topgrain2

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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Even with extensive assistance (which is way too expensive to widely deploy) outcomes are weak. Last I checked, researchers in the specific area of high-touch weight interventions were excited that they finally had a tool that might more-th
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
People talk past each other on this because for an individual it technically can work, and sometimes does, but on a population level, as extensively studied by people whose job it is to study that, it definitely does not work. Even with
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> Were you able to find coverage? Never fucking do this. It's the manager's job. Like it's their actual job . If you just want to last-minute swap a shift for fun? Sure. If you're in the hospital or otherwise have an
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> What do you think that pay is for? Stop being weird. Not for me to cater to the needs of some adult-babies who don't want to hear my actual baby on a " late night work call". Zero of the dollars are for that.
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
So you bowl the ball against the wicket so the batter can try to hit your bowl? And then if the ball you bowled hit another thing that is also a wicket, you got a wicket? Not confusing at all. :-)
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Nah, Catan's among those. It's very common for an initial set-up to leave 1-2 players with no realistic path to victory by turn 2 or so, even if they've made the best choices available to them. Once you learn to spot it, the
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> Instead of 3 outs there's 10 outs (called wickets). > An out is having a ball caught after you hit it (same as baseball) or the ball hitting the wickets when at bat (kind of like strikeout) I thought a wicket is what you call
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
> When we get over the beachhead drop out of formation and land on the strip. We’re told the Nazis are fouling the drinking water, so it will be appreciated. There’s no trouble finding the strip, the battleship Rodney is firing salvoes o
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Yeah I’m a huge fan, lots of linen and thin, fine cotton that’s not been formaldehyde treated (so, not “non-iron”) on me in hot months. I even have an open-weave linen sweater that’s comfortable into the 90s of degrees F. I’ve got a few h
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Keyboard layout specific. Macs with their default English layout use “option-shift-dash” which is really easy to remember (and relatively discoverable, as such things go) which is why using proper m-dashes (not just double-dashes) used to b
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by topgrain2 3mo ago
Linen clothes are awesome. Long trousers and long sleeves and almost as cool as short sleeves and shorts in shade, and cooler in direct sun.
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
All I can figure is they’re running it with some dirt-cheap tiny model. It’s wrong just about every time I bother to read it. If their idea is to get people interested in their “AI” results, this effort is doing the opposite. Even my kids,
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
An excellent argument for advocating to Make the Bastards Pay when they get away with some unfair bullshit.
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
> What AI firms are trying to build is the artificial equivalent of a human brain. We should probably leave this here, because I don't think this is even close to true (that it's what they're trying to do, or that it&#x2
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
Yeah, they did it quite a bit in the 20-teens. Wasn't uncommon to see an event where they finished announcing an upgraded model of something, then had a slide where the current price fell away to reveal one $100-$150 lower.
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
Alibaba's asking for things, and receiving what they asked for. > If it was the underlying data, that's freely available. A bunch of it is not , but was pirated. And "underlying data"—JFC, that's billions of per
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
> Isn't that a bit like saying if you read books in a public library to pick up a new skill you should work for free? Only if you’re trying to muddy the waters. No, obviously it’s not. One can also support licensing for driving a ca
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
> What games do you play now that this specialized piece of hardware would better? It'd likely be better as a living room TV PC than any PC I've ever owned or have seen for sale before, and it's likely to enjoy years of go
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
... holy shit, why are they so high used, I'd never have guessed?! Thank you for pointing this out, as someone with a Steam Deck I almost never use and a desktop gaming PC running bazzite that I do use, a lot, but wanted to replace wit
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
I'm in the "steam deck that I never use" camp but it's because I've been too lazy to take a Saturday to repurpose it into a dedicated console piracy device, it turns out I hate playing basically any PC game "on
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
End-to-end (hardware, OS, UI software) support from a single vendor for a narrowly-configured gaming PC, with actual serious support in terms of software updates and such, not just "we'll maybe honor the warranty if it breaks&qu
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
The game series that creates a whole fresh world and story for most of its games, and that has shifted across and flirted with genres other than the one it started with? That resisted “when’s the final fantasy 7 remake?!” requests and a gua
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
I can vouch for this still not really being true even in Apple-land, since almost any peripheral, external disk, printer, whatever, that I'll want to plug in isn't gonna be from Apple. In 2026 the single most useful port to add to
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
I just bought a few 8bitdo controllers, wired and bluetooth, both. These are basically the best-bang-for-the-buck low- to mid-priced controllers around, super-popular in gaming circles. Best you'll get without bumping up to modern 1st
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
Probably interpreting it that way because “bad for running” and “needs shoe polish” can’t possible be describing sports shoes with leather components.
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by topgrain2 4mo ago
Almost all my dozen or so pairs of shoes and boots are leather and the only of these that I find true is that they’re not great for running. At least none of the ones I have. If they fit poorly, you bought the wrong size or a pair made from