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by sgentle 1y ago
The second result in your YouTube search is a PBS mini-doc called "Why Do College Campuses Have So Many Protests?" The questions I offered were prompts to engage critically with why this compact exists. Perhaps watching that video
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by sgentle 1y ago
Careful not to fall into the "People's Democratic Republic" trap: the way something is described and its purported aims are not at all the same as its actual effects (and, often, not even its intended ones). Politics is, in m
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by sgentle 1y ago
In case this doesn't seem like a particularly scary situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment#Occurrence > Half of all entrapment victims eventually become engulfed. A human body in grain takes
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by sgentle 1y ago
The coercion will continue until metrics improve.
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by sgentle 1y ago
Apparently there's 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute (30 seconds every millisecond). Assuming 4K@60fps, that works out to 14,929,920,000 pixels per millisecond. If YouTube wanted to give every incoming pixel its own U
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by sgentle 1y ago
When you say "allow"... what exactly do you imagine happening if Yale's linguistic department forbids people from using English in certain ways? Or is this more of a federal government thing? Grammar Force as the seventh bran
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by sgentle 1y ago
It's a choice that Google made to obfuscate their DRM by calling it "FLAG_SECURE", at the cost of usability and security for everyone else. Just check out this delightful doublespeak: https://developer.android.com&
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by sgentle 1y ago
There's a larger design issue here that becomes clearer if you think of timezones as something more like temporal reference frames. Every date and/or time is relative to something; it's just a question of whether that referen
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by sgentle 1y ago
It's kinda old news now but I still love searching for made-up idioms. > "You can't get boiled rice from a clown" is a phrase that plays on expectations and the absurdity of a situation. > The phrase "never st
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by sgentle 1y ago
"full moon time NY" > The next full moon in New York will be on August 9th, 2025, at 3:55 a.m. "full moon time LA" > The next full moon in Los Angeles will be on August 9, 2025, at 3:55 AM PDT. I mean, it certainly
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by sgentle 1y ago
My bad. Looks like that changed in 2017 and I had out of date information. I will say that "may eliminate or shorten this 60-day period as a matter of discretion" means the scenario is still just as plausible: https://n
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by sgentle 1y ago
I think there are 3 fundamental misapprehensions that someone who thinks in abstract systems (like software) tends to make when considering about a human system (like the law). 1. The system doesn't make mistakes 2. The system represen
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by sgentle 1y ago
It depends on how you interpret the word "properly". There are ads and adblocker-detection techniques that can't be blocked by MV3-style static filtering. If "properly" means "can block all ads" then you&#
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by sgentle 1y ago
Sure, but you can open the door, pull the handbrake, or turn the wheel so hard you lose control of the vehicle. These are all similarly preventable, but maybe not worth the risk of being unable to open the door, brake or steer if the safety
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by sgentle 1y ago
Pretty much anything – I just bought a random cheap one from Amazon, though you might get better latency for more money. The dongles show up as USB cameras (ie UVC) which is supported since iPadOS 17. I use the (free) Orion app, but it&#x27
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by sgentle 1y ago
I use an iPad (that I have with me anyway) + cheap USB HDMI capture dongle for this.
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by sgentle 1y ago
Very strange choice to use Mulholland Drive as an example of conforming to the hero's journey "complicated by dream sequences" (?!) The second half of the film reveals the hero's journey to be a self-serving narrative co
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by sgentle 2y ago
I learned a lot about event-driven distributed systems by just building things with ZeroMQ. Even if you don't end up using it, learning its messaging patterns and the decisions behind them can give you a pretty solid mental framework.
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by sgentle 2y ago
It did get some attention 10 years and 2 months ago ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8857113
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by sgentle 2y ago
My first thought also. Every reason to think a pattern of bullying would extend to romantic and sexual partners.
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by sgentle 2y ago
I was surprised to learn that, while the suburb of Silver Lake in LA is in fact named after the water reservoir at its centre, the reservoir itself is actually named after former water commissioner Herman Silver. The way its serene surface
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by sgentle 2y ago
Here's Wipr's instructions for toggling on its blocklists: https://kaylees.site/wipr-faq.html#wipr-has-no-effect-after-...
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by sgentle 2y ago
This article didn't really hit for me. It feels like I'm just reading the author's particular experiences run through a gauntlet of theorisation that ultimately does more to obscure than clarify the message. 1. Being a very p
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by sgentle 2y ago
You might be interested in the hyperreal numbers, which sound a bit like the avenue you were exploring.
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by sgentle 2y ago
When you ask a question like that, are you making an implicit commitment to change your mind if a source is provided? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10763974/
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by sgentle 2y ago
"Whenever you add Content to a repository containing notice of a license, you license that Content under the same terms, and you agree that you have the right to license that Content under those terms. If you have a separate agreement
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by sgentle 3y ago
Sibling commenters: for what it's worth, the notion of an employee having a fiduciary duty to their employer isn't as crazy as it sounds. eg, see here: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=724a91e1-9
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by sgentle 3y ago
You might find it helpful to refer to the Copyright Office's Compendium, which covers copyright law specifics in more detail. It's big, but quite approachable. Chapter 300 covers copyrightability in general: https://cop
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by sgentle 3y ago
What a sad premise. People who don't want the same thing I want are ruining dating apps for me? I know that calling people entitled is a bit of a meme now but... really? I mean, it's not just poly people. What about kinksters, sin
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by sgentle 3y ago
Absolutely second this. I've done it both ways and the one where you're on the hook for website updates will eventually wear you down, no matter how good your intentions. Most recently, I helped my hairdresser get Squarespace set

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