alabastervlog

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by alabastervlog 1y ago
You're weirdly concerned about how much I'm reacting, which is pretty minimally. Like, I can't imagine how I could have raised this while reacting any less. But yes, I also saw your other post and got your message that you&#x
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
The name they've decided to give these, "emergency" chickens, knitting them for hurricane survivors. It's all a step up from just "we like these and they're nice" and into "these are Helpful with a ca
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Huh, I'd liken school in those grades to a series of meetings basically all day, that are mostly presentations, every day of the week, with a lot of restrictions and harsh conduct & expectations from the people leading the meetin
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I'm more stressed out than like... during Summer, when I was a kid. I've never, ever been as stressed out as during school, grades 7-12. If the rest of life had been that stressful or worse, I'd have checked out a long time a
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Framing everything in terms of mental health is one of those things were I can't tell if people are participating in some kind of mass social joke, or are serious.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I'll still bust this out if it's some quick page that's not going to last long (like some kind of "service down for maintenance" page that's only going to be visible for a few minutes, or something) It's &
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I learned way more on most topics on my own than in school. Reading was the main skill that unlocked that, though things like PBS and (when somewhere with cable, and before these channels went to shit) Discovery & TLC played a role to
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
It's funny how Nixon definitely was a crook, and a loon, and should have gone to prison, and his paranoia and shenanigans set the pattern for and gave license to things to come, up to and including the current crisis... but he's s
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Too much of that should , but probably won't, set off every alarm and siren with the conservative justices, for stepping way over the line, after their reasoning on Chevron.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
God. The WTO penalties are gonna be epic (if much of this stuff ever actually goes into effect).
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I think the 3rd or so time that all the work I'd been doing for months or years just got thrown in the garbage, having never provided more benefit than it cost, or even without ever providing any benefit whatsoever due to never having
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> Even companies don't really talk about the future anymore, just vague AI thoughts (and often crazy negative ones, witness the CEOs talking about the white collar bloodbath coming). The currently-ascendant business and political le
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I think a lot of harm has been caused by "automation" actually meaning "distributing parts of the same tasks among a bunch of people". As far as I can tell that's one of the main outcomes of "efficiencies&quo
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
We must still not think cushioned chairs are that important, or we wouldn't make kids spend 13 years straight sitting 5+ hours a day in hard chairs.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
It’s really just interviews, and even those are nothing like any exam I’ve ever taken. They’re closest, in terms of the kind of stress and the skills required to look good, to some kind of solo public speaking performance. … which most peop
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
A small set of professionals do, yes. A lot more stay near family and friends instead.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I used a really low-end system for a while some time back, running Linux, and WebKit-based browsers were the only ones with a mainstream (so: actually renders correctly for practically all sites) engine that was usable with even one tab ope
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
A lot of developers and “UX” “experts” really don’t appreciate how extreme these modals are. They disrupt everyone a little bit, and for less-technical users can throw them off entirely. “Once per year” heh, add it to all the other disrupti
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Even with the social fix, there’s usually one person (sometimes two!) in a four-player game who does nothing wrong but is basically out by the second or third time around the board, just hanging around to help the one or two other non-lead
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Monopoly’s maybe the only board game I prefer playing in computerized form. Even the one on the NES is totally fine. Rules enforced without having to remember them, auctions run for you, nobody has to be the banker, no manual book-keeping f
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I've been like fuckin' Nostradamus since early in the Dubya admin just because I skim GAO and CBO reports on big legislation sometimes, can read graphs, take the things Republicans say they want to do seriously, and have a half-de
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yeah the only thing I find surprising about some cases (remember, nobody reports boring output) of prompts like this having that outcome is that models didn't already do this (surely they did?). They shove its weights so far toward p
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
> it's not to stand out when every person types like this Yeah, OK, I should have written "for social signaling". > basically, it doesn't make it harder. Iassureyou,capitalizationisn'tbecauseit'spretty.As
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
My newest router doesn't have any of that shit and works just as well, with at least as much range, as the one it replaced, which had six(!) of those insectoid antenna things. I wouldn't be surprised if the damn antennas are just
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation. It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Especially if one of the children's David Friedman. Yeesh.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
I figured you had, and posted it for others. Should have made that clearer. FWIW I didn't find Zitron's framing of it misleading, having now read it (I'd read excerpts of that book before, and maybe even that chapter, but c
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
https://ia803400.us.archive.org/18/items/murdoch-murdoch-boo... Page 93 (as numbered on the pages, IDK which PDF "page" [edit: nb the table of contents gets it wrong, one supposes the pages were re-numbe
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Yes, and "that question is in not-even-wrong territory", respectively.
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by alabastervlog 1y ago
Dude just says whatever he thinks will make Line Go Up on his accounts. It's basically the only thing he does.

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