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by scandox 6mo ago
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
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by scandox 6mo ago
> when analyzed by actual philosophers. Kind of proving his point a little
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by scandox 6mo ago
Parents do care about improving learning. I certainly see better outcomes for my kids with book based learning. Mainly because the screen based equivalents have such bad ergonomics at the moment. E-learning "tools" that schools ch
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by scandox 6mo ago
> OpenClaw runs on your machine or an ephemeral sandbox. Each session starts fresh. Phantom gets its own dedicated VM that persists Yeah like any claw type system will be if you install it on a VM. I think the self-tooling thing is inter
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by scandox 6mo ago
So if I understand this it is an OpenClaw type system but based on the Claude Code Agent SDK? And they suggest installing it on a VM? Or is there more to it?
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by scandox 7mo ago
I'm fascinated to know the kind of work that allows you to intelligently allocate so much resources. I use Claude extensively and feel that I great value out of it but I reach a limit in terms of what I can do that makes sense relative
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by scandox 7mo ago
Often these "spam" reports by end users are just accidental clicks as well. Many of the abuse reports we get are like an email from someone's Mum and visibly legitimate. At other times there are users who use the Report Spam
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by scandox 8mo ago
Doesn't sound exceptional to me. Most of the authors I have some personal knowledge of manage through exactly that: spouses, grants, book sales, residencies and teaching creative writing.
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by scandox 8mo ago
My barber does. It's his therapist and the fact that it knows all about his life is very important to him.
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by scandox 8mo ago
Surely only economists get excited by the revelation that consumers have to have money to buy things. I'd say domestic service is going to make a comeback. I do think I'd make an excellent man servant. Eke out my later years being
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by scandox 8mo ago
Comments by nubg are AI bot slop. This site is being absolutely swarmed by them lately.
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by scandox 8mo ago
https://youtu.be/996OiexHze0?is=5OPbjDzeMAo-UmNE A classic explainer from almost a decade ago. This explains it from the point of view of the original problem it was designed to solve.
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by scandox 8mo ago
Better at reading yes but not necessarily better at comprehension which is what I believe people are getting at in these discussions. I read and listen. Initially my comprehension and memory while listening was inferior, but you can learn t
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by scandox 8mo ago
Was looking at the spinner component for a few seconds thinking "that's a bit slow"...
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by scandox 8mo ago
I loved Starlight but I'm not sure it was procedural world generation. I mean there was a map of stars printed with the game so they weren't changing. There was a small bit of variation in terms of what one found on planets and so
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by scandox 8mo ago
Some instinct, waking at these memories, stronger than education or piety, quickened within him at every near approach to that life, an instinct subtle and hostile, and armed him against acquiescence. The chill and order of the life repelle
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by scandox 8mo ago
The Bunkers. My father told me the story many times as a child and he warned me sternly never to buy Silver. There's always more Silver he said. People will be dredging it out of old cupboards.
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by scandox 9mo ago
Yeah the dude should have stopped doing what he liked
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by scandox 9mo ago
In 532AD the Nika riots[1] in Byzantium ended with 30,000 dead. That's with hand to hand combat at close quarters. So while the source is biased the numbers are not intrinsically unlikely. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by scandox 9mo ago
Elite people don't take books as seriously anymore. That's what's happening. The prestige of serious books is diminishing. The referencing of serious books in mainstream culture is diminishing. If 8 billion people all read on
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by scandox 9mo ago
On what basis did you make this judgement? I found the article to be reasonable and not excessively padded.
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by scandox 9mo ago
Mildly funny but also I think representative of the kind of smart(arse) and unwise attitude that wealthy, educated people have been using to dig their own grave for some time: people understand when you have contempt for them and they won&#
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by scandox 9mo ago
St Anthony was alive in the high middle ages. So not a biblical figure. Much closer to the artists own time. Edit: as below a more famous and earlier St Anthony was indeed much closer to the time of the gospels
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by scandox 10mo ago
Looking forward to the deliberately abstruse and illogical essays of the future. Everyone will have to write like a second-rate French philosopher.
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by scandox 10mo ago
Your comment should start with "And" not "But" since you are amplifying the original comment not disagreeing with it...
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by scandox 10mo ago
She made free indirect speech [1] the cornerstone of the English language novel. She is recognized as a titanic figure. I don't know who would underrate her! What I find strange is that people enjoy her books as romantic comedies becau
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by scandox 10mo ago
As bad as this is in conception and execution what I see is a blip on a path towards the new normal.
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by scandox 10mo ago
Works for me Firefox on Android mobile
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by scandox 10mo ago
> From this vast pile of empirical data, Schopenhauer drew a simple maxim: “Do no harm; and help others to the extent you can.” > This conviction led Schopenhauer to be an ardent abolitionist, a keen advocate of prison and asylum refo
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by scandox 10mo ago
Yes and 19th century gentleman scientists were a lot more interested in studying savage tribes than their valets. Imagination is a great motivator and it is more stimulated by what is far away than what is near.

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