WilTimSon

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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what habits would you adopt? Flossing? Or is there something else doctors recommend? A cursory search seems to bring up rather regular dental hygiene.
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
I wonder if there is a name for the phenomenon where people do something that leads to negative consequences but they technically "did everything right". I have a friend who crosses the street without looking both ways and his arg
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Most discussions are online now and the content generated by AI will most definitely make its way into the "real world". The recent case of people getting food poisoning to an AI-generated mushroom foraging book is a prime example
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Great example of how not to name a show. I'd have at least a few other associations before clicking on it to see what it was actually about. Clark Kent? Clark and Gable? Wouldn't something that describes who Olofsson is be a bette
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
> History and data from various European nations suggest that some immigrant groups aren't able to integrate with the host society after multiple generations, and remain ghettoized with low employment and high crime rates (vastly hi
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
NYT is still good at coverage, I'd just argue that the optics of their coverage can be removed from their original, erm, style, at times. (I don't want to say "politics" but we all know I mean politics.) Still, they do e
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
I highly doubt software that doctors use for patient notes and prescriptions would even have the option to enable autocorrect. If it does, that’s a giant oversight on the devs’ part.
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
It's a reference to their music, although a very poorly thought out one. But I don't think the result is entirely fair, as Fat Mike is a record label owner. That's not what one may think when you say "a job", these
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
I'll say this, with the caveat that I never did finish the book due to unrelated reasons, this is an excellent method. One may think "It's fine, I'll simply read the text and then, if I have questions, absorb some schola
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
That's a very good way of putting it. Songs evoke a very multifaceted sort of experience, I can't think of a better way to put it - they make both sides of the brain fire up. A good song causes me to rationally enjoy its lyricism
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
The article seems to make the claim he lives there but it's not really backed up by anything. I checked his Wikipedia and the last update is him studying at the University of Bonn, way back in 2007. Doesn't seem like it's pos
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Do you have a source for him living in Russia? He may be an honorary researcher, which is more likely, considering the two of them escapes Russia years ago with no intention to return.
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
I've been mulling this over since yesterday. The best way I can explain is that I genuinely taste different "notes" in coffee brewed in different ways and from different beans, whereas with most espresso machines the taste fe
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Well, you're lucky to not have spoiled your palate, in a way. I learned to love good coffee through my friends and I now only drink regular espressos from a machine if there's no other choice. And I'm not being snobby or anyt
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Current AI isn’t ready for that yet, though. What’s available to us couldn’t even be effectively used for research on Earth’s out-of-reach places, much less on Mars. In some years, however… That would be curious.
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
Well, we have to account for the fact that modern system simply don't require that much optimization and compression. Working with stricter limits meant that dev teams had to get creative and minimize file size, while nowadays a single
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
I found it creepy at first, then I saw a comment saying it looks like the lamp from the Pixar intro and now I can’t take it seriously. Beautiful movement, though. I hope one day they’ll be simple and powerful enough to replace people in hig
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
The top post on that subreddit is hilarious: "[Chinese] 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) - a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of f
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by WilTimSon 2y ago
But that's a learned behaviour, and one learned specifically thanks to decades of marketing. Sure, LEGO is quality, but it's not some unbeatable gold standard. At some point it simply becomes one of those things where people ask f
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
For a quick, breezy puzzle that you should be able to do within the space of a coffee break, this feels like it moves way too slowly. Takes a bit for the ball to start rolling and the fancy zoom-in animation gets tedious fast.
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
Both, I suppose. From some of the things I've read about crimes related to minors over the years, I usually at least was heartened to see the people responsible were often arrested in a relatively timely manner. Pedophilia-related crim
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
Good lord, this is a terrifying story. What’s puzzling to me is that it seemingly downplays a lack of action by the police. Multiple times it seems the platforms reported the members of this cult for CSAM and police only seemed to act when
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
I can't imagine a child would develop long-term trust issues based on a parent lying about Santa Claus. If it's a pattern of the parent constantly saying things like "your doggy went to a farm" or "if you swallow gu
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
How is that even allowed to be called recycling? As in, is it genuinely a term defined legally and, if so, who allowed this to happen? Because burning is most certainly not recycling.
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
That is tragic, I didn’t even know about that aspect but it, sadly, makes sense within a suicidal person’s logic.
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
There is a rather prevalent belief, perhaps even a subconscious one, among people that suicide by leaping into a body of water is the go-to method. Probably doesn't help that it's been shown in media a lot, probably only below ha
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
> but they have been replaced by other types of jobs in the cities. But when one is 30+ years old, or even 40+ years old, it's hard to completely switch careers, especially when you're also dealing with the fact that it's
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
That does actually sound like a good plot - do something ostensibly "villainous" by stripping countries of their beloved nukes, but be hailed a hero for it. As in, it would be an actually smart way for a villain to rehabilitate th
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
"[The] company agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the suit" Lords, this is how easy it is to get away with it? There's no incentive for them to stop then, because disposing of this waste would surely cost more and it's
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by WilTimSon 3y ago
Ah, makes sense. Not sure why I didn't just assume that.

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