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by mathgeek 1y ago
You should have an interactive demo as a way to show folks your product is real before asking for their Google account. Right now it’s easy to assume this is plussed up and not really offering what folks expect.
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Some people can, some can’t.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Depends on how far you go back with the language. https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/10/harebrained-hairbrain...
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Might be confusing terms here. Vigorous exercise tends to describe high intensity rather than high volume.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> Why would a philosopher be a good source for this instead of an anthropologist, an economist, a statistician, or a student of comparative revolutions? (Not commenting on the actual claim above you.) Philosophers often make popular sour
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by mathgeek 1y ago
While I love a good lamentation about how much more fun the internet used to be, this has nothing to do with the title.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
This led me on a tangent that eventually took me to this line on Wikipedia: “Humans have visited the Moon and sent human-made spacecraft to other celestial bodies, becoming the first known species to do so.” How would we know if we’re the f
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> You don’t want a dictator being able to take a picture of a protesting crowd and identify people based on that. This is already a reality and while it’s a very valid concern, I wouldn’t be too worried about such a small scale project m
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Determine what level of risk and lifestyle you are comfortable with and act accordingly. There’s no shame in working a blue collar job if you want to prioritize putting food on the table, for example. You are not defined by your title unles
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> If that were truly the LLM's "paperclip", then how far would it be willing to go? While I'm assuming you didn't mean it literally, language is important, so let's remember that an LLM does not have any wil
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Which sites have you found with this feature in the US? Every one I have ever used adds various fees to whatever price shows on the listings.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
I assumed GP meant for the handwashing part. General advice I've always seen is to wash your hands before touching contacts.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Generally it's attributed to the time around WW2, which for Americans included the effects of rationing as well as being exposed to prepackaged foods while deployed. Throw in a bunch of marketing and nationalism and the breadcrumbs sta
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> Dozens of us would appreciate it. I could even watch a small Netflix series about this, tbh Sure, but you'd spend the rest of your life lamenting that the second season got cancelled, never finding out the answer to the cliffhange
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Consider that the folks complaining about one thing can be different groups from the ones complaining about another.
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This is still rent seeking behavior in an industry that pivoted from a live services and paid ownership model.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
The practical difference is you're using someone else's resources (hardware, utilities, etc.) or your own.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> In my experience it’s much better to spend much more time on a target application to a company you’ve researched and maybe reached out to people or met current employees. This works for some folks, and not for others. Many of us have a
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by mathgeek 1y ago
The actual claim in the blog post: > Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Magic is one of those hobbies that defines many folks’ personalities from their youth. We identify with it long after we stop living the lifestyle.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
One of my favorite parts of living in Central Florida is watching the rockets take off every few days. Sadly a lot of the launches lately have been daytime or in the middle of the night, but seeing Falcon Heavy split off during the holidays
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> I think I'm missing something; if you can embed arbitrary JavaScript in the SVG, why is a click necessary to make that JavaScript run? And if JavaScript on your page can exploit CSRF on Facebook, why is embedding it in an SVG nece
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by mathgeek 1y ago
If it’s that bad for wealthy folks, imagine the impact on everyone else.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
McDonalds broadly rolled out touchscreen ordering after covid became a thing. That’s why it gets called out in these discussions.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
> It is not contact with people, the weather affects your immune system too. Did you mean not _just_ contact with people? Many folks who isolated during covid saw a reduction in illnesses regardless of season.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Yeah, anecdotally no one I know exemplifies that finding. Everyone who had had to job search ran into a ton of competition and either beat them all out or is under-/unemployed currently. Only way I could see the finding of reduced labo
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by mathgeek 1y ago
This got me wondering if an actual answer would be folks with brain injuries.
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by mathgeek 1y ago
Which I find really sad because at one point OSX had search quality that was really satisfying. That was maybe twenty years ago for me.
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There’s a key difference between ignoring a behavior and profiting from it.
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It existed when I lived in Pennsylvania, but it always had a “if you exceed this threshold consistently we will move you to a metered plan” conditional. More a way to plan your budget than truly unlimited.

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