pliesfan97

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by pliesfan97 6mo ago
My window management hack that I’m surprised I’ve not seen mentioned is that in macOS you can map each numpad key to a separate desktop. You essentially get a desktop control pad free with your keyboard, since I don’t know any SWE who uses
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by pliesfan97 1y ago
Randall Williams is your brother? He’s one of my favorites from the Meateater crew. Thanks for sharing his dissertation, I’ve been meaning to check it out at some point.
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by pliesfan97 1y ago
Wouldn’t the argument then be that it shouldn’t matter to her if her house goes down a bit in value since it wasn’t liquid wealth anyways? So it’s a win-win in a way - either you’re rich enough to pay the mortgage on an expensive property i
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
Is there somewhere I can read the original/translated confessions in full? The piece really sold me on them but didn’t seem to link to anything.
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
Won’t you need to retry more than 300,000 times for 100,000 original processes? Unless of course the retry somehow has a 100% success rate. The article makes a good point though.
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
Did you read the article? I’m curious what points you actually refute. The author made specific arguments about the development of art and style, not the amount of culture produced. New York despite all its flaws (or probably because of the
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
I still wonder what Paul Stamets was alluding to about crimini mushrooms and cancer risk on his episode of the Joe Rogan podcast where he seemed unable to talk freely
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
Non-paywalled version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231010212049/https://www.nytim...
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Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill(nytimes.com)
3 points by pliesfan97 3y ago|3 comments
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
It’s quite sad to read him talk in 2005 about how online content was so authentic and not PR spam :/ I wonder if there will be another new type of media technology that will go through this same evolution, or if “authentic” content wil
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
I think this comes down to a philosophical difference in how we approach truth in the face of uncertainty. The truth here is clearly uncertain (and probably unknowable) at this point. I approach uncertain situations with a Bayesian perspect
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by pliesfan97 3y ago
I personally believe it's somewhat possible that there was some CIA involvement in JFK's assassination. I did not watch the entire video, but the part that addresses potential CIA involvement seems to have 2 main flaws IMO: 1. It