mjlangiii

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by mjlangiii 13d ago
Maybe it is, but if it is, it is one that includes more parts in our system. The way LLMs lack broader context, have a narrow focus, and hallucinate, strike me as similar to people that have had traumatic brain injuries to their right hemis
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by mjlangiii 1y ago
I agree, a stark difference between AI and me is knowing when to say, "no", and/or to dig deeper for the unspoken story/need/value.
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by mjlangiii 1y ago
you might enjoy reading, "Manufacturing Consent"
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by mjlangiii 3y ago
Nice theory, but it is overfitted to a broad category of all software and a product that is thriving shouldn't be conflated with a product that is improving. Some products with software continue to "live on" successfully and
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by mjlangiii 5y ago
Celebrating maximum exploitation of workers by those with all the leverage & power and calling the decent consideration of another man's well-being silly, that's, well, I'll just say that I believe we can do better, sir.
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
When I read this I just assumed it was a checklist for people that know these things - a good reminder. But now that I think about it, it probably was also meant to get people to look out for these things as they learn. I doubt this is en
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
+1, and anecdotally I've seen most good developers are bad teachers and that I have always gotten much more from my peers just one or two levels ahead of me (regardless of my peer's ability to teach).
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
In this series functional concepts are very gently introduced. I feel like it really appreciates the beginners starting point and assumes very little. Is this close to what you want? https://egghead.io/lessons/javascri
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
I don't think there is one smoking gun for a chemical in food. To me, I see a clear pattern. Reducing nutrition to consuming more of a specific chemical/molecule or consuming less of a specific chemical/molecule is always way
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
I agree with many of the critical points they make in this Japanese review. There should be higher standards for nutritional research. The main idea seems to be that in Japan because there are some positive patterns observed regarding all
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
I read it a few years ago. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look.
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
And I think, I've seen a lot of studies that compare eating "normal" amounts of cholesterol to eating more than normal. But "normal" cholesterol levels in your blood still leave you with a "normal" Americ
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
Heart disease is America's biggest killer. There is a lot of data that eating cholesterol effects disease rates including heart disease, cancer, etc. If you study disease rates for those eating cholesterol and those replacing it with
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
The user story is a promise to have a conversation. I think that is usually well understood. From there I think you can fall into two camps: that conversation should result in a Jira/whatever ticket with all the requisite documentati
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
It is, agreed. For tomatoes, buy fresh ones as you need them.
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
I'm sure you've worked plenty of time thinking about this already so I feel dumb trying to supplement that at all, but I'd assume you're probably repressing some level of emotion just because the physical expression of a
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
I agree that people think you need meat alternatives because they lack the knowledge of how to make a plant based meal. I agree with GP that most people don't care what a meatless meal could look like, culturally they just want meat ea
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
When you say you want to completely understand the problem before starting, your personality sounds like an enneagram type 5, check it out to see if that describes you. If so, that might shine a lot of light on where your anxiety comes fro
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
Laravel is moving away from magic methods to using facades, FWIW.
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
It is a bit of catch-22 IMHO, for some. If you're very experienced it is just as easy to roll your own (although others may not onboard as quickly compared to well known libraries). If you're not very experienced then if you try
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by mjlangiii 7y ago
The common sentiment that marriage takes hard work on the daily or else it turns sour, ideas like that point to a fundamental difficulty with the human heart, no?
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by mjlangiii 8y ago
For me, his writing helped me understand human nature better such that I see people less as slowly clawing their way up a mountain towards being a better person and instead to view people more like a Jekyll and Hyde struggling between two e
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
What about cultures that didn't have centralized government like native Americans?
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
nutritionfacts.org was created for this reason, to consolidate the evidence from nutritional studies so that you don't have to. spoiler alert - the comprehensive review lead them to the conclusion to eat plants, unprocessed. But anyway
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
Just my two cents; I'm a father of 4 and I'm okay with not capturing those moments on film. And I mean that in two senses. One, I'm fine using my very imperfect memory to recall special moments and two, because of the logis
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
100% correct. It is a lifestyle disease and the reason your doctor won't tell you is because the health industry is built around treatment, not prevention, and so your doctor was never taught this. It's through no ill intent, it
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
I just assumed cubic feet
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by mjlangiii 9y ago
I disagree that it is a greater point when you consider how important rituals are to many people and gp post has a very valid point.
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by mjlangiii 10y ago
can we put the date in the title?
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by mjlangiii 10y ago
I'm sorry, can you explain how to use this?

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