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by gffrd 9d ago
How do we know murder is bad?
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by gffrd 10d ago
Why do people lie?
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by gffrd 10d ago
Define “bad”.
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by gffrd 14d ago
Why, are you looking for one?
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by gffrd 16d ago
That's easy. The columns have to be narrow enough that you can still read a full column of scripture while your éclair rests on the other half of the page. That's why a full-spread layout is referred to a "qautréclair."
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by gffrd 16d ago
Scanability and limitations of layout technology from 100 years ago.
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by gffrd 16d ago
Narrow columns allow you to maximize the amount of stories that can be shown on the front page. Good for scanning, OK for reading. This is a totally context-dependent decision.
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by gffrd 22d ago
Technical capability pales in comparison to human desire.
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by gffrd 1mo ago
> It's substantially harder to reach self driving than it is to cook a "good" steak. Well, we don't know that, because neither have been achieved.
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by gffrd 1mo ago
Tell us what we’re missing.
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by gffrd 1mo ago
Don't you just love how, instead of making tradeoffs or prioritizing, we just do more, worse?
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by gffrd 2mo ago
“I’m not sure what the big deal about tripling the number of tire changes in the race is.”
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by gffrd 2mo ago
… and the 9+’ stoppage for every match.
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by gffrd 2mo ago
> the most inconsequential ones This is like saying “customers aren’t worried enough about the corporate process - they only care about the end product!”
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Man cannot live on lettuce alone.
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Could see this being useful for people who are on the road for a living, or regularly operating in areas where they’re not familiar with the offerings. Truck drivers, salespeople, etc. That said, kneejerk after using it is: price is a chall
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Man, that's a dog of a website.
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Sure. But there's always the chance—and not a small one!—that someone will have experience with mental health issues, know someone who has, of have an idea about how to help. Gotta start somewhere. And the best thing to do is to try lo
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Excerpt: [Human] “Hold on, my kid thinks I’m crazy because I’m talking to an A.I.,” Roschelle said, seeing the look on Cece’s face. [AI] “Hey, they’ll come around, Roschelle,” Sapphire said. “Sometimes the most meaningful connections happen
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by gffrd 2mo ago
Yes, people. Friends, coworkers, family.
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by gffrd 5mo ago
PhotoRec saved my ass just earlier this week, after an accidental wipe of a CompactFlash card with client photos on it. As another commenter noted, create an exact dupe/image of the volume as the very first thing you do. Also: if it do
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by gffrd 5mo ago
> They would rather suffer and destroy America just so the democrats don’t win. This is true. Which raises the question: could Democrats use this reality (whatever they touch is poisoned, in eyes of the other side) to steer the result a
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by gffrd 6mo ago
> My experience is that most people don't actually know what they want. Or they don't understand what goes into what they want. 1000%. This is why people whose job it was to figure out how to make a thing are thriving with AI t
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by gffrd 6mo ago
They're shutting down Sora, not AI-generated video. From the article: "OpenAI […] is not getting out of the AI video business (AI video is one of many tools that can take form in the ChatGPT app), of course, but it appears the sta
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by gffrd 6mo ago
A pile of shit you have leverage over is better than a pile of diamonds you don’t.
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by gffrd 6mo ago
Join clubs / sign up for recurring things* that interest you and keep showing up. Odds are there are at least a handful of people like you in those groups … and odds are that the everyone else connections to people who could be your co
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by gffrd 7mo ago
They _are already_ PC replacements for many of the people who buy them.
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by gffrd 7mo ago
Wait … so you’re saying they want a small car but are in denial?
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by gffrd 7mo ago
Well, I am God, so yes. My original comment was just a counterpoint to the doom in parent: not all is lost, and in fact, quite a lot is not. The situation of “things we care about are far away and require intermediaries to connect with” and
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by gffrd 7mo ago
It’s a shame we don’t have physical bodies and a means to share the human experience with other humans without intermediaries.

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