knodi123

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by knodi123 2y ago
It's Joel Bauer! https://joelbauer.com/
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That's correct. "Legal tender for all debts public and private." But that's only in the US.
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Don't get me started on "Life Sentences"!
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I have a beta of the new Siri, and it's still less impressive than the the OK Google I gave up half a decade ago. The capability set is indistinguishable.
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So if we add autotune....
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> UV treatment gets added to your record so that further treatments don't accumulate too much Which also takes into account how much time you spend outside during daylight hours, right?? That seems like such a large confounding va
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I don't consider their fundamental premise sound, that if the poor countries are fecund and the rich countries are not, that it will automatically lead to the end of worldwide technological innovation. As I see things, it's a fact
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> the current "polarise everything" craze Don't think of it as a craze. Think of it more like, America just had a president that referred to many poor countries as "shitholes" and tried to block immigration from
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That's fascinating! I also have a vivid childhood memory that I can see, clear as day, despite knowing as an adult that it's impossible. It's really uncomfortable to combine the facts that a.) memory is unreliable, and b.
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is it not? Because of the @keyframes rule? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@keyframes
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> difficult to talk about over audio :-) Yes, I've had the same problem! They might as well have named the project "The word sequel, as in the next thing, not Ess Cue Ell."
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It's hard not to read this: > Birth rates are near or below replacement in all but the world’s poorest countries As "Too many of the wrong kind of people are being born. How can we get more of the right kind?" The entir
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by knodi123 2y ago
80 lines wide is the width we had back in the late 90s. Displays are nothing like that anymore. I managed to talk my team into setting the linter to something more reasonable, but individuals still feel like they're being virtuous if
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by knodi123 2y ago
My team drives me bonkers with this. They hear the general principle "really long lines of code are bad", but extrapolate it to "no characters shall pass the soft gutter no matter what". Even if you have, say, 5 sequent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_approach_path_indica...
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Compare broadcast television's first days with what it is now. There are a lot of parallels.
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Loss of resistance is a common phenomenon when you're really, really cool.
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Yeah, i've used tampermonkey and various other scripts to remove all discovery/suggestions from youtube, and I've never regretted it. It's great. But that's just my personal style, if you sit down and watch it lik
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by knodi123 2y ago
> More sources are better I used Google News regularly for years, but I've had to abandon it. It has so many sources, and 9/10 of them are pure garbage. I mean absolute dreck. More perspectives are better, except you have to
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by knodi123 2y ago
I was told that I shouldn't go scuba diving the day before an early-morning flight, because if the plane decompresses, I could get the bends while everyone else just gets a little hypoxic and uses their handy drop-down O2 supply.
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Not necessarily a culture war thing. People who aren't familiar with the subject might take "unskilled" in the plain-english sense, as a pejorative. And who can blame them? We're english speakers before we're tec
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by knodi123 2y ago
Anybody have a non-paywalled link? I'm not making a monthly membership so I can keep reading past the 2nd paragraph...
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Okay, so this miracle drug isn't a miracle either. Which miracle drug is?!?! I'm not asking sarcastically or ironically- I'm sincerely begging for miracles. Anyone??
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> irregardless of its misuse <<eye twitch>> You're doing that on purpose.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> And yet it is not a good lubricant for all applications seems like a bit of a straw man, no? > a silicone version that will make a sticky old lock work like new. In my apartment, my deadbolt was so sticky that it was hard to turn ev
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by knodi123 2y ago
Benny Franklin, some ye olde guy who is only famous for his groundbreaking discovery that black clothes make you hotter than white clothes.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> which we obviously do not have Yeah, but a lot of us wish we did. So maybe branding plant-based diets that way could be a compelling sales tactic with the nerd demographic.
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More like "How a guy took a non-guaranteed one-off freelance marketing gig for WD-40!"
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> Wd-40 is not really a lubricant And yet, it lubricates! I've heard your claim a lot, but the fact remains, it makes machinery work more smoothly, by reducing friction, and it is effective over significant time periods. By any de
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> the flaw in your reasoning is that you are assuming ChatGPT has a subjective experience No I'm not. I don't think ChatGPT thinks either. But I can express that claim without making untestable, unscientific, circular claims.

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