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by munificent 4mo ago
Woven would be much much easier.
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by munificent 4mo ago
> So if you want to truly do something that no one has done before, do something obscure, do something time-consuming, do something difficult, and do something that has unknowns you’ll only resolve once you complete the first bits. Thi
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by munificent 4mo ago
There is a difference between coming up with some way to adapt your dreams to the limits of your body versus what your initial comment which was simply "That guy could go snowboarding, he just thinks the warning he got creates a risk t
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by munificent 4mo ago
One of my complications was severe osteoarthritis. The injury basically tried to twist my foot off, a "tri-malleolar fracture with dislocation". Even after doctors reduced the dislocation and used plates to put the broken bones ba
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by munificent 4mo ago
Read section 5. "Table 1 documents that treated counties (those with >90% AT&T 3G coverage) are substantially more urban, White, Republican-leaning, and affluent than control counties. To address this imbalance, we apply the ent
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by munificent 4mo ago
I took running fairly seriously for six or seven years. I never really enjoyed it, but I ran religiously every week. I went from barely being able to run 1/6 of a mile without walking, to being able to finish a 5k. I ran a couple of lo
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by munificent 4mo ago
With respect, the author said his doctor told him not to. I am certain that the author and their medical professional know a hell of a lot more about what's a good idea for his body than you or I do. When you are young and healthy, it
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by munificent 4mo ago
As much as the serenity prayer comes across as some tacky shit you'd find painted on a wall in that one handwriting font in a beach house in Florida... it's the greatest distillation of human wisdom I've ever found. I've
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by munificent 4mo ago
> How did they rule out the possibility that the post-pandemic economic situation has had a greater impact on these jobs, leading to greater stress? I only skimmed the paper, but I presume it is comparing remote workers to non-remote w
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by munificent 4mo ago
I'm always surprised this topic comes up all the time and there's all sorts of navel gazing about economics and housing and other reasons people want to have fewer kids. It seems to me that the simplest and most likely explanation
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by munificent 4mo ago
> There was a change that took place in the late 70s it looks like, Birth control.
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> it is a fact that some individuals have disproportionately more influence over "local zeitgeist" than others. Yes, that was the first sentence of my comment. > As a brief recap; the atmosphere become a greater and great
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I agree, I suspect what Ladybird is doing here may become the normal social model for open source going forward. We still need some mechanism for determining which humans have enough long-term commitment to become maintainers. Source cont
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by munificent 4mo ago
My roguelike's "graphics" are a simulated terminal, so it's a 2D grid of colored characters. It's essentially a TUI, just like Claude Code, except instead of rendering to a real terminal using ANSI escapes, I render
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by munificent 4mo ago
I certainly agree that the powerful elites bear a disproportionate share of the guilt for the harm they have caused. But I also believe that much of what's going on in the world isn't solely their fault and is also in many ways an
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by munificent 4mo ago
I'm sure our entirely functional US government will get right on that.
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by munificent 4mo ago
As someone who maintains a roguelike with a terminal-like UI that: 1. Maintains an internal representation of what the game thinks is on screen. 2. Runs the game for one frame which updates that representation. 3. Generates a diff to see ho
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by munificent 4mo ago
> We just let them do their thing, essentially treating them as artists and letting them pursue the craft for its own sake. I think we generally did that because that seemed to be the best known process for maximizing the quantity of u
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by munificent 4mo ago
This is the Goomba fallacy. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy
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> I'm not sure when it happened I know exactly when it happened: when people stopped buying software. When you had to walk into a store, pick up a box, read the bullet points on the back, and pay a decent chunk of cash for that pr
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by munificent 4mo ago
Beautiful metaphor. I look at my own work as a mixture of these two. Not interfering with the parts of the world and other people that are already providing their unique value, but also adding my own particular contribution as well.
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by munificent 4mo ago
Don't let the brevity of this post dissuade you from its value. I believe Seth is getting at a very good psychological insight. By default, people give a lot of trust and benefit of the doubt. Everyone's account in life starts out
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by munificent 4mo ago
> a lot of one-time cashing in of trust. I agree completely, but this is part of a larger pattern in society lately around short-term thinking. It seems like everyone is trying to cash ASAP and fewer people are investing or building lo
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> I mean, why do you wish to feel valued by others and get respect? I believe we have evolved to be a social species whose brain innately rewards prosocial behavior. Your question is akin to asking why cats chase mice or why birds fly.
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by munificent 4mo ago
Here's a non-theistic argument: I'm a big fan of the "veil of ignorance" philosophical thought experiment[1]. Let's say you are given the freedom to design a society and its moral code. Then you will be born into th
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I bought a black JanSport backpack from my university bookstore in, I think, 1998. It was the first version that had a laptop slot in it because laptop computers were still a rarity then. I got it because my job at an dotcom startup bought
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> Dark gray on white is superior for long reading sessions when your paper is white. Color is the ink's job. Approximating a lighter shade of black than the ink produces by speckling the output with tiny white pixels is definitely
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> For example, "Making the slightest change became a chore. [1.] Update the 'master' DOCX. [2.] Update the InDesign file ..." --the appropriate way to use an external document as master in InDesign is to use the Plac
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by munificent 5mo ago
* Japan is ranked 61st on the World Happiness Index. The US is 23rd. * Japan is ranked 23rd on the Human Development Index. The US is 17th. * However, Japan is ranked 8th on the US News Quality of Life Index. The US is 30th. Grass is greene
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"Anesthesia" is a wider umbrella term than most people realize with many levels of sedation. Under "general anesthesia", the patient is completely unconscious. They don't respond to any stimuli. In rare cases, some

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