mos_basik

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by mos_basik 2mo ago
>YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD'ED UPON Thanks for that, it's been a few years and I'd forgotten about this.
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by mos_basik 3mo ago
they mean it's pretty common to see the less-correct "could care less"
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by mos_basik 3mo ago
Love it. Flashbacks to CE1 and CE2 (2nd and 3rd grade in the US system) in a French embassy school, simultaneously handling "immersion in real french", "using a fountain pen for the first time", "different long div
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by mos_basik 3mo ago
additional context from the article regarding that particular statement: "[the statement] was oversimplified... In reality, the tests involved “red teams” of N.S.A. analysts who were using Mythos in a highly tailored environment that w
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by mos_basik 3mo ago
> New Orleans Unfortunate that we'll lose that one to the ocean in the next 10-50 years.
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
Friend, you've misunderstood. @abaymado's point was that tier binning people's lives and careers on one or two numbers is an awful approach, and doing it probably produces more poorly educated people. (Much irony, given the t
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
You know what I didn't expect? That I would so well internalize the "big brother is always watching what you click, what you hover, what you rewatch, what you comment on, what you pause to read longer than average, what you favo
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
I'm genuinely interested in how you approached that kind of situation, then. (And I'm not the commenter who presented what you're saying was a false dilemma)
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
>I don't see how typing it into a computer is significantly different... I haven't read up on it much myself, but any discussion along the lines of this subthread re: "handwriting > typing" is probably discussing r
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
As someone with attention difficulties who eventually decided to leave uni and pursue another path: I'm saddened that my culture has formed me into a person whose first reaction to your comment was "wow, that's harsh"
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
God, what a great book, imo. My favorite Stephenson novel.
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
Thanks for this.
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
Completed the collection in 4h 11m here :) Good job OP! I think the Sunset Boulevard quote is used twice: for 32 and 40.
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by mos_basik 4mo ago
Thank you for the pointers to all those resources! I spent my childhood in the Kasaï-Oriental - my parents were aid workers - and though I lived through some of the key periods of the country (Kabila Sr's rise and assassination) I was
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by mos_basik 5mo ago
Ah! Looks like Drumeo (part of Musora) uses Soundslice as their transcription tool? The UI of the demos exactly matches what I'm used to seeing in Drumeo.
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by mos_basik 6mo ago
There's a thing called "Robert's Rules of Order" that lays out a framework for how a group of people with different views can make decisions in an orderly way. It's very widely used in the US - wikipedia says &quot
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by mos_basik 7mo ago
The more complete version of this line of reasoning is (which I've seen more than once, but no links to hand, sorry) is: After solidly internalizing the messaging of "teen pregnancy is the worst thing ever" & "sex le
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by mos_basik 8mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm not Australian. It'd be a pity to get heated up over a misunderstanding of the Australian election system. OP said (somewhat confusingly I admit): >[Australia has] compulsory attendance at voting booths for elig
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by mos_basik 8mo ago
You're misquoting them. They said "it would be fun to see [people I don't like] have their guns cataloged ."
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by mos_basik 9mo ago
Love it, bookmarked. I first saw this idea at https://jmw.name/projects/linear-clock/ and then later I wrote a TUI version for myself I had tickmarks for stuff (when to go to bed to sleep for 7.5h and wake up near
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by mos_basik 9mo ago
Yep, can confirm. I first used Vue in 2016 to write some simple calculators for my group's use in Eve Online. Without its "progressive" affordances, I don't think I would have gotten anything off the ground. I had no i
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by mos_basik 10mo ago
can still use tone indicators though /gen https://toneindicators.carrd.co/
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by mos_basik 10mo ago
"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."
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by mos_basik 10mo ago
That was a great read. Thanks for linking.
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by mos_basik 11mo ago
>>>>OutOfHere: Proposal: Imprison anyone who performs child circumcision. >>>notmyjob: Even if they don’t [perform circumcision]? You're proposing violence to punish thoughtcrime. And violence to punish free practi
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by mos_basik 1y ago
I haven't read it yet, but later in the mastodon thread, stenberg says "this is [the contributor's] (long) blog post on his work: https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools... ".
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by mos_basik 1y ago
I'm also curious - I found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895185
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by mos_basik 1y ago
getting a 404 on that link. Found an archive link and a fork or two. https://web.archive.org/web/20250909050314/https://github.co...
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by mos_basik 1y ago
>it is nothing like buying alcohol and tobacco The intent of the "I don't crack open a beer.." post was to draw a comparison between "show ID at physical store then later open and drink the beer at home" and &quo
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by mos_basik 1y ago
(zzzeek wrote sqlalchemy, alembic, mako and probably more)

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