Jap2-0

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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
> Has religiosity actually decreased? This is fair* (and I expect many Christians would agree with you in generalities of "everyone worships something"); what I was getting at here was that (by the first numbers I found) those
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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
Has it declined as much as we would expect, given the decrease in religiosity in the US over that time period? I've only found data going back to 1995,[0] which shows relatively flat numbers for the past 15 years or so. (And the amoun
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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
Consistency: the only case where he used BCE is in an image caption. The description on Wikimedia Commons uses BCE, so my guess is that he defaults to writing BC but reading that subconsciously put him in the frame of mind to write BCE. F
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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
> > Teachers can love their students. > That's just such a weird point to make. It is great that my kids' primary school teachers are super kind and loving. But it's not what they're for, and it's definitel
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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
At that age especially, play with other kids is time spent learning.
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by Jap2-0 2mo ago
I rarely have online meetings, but what annoyed me most last time I did was that I had multiple AI note taking services magnanimously send me multiple emails each telling me how if I signed up for their service they could share their meetin
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by Jap2-0 3mo ago
This reminds me of some comments by C.S. Lewis (paraphrasing from memory) on three ways of writing for children, two good and one bad: - Writing for a specific child (think telling a story to someone specific) - Writing because you have som
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by Jap2-0 4mo ago
Firefox has been unloading tabs for several months or so (at least on nightly).
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by Jap2-0 6mo ago
Is that with Firefox's built-in tracking prevention disabled?
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by Jap2-0 8mo ago
Okay, because no one seems to be answering the Venice question: - They had a strong navy (and shipbuilding capacity), making a blockade difficult - They traded with many nations, so no one group could cut off their food supply - Fish - They
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by Jap2-0 9mo ago
For context, the lowest notes on most pipe organs are typically about 33 or 16 Hz (from a pipe that is 8', 16', or 32' long).
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by Jap2-0 9mo ago
Correct.
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by Jap2-0 9mo ago
This disappeared a few months ago for me, unfortunately.
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What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?(simonwillison.net)
5 points by Jap2-0 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Jap2-0 10mo ago
> they are... the beneficiaries of a more brain-dead, more bored, more asleep student body > 'peace and quiet' in the classroom is mistaken for educational success. To clarify, do you think that phones or the removal of phon
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Would huge pages help with the mmap case?
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
I was thinking of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1984333 . Looks like that's only active when certain fingerprinting protection settings are on.
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
I might be wrong but I think I heard that Firefox and maybe Safari bin that to a couple common values. (Or maybe that's just in the tracking-prevention mode that Tor uses?)
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Duh. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Hmm, is it normal practice to rotate secrets before fixing the vulnerability?
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Decreasingly so, but even in stuff written in the last hundred years or so you'll sometimes find words capitalized for emphasis or similar.
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
On Firefox 142 (nightly): Cropout: After being stuck at 0% for a long while and 1200 network requests, it loads to a menu with a black background and will start a game but only UI elements show up. Seems to have a lot of errors parsing sha
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Alt + = will put you in the equation editor fairly easily, and from there you can pretty much use LaTeX notation.
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Yet Word is leagues ahead of Google docs... ( shudders )
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
Actually, it goes back to Tiger lake (2020; 2021 for desktop). [0] Addendum: AMD since RDNA2 (2020-2021-ish) [1], NVIDIA since 30 series (2020) [2], Apple since M3? (2023). Note: GP's processor released in 2024 but is based on an archi
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
> While the Harry Potter series may be fun reading, it doesn't provide information about anything that isn't better covered elsewhere To address this point, and not other concerns: the benefits would be (1) pop culture knowledg
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
> We always build something new and bespoke, with extremely high complexity compared to any kind of building or infrastructure. Maybe this is part of the problem?
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by Jap2-0 1y ago
> There's no evidence of it in contexts where we would expect something like this to be mentioned. What are those contexts?
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by Jap2-0 2y ago
It's not just Firefox, and it's because https://threekindwords.com/words.json is not json. But you didn't even lose two quarters. Shrug and move on.
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by Jap2-0 2y ago
Those two as well as > Flathub maintainers are sometimes just bad at maintaining their packages, and, well...

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