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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Oh wow, I didn't know it was that granular - that's fascinating.
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Adding to this, I seem to recall that the specific geological/chemical conditions on the site is consequential for the sorts of glass produced. So presumably, Hiroshmiaite and Trinitite would actually be physically distinct as a materi
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
> It seems to know everything 'Seems' is a very dangerous word in this context.
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
It's important to remember that these stories are orignally an oral tradition that only fairly recently began to be written down. They would have had a myriad of differing versions depending on the preferences of the storyteller, their
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Ha, that's right! I forgot about that bit. Man. I do miss Terry Pratchett.
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
If you genuinely believe this, there is no point to doing anything at all except heroin. Every moment that you aren't dedicating to being on heroin or getting more heroin, to heroinmaxx if you will, is a net loss. 'But what if I r
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
It's been years, but I seem to recall that Crowley specifically is very proud about making sure some motorway project got botched, because the continual drip of suffering from the accumulated jams and road rage makes him look really go
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Creating an addiction-based economy around capturing and monetizing the attention of kids and young people like this will have a cost for society that we will be paying off for generations, even if it literally ended tomorrow. The opportuni
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
When I worked at a small cinema we would set up the movie to run regardless, because sometimes you would get late-showers buying tickets at the front desk and it's much more trouble to have to speed-start a movie for the projectionist
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
You only need to be faster than the slowest gazelle in the pack, right?
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
I recall my old chemistry/physics teacher doing it too - "now THIS guy, he's really greedy for electrons" and stuff like that.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Not with the same reach, but some people kinda could! Specifics depended on where you were in the world, but it existed and to some extent still does. In spite of a very rough decade and a half since 2010 culling many of them. https:/
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Yeah, I think that's probably correct. I do somewhat see the value in promoting specific, accessible meditative practices without necessarily using the word meditation for it, simply because it can be needlessly intimidating and put so
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Somebody else can spin up some AI-generated "AI is good" stories and post those in response. Maybe somebody will deploy respective agents to do both automatically. The house always wins.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Meditation, like exercise, can be a lot of things. Choosing a brief walk can be exercise, or a brisk walk that's a little longer - maybe doing some forms of housework can be exercise. But exercise can also be running marathons, swimmin
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
In a just world, an AI consuming Open Source material for training would itself become Open Source, as any other piece of software. There's an ongoing violation of the social contract of people doing things collaboratively, and it is g
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
I hear you. Topless Quake LAN sweatathon, the sport of gentlemen.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Agreed. I also feel like there is a world of difference between the driver deliberately assuming control at the last second because they notice that an accident is about to happen, and the car itself yielding control unprompted because it t
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Maybe you gotta do daily standups with all your own Agents and then have both you and them do standup with the rest of the team's Agents to touch base, sync up and loop back or whatever.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
The second somebody manages this, I will rush out and throw my credit card at their store so hard it embeds itself in the counter like a ninja star.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Stay hopeful, maybe Nu-Agile will become annoying in new and interesting ways!
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Yeah, I agree with you that this is probably the best course of action in terms of minimal investment of time and minimal exposure. And in general, you get a lot further in life by trying to be amicable as your default stance! I want to be
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
I don't want to be flippant, but why is anyone else responsible for play-acting with somebody's uninvited puppet? I get that you could probably finagle a way to get it to fuck off by play-acting with it, and that this would probab
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
I don't remember if it's ever explicitly stated, but I certainly took that to be the implication. Maybe it's actually funnier if they're doing it pro bono, now I am suddenly unsure.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
He was! Frito Pendejo (Joe's lawyer) and the cop Beef Supreme are better examples. Or of course the wrestler-president Camacho whose middle name is literally Mountain Dew.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Commenting to save this for later.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
Thank you for sharing this.
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by kombookcha 6mo ago
The really funny thing is that both feel equally plausible from the vibe he puts out.
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
One of my favourite LinkedIn cranks is a consultant guy who suggested an addendum to Einstein that "Has the potential to impact the future: E=mc²+AI". Because, so he says, "This equation highlights the potential for AI to unl
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
Oh boy, if it's powered by AI /AND/ the blockchain, you know it's gonna be legit ;)

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