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by telchior 3y ago
He said he worked mobile sales, so I read that as he sold all models of phones to a wide variety of customers. I think a lot of people would nod along with the idea that Android phones eventually have more issues. Certainly, between myself
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by telchior 3y ago
I do remember meeting the Siri team before Apple bought them (I was writing for a tech blog at the time) and having them show me a bunch of really cool queries. I was pretty impressed. Shortly after, Apple bought them, and significantly aft
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by telchior 3y ago
> The USA and a few other cultures have unfortunately devalued shame Shame is admittedly a very powerful tool for social conformity. During the few centuries that you seem to view as the good old days, it was used to great effect for blo
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by telchior 3y ago
I despise Google Maps for this. I can know that a restaurant exists, zoom in on its block, search 'restaurants' -- nothing. It'll zoom out the map and show other stuff. Worse, I can max my zoom and hunt for it on the map and
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by telchior 3y ago
It's especially a case of one thing not being like the others since all the examples are qualified by the phrase "the surplus is handed to shareholders". But every other example is a public company, with a vast array of publi
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by telchior 3y ago
But wearing an eye mask is nigh impossible for restless sleepers; it slips off constantly. My best solution after trying many masks is an old t-shirt draped across my eyes, which inevitably slips off but at least doesn't drag elastic b
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by telchior 3y ago
In the game industry, even most of the dinosaurs now recognize that only allowing designers to contribute ideas isn't a good idea. Perhaps the companies she worked for were particularly awful.
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by telchior 3y ago
... aren't jeans and backpacks the most typical pants/container? What the heck else would you wear and carry things in while scooting around? Not that I disbelieve you, it just seems odd. My idea of Colorado is a bunch of people i
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by telchior 3y ago
I recently needed a 3d model of a crab and found that some similarly obsessive user over at Sketchfab had created dozens (possibly hundreds?) of extremely detailed crab models -- at 500k - 1.5 million tris, so basically unusable for most ty
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by telchior 3y ago
There's so much lost that was in MUDs, including a huge amount of good, descriptive writing of vast areas. I wonder if a later iteration of the Dall-E / Midjourney / Stable generators might be able to create visuals based off
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by telchior 4y ago
Yep. I didn't mention it but with magnesium testing, blood tests may not catch an issue; you can be deficient in a particular organ (e.g. brain) and fine in others. But realistically, very little of the $100 billion+ supplement industr
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by telchior 4y ago
Sure, but the supplement industry is 99% woo and most of what is sold has no proven benefit. In general people most people taking supplements don't have any known deficiency (including me, blood tests show my mag levels are fine).
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by telchior 4y ago
A recent opinion I saw from a doctor that made sense to me was: the reason they tell people to absolutely not do a lot of things is because there is a certain percentage of people who aren't competent to do anything on their own. The e
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by telchior 4y ago
I take magnesium for migraine and vertigo. Very much not a believer in supplements -- before this, I went through years of specialists prescribing various pharmaceuticals with various side effects. These days the problem is under control wi
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by telchior 4y ago
> the amount of detailed information that can be included on a couple sheets of paper The Iliad / Odyssey was a purely oral story for a long time. Oral traditions definitely included techniques that would allow any person to memoriz
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by telchior 4y ago
I've actually wondered if a job may exist in the future that's effectively just AI documentation. That's already what you have with power users on, say, Stack Overflow providing a ton of content that ChatGPT basically reprint
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by telchior 4y ago
I'm really not being facetious here -- you may be helped along by one of the definitions of "myth". > A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence The institution here is w
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by telchior 4y ago
Yes, I'm sure it'll take some subtlety to do this well. My struggle with Readlang was always that it just doesn't provide the whole meaning -- for instance, a correctly translated phrase doesn't necessarily tell me what
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by telchior 4y ago
Hey, that's great! I was a Readlang subscriber for a few months last year and often had the thought "why isn't this better?". It even has a place on my (long, cluttered) list of potential ideas to work on. So I'm ha
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by telchior 4y ago
At my house we routinely scorch parchment paper (the edges away from food) and use it for all sorts of purposes. It should be perfectly safe because the coating is just silicone. However, white parchment paper has some amount of dioxin in
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by telchior 4y ago
If you're looking for a file, or a bunch of files, but you only remember the name of a different file in the directory... then absolutely, yes.
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by telchior 4y ago
I'd summarize that as: civilization has always featured the few powerful having control over the many, but those few still had to satisfy at least some people. AI that can closely mimic humans and does not have a concept of self-benefi
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by telchior 4y ago
As someone gearing up to market a PC game in a couple months, I have a few thoughts. The site looks nice so far but I wouldn't proactively submit a game to it; here's why: I already need to consider my marketing (and presentation)
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by telchior 4y ago
Chocolate is in a similar flavor profile so it does mask something from the coffee. But a small amount of dairy really doesn't mask much, except perhaps in highly acidic brews. Sugar does nothing to cover the flavor of coffee unless it
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by telchior 4y ago
I understand that this idea of "adding anything destroys the flavor" is popular and widespread, but it's a really odd thing to think. That's not how cooking or taste buds work, so why would it apply especially to coffee?
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by telchior 4y ago
Paypal vs wire fees is often the choice, unfortunately. I earn residuals from a company that only allows those two options. But when the money lands in Paypal, I immediately transfer it out, and I've considered going with wires just ou
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by telchior 4y ago
I switched from a Macbook to PC laptop a few years ago. I'd say there are two rules to making that switch comfortably. Rule #1: do a ton of research and comparison shopping to be certain you're making a good PC buy. These huge bra
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by telchior 4y ago
Criticisms aside, not having an author byline is an intentional thing the Economist has done since its founding. The article tag that you're correctly pointing out is haughty is also standard for them; they're haughty about everyt
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by telchior 4y ago
I don't think this is a bad thing. Even an "obvious" message will have a large percent of viewers who don't get it. And that doesn't necessarily mean they're idiots, as other comments imply: they might be ESL s
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by telchior 4y ago
> They’re using oil being converted to electric energy Classic conservative talking point. The next bit after this is "let's do nothing, gas burning cars are the future!". Anyone who actually wants to think for real about

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