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by pigpop 3mo ago
This feels like a marketing ploy to sell the book.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I did say that starting with something active may not be the best introduction if you want to improve your general ability to control your attention. That said, it does work for many people including myself since I became aware of the abili
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by pigpop 3mo ago
More of a Roman fort I'd say.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
You should include the same advice that is given for exercise, it can and should occasionally be a bit painful but you have to discover your safe limits and only push yourself a little past them each time. You don't want to rack weight
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by pigpop 3mo ago
It's all exertion, for both "meditation" and exercise. I'm convinced that meditation doesn't work for a lot of people because it has too much dogma about what it's supposed to be, and maybe those aspects are va
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by pigpop 3mo ago
It turns out things are more complex than they may initially appear.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Core vim is around 300k lines of C89 code and it's just a text editor. It's over a million lines if you include all the scripting, language features and tests.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I have experimented with that a bit but not in a rigorous way, it's good to know that there is value in doing it so I'll try to integrate it into my process. Thanks for the tip!
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I've had the same experience and it has really put me off working on personal projects using AI quite a few times, though I keep coming back. My recent experience with Fable and the latest Sonnet have actually been very positive though
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I think this is a really good insight. It's definitely the back and forth in Claude Code or whatever harness you use that breaks flow and leads to frustration. This seems to be what Fable is solving since it is capable of doing much la
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Rare earth metals aren't rare, it's a misnomer.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
This is such a defeatist and low agency take. "means of production" are not a limited resource like gold that you have to extract from natural sources or divvy up. They are fundamentally skill and knowledge that anyone can attain
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by pigpop 4mo ago
They own the means of production for the leading models but they're far from monopolizing them since the techniques are well known. At this point it's a matter of having a head start and lots of capital to pay for the data annotat
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by pigpop 4mo ago
If I remember correctly, the novel was concerned with a generation ship travelling to a distant star. This is not the same as space habitats in a solar system where there are plenty of sources and sinks for all materials involved in the mai
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by pigpop 4mo ago
If you showed me a primate and I didn't have any knowledge of the existence of humans and then asked the same thing of them I'd also have to get creative about how they may evolve to be an intelligent society.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
>Humans are not naturally prone to bouts of violence like other species That... does not check out. There are plenty of violent people, I've met many.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Actually I haven't but I'll check it out.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Comments like yours make me think that sci-fi shows (and a lot of literary sci-fi) like Star Trek did a grave disservice to our conception of advanced spacefaring civilizations. They were always focused on alien planets , assuming that onc
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I don't see why an intelligent alien species would have similar values to us. It would depend entirely on their social organization so unless they were the exact equivalent of us evolutionarily (omnivorous, sexually dimorphic, social,
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Hopefully, that was a dictation error and Bob McDonald actually said "malevolent". Either that or the CBC editors got a hold of it.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
This is true but the ideology was packaged and sold as a movement for the working class. My observation had more to do with the modern interpretation of it as somehow being a license to not work, which appears comical when compared with h
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by pigpop 4mo ago
The trial of Joseph Brodsky is a fascinating insight into the workings of the USSR https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/archives/the-trial-of-jos... They had strong opinions of what was deemed "social
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by pigpop 4mo ago
> no more feeds showing content from outside social connections So, kill all news agencies and reporters I guess? or would there be a carve out for incumbents so they can cement their market share? who controls the approval list?
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by pigpop 4mo ago
Personally, I think the bigger problem is successful individuals and companies deciding to just stick with their original business model and squeeze every drop of money out of it for their own personal enrichment. God forbid someone should
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by pigpop 4mo ago
As crude as it sounds, you don't know until you try.
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I agree, hopefully it becomes just like any other cheap and easy measurement like blood pressure. Most of the time, small changes and variations will be determined to be normal but having a record and a measurement allows you to determine w
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by pigpop 4mo ago
They'll know whether they're getting bigger or not. Pretty much the same for if you have a lump just under your skin that you can see and feel but this would allow you to see the ones further inside. So you just have to take the s
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by pigpop 4mo ago
I understand the argument but imagine if it were applied to other nascent technologies like the microscope, which incidentally was also viewed with suspicion by doctors who (accurately) cited flaws in early models such as chromatic and sphe
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by pigpop 4mo ago
The entire point of this machine seems to be to do non-invasive scans that don't have the type of side effects that constant CT scans would have and which are vastly cheaper and easier to do than MRI so that you can collect longitudi
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by pigpop 4mo ago
It's funny because these criticisms are similar to the ones that Raymond Damadian faced when he was trying to develop the MRI. He was criticized for just being a doctor and not an NMR specialist, criticized for making bold claims based

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