mrweasel

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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Honestly it doesn't matter much, go grab a random book from goodwill. If you do "need" a recommendation, I'd suggest "Roots", I'm reading it now and it's amazingly well written. One suggestion I would
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
You absolutely can learn orally, what I'd question is if you can do so without active listening. Listing to anything while doing, well anything, is pretty pointless to me, I tends to not listen and not absorb anything. I can barely lis
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Do they make it up on volume or is postal workers just incredibly cheap?
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Amazons checkout is terrible though. Maybe it's better if you're in the US, but here you're not told the actual price, after currency conversion and shipping costs until the very last minute. Their shipping is awful, because
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Yeeeeey for living in a country where physical mail is prohibitively expensive. A standard letter, 2 - 5 business days, costs $3.50.
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
The fact that Amazon doesn't care enough to implement this filter themselves is a strong indicator to just not buy of the site. Amazon doesn't give a shit if you're being hustled. If they have to issue a refund, that's t
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
> why wouldn't they just sell it? Because someone who cares might buy the brand and do something good with it and be a competitor. ID Software is still a strong brand, and it the hands of another gaming studio it might pose a threat
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Compute (and IP theft) is the raw materials being used by the AI companies to build their products (the models). It doesn't make sense to compare OpenAIs or Anthropics compute spend to that of our average software company, because diff
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
That is sadly also true, hence my "or devolve as a society". Educating girls, and young women, results in fewer children, but it also yield richer and honestly better societies. You'd struggle to find a rich, first world coun
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Just a thought, based on my own experience. If you have children, or is about to have a baby, you start being around more parents or "parents to be". Either as part of parenting groups, in conjunction with daycare, schools or pare
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Yes, and it's not working, birthrates are still declining. The one factor that more than anything triggers declining birthrates are the level of education among women. We're going to have to adjust to smaller populations, unless w
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
I've only worked for one company that actually did proper QA testing. It's expensive and time consuming and often the main functionality is okay, so many just skips QA altogether. It is probably daily that I encounter products and
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
While I do enjoy the Django ORM, for many queries SQL is just better. It's almost as if it was designed for querying database. Once you hit a certain level of complexity in your queries, you're better of with SQL. It's not th
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Personally I believe very few people to be actually evil, but it's a question of definition. To me, you need to be deliberate to be evil. E.g. Elon Musk isn't evil (I think), he's just insane. Peter Thiel might actually be ev
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Yeah, you're right, I edited it just now. I rewrote parts of the comment and moved things around and didn't re-read the whole thing.
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
The title is a weird. Ineffective? At doing what? This is an interesting quote from Zuckerberg: > trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected Combine that
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
That might only be part of the issue. There has been some "experiments" where people are asked if they'd prefer to give up their phone for some period of time, or go without sex in that same period. Women were more likely to
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
He might be scared that his ad business won't be as profitable in a few years. He'll still be rich, but perhaps that's not enough for him. He has all the correct number and knows exactly how many of their users are bots and h
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
If we took the money Accenture spends on tokens so that their staff can convert PDFs to presentations(1) we can probably fund a school or two. 1) https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies...
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
For me it's often a foot sprain, but exercising has made it less frequent.
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
80% of my injuries occurred while sleeping, which seems very weird.
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
There's certainly a point to reducing scrutiny online. However when companies are forced to do this verification, I just question why a photo of a password is considered "good enough", when it clearly isn't. I don't
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
This is the problem with pretty much all of the EUs attempts of getting away from US infrastructure. One of the VISA/MasterCard alternative is also a bloody app, on a smartphone, with an operating system from one of two US software gig
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
Different countries handle these things differently, but it's honestly surprising to me that a photo of a passport or drivers license have any value. It provides no security, so why would anyone ever accept it a proof of identity?
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
That's a lovely little article. Thank you.
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by mrweasel 3mo ago
There's so little joy and happiness left in computing. Reverting to the older style of icons, plus perhaps a few UI tweaks, certainly help bring a bit of whimsical back into the macOS platform. That's something many of us would lo
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Dude, that's C.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Sadly it's happening in a number of stores, so I'm not taking the chance. One issue might be that so many are actually using the self checkouts to steal, that the stores just assume that's the reason and not leaving much room
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
The place where I seen splitting the bill for a large table work the absolute best has been in the US, but it seems restaurant dependent.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
I actively refuse to use self checkout. A number of stores have reported customers to the police for incorrect scanning. These are honest mistakes and you're now "a know shoplifter". I primarily work with companies that requi

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