Kungfuturtle

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by Kungfuturtle 22d ago
One term of art that's emerged for this "feel" is "big model smell", first coined by @aidan_mclau. [0] To my surprise I couldn't find any proper explainers of the term in a quick search, despite grokking it aft
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by Kungfuturtle 1y ago
I've long been a fan of the em dash—one of the first things I did when I migrated back from OSX to Windows was to set up an AutoHotKey function to map <Alt>+<-> to an em dash.
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by Kungfuturtle 1y ago
This reminds me of Teilhard de Chardin's take on complexification, as laid out in his seminal book Le Phénomène humain . See e.g., this article[0] for a simple overview of the hypothesis. For further reading, I recommend the excellent
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by Kungfuturtle 4y ago
For what it's worth, I agree with you and feel those examples are indeed emblematic of our current economic mode. The "alternative" you envision is premised on shifting power back to the masses, but I think it's also imp
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by Kungfuturtle 4y ago
To say the quiet part out loud: your body's center of mass is located near your belly button. [0] You maintain balance through a combination of your vision, vestibular system, and proprioception [1]—focusing attention on your belly but
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by Kungfuturtle 4y ago
I would also suggest https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd for hotkeys; it also pairs well with an associated project for window tiling and management: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
Indeed, why not? ;) There may yet be something to Teilhard de Chardin's take on the Noosphere which exists in a matrix of consciousness that spans planets, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy clusters, and indeed universes!
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
https://youtu.be/Oadf4KNYz-I
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
I encourage you to consider an alternative perspective, in which grocery stores intentionally restrict availability of food in order to artificially maintain high profits and externalize the costs of reprocessing for redistribution: https:
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
Reading this comment and shaking my head, I am reminded of the Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Dont feed the trolls, folks.
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
One kind of building that I came across is called an "Earthship", which relies on "thermal mass construction and natural cross-ventilation to regulate indoor temperature".[1] It will be somewhat difficult to retrofit bui
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by Kungfuturtle 5y ago
I highly recommend checking out https://twitter.com/BuildSoil if you're interested in learning more about this approach.
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by Kungfuturtle 6y ago
More discussion here: Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892494 Also links to the full article on Tech Crunch.
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by Kungfuturtle 6y ago
You should not use that term in that manner.
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by Kungfuturtle 6y ago
This is a super neat tool—thank you for creating and sharing!
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by Kungfuturtle 7y ago
No cars? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ More seriously, my guess is that you enjoy those streets because there's so much more character to them. They are generally part of an older, more storied urban core, so the streets are more imbued with a "
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by Kungfuturtle 7y ago
2nd-gen Indian in Austin here: many folks in my generation are highly critical of Modi and the BJP, but just as many if not more are casual supporters. I honestly do find the more informed they are about Modi's policies, the less likel