isamuel

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by isamuel 2mo ago
Satan would lie about his plans to win your trust, and then do all the bad stuff once he had been given control. So… idk man
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by isamuel 3mo ago
You can be a member of a labor union without that union being recognized as your exclusive bargaining representative for a certain employer (or whatever unit).
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by isamuel 3mo ago
I’m curious (as a recovered alcoholic myself) how you got sober.
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by isamuel 6mo ago
Very weird that clandestine imperial gophers start to feel anxious and have trouble sleeping after a while. must be a secret laser
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by isamuel 7mo ago
Amodei’s use of “warfighters” (a Hegseth-era neologism for “soldiers”) is truly nauseating.
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by isamuel 7mo ago
Public sector unions can’t do the thing you’re describing.
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by isamuel 8mo ago
I also remember this, and in fact I found an old Dilbert newsletter from 1996 ("Dogbert's New Ruling Class") where he describes it: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdb/1996Mar/0000
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by isamuel 10mo ago
There is a great deal of orientalism --- it is genuinely unthinkable to a lot of American tech dullards that the Chinese could be better at anything requiring what they think of as "intelligence." Aren't they Communist? Backw
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by isamuel 1y ago
> And yes, ChatGPT is kinda like an addictive drug here. If someone "can't work without ChatGPT anymore", they're addicted and have lost the ability to work on their own as a result. Come on, you can’t mean this in an
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by isamuel 1y ago
Totally understand. With any luck, you and I have played two sides of a dialogue that’ll be read by someone else, for whom it might be quite useful. For that I thank you.
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by isamuel 1y ago
It’s not the cues that get you. That is an idea promoted largely by treatment centers and the rehab industry, who need to be able to plausibly claim they are teaching their customers how to avoid relapse. I’m a recovered alcoholic and I can
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by isamuel 1y ago
For reasons of personal history, stimulant medications like Adderall are a hard no for me. I am curious, though, about non-stimulant options like atomoxetine, if anyone has views.
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by isamuel 1y ago
I started reading DF when I was a college student, probably in 2002 or 2003. I listened to every iteration of The Talk Show that I can remember --- both runs with your former host, and the current edition from the very first episode. When I
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by isamuel 2y ago
At the end, there's one of the craziest Venn diagrams I've seen in a while. The diagram asserts that --- by definition --- you aren't good at your "mission," the world does not need your "profession," you
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by isamuel 3y ago
“No mention of openbsd on the internet is complete without a long thread about source control migration.” — tedu@
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by isamuel 4y ago
Well, I'm thirsty.
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by isamuel 4y ago
You sound like you satisfy at least one of the two usual criteria for addiction in the sense 12-step programs use the term. If you ever want someone to show you a program that might help you recover, just reply with your contact info and I’
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by isamuel 4y ago
Thank you. I was typing out a comment like this in frustrated response to a different remark elsewhere in the thread (“calories in, calories out!”) but stopped. I’m glad I did because you put what I was going to say much better than I would
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by isamuel 4y ago
That was someone else.
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by isamuel 4y ago
Name collision researcher here! This made me curious and I started doing research on other problematic name collisions. Did you know that Valve’s game distribution service has a name that’s already widely used in the scientific community fo
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by isamuel 4y ago
I don't know enough about the economics of freight shipping to have an opinion on whether airships make economic sense for that. But for passenger travel, I can imagine a high-end market for the wealthy. Don't think "cruise s
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by isamuel 5y ago
“Ah! Well. Nevertheless,”
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by isamuel 5y ago
It’s all over, fat man. You’ll be missed.
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by isamuel 5y ago
Spare me the snotty tone. I was asking a question in good faith and still am. Read what I wrote: I know what hyperfocus is and I chose the verb I chose deliberately.
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by isamuel 5y ago
Can you explain your footnote? I do not agree. Someone I love is autistic, and it actually sounds exactly backward to me: the ability to command sustained attention is something she enjoys in remarkable surplus, for example.
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by isamuel 5y ago
Law is like a border after a war: a description of where it was that conflicting forces could not advance without retreating somewhere else that mattered more. It is history, not code: it describes where the last conflict ended. Which by th
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by isamuel 5y ago
Why stop there? Maybe websites you don’t like should have a crowdsourced assassin come to kill the relevant developers.
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by isamuel 5y ago
When I was a little boy, Logo is how my grandfather taught me to program. He had an Amstrad computer that he used to keep the books of his insurance business, and when I was three years old or so, he noticed my interest in the machine and s
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by isamuel 5y ago
“Third pounder” is also a bad name. “Quarter pounder” has a pleasing rhythm and rhyme to it; “third pounder” doesn’t. “Third” is also easily scanned as “first, second, third,” which “quarter” is not. Should have called it the “pebble pounde
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by isamuel 5y ago
That is an admirably charitable response to a comment that I could not truthfully characterize the same way. Good job by you.

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