mLuby

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by mLuby 4y ago
Really wish there were a Markdown equivalent for this.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Is there a website or CLI that turns the phone tree back into a proper text interface?
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by mLuby 4y ago
The steelman arguments help, thanks for sharing those. > 1. Not society's responsibility to help the downtrodden Sadly, this fits the evidence. Thankfully most religions and ethical systems don't agree with it. This worldview i
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by mLuby 4y ago
> Why should some freeloader get a free place to live when I have to pay. You too can have this "free" housing; all it will cost is your choice of living location and proving that you're incredibly poor. If that sounds lik
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by mLuby 4y ago
> There's still people out there… recommending a full discharge every time, even though that advice has been obsolete for decades The battery UX should hide this implementation detail from the user. If 20/80% is 0/100%, ju
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by mLuby 4y ago
Please don't. The web lives and dies by links, the more specific the better, so #to-an-id or #:~:text=to-search are so much more useful than bad state management that probably only works for that one logged-in user anyway. Put that sta
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by mLuby 4y ago
Clickbaity title is referring to a solar flare EMPing the electrical grid.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Agreed. Especially the more diff-driven development we do.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Can it differentiate laughing and crying?
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by mLuby 4y ago
Relevant https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by mLuby 4y ago
Oh cool, didn't know it could do that so easily. GraphViz is really something.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Very nice. I just solved it with GraphViz: https://gist.github.com/mLuby/d184c08c507fa03292c72acb38a146...
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by mLuby 4y ago
The argument by analogy, as I understood it, was the following. Internet idealism : Internet negatives¹ :: longevity idealism : longevity negatives² ¹flaming & porn ²scarcity & overpopulation In the context of a discussion a
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by mLuby 4y ago
It's survivorship bias—where bias means skewed from the full distribution of choices people and societies made, not bias as in discrimination. Most of the families and societies that didn't prioritize population growth (by reprodu
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by mLuby 4y ago
> We're already destroying our only planet with 7 billion people living only 72 years on average. Because we only live a short while, we don't take a long view and there's a soft cap on society's accumulated wisdom
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by mLuby 4y ago
Don't get lost in the metaphor.
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by mLuby 4y ago
> It's not clear to me there was ever a time people were properly compensated for the amount of work they do. It's not a new problem. 150y ago Marx called this exploitation of laborers the extraction of surplus value. Slavery i
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by mLuby 4y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/kilopower
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by mLuby 4y ago
Children of the Omnissiah would be better if there were a percussion blob. https://youtu.be/fTuEjTuvd_Y
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by mLuby 4y ago
> Sometimes you can't give a shit what other people think about you That worked when gossip didn't travel farther than the next town. Just when young people are given more viable ways to live than ever to pick from, they'r
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by mLuby 4y ago
Airlines are not a cartel (controlling supply to keep prices high). If anything they're the opposite: high competition on a substitutable service has dropped prices. It is however a capital-intensive, highly regulated industry that pro
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by mLuby 4y ago
That's just GraphQL with fewer steps.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Tangent: Guatemala remains one of my favorite travels. The Mayan ruins are stunning, especially Tikal (Yavin 4 for you Star Wars fans), you can hike on volcanos or in jungles, and I can't recommend enough the old Spanish city of Antigu
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by mLuby 4y ago
Try the tuna tostadas at La Capital.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Pick your poison: 1) Status Quo Capitalism: full employment in manual labor poverty-line jobs combined with personalized opiates of the masses (endless entertainment, outrage news/comments, actual medication, etc) to keep the proles lo
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by mLuby 4y ago
Better hope your rating never takes a "nosedive" where you lose access to your means of transportation. See the Black Mirror episode of that name.
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by mLuby 4y ago
It also encourages that bedriddenness in the name of safety. The movie "surrogates" explores this a bit (not a particularly good movie though).
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by mLuby 4y ago
Implicit in your assumption is that nobody in the future will ever have the means and eccentric interest to want to revive these people. If we could revive an iceman today, we absolutely would have, if not for science than for profit. O
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by mLuby 4y ago
> I doubt overuse of a “happy button” brain implant is going to kill you An addiction needn't kill you to destroy your life. The better outcome for this technology is a user-settable mood regulator, not a user-pressable happy butt
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by mLuby 4y ago
What if there were no terms, it's just "if you can, you may." Of course subject to laws (like fraud or vandalism) and the company's moderation efforts, of course.

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