cjameskeller

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by cjameskeller 3mo ago
They are! But it seems like most of the effort is from the founder, himself. They could use some more hands and cash...
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by cjameskeller 6mo ago
Would you be willing to elaborate? I would be curious to hear more.
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by cjameskeller 7mo ago
Sort of, but it generally goes more like: base/perineum, genitals, navel, heart, throat, forehead, and then one at the top of the head or just above. The Sefer Yetzirah, however, references specifically "Head, Belly, and Chest&quo
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by cjameskeller 10mo ago
American software engineer here, and I have only used LLM tools ~3 dozen times: tried at work a few times, and been unimpressed/actively frustrated; a few times to ask questions I would be normally survey blog posts about (social/
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by cjameskeller 10mo ago
Firefox Android can play audio even when the phone is locked, and I use it regularly.
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by cjameskeller 10mo ago
Link to relevant patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11462985B2/en
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by cjameskeller 1y ago
To be fair, the description of the dragon incident is pretty mundane, and all he does is prove that the large reptile they had previously been feeding (& worshiping) could be killed: "Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and
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by cjameskeller 1y ago
We are told: >"It does not always give the best advice possible in a situation. It will not necessarily make its wearer King, or help her solve the miseries of the world. But its advice is always better than what the wearer would ha
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by cjameskeller 1y ago
I struggled on a few days' puzzles under the assumption that there _was_ a perfect solution possible -- It may be worth noting in the "help" that not all lettersets can be solved perfectly.
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by cjameskeller 1y ago
Most people, past or present, have had to do whatever labor they can to (hopefully) simply survive at the contextual standard of living. Some kids may love a parent who lets them go hungry so they can do work they don't dislike as much
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by cjameskeller 1y ago
I'd suggest looking in the direction of the Global Village Construction Set being worked on by Open Source Ecology: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Const...
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
For ~$600, the Remarkable Paper Pro has a color, 12" diagonal display. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro/details/fe... I don't have one, but it's closer to what you mention
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
>Why would a body motivated to survive at all costs waste resources creating comforting hallucinations with some kind of internal coherence during catastrophic failure? I am a religious person, but for someone in such a situation, a natu
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
Who do you mean by "his successor"? Surely not the new, 'acting' FBI director, as they have comparatively little power?
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
Very much an anecdote, but when I was younger, I knew someone who attributed the remission of their (expected to be terminal) brain cancer to eating lots of bananas that were so green/unripe that they crunched. I searched for this just
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
The Air Force was already publicly talking about such things in 2009: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5YkQ9w3PJ4
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
Reminds me of this gag: https://youtu.be/IgUzHat9XIs?feature=shared
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
The Christian Scriptures actually include something of a counter-example to this, in Acts 19:35 and following, where an angry crowd is settled by being reminded that the statue in their temple _fell from the sky_: "When the city clerk
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
I am reminded of Paul Kingsnorth's _The Basilisk_: https://emergencemagazine.org/fiction/the-basilisk/ (Quick read, styled after the Screwtape Letters, but about the internet) Some quotes: >"Something
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
I'm still on one of their prepaid "Connect" plans, and get unlimited talk & text, plus 12 gigs of data, for $35. Since I'm nearly always somewhere with wifi, I can't recall ever having run into an issue due to l
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by cjameskeller 2y ago
Wow, I've had this exact experience, as well! Two or three bad ones, with all the rest consisting of: - a slight odd taste (this is my "early warning sign"), - then the vision loss (which is so hard to describe, because the m
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by cjameskeller 3y ago
Couldn't one say that different isotopes of elements are exactly such "imperfect" replicas?
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by cjameskeller 3y ago
I think there's a direct comparison to be made with the choice to devote one's "prime years" to building a startup. It's a meaningful project that materially impacts the world in a way that one has a decent degree o
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by cjameskeller 3y ago
And there are online tools like https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/1/1/t_conc_1001 which make it very easy to find verses by Hebrew or Greek word!
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by cjameskeller 3y ago
Using this translation as a reference: http://mountainman.com.au/tao_1_9.html , there are a few places that really stand out. Section 1 can be understood in terms of the incomprehensible "Logos" which is before bot
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by cjameskeller 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. I used Teams on Firefox, from my Linux laptop just this week.
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by cjameskeller 4y ago
Much respect for this org and its founder. They are also doing great work with their "Seed Eco Home" project: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2
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by cjameskeller 4y ago
Yes. We have to work, but it doesn't have to be so disconnected from the greater portion of life.
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by cjameskeller 4y ago
(Not Catholic, but Orthodox, which is similar enough in this matter.) The idea is more along the lines of saying that just as a human person is both body and soul, and neglect of either leads to death, the Catholic view is that the marriage
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by cjameskeller 4y ago
As someone who lives in a region with gravel/"dirt" roads, I often wonder how they compare to paved roads in terms of overall effect (possibly more fuel usage, but not, itself, made from hydrocarbons; fuel usage associated wi

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