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by quesera 1y ago
> An anonymous source has the power A non-anonymous source can also practice intentionally-controlled, agenda-servicing, and pleasure-contingent disclosure. I would estimate that most do.
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by quesera 1y ago
Big things are easier to eradicate, especially if they are slow, unaccustomed to being prey, and nutritious. Eradicating a bacterium with wild animal reservoir populations (deer, white-footed mice, black-legged ticks, all of which are endem
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by quesera 1y ago
I won't go too far out on this limb, because I kind of agree with you... but to be fair -- 1980s-1990s nanotech did not attract this level of investment, nor was it visible to ordinary people, nor was it useful to anyone except researc
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by quesera 1y ago
Growing food in Alaska sounds like a meager existence, though.
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by quesera 1y ago
I think it's important not to overlook Butch Vig though. Are there Nevermind demos circulating? (Maybe an official release even, I've never looked)... They were good songs, maybe even great songs. But I think I could name a doze
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by quesera 1y ago
It turns out that when you give the power of distribution to ordinary humans, you get a lot of crap. Blogs, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit. HN. USENET. Printing press. Papyrus. :) Third parties are rightly derided as parasitic, but they also have
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by quesera 1y ago
I know people who have "taken 20 years off" from their favorite recreational chemicals, explicitly to raise children and get them packed off to college. :)
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by quesera 1y ago
Sure, this is correct. But there are recreational cannabis dispensaries, collecting state sales and cannabis taxes, in (almost literally) every other strip mall commercial district in many US states. They might be more common than liquor st
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by quesera 1y ago
> We need to stop this false equivalence between people taking medication and people being “high”. Fair. But we should do the same for the false non -equivalence between alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and "drugs"! At which poi
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by quesera 1y ago
Interesting. I hear the echoes that you mention in Sonic Youth. I would add New York Dolls. But Sonic Youth also brought something new, more than most bands do. I've listened, as professional obligation, to the entire catalog of Velvet
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by quesera 1y ago
> You've apparently changed your argument. "Best in human history" does not mean "most culturally significant and catchiest." To be fair, "best" has no correct definition. What's yours?
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by quesera 1y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I suspect there's an element of just being the right age. I think of Kurt Cobain like an accidental Elvis Presley. Perfect for the moment, and (unlike Elvis) mostly organically grown, but with very clear
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by quesera 1y ago
I'm not sure how to differentiate "very good instincts in an untutored person" from "genius". I am very clear though, that "genius" and "intelligence" are unrelated but sometimes coincident.
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by quesera 1y ago
I think a hail net would be feasible for some cases. Golf balls break solid coverings too (and windows, car roofs, etc), but we have nets for them. You want high tensile strength and some level of flexibility/elasticity to absorb the h
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by quesera 1y ago
The US military is also an enormous and very successful jobs program. Also there may be some foreign policy applications.
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by quesera 1y ago
Schrödinger's Cat was intended to be easily imagined, but also obviously ridiculous. I think that ends up confusing people a lot of people who can relate to the scenario, but don't understand that Schrödinger was accentuating the
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by quesera 1y ago
Just the usual "is this service within our trust perimeter" hesitation, when it comes to sharing source code. I expected to get better results from my potted tests, and to assemble a justification for expanding the perimeter of tr
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by quesera 1y ago
Are you asking for an explanation of why a consumption tax disproportionately affects citizens with lower incomes?
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by quesera 1y ago
I believe very few votes require a supermajority in the Senate -- impeachment votes definitely do, and also votes to override a Presidential veto. All ordinary votes just require a simple majority, but the filibuster is sort of a special-ca
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by quesera 1y ago
~Zero income taxes only. Full sales and gasoline taxes, and relative to income, disproportionately more.
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by quesera 1y ago
> Either a Democratic Congress or president would prevent such a bill from passing The Senate still has the filibuster, as well. This will not pass in the current Congress either. The filibuster rule is vulnerable, but I don't thi
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by quesera 1y ago
I appreciate this advice, but FWIW my tab habit is more a product of curiosity and time constraints, than any kind of compulsion or control issue. More of a "read-it-later-maybe" queue. I'll open tabs for any possibly-interes
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by quesera 1y ago
Bookmarks don't retain scroll position, and must be actively managed to preserve hierarchy. Firefox tabs are a zero-cost, and far more usable, implementation of bookmarks. Chrome tabs are terrible -- the UI and memory demands are absur
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by quesera 1y ago
Apologies -- you were not demonstrating your expertise in upthread comments, so I could only guess at your level of understanding.
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by quesera 1y ago
Clean pure H₂O can be toxic, in quantity. People have died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication I believe this demonstrates GPs point.
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by quesera 1y ago
Gemma3 was on my mind when I wrote the above, but others have been similarly self-deprecating. Some direct quotes from my scrollback buffer: > I am incredibly grateful for your patience and diligent error correction. This has been a cha
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by quesera 1y ago
> I have almost 2000 tabs open. I use sideberry for tab management. I'm just here to report that Firefox + Sidebery continues to work perfectly well at 14571 "open" tabs. All but a few hundred are unloaded, and I block J
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by quesera 1y ago
I've gone many cycles deep, some of which have resulted in incremental improvements. Probably one of my mistakes is testing it with toy challenges, like bad interview questions, instead of workaday stuff that we would normally do in a
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by quesera 1y ago
This is probably true. I'm using your "median-quality" label, but that would be a generous description of the code I'm getting from LLMs. I'm getting median-quality junior code. If you're getting median-quality
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by quesera 1y ago
I was referring to the prompt/prose as well. The median-quality code just doesn't seem like a valuable asset en route to final product, but I guess it's a matter of process at that point. Generative AI, as I've managed t

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