Shog9

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by Shog9 6d ago
What smelendez is alluding to is the matter of who is liable while fraud is being resolved. In the US, a charge on your bank card results in at least a hold on your bank account - money you can't spend on anything else until the hold i
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by Shog9 8d ago
Well... Book clubs, study groups, fraternal organizations, etc. have agendas that structure conversation. I've found this useful for even 1:1 conversations with friends. Naturally, it's possible to take this too far; letting the c
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by Shog9 23d ago
Because cameras alone do nothing useful, and there's precious little evidence these are being used to help address petty vandalism. The UK already went down this road years ago - cameras everywhere, public restrooms nowhere, prompt and
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by Shog9 1mo ago
I can't speak to your specific scenario, but in general a "balance" that is missing in many communities is a clear line between pedagogy and research (or debate). Often this is because _initially_ the community is small and t
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by Shog9 1mo ago
> If we can be accused of anything in this context, it's not kicking bad people out aggressively enough, which seems very different from fostering bad ideas. It's not very different. It's barely different at all. Right now
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by Shog9 2mo ago
A lot of these designs are an artifact of a time when the panels themselves would have been far and away the most expensive component in the system. The place I'm in originally had 10 125W panels that probably cost north of $8k when in
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by Shog9 2mo ago
In practice, this complexity means you at least have a chance. Most phones and almost all low-power devices will accept power from most chargers and cables. Probably not at a maximum level, but if you're stuck somewhere you can get by.
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by Shog9 2mo ago
Link to that research, please. It would add meaningfully to this discussion.
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by Shog9 2mo ago
The folks I know who've been prescribed fentanyl weren't particularly upset about it. It is very potent, and thus measuring the dose properly is very important, but it's not particularly fussy beyond that. The people you know
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by Shog9 3mo ago
Funny, you left out "curing" from that list. All three preservation techniques are practiced today as they have been since antiquity. It is not clear to me where food so preserved are likely to fall on the processed / ultra-p
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by Shog9 3mo ago
Sustenance is a health benefit. Shelf life is a health benefit. Convenience is a health benefit. If you have options when choosing food, a framework that helps you choose the better option is useful. The history of food production is mostly
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by Shog9 3mo ago
If you have a clear definition, one that an informed reader could apply to some random product on their grocery store shelf to distinguish between "processed" (almost everything) and "ultra processed" (?), then you shoul
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by Shog9 4mo ago
Uh... The history of railroads is littered with folks losing their investments for exactly this reason. Was your point that owning the steel companies is the path to riches even when most of the railroads fail?
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by Shog9 4mo ago
You're still missing the point; the strategy only works if no one is sure it's a strategy. It also doesn't work very well then either. FWIW, I'm not arguing for either. I think it's pretty obvious this is 100% marke
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by Shog9 4mo ago
You seem to have missed the reference to Madman Theory above, interpreting it as a literal commentary on someone's / some group's sanity. Whether or not actual mental deficiency is involved here is irrelevant; the strategy is
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by Shog9 4mo ago
California is probably the best example going of how not to "legalize" weed. However, this also highlights the primary difference between weed and meth, opiates: ease of manufacturing. The only other common drugs that come close a
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by Shog9 5mo ago
One of, if not THE biggest challenge in getting treatment is getting past insurance rules designed to deny treatment. This is much, much easier when you're able to convince a doctor (and/or trained medical staff) to argue on your
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by Shog9 5mo ago
I'm well aware; I previously worked "adjacent" to this sphere, and a non-trivial part of my work life was spent trying to forestall precisely this outcome. The difference between Twitter now and Twitter a decade ago isn'
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by Shog9 5mo ago
So, I suspect the key to your experience is buried in this sentence: "I do follow politics pretty closely, and it seems relatively balanced overall." Balance doesn't mean much by itself. Doesn't mean "informative&qu
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by Shog9 5mo ago
The defense - including Jones himself - also did a very poor job, so it's debatable whether anyone at all wanted a different outcome.
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by Shog9 5mo ago
This is the second time in two days I've seen a subthread here with folks seemingly debating whether or not defining and communicating requirements counts as work if the target of those requirements is an LLM system. I'm confused
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by Shog9 6mo ago
The issue here is that even if the original goal is the first thing, once you have the data you can do that second thing. From where we stand, nothing changes - same information is collected. But now, it's also used for affinity target
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by Shog9 6mo ago
Y'all are letting "most people" carry an awful lot of water for this scummy behavior here. In my experience, most people - even most tech people - are unaware of just how much information a bit of script on a website can snag
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by Shog9 6mo ago
I mean... Yeah. Alcohol is very well documented and even more widely used for exactly this purpose BECAUSE it works. The side-effects are often terrible. This is also true for many widely-prescribed drugs, and has been even more true in the
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by Shog9 6mo ago
Crucially, SO's election system needs to be bootstrapped: users aren't eligible to vote until they have a history of participation. The level of participation is fairly trivial, but it provides enough signal to allow a reasonable
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by Shog9 8mo ago
It has been ... Borderline creepy... Watching how folks - including some professional writers - have adapted their workflows to the capabilities of LLMs, treating them as a copywriter whose input is a spec and for whose output they are the
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by Shog9 9mo ago
There was some of that for sure; sites that were all but designed to be attractive nuisances and took near-heroic efforts to moderate at all, with little chance of not causing a lot of drama. OTOH, topic-specific sites like Mathematics, M
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by Shog9 9mo ago
Yes indeed! Glad to see you over on Codidact; I suspect small, bespoke q&a will be the future of the form, at least after Facebook implodes.
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by Shog9 9mo ago
I was writing like a robot before robots could write, dammit!
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by Shog9 9mo ago
This sounds plausible - I grew up in the Midwestern US, and thus "vaguely passive-aggressive" is pretty much my native language. The hardest part of the job for me was remembering to communicate in an overtly aggressive manner w

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