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by ricree 3y ago
Artistic preference aside, the Dall-E 3 version definitely follows the prompt closer (in the it shows someone dunking a ball).
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by ricree 3y ago
It would be much less likely if we could get the market share back to 2010 levels. Is that a realistic goal? I don't know, maybe not, but it seems like there's little will even in tech to try. There was a time when tech was the bi
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by ricree 3y ago
The text you're replying to is part of a long quote from the linked article, not a statement by the person you replied to.
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by ricree 4y ago
It's still pretty much the go to place for journalists to mine quotes and sentiment from "normal people". I'm addition, it remains a significant platform for informal celebrity and corporate announcements. People in tech
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by ricree 4y ago
>Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles are rethinking their parking meter deals This is over ten years old. I wonder what those cities wound up doing.
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by ricree 4y ago
>The game's legendary difficulty is entirely due to the impenetrability of its user interface and systems. It's also a cultural legacy left over from early versions that were more challenging but less open ended simulations. In
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by ricree 4y ago
Probably true, but it was so baked into the system that it was hard to escape. Even the five good emperors chose their successors via adoption, so on paper it was still direct inheritance. For Marcus Aurelius to pass over his son would have
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by ricree 4y ago
Is that actually a useful correlation? Subsidized grain was a very prominent feature of the early empire. I'd be surprised if the late empire had a significantly larger proportion on it.
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by ricree 4y ago
>It's just another redistribution scheme More starkly, it seems to me that it's a redistribution scheme that exists primarily to enrich those who already have abundant capital. Who's going to be building and owning those h
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by ricree 5y ago
> "The History of Rome" podcast that has been going for something like 15 years now, and is super excellent If you're talking about Mike Duncan's podcast, note that it ended in 2012 with the deposing of the final West
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by ricree 5y ago
I'm reasonably confident I've seen a cyoa implemented like this get posted to HN, but I can't find the link offhand.
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by ricree 5y ago
Celtic cultures were once predominant in Western Europe. If I understand correctly, the person you were replying to most likely meant the Iberian Celts in modern day Spain.
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by ricree 6y ago
>make a better Facebook for people to use for their specific community or company, and then make it easy to tie your account to multiple communities, and then (maybe) start connecting communities. Which, of course, was precisely how Face
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by ricree 6y ago
Speaking of "rest of", this is the file in question: https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/blob/master/src/Idris/E...
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by ricree 6y ago
>Wasn't it just a few years ago they found microbes underwater where there wasn't any sunlight? It sounds like you're talking about the life around hydrothermal vents[0], which ultimately depends on chemosynthesis[1]rather
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by ricree 6y ago
The closest thing to an archive are the weekly "Sunday Digest" posts, in which people nominate their favorite answers of the week. It's eclectic and scattershot when it comes to topic, but the answers themselves are often int
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by ricree 6y ago
I actually happen to still have my Warcraft 1 manual, and just checked to see that it supported Macs starting at System 7.
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by ricree 6y ago
Another project from the Long Now Foundation that people might find interesting is Long Bets ( https://longbets.org/ ), a site for charitable wagers based around longer term predictions of the future. With the site approachin
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by ricree 6y ago
Dev tools allow live editing classes and other css affecting an element. What about this becomes easier when using inline css?
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by ricree 6y ago
I use ALE, which I believe includes Rust by default. https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
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by ricree 6y ago
Sorry for being unclear. I meant the most recent matrilineal ancestor for all of humanity, not for Judaism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
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by ricree 6y ago
As I understand it, the strict definition of Jewish descent is purely. You have to go back around 100-200k years to reach the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, and I'm reasonably confident she was not Jewish.
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by ricree 6y ago
>Web developers have utterly squandered all efficiency gains of the last 30 years, and Loading Wired.com with uBlock and no javascript the page comes in below 1.5MB for me, with most functionality seemingly intact (in that the front page
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by ricree 7y ago
The wood in houses is dead and no longer able to repair wear and decay. There are known trees whose ages easily exceed a thousand years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#Individ...
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by ricree 7y ago
The meth example you're thinking of is probably The Senator, which you've already linked.
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by ricree 7y ago
One child policies where? Most of the developed world has stagnant population growth. Do you suggest imposing those restrictions elsewhere? Via what means, and how do you intend to enforce this within those countries?
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by ricree 7y ago
Worryingly so. To my mind, the price looks intended to kill off other independent services, especially netflix. I can't see these deals lasting at all, but even three or four years could be enough to cripple Netflix so long as they are
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by ricree 7y ago
Note that this only for naturalized citizenship, and even then only for a limited time afterwards. As I understand it, the prevailing precedent of the Supreme Court is that revoking citizenship is something that a person must willfully do w
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by ricree 7y ago
Doubly so when meant to mock something that was already unironically said by someone else.
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by ricree 7y ago
> I play a lot of Paradox games these days and they are exactly the opposite of games meant to be speedrun. They are meant to be played at exactly your own pace and are much more skill (strategy) based than memorizing specific sequences

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