syl_sau

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by syl_sau 2y ago
Some people here seem to be upset. I don't get it. More than 40% of US adults are obese. The rates of chronic diseases are through the roof. There's obviously a systemic problem in these institutions who are tasked with the well-b
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by syl_sau 3y ago
The last paragraph of the Discussion section makes it clear that fat on its own isn't to blame: > This pilot study examined correlations between diet composition, mental health, mood and happiness, and the gut microbiome to find tha
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by syl_sau 4y ago
And that was just the install process. Soon you'll start using it and you'll quickly come to despise anything Windows-related. A good tangent is this absolutely marvelous video put out by the Microsoft Teams people, where they com
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by syl_sau 4y ago
The good things about books is they compel you to truly engage in an argument, an idea, a conception of the world. You can't opt out easily, and that means you ought to be focused . And that's incredibly important, because qualit
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Yes, there's in fact an incentive mismatch here between the creator and the media. But it doesn't mean it wasn't there before to some extent. There are still great resources out there. So how do you spot them? Information doe
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Look at the buildings in this painting: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-of-washington-dc-ed... . Do they look exceptionally ugly? To be fair they look almost exactly like the ones in the "old town" p
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by syl_sau 4y ago
On the subjectivity of "beauty" in modern architecture: - if you average the "subjectivity" of most people (in the USA at least), you get "we prefer traditional architecture": https://www.civicart.or
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Is this ironic ? You give the example Yglesias, one of the most famous independent journalists in the US, and litterally the first paragraph of your article is about how he turned down SBF's money: > Several months ago, I found myse
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by syl_sau 4y ago
This always sounded incredibly scary to me, especially when I was in my early 20s. I guess when you're that age you don't like the idea of things having an end, you are sort of overwhelmed by a feeling of infinity, of never-ending
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by syl_sau 4y ago
As someone pointed out to me recently when I argued the same thing, crypto and blockchain does have a use case: funding organizations and people through anonymous means as to circumvent the scope of the law/avoid the eyes of state or c
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by syl_sau 4y ago
I agree, it's probably the one use-case where it can be useful and ease the process: funding things anonymously as to circumvent the scope of the law/avoid the eyes of the authorities, far easier with Monero really. This includes
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by syl_sau 4y ago
It seems to me that this whole issue is fairly simple: does the blockchain technology solve any real-world problem that people have? A mere analysis of its logic says it does not, actually, solve any meaningful problem whatsoever. Secure
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by syl_sau 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to with the Jan 6th hearings (I don't really follow US news), but in my opinion it's certainly the case that politics, media and administration are the privileged domains for which the
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by syl_sau 4y ago
I agree, although it has to be noted that that you can preview most ffmpeg commands using ffplay. The syntax is the same as the ffmpeg command, without the final output filename obviously.
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by syl_sau 4y ago
You've got to appreciate the irony of how an article about historical revolutionary technologies is buried under what has to be one of the most obnoxious web interface I've ever seen. And on top of all that, you realize the websit
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by syl_sau 4y ago
> The issue is more that literary scenes don't really exist any more, in the sense of groups of people who all know each other and have common values. This is a very good point. It's especially striking in visual arts; we used
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Yes, I guess the remarks on population density and on workers' wages make sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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by syl_sau 4y ago
I live in the old Lyon district and I agree entirely, but it's hard to buy into the argument that "we can't build this anymore because it'd too expensive", as if the people at the time were all incredibly rich. As f
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Obsession over tools, and the more trendy obsession over productivity ("My secret to be 10x more productive!!") ultimately seem tautological in the end: most people hooked up on these techniques will never stop talking about it, a
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by syl_sau 4y ago
You'd probably enjoy reading Christopher Lasch's "The Culture of Narcissism". It makes all sort of great points about yesterday's hippies' and pop culture personalities' ability to recycle their (frankly)
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by syl_sau 4y ago
>The key to this is just searching the archives of Usenet That's interesting... but how exactly do you do that? Seems like the search engines I tried never return anything more than 5 years old.
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by syl_sau 4y ago
This, I believe, is the essence of the whole point.
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How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator(lowtechmagazine.com)
2 points by syl_sau 4y ago|0 comments
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by syl_sau 4y ago
>I really don't see a material difference between recording an album in a recording studio and writing a program at a desk, or writing a book for that matter. You don't write an album on the computer (unless you're a DJ, w
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by syl_sau 4y ago
Concerts and plays are a real things that happen in the real world. So is teaching. They don't exist in a virtual space where everything is duplicable ad infinitum and where the next machine is just as capable as the first. Do you pay
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by syl_sau 4y ago
I'd predicate the answer to this question on a much more materialistic basis than the author : it's weird to sell software because it's doesn't really exist. I mean, it's barely tangible. You can copy it indefinitel
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by syl_sau 5y ago
This is a really exciting to me. As a libre-enthusiast who happens to be working in architecture, it seems I have been cursed by fate. Architecture is probably one of the least penetrable field of FOSS. I work in both 2D (for "classica
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by syl_sau 5y ago
May I suggest the FF extension Minimal Theme[0] by Thomas Wang, which simplifies the UI by removing those enormous blobs of texts everywhere and also by hiding the "trends" panel. Very good addition: it can also hide engagement co
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by syl_sau 5y ago
The pontification on Ted talks wouldn't be complete without a mention of Sam Hyde's prank talk "2070 Paradigm Shift": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmicRDpS5Gk
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by syl_sau 5y ago
I think that in this case like in many others, the more the tool approximates the behavior of something you already know, the easier it is to use. I don't want to lose time learning yet another tool just for syncing 7 dotfiles from a m

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