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by rappatic 1y ago
> Spotify can pull the plug on whatever your favorite song is and there is NOTHING you can do about it There's plenty I can do about it. If Spotify decides to "pull the plug" on a song or artist I like, it's my prerog
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by rappatic 1y ago
At least in the case of a music player, self-hosting simply isn't good enough for me. I'm not willing to accept a single second of added latency or buffering or downtime because I don't have multimillion dollar server farms.
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by rappatic 1y ago
> One of the hardest things as a DM, in my experience, is creating a balanced encounter without fudging Just fudge. I know it might seem dishonest, but I think I fudge at least a little bit in probably 80% of my encounters. The most impo
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by rappatic 1y ago
> mass appeal might go down I don't think Fermi questions have mass appeal anyway. I don't think most people know what "order of magnitude" means, let alone understand dimensional analysis (ie., the conceptual idea of
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by rappatic 2y ago
I use em dashes all the time in writing, but unfortunately ChatGPT and co. use the em dash frequently—and most people use the em dash infrequently, not knowing how to type it on a keyboard—so it's starting to make my writing look AI-ge
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by rappatic 2y ago
I think: Call the three numbers a, b, and c. This means c = a + b, but we still don’t know to which person each number belongs. When person 1 (p1) is asked what his number is, he has no way to know whether he has a, b, or c, so he says he d
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Torture and Plea Bargaining (1978) [pdf](chicagounbound.uchicago.edu)
4 points by rappatic 2y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
I wondered that too. If we only have two files, A and its duplicate B with some changes as a diff, this works pretty well. Even if the user deletes A, the OS could just apply the diff to the file on disk, unlink A, and assign B to that file
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by rappatic 2y ago
Professional distance runners like Kiplimo typically run in excess of 130 miles per week, with at least two hard workouts and a long run of 20-25 miles. He will probably return to that level for most of March and a week in early April. The
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by rappatic 2y ago
Posters on LetsRun.com noted that Kiplimo was close enough to the lead car to potentially draft off it and avoid wind resistance. It is hard to otherwise account for the giant leap in performance we saw here today. In fact, his 10km split b
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Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries (2024)(lesswrong.com)
5 points by rappatic 2y ago|1 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
The requirement doesn't kick in until 10 million monthly US users. I don't see why this shouldn't apply to smaller businesses.
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by rappatic 2y ago
Yeah, it is nothing like the lo-fi of today. Nobody else has ever made an album quite like Modal Soul and nobody will again.
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by rappatic 2y ago
The first two albums by Nujabes, the "godfather of lo-fi," are some of the best I've ever heard. Metaphorical Music and Modal Soul.
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by rappatic 2y ago
Good point, you are absolutely correct. Then I suppose life “with the possibility of parole” would have been a more appropriate sentence, though I don’t know if that’s typically given. In any case, I feel prisons ought to release prisoners
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by rappatic 2y ago
No. I'm talking more from an ethical standpoint. I think someone who hires contract killers deserves to go to prison. I also think people shouldn't be convicted for charges that were not proven in court. As I said before, in Ros
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by rappatic 2y ago
Did you read my comment? I said: > even though the charge of hiring a contract killer to assassinate his business competition may have been dropped Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it. In fact,
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by rappatic 2y ago
What makes you think I support those people being locked up either? Also, afaik Ulbricht didn't sell drugs himself, he simply provided an unmoderated marketplace.
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by rappatic 2y ago
I think his original sentence was absolutely deserved—even though the charge of hiring a contract killer to assassinate his business competition may have been dropped, I think it's clear he did many things in the same vein. Even if you
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De Rerum Natura(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rappatic 2y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
> I am pretty cynical that people know the cause, but don't want to deal with it. I looked up "long island breast cancer" and saw a long list of risk factors. Out of curiosity, did you have a specific one in mind?
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by rappatic 2y ago
For the unacquainted, this is based on the so-called Rice Purity Test: https://ricepuritytest.com/ From the website: > The Purity Test has historically served as a segue from O-week to true college life at Rice [Universi
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by rappatic 2y ago
I'm frankly stunned that Microsoft managed to turn this around (and so quickly). I think most of us were expecting this to quietly disappear, never to be heard from again. Time will tell whether the security features are what they&#x27
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by rappatic 2y ago
Off-topic as far as the article above goes, but do you think it's more likely for global(-ish?) war to erupt because of Europe/Middle East compared to Taiwan? A lot of the discussion around global war pre-2022 was for the late 202
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by rappatic 2y ago
Great, I'd love our groundwater polluted with nuclear waste. Seriously, let's not overthink this. Nuclear power is very safe, even aboveground, if the necessary precautions are taken. This has been known for a while now.
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by rappatic 2y ago
This line made me chuckle: > The `Aircraft Identification` is NOT an identifier of an aircraft. It is an identifier of a flight.
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by rappatic 2y ago
How much work could it possibly be to simply deprecate the software, let alone open-source it? Flipping the switch to break every existing device is frankly malicious.
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The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by rappatic 2y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 2y ago
I'd almost forgotten about the California raisins until I came across this article. The original Gorillaz.
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How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (2014)(priceonomics.com)
5 points by rappatic 2y ago|2 comments

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