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by treetalker 2mo ago
I just watched DHH's video about this. He pronounces it "umachi"; how does that happen?
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Anthropic is proud to announce Eddice, its latest Epstein-class model. https://xcancel.com/atreides_sf/status/2088044874503524469
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by treetalker 2mo ago
<dickover>
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by treetalker 2mo ago
This underscores the importance of the Internet Archive and people like Marion Stokes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes ).
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Careful: pointing out this distillation hypocrisy (“rules for thee but not for me”) is liable to draw moderation deeming it “a thought-terminating cliché” that is against the HN Guidelines. See, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.c
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by treetalker 2mo ago
♫ Don’t whiz on the electric fence! No, sir … I don’t like it!
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by treetalker 2mo ago
The surest sign that we have inhabited absurdity itself is that philosophers now command jaw-dropping salaries and receive stock options.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
1. Measure the real output that matters (not convenience / speed of administrative tasks). 2. Identify and break the constraint in your system. 3. Set aside time for deep work.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Law practice in the United States is self-policing.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
So you want it to teach you and take notes for you?
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Case numbers? I'd love to take a look at the dockets.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
The Castros coming into the USA on a special orange visa in exchange for giving away part of Cuba will be quite the leopards-eating-faces moment in Miami!
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Etherpad – the editor for documents that matter(etherpad.org)
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by treetalker 2mo ago
https://xcancel.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2085817074816070014
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Would you mind elaborating?
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by treetalker 2mo ago
I couldn’t help but think of Nute Gunray’s walking throne in The Phantom Menace .
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by treetalker 2mo ago
> … a Kentucky-based organ procurement organization that made headlines over a 2021 incident in which it was accused of trying to harvest a man’s organs while he was still alive … > … a 2021 incident in which a Kentucky man in his 30s
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Direct link to en banc opinion: https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202312160...
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by treetalker 2mo ago
> Martha Stewart and her coconspirator went to jail for lying to the FBI. Jail ≠ prison.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Seems like “probably has negative health consequences” in the article is missing “ ceteris paribus ” (negative when remaining sedentary).
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by treetalker 2mo ago
A wonderful corollary work: Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (see https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/06/15/how-to-talk-about-... ).
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Sometimes a user-initiated overview is helpful to winnow wheat from chaff. Even when I'm using a filter for better material like HN, most of the articles (really, the authors) seem unable to get to the f— point. I blame, in equal share
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by treetalker 2mo ago
People always seek shortcuts to true learning and understanding.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Providing an accountability sink. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)
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by treetalker 2mo ago
misled
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Tiresome, or tiring, perhaps; but not tired.
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by treetalker 2mo ago
Nation beset by interrogative titles: Betteridge
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by treetalker 3mo ago
Good writing enables the reader to assess, skim, understand, and work with the text as fast as possible. If you want to enable your audience to read quickly, learn to write better. (A general statement; not directed at you personally.)
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by treetalker 3mo ago
To me it’s all quite analogous to walking up to, but not crossing, a border with, say, a fruit that’s legal to possess on the side you’re on, but not on the other side, and either eating or throwing away that fruit before crossing. “Hey! I
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by treetalker 3mo ago
Generative language models have helped me most by drawing my attention to the importance of context, communicative compression, prompting, comprehension, coherence, and coordination in the domain of human groups.

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