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by latexr 4mo ago
> Deciding what to work on might be the most important question in life. Work on being a positive influence in the world. Help your neighbour when they are in need and fight for the rights of those less fortunate than yourself.
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by latexr 4mo ago
This has gotten a ton of upvotes, then a ton of downvotes. Yet no one has yet answered the question. If you are downvoting, presumably you believe there is a point to linking to Carmack’s tweet. That it somehow adds more value than the alte
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by latexr 4mo ago
> If your implication is that none of the arguments made over 300 years are relevant today No, the point is that for the purposes of this discussion it is irrelevant when the arguments were first made. And reread the original: https:&
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by latexr 4mo ago
I think it should be pretty obvious that dissemination of information and lies today—when you can’t even know if the person on the other side is real or from your own country—is much different than 300 years ago. The “information wants to b
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by latexr 4mo ago
> What exactly is this "information wants to be free" discourse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free > The arguments for and against freedom of speech It’s not about freedom of sp
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Once you actually use the toaster the hierarchy inverts. The toaster runs your entire household while it is powered on. More than once I have gone to my toaster in the morning and found cold bread there that someone toasted the day bef
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by latexr 4mo ago
I’m asking genuinely: What’s the point of linking to Carmack’s tweet? The intellectual curiosity (what HN is ostensibly about) is all in the quoted tweet (despite it being written like an LLM trained on LinkedIn posts). Carmack isn’t really
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by latexr 4mo ago
My “favourite” was “a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real”. Such dumb hyperbole.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I don’t know how do they even harvest emails from Linkedin. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/LinkedIn
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by latexr 4mo ago
Pretty sure your parent comment was being sarcastic. Why else would they write “choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy”?
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by latexr 4mo ago
> For those who are sympathetic to this idea, look no further than China. Alternatively, do. Don’t stop at the first bad argument, find the good ones too. You can look at the USA itself, for example. https://www.factandmyth.co
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by latexr 4mo ago
> (Apologies to BrandonM for reminding everybody...) BrandonM doesn’t mind: > I really don’t mind the commentary. I’m long past being frustrated about being misinterpreted, and I learned a lot from it, anyway. https://news.
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by latexr 5mo ago
And the work can be considerably harder. Human doctors tend to specialise on a certain area of a single species, and they can communicate with their patients. Veterinaries are expected to know every part of a huge range of species (though t
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by latexr 5mo ago
That’s also the money in the US, not everywhere, and not every veterinarian goes into it for the rural stuff. I know plenty of veterinarians who have zero interest in that, and being vegan don’t even approve of the industry.
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by latexr 5mo ago
That’s just the status quo.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> He and DH Hansson have retained the nerd-dom that made tech interesting/fun/curiosity-driven/charming for an audience with a certain taste in the first place. With them, it at least 'feels' like what you see is
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Virtuous people become doctors I remember when I was in high school knowing a bunch of people who wanted to be doctors (and had good grades). It was strange to me so many people wanted to be doctors so I asked why. The answer was one w
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by latexr 5mo ago
Not only on the front layer, but mostly in the centre too. I just tested it a bunch of times and the overwhelming majority it worked without even moving the claw, it was just grab and release.
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by latexr 5mo ago
A CAPTCHA is not concerned with your biology or philosophy, only with if you’re an automated request.
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by latexr 5mo ago
I’m curious if simply running the original EPUB through Kepubify fixes the problem. https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/
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by latexr 5mo ago
For those with an eReader, one thing that works really well is using pandoc to download and convert a webpage to EPUB that you can then load to your reader. pandoc --from html --to epub --output /PATH/TO/FILE.epub https:&
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by latexr 5mo ago
Regarding the scale of what a billion dollars even means, I've recently been thinking of an example which I think might work (but I haven’t tried it on many people yet). There are 86,400 seconds in a day (24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 s
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by latexr 5mo ago
> So, raw figures alone, doesn't that mean over 50% of Americans are unemployed? No, because “total population” is not the same as “total employable population”. There are children and retired people. Also it’s not clear how “employ
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by latexr 5mo ago
Animations give you clues as to what is happening and how to undo it. A great example is the macOS “genie effect” when minimising windows. A first time user who clicked the minimise button on a window and saw it simply disappear would be lo
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by latexr 5mo ago
You can’t downvote submissions, only comments.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> So is it slop or programmed for perfection, which one is it? I’m not going to comment on the code (I abandoned the page early due to the terrible controls) but there’s no contradiction in that part you’re commenting on. “Slop” doesn’t
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Yes, it's not their fault, that people are using the tool they made in a malicious way. Yeah! It’s not like they predicted these malicious uses before releasing the tools. And it’s not like they’re making them available to a dys
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I interpret it as daydreaming about it. Which is why I said: > apart from having it in their head. But if that’s all you’re doing, there’s no “pain” from finding out it exists. On the contrary, there is plenty of room for joy.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> And I disagree that the author didn't get anything from it. Those were not my words. Clearly they got a game out of it. What I said was they: > didn’t experiment or learn anything from building it Which is unambiguously true. T
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by latexr 5mo ago
> You enjoy toying with your own idea so much, that your brain shields you from the pain of finding out it already exists. Doesn’t look like the author toyed with the idea at all, though, apart from having it in their head. Considering h

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