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by ksaj 5mo ago
I thought it was because of the tech use of "demon" and trying to avoid that kind of terminology. Ends up the reason was even simpler than that.
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Once upon a time I saw a political cartoon of two mountainous heaps of products. On the top of one there was a COCA COLA flag. On the other, PEPSI. The later in my life, I recognized it in the Microsoft vs. Apple thing. Soon we're gonn
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Toronto has awesome hotdog vendors. They serve different types of sausages, and of course weiners ready for the flame grill. They are all large size, and there are a gazillion toppings for you to put on yourself. I've never seen better
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by ksaj 6mo ago
This isn't unlike "the right to remain silent." It's weird that people don't fully understand that to mean stfu for your own good, 'cos the only notes they are writing are toward building their case against you
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by ksaj 6mo ago
People thinking how complicated this must be to filter through for forensics, forget that during and following the Covid lockdown, cities monitored sewage water for Covid viral load. They even recognized and reported the specific strains an
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Forensics never relies on a single piece of evidence. It takes several corroborating accounts and pieces of evidence to reach "beyond reasonable doubt." This is why even breathalyzers have to be done twice, with a gap in between (
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by ksaj 6mo ago
My partner is Vietnamese, and also a chef. I've had every variation of pho one can think of. There is a group of snobs who think they authoritatively own the opinion and can only think of a single acceptable recipe (or chef, for that m
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I figure it is also archiving an enormous amount of slop that nobody will want to access in the future.
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Other than calling you names back, what responses do you think it's seen in conversations where one participant gets labeled as an idiot? Exactly what you're seeing. You pretty much never see someone capitulate and simply agree th
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by ksaj 6mo ago
One thing you can see really clearly, is how the price of specific computing items fluctuated. The Lisp issue is what got me into said language. Later I was using music software (Cakewalk) and noticed the language was nearly the same, so I
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by ksaj 6mo ago
It isn't always. For smaller amounts you can just as well see something like 5¢. But you will never see a price listed using both formats, like "$1 5¢" or whatever. Quebec, in Canada, puts dollars, pounds, euros, at the end o
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by ksaj 6mo ago
It's not elitist to be part of a very small group. But I get what you mean. I live in a city where the bands you speak of get pushed further and further away from the downtown core. They're literally in the 'burbs now. It&#x2
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by ksaj 6mo ago
404. At least someone got to read it 4 hours ago. Is this the same thing you meant to link to? https://github.com/yvonboulianne/laeka-brain
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Ask HN: How to Sell a Niche Domain
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Nothing wrong with your points. The last line is rather passive aggressive over nothing. Thankfully not everyone feels so threatened by users on the site, 'cos reading this sort of disclaimer could get tedious real fast.
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Your last point is basically the modern equivalent of "The devil made me do it."
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by ksaj 6mo ago
While it's true that VR has died a hundred deaths, I can't imagine certain parts of AI ever going away. Just because it hasn't gotten as far as we dream for it, doesn't mean it isn't already useful. It's most d
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I think people who don't exercise don't realize that this is even a thing. A bit of Dunning-Kruger effect. What I notice is that if I haven't been to the gym for a while, my brain becomes progressively resistant to effort. Si
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by ksaj 6mo ago
This seems like the same arguments used against pornography. Some people overdo things with their use of porn. And now it seems some people (probably exactly the same people) get in too deep with AI escapes. Considering online life means th
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by ksaj 6mo ago
It works for me, because I am a skimmer. The opposite style I still see online, and I really dislike, is when they tease the answer for 5 or 6 paragraphs, only for you to then find out it wasn't all that interesting to begin with. It&#
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I stopped using all of that style of social media, mainly for this reason. First it was Facebook a couple decades ago. I figured I can deal with only hearing from my family once in a while, in real life and emails, and blissfully missing al
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by ksaj 6mo ago
How can you tell when they are two different hive minds, with temperament being the sole differentiator?
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I noticed on some news sites I peruse, they put a point list summary at the beginning, complete with the answer to whatever problem the headline describes. Of course it is shallow enough that you still want to read the article to get contex
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by ksaj 6mo ago
This sounds a lot like late 70's / early 80's Rapid Prototyping, and also what people seemed to think Lisp would eventually turn into at the time.
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by ksaj 6mo ago
This sure brings back memories. In my tween/early teen years, I used to phone my mother long distance from a payphone. I'd tell her not to use any names, and she'd get all giggly and say something like "Oh you, hacking a
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Especially when Trump essentially taught Iran they have something more powerful than nukes: the ability to stop oil flow (and other goods) through the strait unless it's going to an Iran-friendly country. Plus a $2m toll for each one.
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I buy 2 almanacs every year: The Old Farmer's Almanac that everyone knows, and Harrowsmith's 100% Canadian Almanac, and I pit them against each other. They are equally unreliable, and only rarely agree, but it's a fun passive
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Does anybody know what that goal is yet?
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by ksaj 6mo ago
I think people wouldn't hate it if those posting content made through AI would check their work and correct the slop. I don't mind AI voice overs. I am appalled by the fact that people just give it the text, generate the voice ove
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by ksaj 6mo ago
Eventually maybe they can stop asking me to start using their cloud for backups, too. The prompt only gives you a choice about how long to wait before bugging you again. I'm never going to use it. So apparently they plan to bug me fore

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