kenmorechalfant

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by kenmorechalfant 1y ago
> Copyright is a deal society has made to advance the arts Corn subsidies are a deal society made to advance the consumption of sugar water. Who really makes these deals and who benefits from them? Maybe having so much new content all th
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by kenmorechalfant 2y ago
The brain isn't full developed until 25-30 years old. I changed a lot, mentally, in my late 20's to early 30's. 25 is still a borderline child.
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by kenmorechalfant 2y ago
Oh man, I guess I was so angry about that at some point I blocked it out. My dumb ass actually bought a 2nd account because I couldn't convince my friends to play with me until it was free. After MSFT purchased Minecraft I could never
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by kenmorechalfant 2y ago
Minecraft STILL doesn't have a lot of stuff Notch was planning on adding. Instead of becoming an actual living breathing world you want to explore more they focus on premium skins and an occasional update with mostly bewildering conten
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by kenmorechalfant 3y ago
It goes back to the old question of whether matter is fundamental and consciousness emerges from it or the other way around. My inclination is the latter, by way of Descartes. "I think therefore I am." If you can think "I am
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by kenmorechalfant 3y ago
It doesn't.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
> inability to read and understand > or they have an attitude problem These just sound communication problems. Every failure to understand is also a failure of the explainer.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
Without a doubt in my mind.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
How is ".stack > * + *" advanced? This is CSS 101.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
Sorry, but this advice just sounds really out of date. How is "a cheap server" ever cheaper than free? I don't think you understand just how generous and simple the free static hosting CDNs are. NGINX is fine but it's ab
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
Have you considered that fun is not always without side effects? The same machine that came up with physics, calculus and evolution came up with God and the MCU. God and the MCU are fun ideas too but just look at how much damage they'v
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
tl;skimmed only - but my view is that all lifeforms are computers. The main thesis here seems to be that math evolves naturally as a way to reduce computational load. Makes sense to me.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
> having a family where everyone gets along To say this is fortunate is an understatement.
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
Going back to the "sock of independence" example (/u/airstrike's comment for more context), ChatGPT's answer's accuracy is poor - but it's a funny question, and it gave a funny answer. So was it reall
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
What has helped me a lot: get plenty of sunlight; especially in the morning (very important to our biological clock), started taking probiotics once a day before a meal, I try to eat complex carbohydrates in the morning (fruits, vegetables,
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by kenmorechalfant 4y ago
If your software encrypts user data with a user owned key that you never touch, i.e. everything is encrypted at rest, can you still be liable if it's later proven to be CSAM?
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by kenmorechalfant 7y ago
The main thing isn't really about it being preferable, feature-wise - it's that it's the future of cross platform apps. If I could have apps like Photoshop or Ableton on Windows, Linux, Mac, ChromeOS, Android, etc - and they
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by kenmorechalfant 7y ago
The PWAs of today are the tip of the iceberg. They've already made huge leaps in the last couple years. Google has talked multiple times recently about their internal goals to bridge the gap between web apps and native apps: https:&#x