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by vonunov 2y ago
>Because you can see a child using a calculator. Besides, a calculator no more threatens the study of math than a word processor does writing, or a rhyming dictionary poetry. One reason is that if you hand me a TI-84, I'm not magica
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by vonunov 2y ago
Well, I mean, does it work for them, really? Or has it just not finished failing yet? I think we can't really get anywhere with this trying to inject hypothetical specifics into talk of generalities anyway. I'm sure there are some
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by vonunov 2y ago
Yet somehow I feel like if the Finns had made a social media service and named it that, it would be considered the height of hilarity and Finnishness
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by vonunov 2y ago
too short; didn't read
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by vonunov 2y ago
I'm not really getting that vibe from it, stylistically. I especially feel like ChatGPT (for all its unending shortcomings) would have gone with something more tactful than "that wasn't good enough" -- but this is precis
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by vonunov 2y ago
What if that actually is the case, and your human opponents were just obstinate? (Okay, yeah, I mean, I did have to specifically demand pushback -- Gemini took it too seriously and started talking mad shit: https://i.vgy.me/
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by vonunov 2y ago
Yes, the term in question for me is only "engineer". > (a) uses the title “professional engineer” or “ingénieur” or an abbreviation or variation thereof as an occupational or business designation; So (a) tells us rather clea
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by vonunov 2y ago
It takes some playing around with and is highly subjective. Best method I found was to just try camera configs used by pros or recommended by others and see what feels good. My current: Shake: off FOV: 110 Distance: 280 Height: 11
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by vonunov 2y ago
Part of the problem is rolling vs. yawing. Most players have something along the lines of LB mapped to powerslide + air roll. So when flying, they have to think (actively or otherwise) about when to roll vs. when to release LB so that the l
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by vonunov 2y ago
Centering! Take the shot! Take the shot! Take the shot! Wow! Wow! Nice shot! Thanks! vote to forfeit 1/2
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by vonunov 2y ago
The common perception is something along the lines of "In Canada, it's illegal to call yourself an engineer unless you have a PE license, full stop." The quote from Professional Engineers Ontario seems to encourage this inter
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by vonunov 2y ago
I couldn't reproduce in a Firefox fork in "troubleshoot" (safe) mode. Did reproduce in normal mode. It seemed to be somewhat mitigated by manually disabling extensions but then I couldn't pinpoint a config state to relia
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by vonunov 2y ago
Hm, it looks like it didn't, or I can't find it. I was never that into Star Wars so I assumed I'd just forgotten, but I figured it would obviously have been Chewbacca.
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by vonunov 2y ago
Great read. Now I just need you to grok vim so you can tell me who I am. :^)
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by vonunov 2y ago
I'm like 50 levels deep in dependencies/prerequisites/branches of one thing I started trying to get done 5 years ago and I don't even remember what it was anymore
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by vonunov 2y ago
There are (still) actually good transcriptionists who will deliver a meticulous transcript with all your weirdly abbreviated jargon thoroughly researched (which can be a feat of truly impressive "detective" work at times), multipl
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by vonunov 2y ago
I feel the same way when I'm on hold and a recording tells me "your call will be answered in the order it was received". This isn't about grammatical pedantry -- I don't care that they didn't say in which --
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by vonunov 2y ago
There's also some anecdata floating around in the -- what would you call it, the "competitive speed typing" community? Or "people who play TypeRacer a lot ". Some seemingly significant correlation between skill in
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by vonunov 2y ago
Well, they were kind of snippy with me on the FreeBSD forum some years ago when they felt like I hadn't done enough on my end, so there's that
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by vonunov 2y ago
a marginalized minority*
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by vonunov 2y ago
They don't seem to be very good at it, lol. I consistently get the lowest score while the opponents are awarded points for obvious GPT-style tryhard rambling and slightly less obvious GPT-trying-to-sound-cool-style tryhard nonchalance.
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by vonunov 2y ago
Run stats on support requests and make canned/auto replies for the common ones?
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by vonunov 2y ago
Outsourced call centers obsessing over dumb metrics like "dead air" and "hold time". They think you are gratified by obsequious groveling and fawning reassurance. There is always some guy in management who gives pep talk
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by vonunov 2y ago
In recent years I've been running into more and more people who will say all sorts of things are social media on the basis that they let you talk to other people. This has happened in reference to reddit comments, web forums, Discord,
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by vonunov 2y ago
Delve into the rich tapestry of possibility
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by vonunov 2y ago
Lol, that statement from Resorts World reeks of ChatGPT. They don't even know why they're doing what they're doing. I'm not sure if they even know what they're trying to do. Someone in management is trying to lo
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by vonunov 2y ago
And Oracle Cloud says the kinda beefy VM (4 cores of an ARM thing and 24 GB of RAM) on the free tier is free forever. Sounds reasonable to me. I mean, would Oracle really do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies? Surely they have bi
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by vonunov 2y ago
Yeah, we kind of had a thing about that, you know? There was, like, a whole site called "School Survival" with a pretty active forum where our entire point at the end of the day was "we can do that too" / "we c
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by vonunov 2y ago
I emailed Adam Zeman (the neurologist who coined the term being discussed here) a while back seeking clarification about exactly what the experience of visualizing something should be like -- pasting the thread below. His replies were short
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by vonunov 2y ago
I see, it sounded like you were saying you were visualizing a schema[1] (not schematic) of a house but thought it didn't qualify as visualization for some reason. Does it feel like this is unsymbolized[2] or taking the form of a differ

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