yowzadave

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by yowzadave 2mo ago
I recommend you approach life in a spirit of curiosity—it can be interesting to learn about the different interests and motivations of other people!
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by yowzadave 5mo ago
Exactly, I’m confused why people are feeling obligated to put more effort than they have interest for these projects. If Facebook did start using my project in production, then that would of course be their dumb decision that they would be
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by yowzadave 1y ago
> 4. Donate the rest wholesale to charity. Tax deduction should be around $25k - likely more financial benefit than selling piece by piece, with infinitely less hassle. What charity wants these antiques? Less hassle for you, I'm sur
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by yowzadave 1y ago
There's an interesting series of fantasy novels by the author Graydon Saunders, occasionally recommended on this website, that almost entirely avoids the use of pronouns: https://www.goodreads.com/series/242525-com
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by yowzadave 1y ago
It doesn't even require a big team to be useful—I won't remember how I organized a set of styles a few months from now, and having Tailwind require a minimal set of constraints, and keeping the styles easily editable in the place
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by yowzadave 1y ago
Does this effect taper off as you get further away from the edges of the pool? Wondering if you could eliminate the unfairness by just leaving a few lanes empty on each edge of the pool.
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Tai's Model(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by yowzadave 1y ago|1 comments
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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history(bigthink.com)
134 points by yowzadave 1y ago|121 comments
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by yowzadave 1y ago
This is worse. The U2 thing was a "gift", albeit an unsolicited one that many people didn't want and were annoyed by. This is just a crappy ad.
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by yowzadave 1y ago
I agree with this; I think part of the societal problem is one of poor urban planning. I’m lucky to live in a neighborhood in New York (Sunnyside) that has a park that is the hub of everyone’s social life—most nights of the week, people sh
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by yowzadave 1y ago
People speculate this is what happened to Graham Linehan—I heard a funny story on a podcast in which somebody, a number of years ago, sent him an email saying that they were a big fan of the IT Crowd, but there was an episode that they felt
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by yowzadave 1y ago
I’m familiar with the Grasshopper visual scripting environment for the Rhino CAD system, and what you’re describing happens there as well…but I don’t really perceive it as a negative. Users who aren’t comfortable with text programming conti
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by yowzadave 1y ago
> I worked in retail loss prevention Your salary was the exact kind of thing that needs to be balanced against the cost of fraud; if it was larger than the amount of fraud you prevented, then the company would have been better off just a
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by yowzadave 1y ago
This is what I do—it can even be a detailed slack message. I start writing the message with the goal of asking for some guidance, but in the process of carefully outlining the problem and what I’ve already attempted (in order to respect the
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by yowzadave 1y ago
They are clueless kids at their first job, following the orders of their hero. You think they’ll resist when the boss tells them, “cut everything”?
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by yowzadave 1y ago
It's a much lower bar to sow discord and chaos vs. being able to maintain a stable, functioning, low-corruption society. Just because a country is capable of one does not mean that they are capable of the other; also, the characteristi
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by yowzadave 1y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I wish there were an similarly popular vector drawing format that did much much less than SVG. Any time you want to support vector drawings in a project, the obvious approach is to support SVG...which bas
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by yowzadave 1y ago
Unhinged comment. Is the Parthenon not architecture because it’s not ADA-accessible? If someone installs an elevator does it become architecture again?
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by yowzadave 1y ago
It would be very surprising if the results from this approach were superior to simply machine-translating the entries from another language—because e.g. English already has so much content and contributor activity, and LLMs are already very
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Meta is a funny one, because there doesn't really seem to be a "pro-Meta" contingent. They have lots of users, but not a lot of people who feel warmly about them as a company.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Can you point to any actual real-world cases where something like this has happened? It sounds like a movie concept; we're letting real-world policy be determined by a fantasy people have about a lone gun enthusiast killing a bunch of
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by yowzadave 2y ago
What are the odds that Goldberg was included in the Signal chat intentionally by a whistleblower? I.e., someone who had reservations about what was about to take place (either the bombing action itself, or the intentional avoidance of gover
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I had assumed it was a reference to the highly polarizing and political author Ayn Rand—might be worth giving some thought to!
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by yowzadave 2y ago
This story is a good opportunity to post one of my favorite clips from Malcolm in the Middle (42 seconds): https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0?si=qqULHxzhi_IaNfDp
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Absolute (“perfect”) pitch is, for some people, a kind of shorthand for supreme musical giftedness…when in reality it’s more of a curious party trick than a skill that is valuable for a musician or composer. So you can train yourself to do
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by yowzadave 2y ago
How frequently have we read that the reason America Can't Build Anymore is because of a hollowed-out public agency that has been captured by the private contractors that it hires? This inflection point seems like a turn in the wrong di
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Civil Servants Are Not America's Enemies(theatlantic.com)
9 points by yowzadave 2y ago|1 comments
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Surprisingly (to me), this worked even after sending the emoji through iMessage.
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Hide a message in an emoji(emoji.paulbutler.org)
2 points by yowzadave 2y ago|1 comments
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> Youtube was initially a ghost town (it started as a dating site) and it only got traction once people started uploading copyrighted TV shows to it To this day, there are a huge number of videos that show copyrighted content on YouTube;

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