marssaxman

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by marssaxman 4d ago
I buy bare minimum coverage because it has been my experience that you end up screwed in the event of a collision no matter what kind of insurance you have. Insurance companies are in the business of taking your money now and finding every
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by marssaxman 5d ago
The experience you envision does not sound so strange to me, having grown up in an intensely religious subculture which had a sense of truth quite distinct from that of mainstream society. Observing the blatant conflict between different co
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by marssaxman 5d ago
Why would AI detection ever be any better in the future than it is today? All the money is on the other side of that arms race.
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by marssaxman 6d ago
I never got over the BlackBerry. Even after years of typing on glass, I still feel clumsy and uncomfortable. I avoid typing on my phone any more than I have to, because it is an exercise in frustration. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of
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by marssaxman 6d ago
This is not a very interesting question coming from the Cato Institute, who see basically everyone other than themselves as "left".
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by marssaxman 7d ago
Regulation kills the value proposition. You are basically describing a "neighborhood electric vehicle", but US law limits them to 25 mph, and it is not legal to drive them on many arterials, so they are only really useful inside c
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by marssaxman 7d ago
Seattle, late middle age. Kid just started high school. My wife has a large e-bike with a passenger seat, but replaced it with a cargo basket a couple years ago after the kiddo outgrew it. I didn't say that scooters were a solution for
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by marssaxman 7d ago
Why wouldn't they just blame the nurse anyway? The law always puts somebody on the hook. The nurse's job will be to do what the AI says and take the blame when it fails.
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by marssaxman 7d ago
Rental scooters/bikes cover last mile service very well in my experience. I use transit a great deal more than I would if I had to walk so much on either end of the trip.
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by marssaxman 14d ago
Your body is, maybe, but we're not all the same. Making my body sit still and do nothing requires sustained, focused attention; action is the comfort state, and idleness the burden.
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by marssaxman 14d ago
"Fine, I'll build my own text editor" is certainly a familiar sentence, one I've uttered several times, but it would never in a thousand years occur to me to take the next step in a web browser . Interesting to see such
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by marssaxman 17d ago
Yes, exactly, what time do people think they have? It's here, it's now, it's happening, it's all around us. This headline would have made a little more sense ten years ago.
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by marssaxman 19d ago
Having been an REI member through my entire adulthood, after shopping there with my family as long as I can remember, it's bizarre to see the name reused for some AI project. I wonder why this organization chose such a jarring name for
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by marssaxman 19d ago
People have such different perspectives. 26% slower does not sound "terrible" to me; it sounds like quite a reasonable price one might choose to pay for the convenience musl offers. If musl's allocator were 2.6x slower, I mig
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by marssaxman 22d ago
That's a good point. The office I mentioned was located in downtown Seattle, a city where jobs are plentiful and I have many connections, so moving there was an easy choice.
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by marssaxman 22d ago
If what you want is an office you can go to which is not in your home, it seems like it would be ever so much simpler to go live near your actual office, which your employer already pays for, than to move far enough away from everything tha
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by marssaxman 23d ago
how is that different from what they'd do if the pay toilet didn't exist?
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by marssaxman 25d ago
I used to work for a startup called 1026 Labs!
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by marssaxman 26d ago
> many people are so risk averse in general that they don't invest in the stock market You have to be doing pretty well compared to the average person before investing in the stock market is even a consideration. Most people, if the
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by marssaxman 27d ago
The disconcerting effect is enhanced by hearing the Dutch voice and reading the Dutch subtitles which don't quite match up with what he is saying in English! - until it all goes off into musical absurdity. Thanks for sharing.
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by marssaxman 27d ago
It is unique; you've certainly never read anything else quite like it. Hofstadter is a deep and careful thinker who loves language and wordplay. He writes in order to communicate something he has spent a long time thinking about, not m
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by marssaxman 28d ago
That added some intensity behind my motivation to avoid parenthood: so many people describe having their brains hijacked in this way that I could not be sure I would be immune. Best steer far clear, I thought.
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by marssaxman 28d ago
I am aware that this is true for many people, and I am glad it works for you. For me, it is a completely different category of experience.
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by marssaxman 29d ago
The passionate hunger to do something significant and meaningful with my life was a major reason I took care never to have any children. Having grown up in a large family within a religious subculture full of other large families, the amoun
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
Firefox is now the only major browser, because it supports uBlock Origin.
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
This member of the public thinks the entire immigration system is a racist joke, and welcomes any and every means of circumventing it.
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
I found the problem: the site can't handle a portrait-ratio browser window like I always use. After stretching the window out wide, the layout works.
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
Motorcycling gets like that for me, flying down a wide-open highway out in the countryside on a clear day... The bike ceases to be a machine I am operating and becomes an extension of my self, my mind immersed in the experience, full of the
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
This is an interesting premise, and I would like to read the article, but the weird scrolling makes that almost impossible; the pictures overlay the text to such an extent that I can only read a couple of lines at a time. I wish there were
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by marssaxman 1mo ago
I can't do anything with a div, much less center it - I haven't touched web-tech in twenty years, but I've been a programmer the whole time.

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