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by vehemenz 3y ago
I was equally split between 3 and 4 until I started using more consonants, specifically the Wheel of Fortune ones (RSTLN). Now my two-week average hovers between 3.2 and 3.3, almost always better than Wordlebot too. For a while I had a 3.1
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> For me it brings up Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson shite constantly, despite my refusal to engage in such content whatsoever. It just figures, hey you like watching video game content so you'll love these smarmy shitheads. You ca
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I consider high-paying to be relative to the cost of living. Out west is going to be more expensive, outright, and there are fewer college towns to choose from. The Midwest, South, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic region seem to be the best va
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by vehemenz 3y ago
College towns probably. Very high QoL:CoL, assuming you can get a high-paying job there.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
"Stealing" is morally charged and too associated with the loss of property to be a fair or accurate term here. It's not word games; it's conceptual analysis and a basic understanding of rhetoric. Digital piracy, broadly
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by vehemenz 3y ago
1. Google employees 2. People who "bought in" to the Google/Android ecosystem 3. Web developers who won't use inferior dev tools 4. Stockholm Syndrome
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by vehemenz 3y ago
The numbers are pretty grim though. Apple is taking market share in desktop and mobile, so I'd put my money on Safari.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I've only had problems with the Apple Pay integration on Pizza Hut's website, of all things.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Now they will unironically push back against Safari for not using enough bleeding-edge APIs. The lesson here is that web developers only have their own interests in mind, and what they want isn't necessarily what's best for the we
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by vehemenz 3y ago
That is certainly one way to spin incompetent product design.
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The author said "meaningful" resolution. If you're so eager to correct others' pedantry, you might be more charitable before offering such a hasty rebuttal.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
There is a cross section of Macrumors that behaves like tech YouTube. That is, they're obsessed with on-paper specs (rather than real-world performance) and have a hair-trigger on calling out Apple for insufficient spec bumps. 8GB is s
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by vehemenz 3y ago
1. There are plenty of comments in those threads that support my position, as well as the standard gatekeeping positions. 2. This subreddit isn't as representative of professional philosophers as you think. Its demographic skews toward
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by vehemenz 3y ago
You'll get no argument from me about Jordan Peterson. However, I'm having trouble reconciling your apparent reverence for "the actual academic field," when Sam Harris thinks and argues like so many of them, including the
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Just curious—why do you lump Jordan Peterson in with Sam Harris, other than that they both write popular nonfiction?
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Your argument seems like a form of the skeptical challenge, as it would apply to PhDs also. This makes it look less plausible though. But besides, it's easy to demonstrate that large numbers of professional philosophers are wrong by lo
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I don't think we need to gatekeep who philosophers are. It's okay if she's a bad philosopher. There are already so many already; what's one more?
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by vehemenz 3y ago
"We're trying something different, thanks for joining us" A comma splice isn't the end of the world, but if this is the post that's advertising your new enterprise to the rest of the world, then it tells me you have
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by vehemenz 3y ago
They say "worker-owned." I'm not sure about a new journalistic outlet, but in the context of lesbian bars and communist coffee shops, this means the business will last about a year.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
A lot of people are collectors with way too much time—among other things—on their hands.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It's anti-intellectual and uncivilized, but not because of rightwing conspiracy content. There is a strong culture of intolerance and censorship of viewpoints that diverge from the norm.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I use Debian versions of everything on my web server. I guess this means our anecdotes cancel out.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> A sentence with italics or any other emphasis should read exactly the same without that emphasis. Not true. In conventional English, it is typical (if not expected) to add verbal emphasis to italicized words while reading aloud.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
No problem. I feel torn about advertising these extensions because YouTube might become wise to them, but I also want to pay it forward.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
"The New Pixel Phone Allows Laymen to Easily Alter Photos With Generative 'AI' Functions" didn't have quite the same ring to it.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
AdGuard and Vinegar work fine for iOS Safari. What do you mean by mobile browser? Or do you mean any iOS webview component?
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by vehemenz 3y ago
The Internet was a better place before YouTube though, so, as with anyone trying to make moral arguments, you're stuck between two principles with no clear way to reconcile them.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Depends on the circumstances. Remember, moral reasoning isn't based on facts about the world, so anything goes if we elevate the right principles.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
With dealer markup, tax, and title, that $24k figure is more like $30k.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Or just tax the hell out of large, non-commercial passenger vehicles (SUVs, pickups) like every other reasonable country on Earth.

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