marssaxman

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by marssaxman 2mo ago
The passionate hunger to do something significant and meaningful with my life was a major reason I took care never to have any children. Having grown up in a large family within a religious subculture full of other large families, the amoun
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Firefox is now the only major browser, because it supports uBlock Origin.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
This member of the public thinks the entire immigration system is a racist joke, and welcomes any and every means of circumventing it.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
I found the problem: the site can't handle a portrait-ratio browser window like I always use. After stretching the window out wide, the layout works.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Motorcycling gets like that for me, flying down a wide-open highway out in the countryside on a clear day... The bike ceases to be a machine I am operating and becomes an extension of my self, my mind immersed in the experience, full of the
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
This is an interesting premise, and I would like to read the article, but the weird scrolling makes that almost impossible; the pictures overlay the text to such an extent that I can only read a couple of lines at a time. I wish there were
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
I can't do anything with a div, much less center it - I haven't touched web-tech in twenty years, but I've been a programmer the whole time.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Just like compiler-generated machine code, then.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Well, I guess I'm giving up the fight to keep paying any attention to Facebook, then. It was only tolerable with an adblocker.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
That is exactly my position.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
> No one says literally infinite growth. The previous poster said "degrowth is such a stupid idea", which amounts to the same thing. > We are nearing catastrophe because of our carbon-producing energy sources, but that'
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
It sounds like you agree with the premise, then, that there are planetary limits, and that growth must ultimately end: you are simply looking at different limits, and you see a lot of runway left. People who are looking at ecological limits
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Degrowth is simply a refusal to engage in magical thinking. You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet: growth must therefore have an end. Would we prefer to choose a gentle mode of deceleration which keeps us comfortable along the
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
"I'm surprised how much people hate this thing when this other thing, which they also hate, is even worse"?
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
Does snapping a photo with a camera count as making your own painting?
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
A classic tale from the music production world comes to mind: "I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programmi
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
All five of the ones named, yes - in fact Zürich is the biggest engineering center outside the US. The majority of Google sites do engineering work.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
I used to work in the Seattle office, but I wouldn't have had the first idea how to get anything like this changed.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
That completely tracks coming from people who work in a place laid out like this : https://maps.app.goo.gl/JHQPdvSStnr6jfm77
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
All of this has been true ever since people started building large numbers of datacenters back in the 90s, but nobody organized protests about it until "datacenters" became a local proxy for "AI".
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
instead of complaining about what's here, why not go add what you feel is missing?
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
I did that and more when I was trying to get my startup off the ground, but never since and never again.
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by marssaxman 2mo ago
I lost my desire to learn anything about web development twenty years ago and specialized my career in a completely different direction. I had not touched HTML at all since then until earlier this year, when I discovered that AI robots coul
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
For me it is exactly the opposite. AI makes it so easy to create test fixtures and run experiments that I now spend much more time validating ideas than I could ever afford to do before. When I write code for production, it's not &quot
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
When you have violent intruders breaking into your house through the window, it's reasonable that "these must be police officers, here to arrest me over a misunderstanding, and I should calmly cooperate with them so I won't b
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Of course it has organic origins: where else could the LLM have learned it?
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Open source software eats the world.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
Not sure how you get to "I think I am very smart" from "this guy thinks he is very smart, and his writing invariably highlights that belief to the detriment of whatever he's actually trying to communicate"... For al
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
That's funny - I always align the screws in the wall plates when I (re)install them, but imagined that to be an idiosyncratic bit of fastidiousness. I've never noticed anyone else having done it.
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by marssaxman 3mo ago
> At the moment email's gui is horrible on all platforms without exception. This is obviously a matter of opinion. Of course there are endless different email GUIs, on all the platforms; if you don't like one, there are many al

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