ratmeadow

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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
What intrigued me the most is why their vaccine reduces allergic reactions too. If the allergic reaction is an immune response, why does administering the vaccine which increases immune response result in a decreased allergic reaction? I&#x
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
The cynic in me thinks we will be squeezed anyway because [name redacted] leaders apparently love to sell off everything to the global market with little concern for the residents. Why squeeze just domestic or just global when you can do bo
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Bu-bu-b-bu-b-b-b-bu-bu-bu-but supply and demand bro!!!! It's the free market bro! If people are buying, the free market has decided the planet is right to be destroyed!!
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
For lightroom at least, no, because there are very few or even no good alternatives. It looks like there are a lot of photo editor apps out there, but most of them are crap or designed for different workflows. I can say because I evaluated
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Yeah I feel completely the same and largely do not understand when people are obsessed with branding. I'm assuming it's some primitive brain social hierarchy stuff where we seek to have everything be stratified by social value. Al
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
I do see what you mean but again I'm not sure if I buy it, because it still sounds pretty meritocratic. I have been through times in life with severe social anxiety and times without, and the quantity of approach hasn't really cha
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
I find it interesting how this comment says we should be socialising with everyone equally, and another upvoted comment elsewhere here says to modify your appearance to be more approachable. So which is it?
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
> You get to decide how people see you. Hair, clothes, body language, smile, is 90% of how people decide whether they want to interact with you. I see what you're getting at, but also this take kinda annoys me because it falls into
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
As someone who has struggled with social anxiety over the years and has thought about this a lot, I have some thoughts. It's all nice to imagine everyone talking to each other, but the reality is that in (western?) society, we have kin
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Genuine question: what if the recovery asks for a 2nd factor that's e.g. the device which you lost? Is that common? Personally I don't really trust companies to not do a whoopsie and permanently lock you out when you lose credenti
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Are people usually claiming that it strictly cannot produce any output it hasn't seen before? I wouldn't agree, I mean clearly they are generating some form of new content. My argument would be that while they can learn to some ex
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
"smallest supercomputing cluster that can add two numbers"
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Ok I don't really care either way but to play devil's advocate, what exactly is this specific challenge of adding numbers with a transformer model demonstrating/advancing? The pushpack from people, albeit a little aggressive,
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Conveniently, if you're watching a youtube video with an ad, switch apps and youtube reloads, you have to watch the ad again
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Sure it's technically always a choice, but because society exists, some options are dramatically more plausible than others. For example, say phones become more and more locked down and invasive. Technically you can choose not to have
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
The suburbs I'm talking about do not really have nature or space to play. They are by no means rural, but endless seas of identical streets and houses. They are basically the worst of both worlds (no nature and no accessibility), with
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by ratmeadow 8mo ago
Well said. I wonder about this too in my city ([name redacted]). Apparently many people think "living the dream" is having an excessively large copy-pasted house in a copy-pasted suburb in the middle of nowhere, with no amenities,
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
Nah I'm a C++ (ex?) enthusiast and modules are cool but there's only so many decades you can wait for a feature other languages have from day 1, and then another decade for compilers to actually implement it in a usable manner.
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
On one hand I can see where you can draw this argument from. But on the other hand I don't think daily consumption of the huge quantity of news that exists is necessary for having a decent political opinion, especially given that most
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
If you look at enough cheapo/handmade circuit boards you'll notice they often look like the bottom one. Cramped, untidy, or otherwise odd trace layout, poor part placement, poor soldering. The top one - although looking less space
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
I've been an avid C++ user for ages and this is the first time I've seen the final spec of C++26 reflections used in a practical context - and wow am I having a "wtf" moment at the syntax. ^^T ?? obj.[:member:] ?? What i
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
On the other hand, I know plenty of devs with a degree who are not very good. So should we conclude that have a degree is not very correlated with dev skill?
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
https://rjones.photos My hobby photography portfolio site
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by ratmeadow 9mo ago
It's kind of a meme within the photography community though. People will spend many thousands of dollars on a camera that's supposedly "the best" (pick your fave reasons, ideally as obscure as possible) and then not actu
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by ratmeadow 10mo ago
Yeah this what I immediately think too any time I see an article like this. Adjustments like contrast and saturation are plausible to show before/after, but before any sort of tone curve makes no sense unless you have some magic extrem
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by ratmeadow 10mo ago
Eh, I'm a photographer and I don't fully agree. Of course almost all photos these days are edited in some form. Intent is important, yes. But there are still some kinds of edits that immediately classify a photo as "fake&quot
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by ratmeadow 10mo ago
Finally we can shoot macro without f/128
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by ratmeadow 10mo ago
Time to start hoarding data storage hardware before computer vendors make free, local storage impossible?
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
So I'm guessing most people are downvoting this as a knee jerk reaction to the comparison with slavery, but I think the core point is quite valid. At some point, if people are unhappy working towards some goal, you gotta re-evaluate if
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
Fair point about lying. I agree, outright lying is not ethical and would be more manipulative, I agree. Is the author lying?

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