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by dleary 1mo ago
>> Due to her experience as a man during the making of Self-Made Man she ultimately had a depressive breakdown > That sounds very different from "being a man was so difficult that it caused a breakdown." It doesn’t sound
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by dleary 5mo ago
> [I Love Lucy, Bewitched] These are good examples of TV pushing the envelope on societal norms, but if you are discussing "pushing a political view", they rank far below "Trek's first interracial kiss". > A k
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by dleary 5mo ago
> Again, I never said anything about race or gender. I never said that you did. But you did propose, and you continue to double down on, the idea that the original Star Trek was not very political. > They had politics, yes. But not a
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by dleary 5mo ago
> Current Earth politics do not belong in shows You’re really displaying some ignorance here. Star Trek has always has a political slant. The basic premise is about a bunch of people living in a progressive sci-fi utopia with UBI. The s
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by dleary 9mo ago
> Virtual dispatch absolutely has an overhead, but absolutely nobody in their right mind should be using COM interfaces in a critical section of code. I could definitely be wrong, but I think C++ style "virtual dispatch" (ie, f
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by dleary 10mo ago
Everyone gets to choose which language they use for their personal projects. Where are all the Racket personal projects? N.B. I say this as someone who personally contributed small fixes to Racket in the 90s (when it was called mzscheme) an
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by dleary 10mo ago
> Opinion The single word "opinion" is not an answer to the question I asked. > Another example: ... "Yanny or Laurel" This is not remotely the same thing. > I can understand how someone hears "Yanny"
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by dleary 10mo ago
> Is AI conscious? I believe "yes" [...] and in a way that somehow means I don't think anyone who believes "no" is wrong. What does it even mean to "believe the answer is yes", but "in a way that s
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by dleary 11mo ago
This sounds like it should be true, but from life experience, I don't really think it is. It would be rational for things to work that way, but personalities and emotions are not very rational. There are some people who seem like they
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by dleary 11mo ago
The article mentions that the main pumping unit could draw water from 8 hydrants at once. So 7000 ft of total hose to get to 8 hydrants sounds like it makes sense. I wonder if maybe it can't even use hydrants that are too near each ot
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by dleary 11mo ago
> no, you need to explain why you thought What kind of purity test bullshit rhetoric are you using here? Whenever you find yourself saying, “you need to explain yourself”, step back and question things. Have you tried reading the thread
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by dleary 11mo ago
That’s a separate concern. Every command that you issue to the ssd returns a response. It would be nice to have a bunch of performance counters that tell us where the time went with each of the commands we give it. GPUs have this already.
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by dleary 1y ago
You're using hydrogen in a balloon. Where its very low density is a boon. Hydrogen gas also has very low energy density. To store enough of it to be useful, it has to be pressurized/liquified, which requires the expensive storag
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by dleary 1y ago
Thank you for this good description.
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by dleary 1y ago
But we know, with absolute certainty, from the Dominion lawsuit subpoenas, that Tucker Carlson was privately telling people that Trump was awful, while publicly saying the opposite. His private texts include, "We are very, very close t
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by dleary 1y ago
I had PRK done at Stanford in 2007 or 2008. Now it's nearly 20 years later, and I just turned 48. My vision has deteriorated from "old age" enough now that I might have considered getting the procedure done again. Touch-ups
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by dleary 1y ago
Are you sure? My Bosch dishwasher has wifi connectivity and a companion app.
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by dleary 1y ago
That headline is a stunning achievement. I honestly wish there were some way to better call attention to it. I would have missed it if it weren't for your comment.
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by dleary 1y ago
The retractable cable is overkill. I remodeled my house a couple of years ago and replace most of the wall outlets with the kind that have 2 AC outlets and 2 usb ports, a USB-A and a USB-C.
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by dleary 1y ago
How much dressing do you make at once, and for how many single-person large salads? Can you tell us the size/weight of the tube of paste and the anchovy tin? I agree that anchovy is the secret, but I don’t use nearly this much for two
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by dleary 1y ago
I think it's far from useless... Because it helps to focus on what could possibly be happening. It's not "true enough for an 8 year old's purposes", it is the actual truth. The air is being accelerated downwards
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by dleary 1y ago
If a work is older than 200 years and worth reading, then original editions are going to be valuable. But it will also be out of copyright so the cost of getting a “new” copy is basically just the cost of printing.
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by dleary 1y ago
You misremember… That episode is about helping someone move, not giving them a ride to the airport.
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by dleary 1y ago
“A Deepness in the Sky”, by Vernor Vinge. Excellent book, with a concept very close to this as an element. You don’t need to read “A Fire Upon the Deep” first… the stories are more or less unrelated except for setting. (There is one chara
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by dleary 1y ago
The company said they were going to do something, they got threatened by the current administration, and then the company reversed course. Please name a single comparable situation in the last 20 years where the Democratic president was the
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by dleary 1y ago
> Imagine if the tip of your finger could just bend back. It would be way harder to know what you’re touching! I don’t think so. I have hitchhikers thumb, so my thumbs do bend backwards. They don’t feel disadvantaged in terms of touch
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by dleary 1y ago
Yes, Chrome was great. Google search was also great. That’s the nature of enshittification, and a core tactic of monopolists: give your customers something for free (or below cost) until you have killed the competition, and then exploit y
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by dleary 1y ago
Oops, sorry, you’re right. The biggest browser was IE. The same rhetorical argument holds… IE isn’t even on death’s door. It’s so dead that I forgot about it.
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by dleary 1y ago
What I’m taking issue with is you disagreeing with the GP assertion that Facebook made purposeful business decisions. I agree that a Facebook had a powerful incentive to act this way. But they didn’t have to. The fact that they chose to
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by dleary 1y ago
This is crazy. You’re saying that Facebook was somehow helpless to avoid changing from a “friends feed” to an ad-maximizing outrage-inducing misinformation machine because of web2.0 communication technology? Someone invented XmlHttpRequest

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