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by zdc1 9mo ago
How do you feel about having so much screentime?
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by zdc1 9mo ago
My (non-authoritative) understanding was that after Vietnam there was a more recognised need to control what the media published, resulting in Operation Mockingbird and such. However, given how centralised the media has always been, I could
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by zdc1 9mo ago
Nice to have something that doesn't require Windows
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by zdc1 9mo ago
Yeah. We've seen many instances where "forever" isn't actually forever--even sometimes with paid lifetime licenses. I'd be much more excited by a self-hosted option. This is just another step in a race to the bottom
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by zdc1 9mo ago
It's a band-aid solution, given that eventually AI content will be indistinguishable from real-world content. Maybe we'll even see a net of fake videos citing fake news articles, etc. Of course there are still "trusted"
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I assume by "painting" they mean something akin to "published work" but it very well could just be his earliest "known work".
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by zdc1 9mo ago
What I would actually like in every kitchen is a scale and a lookup table for the weight of a cup of flour, cup of rice, mL of oil, etc. No more volume based measurements.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
My last place also rolled their own feature flag service as their business logic around users/orgs/segments didn't neatly match anything off-the-shelf. It did what it was meant to and worked fine. OTOH we used Datadog for tel
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by zdc1 9mo ago
Ahh. Maybe because I'm AU-based millennial, but the only "food pyramid" I was aware of was the grains-heavy 90s one that I would randomly see here and there, so that was my point of reference.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
Then you need to re-pad everything (clean looking git diff be damned). It's just the reality of dealing with bounding boxes. Maybe we don't notice it in HTML and such since the browser redraws them for us for free.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I was wondering why meat and veg were side by side, rather than vegetables being at the base. The new pyramid is still better than the old one, but not completely intellectually honest...
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I have a lightweight version of this. I have one playlist called "Story of my life". If I have a song that is consistently stuck in my head, my go-to to kick off a listening session, or otherwise very notable, I will add it to the
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I feel that language is the refuge of educated idiots. You can take very simple ideas and wrap them with enough verbose and dense prose such that they take a while before a reader can unpack them and realise there's nothing new inside.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I don't know what your experience has been, but I do feel that at some point you will find yourself on or beyond SO's "knowledge frontier". The questions you land on will be unanswered or have equally confused replies; o
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by zdc1 9mo ago
There are many modern day bucket shops. Any CFD or "spread betting" product is just your broker taking the other side of your trade (and optionally, offsetting the risk). Prop firm "evaluations" or "accounts" a
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I wonder how easy it would be to counterfeit a mammoth tusk
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by zdc1 9mo ago
Honestly, nothing's changed. It's more modern; but otherwise all the same.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I think this comes down to the fact that we can keep a mental ledger on the reputations of 50–100 people, so our in-built reputation system breaks down at the current scale. You could try building a social credit system to scale things up,
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I think that's a bit of a harsh take. People will use what they can get, and they may be assuming the signage was placed there for compliance/legal box-ticking reasons rather than because it will actually make them sick.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I considered a GUI for a small Python project of mine, but couldn't find anything quick, simple, and portable. I ended up opting for a TUI with a few ASCII art boxes.
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Thankfully we're at a stage where a 4 year old second-hand iPhone is perfectly usable, as are any M-series Macs or most Linux laptops. Sucks for anyone needing something particularly beefy for work; but I feel that a lot of purchases c
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Great article. Living and enjoying life is a skill that needs conscious practice and intentionality. The title would make more sense as the default settings being "too low" since Low is the setting where when we trade off fidelity
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by zdc1 10mo ago
The Portal 2 renders were genuinely surprising. Crazy what we can do in a browser today
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by zdc1 10mo ago
I've tried a lot of personal cloud options (ownCloud, a Resilio Sync mesh, CloundMounter + B2) and somehow ended up back on iCloud because of this. My next experiment is just to use NFS over Nebula/Tailscale and see how much data
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Covid showed me that the daily ritual of getting up at the same time, getting dressed in proper clothes, and taking a train somewhere all massively helped my mood and level of willingness to engage with life. I can see how, in the absence o
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Agreed. I'm learning Chinese and while apps are lovely, nothing will prepare you for the pure amount of variation in accents across the world. Real world immersion becomes important for your brain to get used to mapping certain sounds
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Never heard of Windscribe but their homepage has "Become American" as a feature. > Are you sick of not having access to foreign oil? Do you love using advanced weapons to fuck up someone’s day? Obsessed with manipulating your f
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Yes, I've noticed their results are definitely becoming more opaque and driven by what they want to show you. (This is even when there isn't a sponsored option on the map.)
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Is this an ad?
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Personally, if I could stop working tomorrow I would. I have nothing against work, but I do feel that most jobs aren't particularly meaningful, and so they act as a pacifier that fills in our time so we don't need to confront the

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