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by tclancy 2mo ago
> It is just how ads work First, no. You have missed the point of the piece entirely. Second, even if you were right, is that an argument for it working that way? If this were a blog post about how gangrene sucks, would you be making the
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Or perhaps your tastes have improved!
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I’ve been reading that same line for 15-20 years now.
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It is a well-accepted fact new shoes make you faster. Current science suggests it is due to the lighter weight from lack of dirt, though there is a competing theory which says it's an optical illusion due to the fact the pure white str
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by tclancy 2mo ago
As a programming language? Sure. As a way to work with relational data? It may be my favorite "language" across all domains because of the terse beauty. I am a self-taught, no CS coder but SQL is the one place where I feel like I
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Indeed! How would you tell the difference for sure?
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Hey, congrats on coming up on a birthday that ends in 0. Mine was just 5-0. I can give you two pieces of possible advice: - nothing does matter. You will die. We may meet in the Bardo if you are spectacularly unlucky. - the trick is now bei
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Really enjoyed this article about it https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-...
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by tclancy 2mo ago
I think it’s telling the site owner, not us.
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They built this wall …
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Hey Claude, scan these marketplaces for arbitrage opportunities. The thing will eat itself unless the AI companies find a way to make money directly from it.
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Do you live in New England? Because any adult I see on a BMX I automatically assume has lost their license. Just wondering if it’s regional.
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Have you tried building a bot to filter out just the best of the best from that bot? Or just recursion?
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Fellow traveler, my takeaway was that the author didn’t address the elephant in the room, which is that his name is within Soundex/ Levenshtein distance of “Sean Bean” who played a terrorist in Patriot Games, so I chalk this up as anot
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by tclancy 2mo ago
You mean about there being no Cyclopes? They got to you too, huh?
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And tiny little feet. Drive around in tiny cars, going beep beep beep.
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Indeed, “The initial learning curve is steeper than dropping in a <script>”. Maybe for you, but I was doing that basic thing in a mix of Django around 2010. It was getting away from traditional form POST and reload the page while stil
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Eh, I would say it doesn’t have them as axioms the concept is based on, but ethics are modelable in economics and often appear. Remember economics is the study of choices/ preferences given a certain set of inputs, not about how money
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by tclancy 2mo ago
Multiple people, me being the third or fourth, are not feeling the default layout and you all read that as a signal it's working as intended?
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by tclancy 2mo ago
I’ve yet to hear of effective altruism from anyone less wealthy me. Seems to be weirdly lumped among the rich.
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by tclancy 2mo ago
This guy remembers what I thought I was saying. In my defense I stole the whole thing from Stephen King’s It which I read … forty years ago, that can’t be accurate. Let me sort out my instruments and get back to you.
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In my defense, I was suffering from white line fever.
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Well sure, it was George Bernard Shaw, not the old CNN anchor. Also, turtles are tight lipped by nature.
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It’s a reference to Bernard Shaw, who once said that if we ever created a truly artificial mind it would be inside a turtle’s shell. Sturgill Simpson covered the track on his seminal work, Xeno’s Paradox.
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by tclancy 2mo ago
I’ll take it. Makes me nostalgic for college, arguing the merits of the cuts. My personal opinion is simply: no voiceover.
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by tclancy 2mo ago
>In the world of movie title cards, this one sits in the bottom half. Really? Are we including B movies, porn, educational films (other than porn) in this massive list?
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by tclancy 2mo ago
>writing for people exactly like yourself is often limiting Who am I supposed to write for?
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lights Molotov Yes, but which cut ?
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I heard the story as attributed to Asimov: he was walking out of Hamlet when a fellow patron said, "I don't see what the big deal is. It was all just cliches strung together."
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I'm just describing my personal situation at the time (and the author's, judging by the pictures) because I have found in the 25 years since that having diverse views makes for better products. Also, it's exciting that you si

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