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by oliwary 4y ago
> we demonstrate that videoconferencing hampers idea generation because it focuses communicators on a screen, which prompts a narrower cognitive focus. I wonder what including virtual reality in the study would have resulted in. I feel l
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by oliwary 4y ago
Something similar used to work on Facebook... and still does apparently! At least if you are this person: http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363 (This link redirects to the profile of whoever clicks it)
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by oliwary 4y ago
I am glad that Meta is involved - I doubt anyone else would invest as heavily in VR as they are doing right now. Whether they end up being the main player or not in the future, I think this level of investment is actively inspiring the enti
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by oliwary 4y ago
> Not gonna happen. Sorry to break it to you. I already feel that way in my Oculus Quest 2! In my opinion there is something different about being "embodied" in a 3D virtual environment that is all around you, seeing the gestur
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by oliwary 4y ago
I am interested, nice to meet you! I live abroad from many friends and family. If there was a way to casually hang out and replicating the in-person social experience better than video chat, I would jump on that. I already have regular Ques
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by oliwary 4y ago
> The theme here is that the cultures that arise around products, methods, and inventions often grow to exclude discussion of their fatal flaws, and instead find elaborate ways to paper over them -- to find more and more clever ways to p
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by oliwary 4y ago
Same here… was looking forward to a description of how a couple of task masters perfectly distribute chores among themselves and break arguments up into little sub arguments.
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by oliwary 4y ago
That is fair! I do wonder where we would be had we never stopped investing in nuclear. Probably much better from a global warming perspective - alas, here we are.
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by oliwary 4y ago
But the fact is that we did go years without building any, leading to nuclear power plants being more expensive. It is the path we chose (rightly or wrongly) and today solar and wind is cheaper in the western world. Even if continuing to in
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by oliwary 4y ago
Oh god, this one is too powerful... Nathan Fielder: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=wUm7CgveZ-GAptkws0nAf-X7... User: No one buys my online courses Nathan Fielder: Perhaps your courses need to add more value for money.
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by oliwary 4y ago
This is super impressive. Insane how much context the model can learn from a simple introduction phrase... I created a top10bot: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=fBk7hTxkWeVGPpvZbEJKg7Cj... Not always 10, but always rele
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by oliwary 4y ago
Cool! Antirez built one for Lua: https://github.com/antirez/load81
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by oliwary 4y ago
Awesome, thank you! Looking forward to it
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by oliwary 4y ago
Has anyone heard any news about cloudflare D1, their sqlite database offering? Have been itching to try it out but haven't heard anything new since May...
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by oliwary 4y ago
Interesting. Presumably over time the evolutionary selection of rituals the article talks about would weed out the ones that are useless though. I wonder if the act of closely following a ritual even if we do not know its purpose is a form
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by oliwary 4y ago
I am genuinely curious - are there any historical examples where ending diplomatic relationships and imposing sanctions on a country has improved the situation for people living there?
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by oliwary 4y ago
Something I really miss from Opera is that the content of every page you visited was saved and stored for search! This helped me so often to find pages that I had visited, and remembered a few words from, but didn't bookmark or save ot
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by oliwary 4y ago
Have you tried something like Zombies, Run? It is kind of a gamified running game, with audio clips and interactive elements. For example, at certain times zombies appear and you have to increase your pace for a bit. In the meantime you fol
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by oliwary 4y ago
Not OP, but I think there are very important environmental impacts that are not related to climate change. Take, for example, plastic in the sea - clearly a big issue for the environment, but addressing climate change will not impact this a
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by oliwary 4y ago
What about introducing a variable environmental toll at the border? It could be based on the environmental rules of the exporting country and the expected emissions of the production and transport of the good. Ideally, this would have the f
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by oliwary 4y ago
That’s a very good point. It seems like the densities are relatively similar as well though [0][1]. Not saying they’re the same, but even the fact that they’re in the same order of magnitude was surprising to me. Seems like filling a 1km^3
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by oliwary 4y ago
I recently looked up the difference in CO2 emissions between burning 1kg wood vs 1kg petrol. Surprisingly, the values are relatively close: Burning 1kg wood releases 1.65 - 1.8 kg of CO2. [0] Burning 1kg of crude oil releases 3.16 kg of CO2
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by oliwary 4y ago
Agreed! I think the sheer size of Amazon has allowed them to build a really pro-consumer platform, which is why I prefer shopping there over other in-person stores - I know amazon will not make trouble if I do want to return something, or t
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by oliwary 4y ago
Maybe. I run a word game ( https://squareword.org ) that uses localstorage to store stats. This allows me to give users statistics without requiring any sort of account or signup. Even so, I often hear from people that have their
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by oliwary 4y ago
I agree! There is something very beautiful about people having the time to just think and learn, without access to distracting technology or practical concerns. I wonder what would happen if this was a real pathway in society. I also wonder
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by oliwary 4y ago
I think they meant to say not the sharpest tree in the forest.
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by oliwary 4y ago
I agree - GitHub can block whoever they want. But doing so despite not being required to by law is a valid reason to criticize them.
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by oliwary 4y ago
Unless, of course, GitHub considers every single contributor to Tornado to be part of the sanctioned entity due to the decentralized nature of git? Seems like a very dangerous interpretation for open source in that case…
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by oliwary 4y ago
This is the crux of the issue in my opinion. It seems ridiculous that the sanctions should apply retroactively to anyone who has dealt with a sanctioned entity at any time in the past - if the people contributed before the sanctions, they w
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by oliwary 4y ago
Isn’t this an important plot point in the spy kids movie?

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