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by prewett 2y ago
That'd be an interesting job interview technique, albeit probably not a good technique: prospective clients are refused at the door and have to finagle their way into the conference room.
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We grow up with an Epicurean world view (matter is all there is, the gods didn't create the universe, it's just independent atoms), which is the only reason why science and religion are at odds. Knowing that the universe started w
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by prewett 2y ago
Originally the idea was you would vote for people who would do the actual voting. A nice idea, but obviously not workable for many reasons, especially since communication rapidly improved so that candidates could be known widely enough that
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by prewett 2y ago
Funny thing is, despite being an avid reader, I can't really say what my "best" book is. But I can easily describe the best meal I've ever had: we were on a tour in Chengdu, and they took us to a restaurant without any i
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by prewett 2y ago
If by "fate of the world" you mean the effects of CO2, passenger vehicles are approximately 10% of CO2 emissions [1]. So I don't think that excessively large cars are going to be the determining factor in the fate of the worl
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My understanding is that the EHT images are a result of a lot (like, months) of data processing, not an image from the telescope. So arguably still not a direct observation.
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I tried asking Gemini to summarize a non-existent poem, and it said it would need the actual source of the poem to summarize it (but provided four potential themes based on the title). I then suggested that it was a standard English course
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by prewett 2y ago
I think I would be fine with a modern roof that respected and blended in to the Gothic style. But the designs I saw were all frankensteins of the elegant Gothic original and a completely unrelated style. The stained glass idea was interesti
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by prewett 2y ago
As I understand it from a couple of my British friends talking about insulation, the old homes were built to breathe, so you can't just seal them up and put insulation in, because you'll end up with humidity problems. I think Karl
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by prewett 2y ago
Title is incorrect, I went for horror stories and all I got was unsolicited advice. Here's a couple classic horror stories for anyone like me: https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html https:&#x2F
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by prewett 2y ago
I think SIL's Andika font [1] is designed with similar goals, although I think informed more by teaching reading. I didn't see any large samples, but the font seems a little subtler. Presumably, given the name, the Braille Institu
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by prewett 2y ago
It's sophistry, rhetorical slight of hand, to say that talk of a cure contributes to stigma. Having any kind of condition is neutral, while stigma is relational. They are unrelated. There is a lot of Progressive sophistry around this,
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by prewett 2y ago
Since Luxottica operates by having a monopoly on eyeglasses and charging exorbitant rates, expensive skilled workers are probably not high on their list of needs.
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by prewett 2y ago
6% unemployment is a pretty normal rate for an economy. Historically the US is usually above 5% [1], and the current rate is 4.2%, so 6% is only slightly above the national rate. I don't doubt that you've had trouble finding work,
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm fairly familiar with the Greek gods, but the problem I've had with reading the Illiad is that it is not at all obvious why this is written. With The Odyssey it's clear: he's trying to get home. But everyone in the Il
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by prewett 2y ago
Boy, the guy can't win. If he's rude, he's an entitled rich jerk. If he's kind, he's got "privilege". It's pretty tiring to have everything be about oppressing the poor, it's kind like taking a c
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by prewett 2y ago
I was got a non-CS bachelors, and then managed to get into development, partly because I had been programming all my life. But I went back for a masters and shored up the undergrad CS that I missed. Boy was that helpful! It wasn't nece
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by prewett 2y ago
I didn't opt in when FB got my friends to tag me in photos, thus providing them with image recognition training data. I also didn't opt in to FB slurping up my contact info via their import-your-contacts feature they push.
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by prewett 2y ago
I'm firmly in the "I don't want anyone living on top of me" camp now. I'm in an older building (built in the early 1900s). I can hear the people upstairs talking at a normal level. I can hear their TV at a normal le
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by prewett 2y ago
I think the author misses several important factors besides the many prominent wealthy tech founders: - American culture broadly has rejected both the Christian and Classical ideas of virtue. Classical virtue, in particular, requires discip
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by prewett 2y ago
I had to look him up on DDG Images, and it's disconcerting having a guy in a top hat and monocle juxtaposed with someone else with that name who looks like a live-action He-Man action figure. Pretty much aesthetic and cultural opposite
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by prewett 2y ago
> How could we ... design a utopia, communist party-style but done right? We can't. Certainly not until people stop being self-oriented, and stop being willing to sacrifice others for their own benefit. Recorded history says this is
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by prewett 2y ago
My understanding is that Americans aren't willing to work a lot of lower wage jobs. I think that Mexicans harvest most of the crops in California. A friend of mine in California needed roof repairs and he says that all the American wor
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The summary is also copyrighted by the author, but it is a different copyright than the book. Probably also a bit thinner copyright than the book. Mere collections (notably, an alphabetized ordering of name and corresponding telephone numbe
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> the gravy was made from bones Probably not very relevant to the point, but gravy is made from the meat juices and fat. Bones get made into bone broth.
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by prewett 2y ago
You could also look for MVP-type projects, work for three months, and then take a three month break. Although I feel like that might work better for something like an phone app than the back end. I wonder if higher interest rates have put t
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by prewett 2y ago
Since I have no insight into Canadian politics, what constitutes "government malevolence"? Onerous regulations that aren't workable for small businesses? Regulatory capture by large builders (aka "corruption")? Regu
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> Sure, it's possible the law will be written in such a short-sighted way that it won't take inflation into account in any way. And when it's you that's likely affected where such short-sightedness to happen, and when
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by prewett 2y ago
How else are you going to find evidence of a slow-moving phenomenon? Besides, has human nature changed in the last 150 years? If the assertion is (for example) "taxation on the rich tends to end up including middle-class and maybe lowe
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by prewett 2y ago
Computers have always been sort of magical for me, but the magic isn't in how it works, but that it is an infinitely malleable canvas. I've been writing a Gregorian chant typesetter, and it's sort of magical to resize the win

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