swagasaurus-rex

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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Crud apps can unexpectedly become surprisingly complicated. Take the humble to -do list for example. So you can create, edit, even delete to-dos, and it’s even hosted online. * Once a user has a lot of to-do’s, they might want to organize t
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Piracy and DRM killed most direct-to-customer distribution of software.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
While I agree these LLMs are getting pretty good, I think google shares fault for making it so hard to find information on the internet. You have to scroll past 4 sponsored links to get to their algorithm results, which themselves have been
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Professional climbers are known for being able to hang off of two fingers. It usually takes years of training to be able to do this.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Looking at the pictures below, it does look like they need something more narrow for realistic cave use, but they probably will need greater lift than what they get with their current low surface area shape.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
I'm saying it's shameful to the degree it impacts your life. If you're in endless pain, go for it. If you're still functional while getting high, all the power to you. If you can drink nightly and still operate, that&#x2
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Reasons I can think: * Harm to the body * Harm to the brain * It can be expensive (sometimes disastrously) * Opportunity costs, both of time and money * Drugs alter your behavior, sometimes not in polite ways * Addiction make you dependent
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
I feel shame for our society every time I walk past drug addicted homeless people camped out on the sidewalk. Drugs are shameful, to the degree that they impact your life. Some of us are so oppposed to shame that we justify and defend the m
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
How do we determine the truthfulness of a statement on the internet? This is a hard question I have been thinking about for some time. The internet is digital, which means it's divorced from reality, everything on the internet is eithe
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Speech isn't the problem, everybody can voice their opinions from the age they learn to speak. It's the platforms the speech is carried over. Are you broadcasting a message over television? The stations have strong control over th
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Why? it’s so easy to make content
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
This is the source I'm referencing: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/03/collections-armor-in-order-par... He talks about the economics of bronze age warriors, how most soldiers were generally expected to bring
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Leg and foot armor was often times unnecessary in bronze age combat. Spears are meant to keep the enemy at a distance. Aiming for the foot would require some reaching, putting you in significant danger of counter attack. Armies lined up in
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
There was a great deal of interest in how to remove airborne viruses during Covid. One of the biggest takeaways seemed to be that UV light destroys viruses in seconds. Seems like there a lot of things we could do
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Why can't we have nice things? Is it profit motive, which pushes dark patterns and ads in our software, planned obsolescence in our hardware and incentivizes races to the bottom in every industry? Is it an issue of control, where our g
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Isn't the faustian bargain a warning against taking money from unscrupulous lenders? The promise of riches, but in the process you lose your freedom (still true for business owners)
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
What about mounting it onto an actual dog? pros: • longer battery life • more mobility • easier to program • can chase drones that are flying low • capable of locating and disarming infantry cons: • May not always follow instructions • May
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Instead of trying to jam squishy humans along side aluminum vehicles, why not build elevated walkways above traffic? In a city, the space between buildings can be auctioned, and the owner of that space is responsible for cleaning and polici
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Shares of the company they work for would incentivize them to care about the company. Shares of other public companies means no skin in the game. A day trader cash out whenever they want and wipe their hands clean of any adverse effects mad
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Financial independence for the feminist movement was always about divesting from a husband, not relying on a husband.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Sounds like she had at least two different fathers to her children, maybe 3. This is poverty creating behavior. She made an enormous mistake bearing a child to not one, but two deadbeats, but she doesn’t frame it as her error.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Morality applied to humans wasn't universal either. Slaves were common in basically every society, and they had no rights. Some Greek polities would make token laws like "killing a slave is an affront to the gods" but sexual,
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
with what
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
This supports my hypothesis that poor management is driven by very human anxieties.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing earlier about teachers. A teacher might be the greatest gift to children, or they could be below average. A school district has no way of knowing. Standardized testing can bring some level of comparison, but to
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
There’s a legal mechanism to merge companies through aquisition. There is no legal mechanism to split a company up. Even bankruptcy is case by case and doesn’t always result in a split.
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
It’s certainly much easier to build an AI to recognize and eliminate any human vs building an AI that can tell friend from foe
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
Fairly simple and explainable for an organization
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
> breakdown of PE by P. album occurs at a rate of about 0.05 per cent per day At what rate does all the plastic in the world start to soften and crumble?
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by swagasaurus-rex 2y ago
If prices of colleges are out of control, couldn't new entrants into the market absorb some of the demand? Coding bootcamps seemed to fill that role until recently.

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