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by a_shovel 1mo ago
This is what hype looks like. Managers were convinced they had secured a source of magic fairy dust that immediately finishes any job it lands on and has no downsides, and they saw their employees weren't using it for reasons they coul
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by a_shovel 1mo ago
I don't usually pick up on whether an article is written/edited by an LLM, but I suspect this one is because it has the exact cadence of those X posts about how AI is going to take all our jobs by Friday. I hope it's accurate
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by a_shovel 2mo ago
Puberty blockers for transgender and potentially transgender teens aren't meant to be taken all the way through to adulthood, if that's what you mean by "otherwise stopped growing." Ideally they're taken just long e
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by a_shovel 2mo ago
The "desistance" measured in that study is between going to the clinic as a child (before any treatment would be offered) and the time they would go to receive medical treatment from the clinic. Most sources I've seen suggest
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by a_shovel 2mo ago
Puberty blockers are not meant to be prescribed from onset of puberty to adulthood. (I don't think anyone wants to be just starting puberty at 18.) They're meant to buy time for the patient to make a decision and get counseling if
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by a_shovel 2mo ago
The pattern I've observed repeated around issues of transgender health care is "ordinary levels of scientific uncertainty used to argue for the most extreme possible restrictions." Puberty blockers have long been used to trea
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by a_shovel 2mo ago
This is what finally made the idea behind Watt's condenser click for me.
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by a_shovel 3mo ago
the sun seeker wrap is a cool retro look. can anybody place what it's based on / inspired by?
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by a_shovel 3mo ago
The museum has not, in fact, made any indication that it would wish to cancel (to decide not to conduct or perform) its Charles Dickens exhibition. The sense of 'cancel' being used here is the dumb one.
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by a_shovel 3mo ago
Skeptics said SpaceX would fail, but it succeeded. Therefore, skepticism in general is wrong and SpaceX will have an annual revenue of $11 quadrillion by 2030.
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by a_shovel 4mo ago
I don't think the demand for second homes worth over $5 million is a major driver of construction of new units in NYC.
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by a_shovel 4mo ago
I keep javascript on because i want websites to not be broken by default. but if they insist, i can add their domain to my ublock filter
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by a_shovel 5mo ago
There's a political backlash against vaccines because of mandates too, and I think we shouldn't listen to them either.
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by a_shovel 5mo ago
The next administration needs to mandate the big American auto companies produce more EVs in more models in order to save them from the irrelevance they seemingly desire and arguably deserve.
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by a_shovel 5mo ago
They think their dog food tastes great now, not because they improved it any, but because they've forgotten the taste of human food. Karmically hilarious.
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by a_shovel 6mo ago
An interesting article. I wonder if there's a valid point in here buried somewhere underneath the endless obnoxious comparisons of his opponents to cultists.
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by a_shovel 7mo ago
I was hoping this would have some application for human solving. I gave up on Semantle because I couldn't figure out any sort of strategy.
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by a_shovel 7mo ago
The paragraph about the stove making dozens of breakfasts as the house collapses at the climax of the story is what always stuck with me most. It would take a better writer than me to say why it works so well, I just know it does.
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by a_shovel 8mo ago
Bayer dithering in particular is part of the signature look of Flipnote Studio animations, which you may recognize from animators like kekeflipnote (e.g. https://youtu.be/Ut-fJCc0zS4 )
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by a_shovel 9mo ago
Steam doesn't need to lock down the Steam Machine to subsidize it with store purchases. The casual user could theoretically install another OS, but that doesn't matter because they won't (because they're casual users), a
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by a_shovel 9mo ago
I started dieting recently and I've come to understand the people who say that American portions are huge. An automat lets you sample a bunch of different stuff instead of the typical fast-food format of a main, french fries, and a dri
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by a_shovel 10mo ago
I can't help but notice similarities with certain conservative attacks on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans people. > A general subjective notion that the evidence "isn't good enough" with no reference to
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
Proposing a CLI command as a candidate for "simplest UI ever" is a great gag.
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
that's less than i was expecting. i was looking for a ps2 around then and i'd definitely have paid $150 plus shipping for all of that.
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
> Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy these even for a cost that would cover all the expenses spent on this project. Makes me wonder how expensive these were to make.
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
I can imagine it. If I were the kind of person whose needs and desires could all be satisfied by mass-produced products sold by the top 5 or so largest retail corporations, and who did things like fill out consumer surveys for a chance to w
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
You'll need to explain this a little bit more, because the TC article seems to indicate the issue is that he is accused of targeted harassment. I doubt you could design a poll to make people vote 85% in favor of targeted harassment.
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by a_shovel 11mo ago
All social media moderation is "banning people for saying stuff people don't like". Most people don't like e.g. spam, or death threats, or racism, so social media offer communication platforms where those kinds of speech
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by a_shovel 1y ago
> Note that David never actually addresses the “far right” label on its merits — he just pivots to calling it overused, trying to direct your attention elsewhere like a magician distracting the audience as he performs a trick. I'm n
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by a_shovel 1y ago
Another way of looking at it is that the library of Babel would be less useful than an equivalent quantity of blank paper. For example, you could use it to print books in English instead of gibberish. Multiple copies of those books, even.

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