abyssin

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by abyssin 10d ago
My pet peeve about urinals has to do with the way the separating walls are usually installed. It's systematically too low, as if their goal was to prevent splashing between each station instead of their role of visual privacy.
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by abyssin 17d ago
I used to live in a small rural city, in a shared house where the door was never locked. On market day, there would be this woman coming in to do her weekly laundry. I was never given the key to that house.
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by abyssin 21d ago
Your conclusion doesn't make sense. The logical conclusion of your first sentence is that we'll keep accelerating towards the wall.
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by abyssin 25d ago
This isn’t awesome, it doesn’t work at scale and it only lets idiots ignore what should be done: leave fossil fuels in the ground, and only then do what we can with the energy that’s still available. Aviation is mostly incompatible with a s
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by abyssin 1mo ago
The knowledge that was available to the public.
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by abyssin 1mo ago
It’s not only feedback, having arbitrary checkpoints like exams is an important motivator, and it also creates a whole culture around it that makes the learning experience into a social one.
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by abyssin 2mo ago
If meditation and workout look like a protection against ruminating, they might be functioning as avoidance. If a nap helps, maybe fix your sleep first (good sleep is super important for mental health). Daydreaming is healthy.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
https://www.trustroots.org/ for the more alternative folks
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by abyssin 3mo ago
I would happily make a career switch if I had the feeling my work in a school would be useful and doable. Where I live, I tried it and it was neither of the two. After having experienced efficient companies, schools feel mind-boggingly stup
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by abyssin 3mo ago
It’s a good reminder of the fact that capitalist companies aren’t democratic places, despite how much time and energy is spent there by workers.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
It doesn’t seem that recent to me, at least been like that for six months.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
2022 Dacia Sandero is a great car. Analog buttons, good build quality, well designed. And it’s cheap.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
Seeing the number of poor people in the world, I don't understand what makes you believe you couldn't be one of them. Their kids also need to eat, learn and grow.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
My personal experience says yes. I doubled my usage of personal servers because it's so easy to self-host when I have an LLM holding my hand.
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by abyssin 3mo ago
I watched a friend generate a 10 pages report based on multiple documents, including scientific papers, and it was almost flawless. It would have taken me days. A milder version of it was Copilot setting up an environment for a Jupyter note
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by abyssin 4mo ago
typst templates would be a great addition to these.
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by abyssin 4mo ago
You may be overestimating technical abilities of 99% of the people. I tried to convert some to pandoc and failed miserably. Personally I love it, markdown is becoming more and more central to my workflows.
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by abyssin 4mo ago
Why PNG? Isn’t an image format more expensive to process?
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by abyssin 4mo ago
They mainly created extra value for shareholders
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by abyssin 4mo ago
In a capitalist system, the owners don’t owe you anything but your salary. And if they fire you, they no longer owe you a salary.
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by abyssin 4mo ago
The average work time in European societies is probably that. The majority of citizens don’t work (too young, studying, sick, unemployed, retired). But it’s changing fast, the rich are no longer accepting this situation. The ones working ge
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by abyssin 4mo ago
Yes, the hardest problem for me is the social aspect of opting out of consumerism. It makes most people feel really uncomfortable, like being sober in a group of social alcoholics. Clothes don’t look cool enough. Local vacations are seen as
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by abyssin 4mo ago
Aeron
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by abyssin 4mo ago
There's something visually appealing about full-height windows, but they're not worth it in the long run. You get used to them fast, they're less energy efficient, they're more expensive. If they aren't fixed, the l
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by abyssin 4mo ago
Why should we care about them? They probably don’t care about blue collar workers
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by abyssin 4mo ago
It’s good and cheap, but don’t talk about politics to it or it might trigger some sort of censorship rule. You can see it think, then suddenly erase everything and suggest to switch to another subject, without explaining anything. I also ha
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by abyssin 4mo ago
I hope we get similar momentum for all cheap Android phones!
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by abyssin 4mo ago
I genuinely wonder if there would be any end user against banning these algorithms. I’d love rss style content providers back. Just let me freely subscribe to accounts.
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by abyssin 4mo ago
What you call "conscious attention" seems to be a sort of cognitive process. What the article calls unconscious state is a state. The idea is that in some states, some processes (like predictive coding) don't take place.
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by abyssin 4mo ago
I'm tempted to say it's fair game, since complexity has often had the advantageous side effect for governing bodies to make legitimate complaints impossible to voice for normal citizens.

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