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by prvc 3y ago
... from 3.0
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by prvc 3y ago
>To listen to this interview as a podcast, click the link at the top of this email to add Stratechery to your podcast player. Notwithstanding that this text appeared on a web page, no such link is evident there. Is the audio formatted ve
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What it really needs is a way to prevent sleeping when the lid is closed (only) during a system update.
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>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?
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On the other hand, seeking prestige at the expense of personal satisfaction, say, by conducting research in an "interesting" or "important" area, may be seen as an altruistic means of furthering progress in that field, a
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They should be subject to some kind of penalty for engaging in this kind of behavior.
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>The film is comprised of over 65,000 frames entirely made up of oil paintings, with 12 individually painted frames appearing on screen per second. Considering that every brushstroke tells a story, it’s crazy to think that there are 898
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At least 15 of the current posts in this thread (>1/10) repeat the misconception dispelled in the article that cats reduce rat populations.
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Any strategies for maintaining positive pressure in a dwelling in which installation/ deployment must be reversible (i.e. must not destroy any part of the dwelling)?
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>This discovery opens up new possibilities for both digital art and marketing. Like hiding malicious URLs in public.
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Simple past in the headline might be more appropriate ("died" instead of "has died"), since the event took place on May 11, 2023 (the better part of a month ago).
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An alternative title for the article, such as "A Professor Requests a Copy of a Film from Archive", just lacks a certain je ne sais quoi (sensationalism and inaccuracy).
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Also, it's not clear why burning should be used instead of, say, selective logging, or some other manual method of moving the material somewhere other than into the atmosphere.
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Did not the current wildfires in Alberta, Canada start with an attempted "controlled burn" gone awry?
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The revolution eats its children.
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Incompetence in that specific domain.
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Compare to diffusion model based de-noising, is that the point?
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It may not be a consequential error, but it a revealing one.
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>If this is about achieving mystical realizations along the lines of zen koans, then OK but what has that got to do with Wittgenstein? The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is, in my view, a mystical text. Its use of mathematical-like notat
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Beethoven's genome sequenced; to be made available to researchers(bbc.com)
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Very good. Now bring on the clones!
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>Now Apple won one. CODA won best picture last year.
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Doesn't it support scrolling officially?
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>That's exactly what I'm saying >they did not replace Hemingway and Kipling In fact, they replaced Kipling.
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The reference to Kipling was replaced by one to John Steinbeck, I assume because Steinbeck was a leftist, and Kipling is perceived to have been politically on the right (certainly he is relative to contemporary standards).
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>If they had the new one released separately, nobody would have purchased it. This is true, and they wouldn't have wanted to do that, not least because it would reflect poorly on the changes, but this would have been an alternative
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This is after they announced a separate release of non-bowdlerized versions. So extant purchasers who wish to have e-book versions of the original need to buy them a second time. Had they just released the modified versions as a separate ed
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Is it appropriate to blame non-"technical users" for "user error" in such a case?
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Trackpoint? Keyboard quality? Linux support for most/all components and features? Easily salvage data if some other part fails or is physically damaged by removing the SSD? Price and availability of replacement parts?
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I had always assumed that "Superman" had been intended to be a parody or response to Nietzsche's eponymous concept, albeit only having managed to be a superficial, weak, and ineffective one (and based on a misunderstanding to

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