Finnucane

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by Finnucane 12d ago
I gave up on bike computers years ago after a couple of tries to find one that would survive New England winter. Then I realized I didn't really need to give a crap about anything a bike computer was telling me.
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by Finnucane 12d ago
Even commodity markets recognize different grades of product. The oil market separately prices different grades of oil, different refined products. All that really matters is that when you go to the market to buy, you can say, "I need
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by Finnucane 16d ago
Apparently the article was, in fact, trolling with inaccurate speculative 'information.'
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by Finnucane 16d ago
Which isn't exactly a new problem, just going to get scaled up.
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by Finnucane 18d ago
Not everyone has a garage or driveway. Where I live, I couldn't plug in at my house. I also don't need a car every day (in fact, right now we don't have one). Being able to charge on the street would reduce the need to find c
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by Finnucane 19d ago
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
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by Finnucane 20d ago
Sure, but the goal is to drive away foreign students and hurt university research programs. It's a stupid goal, but that is what they want. What can't be controlled must be destroyed.
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by Finnucane 20d ago
Politicians have been doing this for a while now. I think the idea is to project more of a 'one of us' vibe and not stand on formality, which creates a vibe of being part of a separate class.
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by Finnucane 22d ago
It's a golf course.
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by Finnucane 23d ago
That doesn't make it not a waste of resources.
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by Finnucane 23d ago
Those old York's Peppermint Patty ads were on to something.
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by Finnucane 23d ago
Maybe we should close a few golf courses.
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by Finnucane 25d ago
Stockholm syndrome.
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by Finnucane 26d ago
But if we don't have contrails, how will people be able to make up conspiracies about them?
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Yes, but the post wasn't specific about which particular change of formula they were made about.
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Where are the pointy mountains?
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Nostalgic for lard?
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Stop eating Lady Gaga, Oreos.
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Ignorance is bliss.
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by Finnucane 27d ago
Now we have Uber and Lyft. You can have a chaffeur on call.
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by Finnucane 29d ago
Julia Child would also be in favor of doing mise en place--measuring out your ingredients before you start doing anything. Personally, and I say this as someone who has been trained to do recipe editing, I find this tabular system to be not
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
"His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices." Previously it was only his greed, resentments, racism, and dementia driving him to irrational policy choices. Also, Stephen Miller.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That's a fairly limited view of what books can be for.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
It doesn't really matter. The article suggests that they are selecting and tracking books by ISBN, which means: books that have been published or at least reprinted in the last 50 years or so. And they are trying to get as much of that
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That is the problem: they are digesting it. They are not creating a new kind of library, where you could say, show me the text of "How to Fix Your Ice Cream Problems". (An actual book I own) It is not being done for our future r
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
That is not where his head is.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
The title is wrong: it is easy to believe.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
"Anthropic's . . . Claude is a Perversion of Writing." FITFY. I have no sympathy for writers whining about what the AI is doing to 'their' writing. It's only your writing when you write it. There's any
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
Because Moses asked Pharaoh for a day off and Pharaoh said no, get back to work.
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by Finnucane 1mo ago
Or we could resist the notion that age verification should be legally required. Because it won't just be for 'adult' things.

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