morleytj

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by morleytj 1y ago
It's cool and I'm glad it sounds like it's getting more reliable, but given the types of things people have been saying GPT-5 would be for the last two years you'd expect GPT-5 to be a world-shattering release rather tha
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by morleytj 1y ago
In the US a doctorate usually doesn't require a master's, most people go straight from undergrad to phd.
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by morleytj 1y ago
I was under the impression that the majority of recent analysis pointed to the interpretation that most of the claimed blue zones were primarily marked as such due to poor record keeping rather than true super ager status. Is Sardinia an ex
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by morleytj 1y ago
I've thought the same thing. Would love if other people were into that. I'd ask you to consider the following thought experiment. If the regulatory barriers are lower to establish a nightlife business establishment without alcohol
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by morleytj 1y ago
Businesses that sell alcohol make a lot of money, businesses that don't tend to go out of business. Wish it weren't so (I don't drink alcohol, personally), but that's the economics of it.
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by morleytj 1y ago
A similar situation in the US can be seen in Boston. Historically terrible nightlife and for easily explained reasons. Liquor licenses are distributed by the state at a capped amount that can potentially be increased each year, meaning the
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by morleytj 1y ago
Really interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I think in so many fields the datasets are by far the highest impact thing someone can work on, even if it seems a bit mundane and boring. Basically every field I've worked in struggl
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by morleytj 1y ago
This is a huge issue for me with a lot of sites. For whatever reason I've spent a lot of time in my life in areas with high latency or jist spotty internet service in general, and a lot of these modern sites with massive payload sizes
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by morleytj 1y ago
The article technically does have a TLDR in the second paragraph, though not directly labelled.
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by morleytj 1y ago
One of the classic emergent behaviors (which I loved) that came from Dwarf Fortress was the cats dying of alcohol poisoning. There was a patch note years and years ago about a bugfix that had to happen because all the cats were mysteriously
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by morleytj 1y ago
The Sound and the Fury is an incredible piece of art with a beautifully structured narrative, in my reading of it. Why do you say he's a terrible writer in your opinion? Who would you rank higher?
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by morleytj 1y ago
It's probably horrifying!
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by morleytj 1y ago
Who hates you in particular? What do you mean by that? Also, that's fine to have a conversation about funding, but it's fairly different from arrests, deportations, and shipping individuals to foreign prisons. Rather motte and bai
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by morleytj 1y ago
So you're fine with them arresting dissenters as long as you disagree with the dissenters? That's fairly antithetical to the ideas expressed in the US constitution.
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by morleytj 2y ago
This is a really beautiful sentiment, it's interesting to look more at our careers as stewards of a lasting organization in some ways, where every iteration of some product is dependent on the existence of work done before. Even with e
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by morleytj 2y ago
Now that you mention it, I have always enjoyed that general feeling of resourcefulness. I've talked about this with other people, but given my fairly eclectic background I usually feel like I can handle a pretty wide variety of problem
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by morleytj 2y ago
Will do! :) Ascutney is great -- I definitely recommend starting from the Brownsville trailhead, there's an oddly beautiful view partway up where the abandoned mining operation has some remaining tracks leading out along a thin little
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by morleytj 2y ago
That's my bad! Thank you for the correction. It is an incredible comment, haha, as you can tell I still think about it semi-regularly. Incredible that the issue is still open as well. Best of luck with the dining table! I took a good l
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by morleytj 2y ago
I'd never heard of that, that's an extremely cool connection! I'll check out acoup.blog now, it sounds intriguing. Thank you for telling me about it!
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by morleytj 2y ago
Your point is a bit strangely stated. If just doing physical activity and sensory engagement is all you think a person needs to balance, why not just lift weights or go for a run? Why fantasize about milking a cow? There's clearly more
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by morleytj 2y ago
RIP, I didn't realize there was a flamewar detector, I probably shouldn't have replied to so many comments, haha.
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by morleytj 2y ago
I've definitely struggled with that feeling in my work as well. When I was growing up, the metric for having done something were things like: All the hay is baled and we moved it all into a loft, or we finished shingling the roof. Work
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by morleytj 2y ago
Running a farm is a ton of work, exactly. The difference of having the ample injections of cash and not having them is pretty huge, especially when it comes to how common the issues that pop up when trying to run a modern farm are, and how
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by morleytj 2y ago
That's fair, I think there are some people (like that initial hn post I reference) who such as yourself really are just people who really enjoy that sort of lifestyle. But I also think that societally we put a lot of value and for lack
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by morleytj 2y ago
It depends on the job for sure, but you're certainly not wrong that many technical jobs have a negative societal impact. I had a hard time finding jobs I actually wanted to apply to after college because I strongly disliked the idea of
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by morleytj 2y ago
I think the dual interesting aspects for me are as follows: Why is farming or woodworking seen as less alienating than being at a computer? And why does it feel so impossible for us to form the communities that would give us the kind of mea
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by morleytj 2y ago
Thank you, I appreciate it! I've been wanting to write things more often that aren't just for work, so I was thinking I'd try to write blog posts like this to practice.
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by morleytj 2y ago
Definitely a big part of it -- I think that sitting in front of a computer all day is a situation that makes you feel detached from your work, and it's harder to feel like it has meaning. I wrote this largely because I was curious to d
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