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by exq 2mo ago
Another one: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
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by exq 5mo ago
"With DSM-V, psychiatry firmly regressed to early 19th-century medical practice. Despite the fact that we know the origins of many of the problems it identifies, its diagnoses describe surface phenomena but completely ignore the underl
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by exq 5mo ago
>Downloading [...] Jellyfin https://wiki.servarr.com/
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by exq 6mo ago
> it’s not cosplay; it’s rigorous historical reconstruction ... Taking it at face value, this is more theatre than science for a few reasons: - twins don't magically mean two identical bodies - food intake has a much greater effect
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by exq 7mo ago
So it's okay when big American corps raid the internet ignoring any terms of service or licenses they see in order to train models they rent back to us, but when a foreign entity trains off of Anthropic it's illegal?
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by exq 7mo ago
I use this add-on to redirect shorts to the regular video URL. I can still watch them but I don't get the infinite scroll and algorithm pigeon-holing. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/youtub
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by exq 8mo ago
I did it. I grow organic market/CSA produce and provide opportunities for special needs individuals on the farm. I go to bed dog-tired, I make a fraction of what I would in software dev these days, but every single day is rewarding, an
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by exq 8mo ago
Until reading this thread I never knew so many in the industry were against performant software and workflows, but I suppose that explains the state of things. Oh My Zsh is more sluggish than benching zsh -ic 'exit 0' would sugges
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by exq 8mo ago
I use a Fenix 7x pro solar and it's one of my favorite pieces of hardware right now. I dread having yet another item to charge and keep track of, but this thing lasts a full month if I'm not actively tracking workouts. My only com
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by exq 9mo ago
I backpack often (usually 8-13% bodyweight in my pack) and during long summer days I can comfortably push well into the 30 mile per day range if there isn't too much vert to slow my pace down. My feet get sore, brain gets tired, and I
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by exq 9mo ago
I use this on my 42-key Corne: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo... It's a sensible starting layout that I've made very few changes to. I added a mousekeys/macro layer, moved singl
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by exq 9mo ago
"AI will democratize education and information access as everyone will have their own personal tutor and librarian!" History repeats
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by exq 11mo ago
> If you could set aside a couple tens of thousands of dollars Non-starter for the vast majority of Americans.
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by exq 1y ago
I still do. It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does
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by exq 1y ago
All of the finance grifters have shifted to tech.
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by exq 1y ago
>want more indications that I'm remote vs local. This may be of use to you or someone else reading the thread. You can set your bash prompt to show user@host when connected via SSH: if [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ]; then
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by exq 1y ago
If anyone is under the impression OpenAI isn't saving every character typed into the chats and every bit sent to the API, I would implore them to look at the current board members.
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by exq 1y ago
The former head of the NSA is on the board. I'd be more surprised if the feds WEREN'T siphoning off every byte by now.
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by exq 2y ago
Less deps method: grep -f gravy_app_list\ -\ count.csv <(adb shell pm list packages -3 | cut -d":" -f2)
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by exq 2y ago
Mars colonization doesn't make much sense, but building O'Neill Cylinders when humanity runs out of space or energy on Earth might. >interstellar travel makes no sense For vacation or finding new spices to sell, no, but if yo
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by exq 3y ago
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.” – Voltaire
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by exq 3y ago
Radar is non-ionizing, no?
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by exq 3y ago
Montreal Protocol worked.
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by exq 4y ago
Do you think those sheep would dream of electric androids?
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by exq 4y ago
Huh, weird. I'm also on fi and I regularly get 500+mbit down/45-60 up, a handful of times I've gotten 900/80. Suburbs in major metropolitan area.
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by exq 4y ago
That's exactly why ads are pushed on TV, is it not? They're called direct to consumer but they really aren't for the consumer...they're for doctors to consciously or subconsciously gain a favorable opinion about the drug
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by exq 4y ago
https://sponsor.ajay.app/ Sponsor block.
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by exq 4y ago
- the user fat fingered the next video button on mobile while trying to skip ahead 30 seconds Drives me nuts.
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by exq 4y ago
The biggest lol for me is when there's something that can't immediately be dismissed as an active duty aircraft, a lot of people INSIST it must be aliens. Any mention of weather balloon, lantern, drone, chromatic aberration from c
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by exq 4y ago
When a metric becomes the goal, it ceases to be a useful metric.

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