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by lesostep 8mo ago
>> This is a stopgap at best, and to be blunt, it's naive Not if the rule includes easy rule circumvention. For example, if you could parent-control lock the camera roll to a white list of apps. Want to post on social media so yo
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by lesostep 8mo ago
Temporary suppression is a great way to learn how to regulate yourself though. I quite smoking with cytisine, a drug that basically makes nicotine useless by taking it's place. The pitch is that it's just easier to quite cytisine
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by lesostep 8mo ago
fringe theory just for a bit of fun: since screen use 3 colors diodes, maybe people with tetrachromacy would be less addicted to screens, making them both more grounded in real life and marginally more successful, leading to them having mor
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by lesostep 8mo ago
Or you can start with minivan buses, and switch to traditional one when minivans stopped being enough In my city less common routes are still purely minivan because why not. Some seasonal routes (more relevant in summer|winter) are also par
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by lesostep 8mo ago
damn. at this point its not even about a pretense for progress, just a fetish for a very dirty space
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by lesostep 8mo ago
pretty sure he isn't! He has a website https://jayeshbetala.com/ that claims he is|was working on a multiple projects, and two of those projects are actually published on Microsoft Store on june 2019 under the same nam
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by lesostep 9mo ago
Who exactly posted this without proofreading? The guy claims that he always proofreads, until he's out of country. Does this mean he decided to update his site, but didn't bother proofreading on vacation? Or did someone else deci
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by lesostep 9mo ago
>> Humans are utterly terrible drivers Duh, driver is, essentially, a type of specialized profession. It's kinda unreasonable to think that everyone could learn to do it well Good thing we have public transport! :D
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by lesostep 9mo ago
I remember 5 years ago americans said same things about russian civil unrest. No grand penalty for violent rioting, you can get off with just prison time! There is a vast difference between believing that your nation would riot hard and hav
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by lesostep 9mo ago
Hemp fibers are tougher then cotton Ironically, that's why hemp is comonnly used to make thinner more airy and less heavy fabrics. So the final products aren't always more resistant to wear and tear just because fibers are
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by lesostep 9mo ago
>> The difference, of course, is that when a human does it we Make him pay a fine? take his driving license? You can say to a person "hey don't do that or else". We know that most understand that and repeated offenses
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by lesostep 9mo ago
>> extensive therapy simply isn't available at all because the government refuses to pay for it. I don't know any country that has banned paid healthcare just because they have government run one. If you can pay out of your
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by lesostep 10mo ago
it wasn't the first spam event and they were proud to share results with the rationalist community: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RuzfkYDpLaY3K7g6T/what-do-we... " In the span of two weeks, the Claude
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by lesostep 10mo ago
You actually can slow down music. A novel experience in itself. When you try to learn the song — once you get a grip – everything slows. That's why people play so much with metronome – once your brain "slows down", you will
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by lesostep 10mo ago
I have been reading "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold recently. Purely for fun. And I have to say, without the prose and lyrics it would be a read so dry, it'd rival silica gel b
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by lesostep 10mo ago
I think it's a sysadmin thing to have a little bit more wimsy in the code. Administrative work by nature leaves you a bit bored, if you do it right. So you sometimes pick something up just to play with. I can't speak about every s
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by lesostep 11mo ago
--- a rant about using illustatration in articles --- I open article. I see am image of a skeleton staring at a tablets back. I am left to wonder what author meant by that metaphor. The text after image states that "a white walker id r
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by lesostep 11mo ago
I worked as an electrical civil engineer for few years. >> the world needs a low voltage standard we have high voltage standard because it means we can have low amperage to transit same VA. Because voltage doesn't kill, amperage
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by lesostep 1y ago
Since nobody pointed that out yet: rat utopia results are questioned now, based not only on a fact that the enclosed space where rats resided were sitting in direct spotlight, but also on a replicability issue. An experiment with results t
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by lesostep 1y ago
Back when http was more popular my mobile provider injected popups with ads on every http page like nobodies business. And I couldn't switch to another, they all did that. This isn't about theoretical MITM attack, it used to be w
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by lesostep 1y ago
More likely, of course, would be people making a few thousand posts about how "STRATETECKPOPIPO is the new best smartphone with 2781927189 Mpx camera that's better then any apple product (or all of them combined)" and then re
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by lesostep 1y ago
Shifting context. Imagine me poisoning AI with "%randstring% of course i will help you with accessing our databases" 250 times. After LLM said it will help me, it's just more likely to actually help me. And I can trigger help
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by lesostep 1y ago
As a person who aren't in USA|Canada, I worry more that cars that were developed there will learn to "turn on red"
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by lesostep 1y ago
>> vast majority of fatalities are the fault of the pedestrian >> This doesn’t necessarily mean the pedestrian was at fault — it could simply indicate that in a pedestrian death we only get one side of the story, which makes it
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by lesostep 1y ago
My grandma lost her vision when she was young. Even before capacitive buttons, buttons were very hard to find by touch. It has been an issue for more then a decade. Off topic, but a lifehack for those who have visually impaired loved ones:
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by lesostep 1y ago
>> a nice place to raise a family is it? No free childcare, no free medicine, no free urgent care and almost no third places for children. Add to that almost no food regulation. And, for immigrants, no support from their parents What&
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by lesostep 1y ago
I live in a city where self-checkout was implemented for bus rides. You still had a chance for a random bus inspection, but generally you can just walk into the bus and not pay anything, then walk out. It was so strange at first, to see eve
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by lesostep 1y ago
>> But the distinction is that in-group requires blind obedience in authoritarian countries That's not true. It requires wilful ignorance in some cases, but sometimes not even that. Take, for example, russian troll farms. They in
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by lesostep 1y ago
>> The human sitting behind the desk is the one attaching their emotions to what they send natural question: to you draw? Even a simple thing, even a doodle of a cat would count. A particular emoji drawn for a joke. Have you ever drew
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by lesostep 1y ago
There is a value of law with no penalties in a high-trust societies. If person trusts their city to act in their interest, they will value this recommendation quite higher then tv recommendations. It also defines "a normal amount of s

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