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by prepend 3y ago
macOS’ “say” command is tolerable. Edge will read documents out to me. And I’ve also played around with speechify and natural reader, but am kind of stuck because most of the public domain I want to read already have librevox or some record
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by prepend 3y ago
I think Diaspora has the best description of a valid digital identity. But I still kept thinking I’d never trust my existence to the polis/state keeping my private key private. In Diaspora if someone steals your private cert then they
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by prepend 3y ago
Completely different style but I think Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan introduces lots of new ideas and interacts with them realistically. The first season of the show was good but very different than the book.
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by prepend 3y ago
Same. Not just for convenience of having drm-free ebooks but so I can have an AI read it to me. I don’t really have a preference for audiobook performers so hate having to buy ebook and audiobook. So I’m happy just feeding a text file into
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by prepend 3y ago
I’ve liked every Egan book I read but also want to mention Distress. I got shipped it accidentally when I ordered Diaspora and the seller told me to keep it. It’s set in the “near future” so probably 2020 since it was published in 1998 and
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by prepend 3y ago
I really liked Fall, even before the Cryptonomicon tie-in. It’s not high art, but I probably enjoyed it in my top 5 books of the year. Different people have different tastes, I just find it funny when people make generalized statements like
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by prepend 3y ago
> because a lot simply cannot afford replacements or repairs. My kid’s elementary school policy for iPad damage was $100 for the first damage, $250 for the second, $500 for the third. This was problematic for a few reasons: 1) they didn’
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by prepend 3y ago
Good point. I assumed the synology was already set up as a NAS. That takes a while. Setting up the rss is just minutes.
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by prepend 3y ago
You need to invest about 10 minutes. It’s not complicated at all and makes a much better experience.
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by prepend 3y ago
It’s not physically difficult, it’s mentally difficult. And that’s what’s more important. Stopping smoking isn’t physically difficult. That’s not the part that matters. It’s mentally difficult.
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by prepend 3y ago
I buy things with my phone. Sometimes I might have cash but that’s almost never.
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by prepend 3y ago
I’ll give you an example from today. I was out for coffee and wasn’t expecting to go shopping. I walked to a book store and bought some books. They have me a plastic bag. I’d normally turn it down and just carry the books, but it was rainin
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by prepend 3y ago
Does it fit inside my phone? Because I need a bag about 1% of the time and I’m not carrying a bag for those occassions.
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by prepend 3y ago
> Any intelligent person that regularly go to stores during lunch breaks or when commuting is either always carrying a backpack or a small foldable shopping bag The problem is all the non-intelligent people, like me, who don’t carry this
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by prepend 3y ago
That’s cool that you do that. I don’t like carrying things that I rarely use and try to minimize stuff I carry. And that’s basically just a phone and my clothes. Even if you carry a bag, I frequently find that I need two or three or more. I
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by prepend 3y ago
> It takes effectively zero effort to keep a reusable bag around I’ve found it takes lots of effort. It’s a chore to keep track of and bring it back out to the car. I probably now have 10 reusable bags that I’ve bought because I keep for
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by prepend 3y ago
I’m not passionate about straws. I’m just passionate about stupidity and critical thinking. It seems odd to me that someone would question whether straws are essential, but have no problem with vacations. I also am offended when people expr
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by prepend 3y ago
Do people really need the things they drink with straws? There’s two ways I generally think of this: 1) who knows what is actually essential. I can’t judge what others truly need and don’t know of an objective board who can. Is art necessar
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by prepend 3y ago
Yes, quite clearly it’s easy to measure nitrogen dioxide as well. A well ventilated stove has no problem with the nitrogen dioxide produced. So it’s an example of illogic to push for banning gas stoves rather than incentivizing proper venti
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by prepend 3y ago
I went through this with my provider and insurer, Aetna. They had me rent the machine for 30 or 60 days. The machine had a cell modem that reported data to medresair, the manufacturer, and my sleep clinic checked that. A nurse called me twi
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by prepend 3y ago
I think there’s precedent for fraud if something is sold as “pay $x for y service” and the vendor accepts $x and then delivers something that looks like y but is not. The Miss Cleo lines clearly said that you would talk to other psychics an
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by prepend 3y ago
The same reason there is to doubt anything a stranger says on the internet. People have egos and sometimes tell lies to inflate their egos. I generally distrust anything people say in communities that supports some personal cause (ie positi
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by prepend 3y ago
Are their losses greater or less than pre purchase. I know revenue is down, but I wonder how the cost cuts affected margin.
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by prepend 3y ago
I think the issue is that they are removing tax revenue from the city, not that they cause the gentrification.
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by prepend 3y ago
I did the same thing and it broke 1 month after the 1 year warranty expired. A cryptic error that means buying a new brain for it. Ridiculous that a $800 robot breaks. Bought two sharks for $300 each. Not quite as good, but so much cheaper.
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by prepend 3y ago
It’s a real thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Atlantic_megaregion (This is also the top google result) The population in 2018 was 27M, probably much higher now.
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by prepend 3y ago
I don’t think it’s puritanical at all as narcotics for painkillers are dangerous. Imagine if handguns were really good at treating pain, but had like a 30% chance of killing the patient. Would it be puritanical to not prescribe handguns to
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by prepend 3y ago
People like things and get interested in things. I found a good exercise in learning passions and values is asking “what would you do if you knew you would fail?” So it helps learn what is really important and what you like if you knew that
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by prepend 3y ago
I think it’s used correctly. I’ve asked this same question when leaders have had entire webinars about how awesome the office is and how nice it is to be back to work. I’m still not sure if their work life is just that different from mine,
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by prepend 3y ago
> I think it's much harder to develop those relationships in the first place if you start out remote from the get go. There are many coworkers I met during Covid and have only known then remotely for years. I feel pretty close to th

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