mcphage

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721.
by mcphage 1y ago
You can get LLMs to write in that tone, because it’s a common tone that people write in. Especially for LinkedIn and MBA essays.
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by mcphage 1y ago
For development work: something like DHH’s “build a blog in 15 minutes” demo. For original work: solving some well known but unsolvable problem, like the Collatz conjecture.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Breanna Taylor tried that, too.
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by mcphage 1y ago
One thing I’ve heard historians mention, that is like to know more about, is that these law stelae, while impressive, aren’t actually referenced in legal cases during their time. So they’re the laws as written, not actually the laws as pra
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well then, keep on fighting the good fight, and hopefully you won’t end up in the gulag.
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by mcphage 1y ago
At what point will you consider it fascist, if anonymous masked police kidnapping people off the streets doesn’t, and building concentration camps doesn’t, and silencing of critical media doesn’t? Are you waiting for a specific number of m
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Say what you want about Trump but he is effective. But then again, all authoritarians are. What? No, they aren’t.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> What if a significant portion of the electorate no longer believes institutions like the EPA are neutral arbiters of science, but instead see them as political actors pushing an agenda? They do, but it’s not a belief they came upon acc
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by mcphage 1y ago
Fox News as the balance for One America News...
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by mcphage 1y ago
I won’t say the original poster meant in the sense that I’m talking. Just that, regardless of how it is meant, I often find it a question that gathers useful answers.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> seems to be consistently anti-war …this is the guy who bombed Iran? > to better represent the people Do you just believe everything that people with power tell you?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I have trouble taking people seriously when they refuse to call things what they are because they don’t want to admit it.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> politically neutral and unbiased I wonder what those words will mean this time?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> And behind that push is the usual suspects, every single time. Who are the usual suspects again?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Your life looks much better than your parents In what way? > and looks much, much, much better than your grandparents I'm not so sure about that one, either—my grandparents had to go to war to kill the Nazis, and it's look
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by mcphage 1y ago
Another factor is, sometimes different forms of words have different pronunciations (because of the phonology of English), but often the same spelling: compare "electric" where the final "c" has a hard K sound, and &quot
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by mcphage 1y ago
To do that, they need some sort of sensors to determine how much heat your bread has received. And that's hardware, and that costs money per unit. So: no way.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I see these sorts of comments all the time and I have to say that I don't find they add much to the conversation. I think it's a valid question—sometimes things end up on the front page just because . And sometimes there&#x
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I can’t think of a single other thing the government should do Have you ever flushed a toilet before ?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The private company can fail. Unfortunately, they don't fail often, and we've seen the government bailing companies out so they don't fail. But in the end, it's a moot point—even when companies fail, they are replac
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Letting people keep more of the money they earned through productive work is how we increase wealth. This isn’t even remotely true.
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by mcphage 1y ago
This is a "rip to ur grandma but im different" meme in the wild!
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Government agencies that spend massive amounts of tax dollars while accomplishing nothing and being net-negative for society. I’ve spent my entire career working for wasteful companies who accomplish nothing and are net-negative for so
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by mcphage 1y ago
> you are not the one paying We are, though. > have no consequences for success or failure Oh, the consequences for the failures of this administration will be felt by everyone, for decades.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> No matter how charismatic he is I don't think he could convince me to do anything at dinner, like try to kill a waiter. I’m sure lots of people thought that.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I figured he must have some sort of charisma in person that is off the charts to be able to talk so many people into doing so many terrible things. I thought that would probably make him an interesting person for a dinner conversation.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> “No censorship" doesn't mean "says cringelord far right shit" It doesn’t, but it turns out the people who complain that they’re being censored are the people who also say cringelord far right shit.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I think Apple (and Meta) are making an unforced error by not developing a few compelling apps to spark broader interest in their VR devices. I think if they were able to develop compelling VR apps, they would have. I don’t think it’s a
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by mcphage 1y ago
> It would be even more embarrassing if we didn't cut back on non-essential spending. Boy are you going to feel bad as you watch what happens to the debt over the next few years.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> And this "subsidy" funded by investors will not last. That’s what they said about Uber, too, but it’s still around.

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