complaintdept

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by complaintdept 2y ago
Yeah this is interesting. It makes sense...you're filtering out low level background noise so all you really get is the higher volume stuff like speech. Just like adjusting squelch on a radio.
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Back to School Is Crayola's Super Bowl(bloomberg.com)
2 points by complaintdept 2y ago|1 comments
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by complaintdept 2y ago
> Hey at least it's not the worst behavior we've seen from a Linux file system creator... I think that dubious distinction would go to Hans Reiser.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Econ or Bloomberg had an article about a month or two ago about stores locking up their merch and the motivations for it, and why it's such a stupid idea (sales plummet when you need an employee to unlock deoderant). One of the reasons
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Yeah I'm not seeing a downside to this.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p... https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of... I'm sure there's plenty more
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Pharma spends more on marketing drugs than developing them. If marketing drugs is prohibited, especially through dubious kickback schemes with doctors and hospitals, there'd be a lot more room for lowering prices. The profit motive rea
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Hyundai is Korean
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Teachers unions also negotiate for things that make it nearly impossible to fire an underperforming teacher.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Relevant: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-...
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by complaintdept 2y ago
> This is an implementation of PaperWM-like scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm. If you like Sway/i3wm’s commitments to stability, avoiding scope creep etc. but dislike the window management model, papersway might be of
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by complaintdept 2y ago
This. Use it with vim and spend a day mapping any repetitive tasks to streamline things. It's magic. You could also use a bash script for creating backlinks, and it probably wouldn't be difficult to make a graph of all the connect
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Personal preference. Perks include consistency and hackability. Mutt for instance hasn't changed a whole lot in decades. The relative simplicity and stability also means I'm not running into a whole lot of bugs. GUI email clients
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Funny bit of trivia, Patty Hearst went on to be in several of John Waters' movies.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
My favorite markov experiment was feeding it the works of Nietzsche from Project Gutenberg. Really brought out the late stage syphilis, but was still very distinctly Nietzsche.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
> LLMs demonstrate complex reasoning, multi-modal understanding, and emergent behaviors that go well beyond simple pattern continuation. Can they win Wordle yet?
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I wish I had read your entire comment before ordering "The Making of" because now I'm paying double shipping to get "Dark Sun" as well.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Corning used to make these bowls (called "Grab and Go", I think) that were very difficult to break. You could cook in them, eat out of them with utensils that damage normal ceramic (like a Ti spork), and probably throw them out of
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by complaintdept 2y ago
WaPo claimed in 2015 that civil asset forfeitures exceeded losses to bulglars: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-... Here's a blog from 2019 with some more info -
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by complaintdept 2y ago
The whole thread is about Google discontinuing a physical product, not a feature baked into TV's. I've never seen the product they're discontinuing IRL.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I screencasted once to play with video feedback, but never seen a Chromecast device that plugs into a TV.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I travel quite a bit and I've never encountered one. Never even seen one at all. I've heard of Chromecast because I go on tech sites, but they're suspiciously absent in my bubble of reality. I'm an Android and Linux user
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I'd like to see this run back to back with those recent Apple commercials.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Re: lost classics, I hope we can recover an intact work by Heraclitus from those burnt scrolls in Herculaneum, that would make me lose my shit.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I encountered the hair trick on Ren and Stimpy...Ren's first chest hair was taped across a door or lid to show if it had been opened. Not sure why, but that left an impression on me.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Don't forget the swaywm variant. https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/sway/
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by complaintdept 2y ago
Clathrate Gun territory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis Somewhat related, I saw a Netflix documentary (can't remember the name of it) a few years back about these researchers in the Bahamas
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I mean...something like half of homicides go unsolved.
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by complaintdept 2y ago
I had an oldtimer boss that fired assholes without hesitation. The reason was that once upon time he had a fantastic one-of-a-kind worker, but he was real shithead that brought the whole team down. It got so bad he was left with the one ass
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by complaintdept 2y ago
> (illegal withholding of possibly exculpatory evidence) I hear about this sort of thing way too often. I say we make a new law that if prosecutors pull shit like this they get sentenced to triple the jail time/financial penalty the

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