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by smeej 2y ago
It's surprisingly reassuring to realize it wasn't actually my fault that I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for explaining! I'll look into Translator and see if I can get anywhere that way.
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by smeej 2y ago
A couple years ago, I tried to wrap my poor little non-developer head around how to use this, because I have a handful of things going on medically that seem (to me) to be connected, but I can't manage to get any doctors to care enough
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by smeej 2y ago
Even a typoed comment is right once every 180 years.
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by smeej 2y ago
I was forbidden from going to my great-grandmother's funeral with my parents even though I was 11 and an extremely well-disciplined child. "We want you to remember her as she lived, not as she died" was the reason given at th
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by smeej 2y ago
This sounds like you're only thinking of people who die very old. When my 99yo grandmother died, it felt natural, like it was the time for such things. She'd eaten all her cake. When my 29yo sister died, it was completely differen
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by smeej 2y ago
It would be cool to do this with Project Gutenberg and LibriVox files, since they're all public domain works anyway. The entire Great Books of Western Civilization are on both, and I know I'd make more progress on reading it if
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by smeej 2y ago
Ooh, that's an interesting idea. I only have one device where I would ever want to switch to listening to my book, but a couple others where I would like to read it.
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by smeej 2y ago
I also read silently vastly faster than I can speak (~1100 vs 150 wpm), but I can as easily read slowly enough to speak what I'm reading fluently. When I would hop on a call with these people and ask them to summarize what they thought
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by smeej 2y ago
The part where it talked about how the brain changes when people practice reading more made the title and first paragraphs seem like they have the causation exactly backward. It sounded like they were saying "people are good at readi
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by smeej 2y ago
Both sides promise to fix everything all the time. That's essentially the whole game. I don't even know how long ago people stopped believing they had the agency to improve things in their own lives themselves, but it seems.to hav
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by smeej 2y ago
I had a professor in graduate school who gave me permission to turn in my detailed outlines for my essays rather than filling in all the rest of the words. I think we both liked that better too, and that was 15 years ago.
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by smeej 2y ago
Someone asked me about a dozen years ago to name a problem government solves that it doesn't first have a hand in creating. I still haven't come up with one.
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by smeej 2y ago
And by then you have several people on the team who have thought the wrong way is the right way for months, never mind your support team probably giving end users bad information. It's messy.
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by smeej 2y ago
Maybe there will. But literally everything has fraud, and not every other industry is worth this kind of money, so it seems naïve to attribute it all to fraud.
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by smeej 2y ago
I finally admitted to myself that a robust PKM can store and recall more information more easily than I ever could. It's quite a bit of work to process things I read or listen to into my PKM, but whenever I decide to revisit an idea,
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by smeej 2y ago
The big move above $100k happened after 9pm Eastern time.
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by smeej 2y ago
Gensler has confirmed his intention is to resign on January 20.
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I think it's as simple as expecting his administration not to be outright hostile to the industry, and maybe even encourage its development. Most companies in the space have had "the government could, at any moment, make it nearly
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by smeej 2y ago
Then the challenge becomes recording where each thing is recorded so that when it needs to be updated, you update it everywhere and don't end up with conflicting documentation.
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by smeej 2y ago
I was hoping for something that's been manufactured more recently than 5 years ago, but I do wish that type of device had caught on better than it did.
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by smeej 2y ago
Physical continuity, in the sense that there is no break so significant that at any point one could say, "Before this, smeej0, and after this, smeej1." Unlike the ship of the famous thought experiment, there is and can be no recon
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't think consciousness exists separate from the body, so this sounds to me like a contradiction in terms more than an actual thought experiment. It's the kind of thing a technologist can propose because the syntax of the sent
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm not merely a mind. I am an embodied mind.
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by smeej 2y ago
The fact that "you are different" does not mean a "different you" now exists, though. Change of this specific kind is already intrinsically integrated into your existence and identity.
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by smeej 2y ago
If not, I should have had to do something with her body when I woke up where she went to sleep.
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by smeej 2y ago
I had a great deal of difficulty going to sleep the night after this first occurred to me. I only really managed to assuage my fear by realizing there would be an incredible number of dead bodies to deal with if this were happening to every
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by smeej 2y ago
There's a difference between "I have changed" and "I have been copied." This seems obvious enough to me that I don't question it, but is it not obvious to everyone?
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by smeej 2y ago
This was actually part of the 5th grade lesson: "Eventually, you will be able to move past this format. Your writing will improve beyond it. But you won't know when to break the rules until you know how to write within the rules,
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by smeej 2y ago
There's not a chance in the world that thing fits in women's pants pockets! What I'm looking for has the form factor of a phone (potentially even much smaller) and a camera like a phone, but all it does is take pictures. I&#x
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A friend brought out a "Camp Snap"[0] camera at an event the other day, and the thing everybody enjoyed about it was that it didn't immediately bring the whole internet into our event. It doesn't even have a screen. I wo

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