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by pstuart 9mo ago
I think that in the scheme of things GHWB was the most qualified and "best" of their offerings I've seen in my many years.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Yep. He made a mistake in conceding as he could have won that battle: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/29/uselections200...
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by pstuart 9mo ago
And shut down the early warning system months before the outbreak, purely out of spite that it was supported by his predecessor: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/trump-scrapped...
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by pstuart 9mo ago
I'd posit that Jan 20 2017 marked the beginning of the end. It's a daily challenge to keep track and not spiral into despair. It's not just that one man, it's that so many citizens love him. It truly boggles the mind.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Malkovich? Malkovich! -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpev8JXJHQ
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by pstuart 9mo ago
It would be fascinating to have research into what is effectively manifesting the experience. My (extremely limited) understanding is that humans are "hardwired" for pattern recognition (especially faces) -- could there be some so
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by pstuart 9mo ago
With falling battery prices this should be an addressable problem. Soak up the locally generated excess energy and sell it later in the day when the need is there. Electrical arbitrage seems like a win/win solution for the utilities th
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Same vantage point here (with sample size n=1 on the DMT front).
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Yeah, my comment was a bit loose, but I think it's likely that the pathways are ultimately arriving at the same destination. I've done plenty of psychonaut adventures in the past but it was only that one experience with DMT that a
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by pstuart 9mo ago
This sounds like a variation of Machine Elves -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine#Entity_enco... Those are primarily associated with DMT (the one time I tried it, I too had such an encounter and I didn&
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Back in ye olden days, prior to teh interwebs, compilers were not free and it was an assumed price of entry to programming. Pirating has always been a thing, but I've paid for more than one compiler in my life and I wasn't exactly
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by pstuart 9mo ago
My understanding is that this is part of Oxide's secret sauce. Is there much traction with this elsewhere? I worked at SunOS and Solaris shops in the past, and remember telling my boss that this new Linux thing was going places and she
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by pstuart 9mo ago
It's a pity that diesel-gate happened, and that they weren't able to solve the emissions problem. I came across a post about a diesel tractor with no electrical parts and imagined the value of a post-apocalyptical car that could w
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Low maintenance costs, cheaper operational cost (depending on electric rates). Some of them are quite peppy too. My Leaf isn't but it meets the criteria I just gave.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
It was the storming of the capitol itself that was the problem. It was closed to the public and entered by force.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
> This is trolling right? Yes, and well done as well. Unlike the other two unmentionables, Linus very much worthy of remembrance. Sure he was extra grumpy for a long time but that's about the only bad thing you can say about the man
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Grief and depression are distinctly different things. There's obviously been many missteps on the road to "curing" depression but I think we're moving forward and it's nice to have options. I went on anti-depressa
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Shared ceremony is a kind of magic. Adams' political views were highly distasteful to me, but I think it's important to recognize all facets of a person. One can appreciate one aspect and hate the other. It's ok to have mixed
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by pstuart 9mo ago
I agree that support is crucial, but stand by the "danger" of distraction. Digital distraction is a drug, and like other drugs has pros and cons -- I don't mean to demonize it. But it cannot be ignored. We've collectivel
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by pstuart 9mo ago
I recall Tim Cook's quote and it has merit. But the ecosystem (like all ecosystems) evolves as all the entities within it evolve. Originally it was cheap labor. I think the key difference is that each entity in the US is independent
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by pstuart 9mo ago
That just shows dollar amounts, with no sense of what's being sold. Being that so many companies have moved production to China to make their products cheaper, I'd be curious as to what then comprises those savings.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Hell, they should at least be caching those requests rather than hitting the endpoint on every single AI request that needs the info.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
Sure. Solidarity as a whole is even better.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
The trade balance as a number shouldn't matter, but offshoring critical manufacturing capability and production ecosystems does. China has at least 2 key advantages in manufacturing -- cheaper labor and laxer regulations. If the US wer
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by pstuart 9mo ago
The promise made was that they were going after "bad people", e.g., murderers, rapists, etc. I don't think many people have a problem with that. But that's not who they're going after, it's everybody , with a
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by pstuart 9mo ago
I guess it's a matter of muscle memory and workflow. It's nice to have options.
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by pstuart 9mo ago
I wonder how many Michelangelos we'd have today if we didn't have electronic distraction devices and only had old school tech for "entertainment"
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by pstuart 9mo ago
That's why I prefaced it with "That said" as an acknowledgement of calling out a different tribe. There's a nuance to this -- the current political environment is not normal and cannot be emphasized enough. The GOP is
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by pstuart 9mo ago
The problem is the old man and his enablers have zero respect for the law, whereas the other team does (they are not above reproach but in this regard they are distinctly different). This makes the fight unfair, as without law all we have i
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by pstuart 9mo ago
There's a vast difference between tribal partisan politics and discussing policy as a system of governance (hacking society). I do my best to avoid the former and embrace the latter. That said, there's a disappointingly significan

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