philodelta

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by philodelta 2y ago
Musk very clearly actively sticks his fingers in the pie to steer narratives. Easy example, one of his children came out as trans (to Elon's apparent dismay), and now "cisgender" is flagged as a slur/hate-speech. There
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by philodelta 2y ago
I think a democrat who could actually distance themselves from Biden, someone who had more leeway to criticize his policies without the obvious "if current policy is wrong, what's stopping you from changing it" question, woul
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by philodelta 2y ago
I make bread by hand and "gross cooking hands" includes hands covered in shaggy dough.
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by philodelta 2y ago
don't get me wrong, it is silly, but also being able to set a timer without touching anything with your gross cooking hands is unironically a wonderful feature.
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by philodelta 2y ago
I can only speak to my own interpretations of the text, but this is a setting where magic well and truly exists, if typically in forms that were seldom seen directly. I don't think it's explicitly said, but again, Bilbo the burgla
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by philodelta 2y ago
I think I may be old-man-yells-at-cloud-ing here, but maybe making products to solve all these use cases for a beginning user is just what an educational tool like raspberry pi shouldn't be doing. Inconveniences like this are what real
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by philodelta 2y ago
Yeah, I understand where this author comes from but at the same time the whole premise sort of garners a head-tilt, half-squint, visible confusion. Companies only really self-regulate by way of failure. If they die they prove the negative h
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by philodelta 2y ago
this is mentioned and addressed in the article.
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by philodelta 3y ago
This reminds me a bit of the some of the problem solving experiments done comparing pet dogs to undomesticated wolves. The experiment wasn't overly complicated, a piece of meat was placed in a locked cage and the animals were given fre
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by philodelta 3y ago
This has already become self-evident when trying to find images on google. I have seen whole pages of results which were AI-generated. At every level it becomes so hard to understand the motivations of my fellow man in regards to these prob
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by philodelta 3y ago
Flipper is fun, and cool in a very cyberpunk way (even the name makes me think of the dolphin in johnny mnemonic), but what kept me from buying one, is, while cool, it's aesthetic was really the most unique thing about it. My use cases
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by philodelta 4y ago
I know people got hurt (and fish died) but all I can think is, this is a hotel lobby, there most certainly IS security camera footage of the failure and subsequent deluge and man do I want to know what that looked like.
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by philodelta 4y ago
I mean, at least with real life sports there are no hacky obtuse contrivances because, it's real life, not a videogame with a meta that includes knowledge of engine exploits or intimate knowledge of map geometry. Someone pixel-aligning
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by philodelta 4y ago
Though there is the threat of rules being made to govern "unsportsman-like" behavior that dissuades this kind of thing. If the powers that govern the sport determine they don't want this to be a mainstay, they can rule it o
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by philodelta 4y ago
When my cars basic functions stop working I'd rather it be that they're actually broken, not that I've lapsed on payments. I agree that it's definitely a matter of degrees, there are a finite number of months in the usef
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by philodelta 4y ago
This debate is tiresome, and is the Ctrl-V'd response to every article that even implies we Americans pay too much for healthcare. I realize this particular subject is insulin, but really Diabetes is just the poster child for the lar
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by philodelta 4y ago
idk, I feel like the opacity of social media allows for the more direct control of the zeitgeist from special interests. Propaganda can be given the paradoxical credibility of a "concerned citizen" through mass bot campaigns or no
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by philodelta 4y ago
I worry about the unaccounted soft power of someone with that much money. Through lobbying and market consolidation, the extremely wealthy hold disproportionate political and economic power. At least with corrupt politicians, in a liberal d
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by philodelta 6y ago
I'd also add that going to your local specialty grocery, you'll probably find that the spices there are actually cheaper as well, sometimes significantly.
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by philodelta 6y ago
Not to claim to be an expert in indian cooking (anglicized or otherwise), but I make a lot of curry from scratch, and I gotta say that featured video had a pretty excellent recipe. Entertaining but you can also tell he's an experienced
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by philodelta 7y ago
this is tangential to your point, but I feel as though I personally use this justification often in technical projects, a wide base of users often means a large base of accessible supporting material and community. while I'm sure of th
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by philodelta 7y ago
Broadening the definition of consciousness to the literal limits seems pointless, it dilutes the already difficult to manifest definition of consciousness to complete uselessness.
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by philodelta 8y ago
I understand this is not the point of the article, but whenever I see one of those SUVs on the road I feel a twinge of saddness; it seems a car in internal dissonance, it wants to be sleek and sporty, but it's this huge beast of a vehi
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by philodelta 8y ago
huh, I did not expect to make me legitimately angry. Technology and science are far too important in everyday life to have legislators who are ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of how research works. This is besides the fact that the scienc
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by philodelta 8y ago
as a child of the 90's and a computer engineering student, CuriousMarc's channel has been actually really influential in helping me to better understand how "using a computer" has evolved since the 70's and 80'
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by philodelta 8y ago
You're right, but Congress has been essentially deadlocked into a completely nonfunctional body for years now. On top of that, the republicans necessary to curb trumps power are extremely afraid of his appeal in their base, that they&#
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by philodelta 8y ago
why post an archival instance of this paper? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537171/
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by philodelta 8y ago
it helps that the computer science concept is so simple that it has multiple plain english correlations. If it were put to a vote, I'd put in for Dom-Sub :P
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by philodelta 8y ago
this is a persuasive argument, in a vacuum, but to the degree which some subjects are based on objective argument, I can't say I agree. In scientific academia, the expectation is that if someone is making a claim, they also have experi