogy is airbrushing pho
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by jprete 3y ago
It’s pretty close even if it’s not actually an Americanism.
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by jprete 3y ago
IANAL, but the government and courts aren't obligated to treat AI learning and human learning as equivalent, just because a lot of AI boosters want to blend the two together for the fair use argument.
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by jprete 3y ago
I’m curious about your experience with GDScript - which I presume is new to you - because it’s been a stumbling block for me trying Godot.
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by jprete 3y ago
Amazon is not a court of law and need not be bound by this technicality.
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by jprete 3y ago
No. One doesn’t get to throw away the basic obligation of decency to other people because of the desire to have “space” and “focus”.
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by jprete 3y ago
That’s the inverse, no?
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by jprete 3y ago
Lead has been connected to madness since antiquity.
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by jprete 3y ago
I misread the title. In case you did as well: MS had a program to allow Windows 7/8 keys to be used for Windows 10/11. That program officially ended seven years ago, but the servers kept working, so you could keep using Windows 7&
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by jprete 3y ago
They’re all bad ideas, though.
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by jprete 3y ago
Often effortposts aren’t worth it because someone will come along and Gish Gallop the post with opaquely nonsensical bad-faith counterarguments that are a lot of work to refute. I agree with you in an ideal world, but sadly this isn’t one.
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by jprete 3y ago
Needs an /s.
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by jprete 3y ago
Stack Overflow responses are well known to be misranked. I’ve heard a rule of thumb that the actual correct answer is typically about #3.
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by jprete 3y ago
These aren’t even remotely comparable to AI photo manipulation.
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by jprete 3y ago
You’re writing as though lobotomy is a legitimate procedure that might be a placebo, instead of a nonsensical operation of random brain destruction.
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by jprete 3y ago
This is an interesting point. Usually people claim technology goes inexorably forward, yet here we are, merrily destroying trust in the most objective method we have to record the past!
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by jprete 3y ago
Snow Crash was a dystopia, though.

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