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by mathieuh 2y ago
You can use the word “miracle” without ascribing any metaphysical meaning. It obviously just means “an incredibly unlikely event” in this instance.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
It’s the same for me. I genuinely don’t understand how I can be having such a completely different experience from the people who rave about ChatGPT. Every time I’ve tried it’s been useless. How can some people think it’s amazing and has co
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by mathieuh 2y ago
I imagine they are not from an anglophone country and see 9.11 as 9*11
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by mathieuh 2y ago
The mechanism of baldness is related to the mechanism of growing a beard isn’t it? For me personally I started going bald in my mid-20s, and since then as I lose hair off the top of my head it seems to reappear on my face. So perhaps it’s j
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by mathieuh 2y ago
The built-in translation feature in Google Chrome translated it pretty much perfectly idiomatically for me
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Yes same for me on guitar. If I try to play something too slowly or if I really start thinking about what I'm doing it all falls apart. I think that's when you really know a piece, when you can play it incredibly slowly. Paradoxic
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Doesn’t work with Slack at least. I’ve had an iTerm window running `caffeinate -disu` for years. I think it used to work and stopped working in the last few months.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Well yes, if you disregard the fact that the last four years of realising that WFH is not only possible but preferable for workers happened. It's backsliding from a situation that was advantageous for many workers. For many people it&#
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by mathieuh 2y ago
I have to agree with you. It took me until I'd got quite far through their comment to realise they were talking negatively about WFH and not being in-office.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
On the point that the prisoners have to prove that they’re no longer a danger: in some cases that means completing courses which are completely inaccessible to the prisoners due to cutbacks.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
I agree with Sacks. While taking large doses of LSD or DMT I had experiences with what felt like otherworldly entities, or a sense that some cosmic revelation was imminent, but once I'd come down I didn't think something had been
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by mathieuh 2y ago
It's not quite the same as a traditional hallucinogen but there are some vivid dreams. In fact, that's where the term "pipe dream" comes from, from the dreams that opium smokers would have while high. I have taken a lot
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Sometimes these CEOs and "leaders" make mask-off comments and it just demonstrates the gulf between how they and normal people think. It can be quite frightening sometimes to imagine that these kinds of people are the people who w
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by mathieuh 2y ago
It's the same in a few subreddits I frequent as well. Loads of accounts, all a couple of days old, all making the same or similar comments in a tone of voice that is completely different from the tone people usually use in those subred
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Just as our ancestors did.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
So what, we should just sit back and not try to improve things? I’ve never understood this perspective. It just seems like a way to try for people who have done well in the current system to justify to themselves the fact that in reality pe
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Trains accelerate and decelerate relatively often compared to planes where you only really notice changes in velocity at take-off and landing so I don't think it would make a difference
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by mathieuh 2y ago
That’s Lord Lebedev to you. Almost unbelievably he was given a peerage by Boris Johnson. It was a big story in the UK for a while, Johnson also attended a party at Lebedev’s villa in Italy after a NATO conference.
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by mathieuh 2y ago
I hope the Israelis manage to kick out this government, reading about what some of them were up to is astonishing. Particularly Ben-Gvir[0], he seems like a horrible piece of work with his repeated calls for genocide, but none of the rest o
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Journalism seems like possibly the worst industry to do this. As so-called "AI" becomes omnipresent I think people are going to be crying out for things written by real people instead of the LLM-generated drivel that is already ta
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by mathieuh 2y ago
Making people pay for bail is an almost exclusively USA thing. Doesn't seem to be causing many problems in the rest of the world to assess bail on criteria other than "is able to afford it".
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by mathieuh 2y ago
That doesn't make any sense. What makes hunting any more natural than agriculture? Isn't exerting control over our environment one of the defining characteristics of humanity?
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by mathieuh 2y ago
The trends aren’t really useful either unless you are recording strenuous exercise with the watch. I do a lot of cycling and my fitness in terms of how much power I can put out and for how long and my average heart rate for the same power h
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Well, to use a quote from Anatole France who put it more pithily: > In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
That site doesn't seem great, but according to Wiktionary "assay" is a doublet of "essay", i.e. the origin is the same but they were borrowed into English via two different sources. "Assay" came via Norman
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Yeah I am learning standard notation and I do look at the standard notation for pieces to look at the instructions from the composer. I mean, I can read music but and I could figure out how to play baroque music from standard notation, I wo
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I'm completely self-taught, so while I am teaching myself to read music I'm learning baroque music through tab. It's just too frustrating for me to try reading complicated standard notation at the moment. My main resources fo
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I love 998. The bass-line in the allegro especially is so punchy, especially coming after the fugue. Always a pleasure to listen to David Russell. My favourite of his is his arrangement of Handel's passacaglia from HWV 432: https:&#x2
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I came to Bach only recently, I bought a classical guitar a couple of years ago and just over the last eight months or so I've been really getting into baroque music. I don't know why I didn't appreciate it before, I guess I
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Modern music albums aren't really written with that in mind in my experience. They're optimised for people skipping through playlists in a streaming service, not going on a journey through an album.

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