msluyter

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by msluyter 5mo ago
Somewhat related. I've also been generating lots of markdown files, which I've occasionally wanted to print out (so I can rest my eyes, or just read them somewhere other than my desk.) First class (free) printing support for rende
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by msluyter 8mo ago
Really cool deck! Anyone out there play Mu? It's an _excellent_ trick taking card game. One of the few (complex, trick-taking... I'm not counting stuff like Uno in this genre) card games that I know of that works really well with
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by msluyter 11mo ago
A third problem is that, depending on the project, one's recollection might be pretty fuzzy. A fourth is that, while you might be a great programmer, perhaps you've never had the opportunity to do the work of the design or greenfi
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by msluyter 1y ago
Perhaps the joke is that the valence of going backward or forward isn't equivalent. IIRC, some studies show that people will generally accept smaller gains to avoid the possibility of loss. Eg, loss has a greater (negative) emotional i
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by msluyter 1y ago
Random family seating anecdote. A couple of years ago, we were on vacation and my wife had to go home early to tend for a sick pet. My daughter and I also re-arranged our flight to get home early, and ended up in like the D boarding group (
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by msluyter 1y ago
Is anyone arguing "all fringe ideas must be false" or, conversely, "widely accepted ideas are true?" That's basically just argumentum ad populum, and I don't think that's the argument of the paper. Rather,
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by msluyter 1y ago
"Step out" is how to get out of the lower level frameworks, and or "step over" to avoid diving into them in the first place. I can't speak for other IDEs, but all of the JetBrains products have these.
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by msluyter 1y ago
This was my question. There's a weird sort of self-cannibalism that this hints at. The LLM is only as good as it is because it's been able to train on existing SO answers. But if over time, SO content production declines, then the
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by msluyter 1y ago
Saying this as a rather old person myself... I have a theory that, wrt knowledge, the relative advantage of age has been at least partially eroded by rapid technological advancement. In traditional/tribal societies, prior to the 20th c
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by msluyter 2y ago
| Private schools are outrageously expensive. Yes, and... In states where property taxes fund schools, there are basically two ways to pay for a good school: a) go to a private school, b) live in a school zone with high real estate values.
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by msluyter 2y ago
You're not alone. Type "best ev that's" into Google and the first autocomplete will be "best ev that's not a Tesla."
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by msluyter 2y ago
Majesty! That was it, thanks!
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by msluyter 2y ago
I've often speculated about a radical interpretation of this idea, inspired by a old video game (whose name I forget). In the game, you rule a kingdom, but unlike, say, Civilization, you don't directly manage things. You set goals
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by msluyter 2y ago
At some point Threads started to suppress (or at least, not boost?) political content or news. Which sort of crippled it as a "current events + hot takes" Twitter/X competitor. Bluesky doesn't appear to have this limitat
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by msluyter 2y ago
Orlando resident here. Disagree with "great climate" and "affordable living." I honestly don't understand those who say Florida has great weather. We have basically two seasons: Wet season: Hot and humid. Being outs
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by msluyter 2y ago
It definitely appears much worse for girls, but afaict, depression has risen in boys as well, just by not as much. See graphs here: [1] So if social medial is harmful in general, I don't view prohibiting it a "punishment" for
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by msluyter 2y ago
I think the empirical evidence is fairly clear, actually.[1][2] Having struggled with various forms of screen addiction myself, I find it sort of odd that a lot of people are so laissez faire about giving children the most addictive device
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by msluyter 3y ago
I remember being astounded by Johnny Mnemonic when in came out in Omni Magazine, of all places. (Incidentally, for those old enough to have encountered that magazine, you can see it online at: https://archive.org/details&#x2
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by msluyter 3y ago
I worked on a fairly complex invoicing system and couple of things not (directly) mentioned: * Forward billing vs billing in arrears. We had to treat different customers differently. * Tiered billing -- e.g., if a customer used >
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by msluyter 3y ago
It allows you to separate certain essentials (getting possibly important notifications, calls) from temptations that you want to avoid (twitter/X, instagram, tic tok, etc...)
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by msluyter 3y ago
A lot of articles on reducing phone use coming out at the moment. For example (older, but recently updated: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/break-up-with-you... ) I think a lot about the fact that we car
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by msluyter 3y ago
Indeed. I kept wondering if the circle was actually getting lighter as it got smaller or if that was just how I was perceiving it due to the afterimage and whatnot.
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by msluyter 3y ago
Not sure if this is a complete explanation, but people tend to ascribe more value to physical objects and perhaps, because the general price of books is bounded within a known range that is fairly stable, don’t question the price as hard as
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by msluyter 3y ago
Yeah I was wondering about this as well. To what extent were the greek myths known in that part of the world at that time? A brief googling suggests that from the 6th century onward there were various transcriptions of greek texts (Boethius
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by msluyter 3y ago
> Twitter faltered but recovered and competitors don't have an opening any more. Really? I dropped Twitter and have been on Threads since it opened, and afaict, it's gaining momentum, while Twitter becomes the new Truth Social
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by msluyter 3y ago
Takeaway: when faking data, make sure your numbers are randomly distributed. ;) Seriously, this was fascinating and disturbing that it took so long.
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by msluyter 3y ago
I majored in flute performance in college, and have listened / played a lot of avante garde music. My roommate, a bass player, and I were really into it at the time. We once played Shoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire on a tape loop over a
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by msluyter 3y ago
Obligatory reference to "gron" ("make JSON greppable"), which I find to be quite useful for many common tasks: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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by msluyter 3y ago
I can see something like this filling a niche with the elderly population as like an external memory. (Or even just for forgetful adhd folks like myself, having something I can ask "wait, what did my wife just say to me 5 minutes ago?&
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by msluyter 3y ago
I think this -- whether something should be illegal because it could be used to harm others -- isn't a particularly helpful way to frame things. I could drop a refrigerator from a crane onto the jerk who lets his dog poop in my yard,

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