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It sounds like you are using your todo list more as a way to keep track of what I’d call “goals”. I mostly use a todo list like GP said, for example, “take out the trash”, “donate clothes”, “clean room”; they’re all vague tasks but I know w
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There are quite a few scary things about this. For one, who’s to say everyone will have access to this (or similar) technology? It will further concentrate wealth in the hands of the few. Also, since that increased productivity is not comin
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Not to mention, that “14% higher productivity” headline translated to an under 2% increase in resolved issues.
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What you are proposing is great in a black-and-white world where some party is doing something strictly “bad” and harming society for their own gain, but it’s disingenuous to pretend that everything is “good” or “bad” behavior. A lot of peo
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Aside from emergent behavior, are any of the items on that list unique to AI? They sure don’t seem it; they’re either broadly applicable to a number of already-available technologies, or to any entity in charge or providing advice or making
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I believe OOP is generally overused (no, you don’t need a zero-member class to provide related functions; static class members are a code smell; etc.), but I don’t follow what you’re saying. From my perspective as someone who is just learni
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You don’t have to use the language if you don’t like it or if you don’t agree with its design decisions. It sounds like you don’t like anything about the language, so adding named parameters won’t win you over.
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I continue to wonder how much computing power and human time is wasted on grotesquely sub optimal code.
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Excluding someone else from a group doesn’t make someone an asshole. Every group has one or some thing(s) that separate them from the rest, otherwise they’d never have formed a group. Maybe it’s a vision, or a goal, or a belief, but there’s
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There are a lot of replies beneath you attacking Musk and his vision/execution on Twitter. They mostly address the second half of your post, but most people are ignoring the first half. A prominent media outlet is running what amounts
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GP does have something right, though. Throwing more money at a problem does not always yield a faster or improved solution. This is well-known in software, but maybe not in other fields. Money needs to go to educating and recruiting more pe
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I don’t think there is an objective ranking of worths of humans. What is valuable is inherently subjective. Everyone has a different value system. However, I believe there is a large amount of overlap, especially in the extremes. Most peopl
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I’ve heard similar statements from other people, and I have a disconnect that prevents me from understanding. Why would someone want to detach their self worth from what they do? If someone ought not feel a negative emotion in response to d
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I’m a software engineer now. In my past I worked as a landscaper. I prefer my current job because of the money, but I found an incredible calm in spreading mulch. It was hard work and I’d return home exhausted every day, but it was a great
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I saw this first-hand at a defense contractor. A lot of the work is classified, so it needs to be done in-office. The group of in-office workers definitely harbored a lot of anger toward the out-of-office “no-work-from-home” workers. It doe
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Why do you care so much about school shootings specifically? Shouldn’t be the goal to reduce overall child mortality? In which case it doesn’t make sense to focus on school shootings. They’re a rounding error in child mortality. Compare act
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Yes, I understand. Do you not understand that every child in this country is acutely aware of the existence of school shootings, and for many of them it absolutely is a cause of significant anxiety, because the media has shown them school s
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> School shootings are such a regular feature of American life […] Media certainly amplifies the awareness of problems Case in point: in 2022 there were 51 school shootings [1]. Certainly more than I’d like there to be, but in a nation w
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My girlfriend browses Reddit often so I’ve had the chance to see how a self-proclaimed heavy user interacts with the platform. After seeing that, it makes sense to me why the platform is how it is when compared to isolated forums or discuss
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I have some bad news for you…
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Recipe writers in my experience lie about the duration it takes to accomplish anything. I have yet to follow a recipe and finish it in the prescribed amount of time. It’s very frustrating because it can ruin planning entirely. For example,
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You may have better success in a smaller caloric deficit. 1000-1200 calories a day is very few and that’s a very fast pace of weight loss. Try removing 500 calories or 10% of your calories. Progress will be slower, but you may feel much bet
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I’ve wanted to try Colemak for years now, but living in a QWERTY world where I may have to operate on other keyboards, other machines, etc., has discouraged me. Maybe Colemak is better, but the benefit it provides isn’t enough to entice me,
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I’m glad people are enjoying Ozempic. My experience from seeing a family member on it, is I would not touch it if I were a 500-pound alcoholic smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. That’s an exaggeration since it probably outweighs the hea
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Is a Chi-squared statistical test really appropriate in this situation? I’ve never seen one used in this way; I would’ve used a normal distribution to test the hypothesis. At least, that’s what my college statistics memory tells me to do.
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On a given trade, they might be required to provide a benefit to their customers, but what are they able to do with the combined data that is all the others they handle? Surely they are able to manipulate securities based on this data and s
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> "How can we get food to them?" Chomsky told YouTube's Primo Radical on Sunday. "Well, that's actually their problem." What if a majority group, maybe white Americans, decided that a minority group, maybe o
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Does it seem crazy to anyone else that the FDIC is levying a “special assessment”? The I in FDIC is insurance - the fund should have enough money to cover bank failures at the rate they are expected, much like an insurance company would, no
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This is a great concept! Thanks for sharing. I do have to wonder, though, if this is a Band-Aid over the problem of sensationalist reporting. Assuming there is a market for “boring” news (I think there is; I’d like to read it!), wouldn’t it
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I recently started learning Spanish via Language Transfer’s Complete Spanish program. The instructor always says something similar. Stop, think, then go. Don’t rush it. I have not yet seen a situation where the student in the course didn’t

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