throw-the-towel

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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Unfun fact: in Bogotá, it seems to be quite acceptable to piss in the bush everywhere, even in the centro histórico.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Wait, so the smoke detector thing is real? I assumed it was just a racist stereotype.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
The advert in the Wikipedia page for chlorpromazine (aka thorazine) has some... vivid imagery.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Well, as sad as it is, that's still better than what they have across the Channel. (You'd pay 44.4% tax on the equivalent of 125k GBP.) But thank you for correcting me, I wasn't aware of that!
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
But don't Switzerland or the UK have similarly comfortable lifestyles with less absurd taxation?
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
That's why federations have a Senate where all states get equal representation.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
I'd say this is not limited to the politicians.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
But then you hit the same problem LLM slop exploits: the cost of refuting bullshit becomes way higher than the cost of generating it.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
MISTER PROSSER: But Mister Dent the plans have been available in the planning office for the last nine months! ARTHUR DENT: Yes! I went round to find them yesterday afternoon. You’d hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to pull much attentio
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
How would you then have backpressure against bad laws?
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
They're probably not coming to be entrepreneurs though.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
I feel for you, but the points you're making seem to be contradictory. You don't like that European companies bought out Romanian ones, yet at the same time you don't like that Europe has small versions of everything for each
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Umm akchully, not crossing a highway to avoid being hit is a perfectly sane course of action.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Constraints make the artist's job easier. In this case, the constraint is the character grid.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
And for some reason, all of the neo-terminals have gone jihad on native tabs.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
> We have even seen older models, when thinking is disabled, reason into the bash tool and echo their thoughts to /dev/null. AI has reinvented rubber duck debugging.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Maybe what we need is actually fewer ecosystems, and more products.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
What art school do you mean?
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
I remember my coworkers having managed to write Java in pre-generics Go. The code had functions wrapped in functions wrapped in yet more functions, and interfaces only ever implemented by one type to replace the generics abuse. Life finds a
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
> Aside - it would be simpler if the leap day were the 32/Dec instead of 29/Feb! Well, February did use to be the last month of the year. (And whoever messed it up did, in fact, get stabbed.)
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
TBH, if you're wondering if you're on a spectrum but never bothered to check, my advice is to check. I was always distrusting of labels, then got diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the ripe old age of 31. And holy mother o
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Now I want a HÉTFŐ desk, and a SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR... something.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
This comic used to be viral in Russia in the 2010s: https://m.vk.ru/wall-28208003_16956 . (The dialogue goes, "Somewhere deep inside Ikea HQ: How shall we name the lamp?" "GNVÖERK.")
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
> playing by [...] international norms is in the long term interest of powerful countries. Ah, but are the interests of their leaders aligned with the interests of the countries? (Side note: it's so charmingly cute we now [pretend
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
I was going to say you're probably not going to like the Chinese take on the surveillance state. Then I remembered Flock exists. Can't have shit in this era :(
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
To be completely honest, normal people being able to set their AC to a sane temp does sound very valuable, and probably totally worth slowing down the slop machines a little bit.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
This is true too! I have ADHD-like executive problems, and sometimes doing the boring but necessary stuff is so painful I abandon the project entirely. Now, though? I entrust it to the agent, and even if it's slop it's still done,
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Not really, in my experience most jobs still only hire within one country.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
Well, that makes sense too. I don't believe evolution of programming languages is just going to halt here, but that's just like my opinion man.
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by throw-the-towel 1mo ago
I'm in a shitty place for working as a dev, and I still get recruiters knocking. What they're offering is not great, but that's because the market here is shit. At least there's something!

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