nativeit

26 ms·

601.
by nativeit 1y ago
I would be less inclined to laugh at Romans, since my grandparents still used lead in plenty of dangerous applications. Why do we need to go any further back than 100-years?
602.
by nativeit 1y ago
…and yet we actively used it in water pipes, painted our walls with it, and poisoned the air by putting it in gasoline—all in the 20th-century.
603.
by nativeit 1y ago
> I don't have the tools or knowledge required to sand this down to a perfect mirror finish, but that's okay. That was my only note: it would look incredible if squared off and polished to perfection.
604.
by nativeit 1y ago
I mean, I usually just turn the lights down, put on some R&B, and do what comes naturally. It’s good to know there are alternative approaches, I respect everyone’s individuality, especially with regard to their choices surrounding pro-c
605.
by nativeit 1y ago
Humans do a lot of things that don't make much sense. Including the act of making and consuming liquor. We do it because we enjoy it.
606.
by nativeit 1y ago
I'm generally in agreement with you (I upvoted your comment), but think it's important not to distort--even unintentionally--the motivations, speech, or work of historical figures like Alan Turing. "I propose to consider the
607.
by nativeit 1y ago
I'd imagine most unhoused individuals are doing it as a strategic cost saving. Only, they're strategy involves eating and surviving rather than paying for unreachable/unsustainable rents. Maybe they didn't choose it, but
608.
by nativeit 1y ago
No room here for the company’s purely self-interested motivations?
609.
by nativeit 1y ago
Hey man, wanna buy some coke? How about trade secrets? State secrets?
610.
by nativeit 1y ago
That’s presumably why legislation is needed?
611.
Open Source Distilling(opensourcedistilling.com)
83 points by nativeit 1y ago|42 comments
612.
The Clemson University Vehicular Electronics Labratory (2017)(cecas.clemson.edu)
2 points by nativeit 1y ago|0 comments
613.
by nativeit 1y ago
I believed that too until I used a Mac for my daily driver. The experience of developing on a machine with native Bash, a relatively mature package handler, and air-tight device integration was MUCH better than Microsoft’s frequently annoyi
614.
by nativeit 1y ago
I am embarrassed for Microsoft with how long it took them to implement WinGet. It still leaves much to be desired, but I guess if you’re used to PowerShell, then weird period-delimited CamelCase package names are probably something that fit
615.
by nativeit 1y ago
That sounds awful. What’s the actual point? If you don’t enjoy level design, do something else.
616.
by nativeit 1y ago
I dunno about anyone else, but someone washing their Tesla fits my mental model of impotence perfectly.
617.
by nativeit 1y ago
Now we’re back to the point where you’ve saved so much money by not carrying health insurance.
618.
by nativeit 1y ago
…it’s just too bad that Bluetooth stack is one of the worst ever conceived, you have zero options for an alternative, and you still have to get all your help from a volunteer support team.
619.
by nativeit 1y ago
...or watch Adam Driver give his character a stress disorder documenting the abuses in the major motion picture "The Report". I think the CIA torture program is pretty common knowledge at this point. That said, "common knowle
620.
by nativeit 1y ago
Extreme wealth is immoral. It's very strange that isn't self evident, even to a lot of direct victims of it. Such concentration of resources, beyond the capacity of any individual to manage productively, or even effectively, is im
621.
by nativeit 1y ago
Your description of your employer struck a chord that's been resonating in me for the last several months. I'm legitimately concerned about the knowledge gap with regards to how LLMs work, and a new generation of cults using them
622.
by nativeit 1y ago
I’m not arguing for/against the points being made, but: > Update: Some people have been asking me if the wage stagnation of 1973-1994 might have been caused by the mass entry of women into the U.S. workforce. Here’s the employment r
623.
by nativeit 1y ago
Capitalism loathes competition.
624.
by nativeit 1y ago
Cool word play…but that doesn’t invalidate any of their points?
625.
by nativeit 1y ago
Hardwood would make terrible construction lumber, which is the point the person defending pine was making.
626.
by nativeit 1y ago
Your quote suggests that ingesting supplemental taurine may/may not increase risks specifically for leukemia patients. The headline asserts outright that the taurine content of energy drinks is a causal factor in colorectal cancers. I
627.
by nativeit 1y ago
We should have 90% top marginal tax rates instead.
628.
by nativeit 1y ago
We’re all paying for this. In this case, the costs are only abstract, rather than the competing subscription options that are indeed quite tangible _and_ abstract.
629.
by nativeit 1y ago
To be clear, while McNamara was an advocate for seat belts, he wasn’t particularly instrumental in their development or adoption. In 1955 he introduced a paid option for Ford vehicles that included seat belts. But the option wasn’t popular
630.
Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational(frontiersin.org)
26 points by nativeit 1y ago|32 comments

More ›