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by randusername 5d ago
I agree. Sensationalizing "is correlated with increased risk of cancer" to "could cause cancer" undermines the legitimacy of the inquiry and findings and just generally makes everyone dumb. I'm annoyed I had to go g
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by randusername 5d ago
Lately I've been making a conscious effort to flip my coordinate system around on inflation. Instead of tracking cost increases of fuel, I try to conceptualize prices for all things in equivalent fuel or metered energy. The fed can ove
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by randusername 6d ago
My observation is simply that tech leaders misinterpret rewards from the market in conquering some abstract representation of a facet of a domain with conquering the domain itself. Then they become egomaniacal. Did you conquer commercial re
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by randusername 6d ago
Much lower odds of default support on average, but not zero, and the odds are not uniform throughout all the red states or any given one. For example, my small town in a red state was not accepting of homosexuality in general, but my church
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by randusername 6d ago
It's also about where you go with your struggles. Do you go home and talk to your spouse? Do you go to church and talk with your pastor? Do you go to your therapist or to the local bar? > Comfort with mental health care has become
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by randusername 6d ago
Price increases are tolerated if the value increases. Even rent-seeking is tolerated if the value is relatively stable. But what we have here is value proposition decreasing from fragmentation and shallow content and increasingly intrusive
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by randusername 7d ago
It's a vague ick. Both parent and child are now mediating their experience through technology with the parent blaring recognizable intellectual property at the child to psychologically manipulate them into a better photo.
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by randusername 7d ago
Well "kid cue" is pretty uncomfortable for some reason
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by randusername 7d ago
The whole idea that AI will usher in this utopia where workers in healthcare are able to realign their primary job functions with obvious value creation by sweeping all the paperwork under the rug is just silly. It will just fester out of s
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by randusername 12d ago
I had a coworker that would always ask this, like a javelin thrown in the bicycle spokes of every demo. We hoped for tens of users.
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by randusername 14d ago
Surely there is an agreeable third option between life-and-death subsistence farming and spiritually/ecologically/gustatorily desolate conglomerate monocrop agriculture. Food literally grows on trees.
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by randusername 14d ago
> I think that is tied to the general trend that people see themselves as far less replaceable than others. What if (almost) everyone is right, that their work really is more difficult to automate than others realize? This could be the l
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by randusername 15d ago
Science as a monolithic institution is a trap. We ought to be able to trust the public with complex realities and contradictions. The scientific method and dogged researchers have brought us many wonderful things, but at the same time fra
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by randusername 15d ago
I did a similar test and it came back neurotypical. Given the overlap between ADHD and video games, I'm not convinced of the accuracy. It felt like a lame rhythm minigame to me. I don't think the research is solid, my guess is the
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by randusername 16d ago
> We're all frustration addicts. We just want to bang our heads against problems we don't yet know how to solve. I've been tapering off AI lately. I think I've realized that conquering the struggle is the fun part, a
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by randusername 19d ago
fully keyboard-driven is a high bar, I'd settle for prioritizing the most common actions for keyboard shortcuts. I would love a return to function keys. You get 12, make 'em count.
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by randusername 20d ago
You're probably right. It was mostly hyperbole, but the older I get the more I think hyperbole does eventually come to pass in situations like this. It's gradual, though, not all at once.
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by randusername 20d ago
Yeah, I'm optimistic we're getting really close to "forever laptops" once competing hardware catches up on efficiency. What do I need any higher specs for, other than battery life?
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by randusername 20d ago
Grim prediction: "Quantized models are no longer permitted on the Hugging Face platform. Reduced precision models are a safety hazard and a violation of our TOS. Click here to speak with a sales representative about our many exciting c
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by randusername 21d ago
It is a well known physical property of lawn rakes that one end is heavier than the other, as opposed to evidence my neighbor is abusive in hitting me with one over and over.
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by randusername 21d ago
How naive I was to hope that the strain data centers will place on the electric grid would spur very big, very public investment in renewable energy and nuclear. Somebody has to realize that gas turbines are backordered to the 2030s meanwhi
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by randusername 22d ago
So what's the answer? Where did they all go and why? Was the takeaway supposed to be "public bathroom" meant either public urinal (ruined by stigma for gay sex and blackmail) or saloon (ruined by temperance)? We're missi
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by randusername 23d ago
Does anyone else feel like the web has become so "readable" it is illegible? I have such a hard time quickly reading pages like TFA. Headings, bullets, line-spacing, width, link hover animations, even the font. Even reader mode de
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by randusername 23d ago
> who wishes to maintain himself This is the key. Everyone wants stability in their circumstances, but you have to go to extreme lengths to sustain an extreme lifestyle, particularly if it is based on preserving a high rate of accumula
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by randusername 26d ago
Ambition is antithetical to contentment, not intelligence. This is the drunkard's search principle [0]. If you go looking for intelligence, it is easiest to find among perpetual strivers, either because they will sit for any test and
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by randusername 26d ago
I read the article and found it interesting. It's wild to me that when I think MS I think this article, Vista, Windows Phone, Zune, Metro, ads in the start menu, the pleated pants meme and so-on, but I have coworkers that are total eva
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by randusername 27d ago
I think reducing junior value to something like time to first merge is playing with fire. Semblance of value is not value, and the value increase here, if there is any, is from the AI. I trust junior + claude significantly less than I tru
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by randusername 27d ago
I always liked gradians [0]. 400 gradians to a turn. This means 100 gradians to a right angle, so arbitrary small angles feel more like percentages of a right angle. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian
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by randusername 28d ago
Either the shop will be C++-14 for all time or they will do whatever it takes to use the latest and greatest compilers and language features. I don't see why breaking changes is such a major concern. Unless the aggrieved party is the c
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by randusername 28d ago
This is called "grounding" or "earthing" and Wikipedia doesn't pull punches in dismissing it [0]. You can buy grounding wires for your mattress or copper rivets for your shoes. From my tissue engineering class in un

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