smallnix

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by smallnix 8d ago
The missing seam was a smoking footgun
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by smallnix 15d ago
It does take the idea further by anchoring the design system in real world objects.
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by smallnix 21d ago
I remember they found remnants of a 10k yr old ritual ground that matches the ritual in the oral tradition. Found it https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01912-w
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by smallnix 29d ago
> setting clear rules on time with kids (weekday dinners, weekends prioritize family) and Are these examples or an exhaustive list? Eating dinner during the week is.. not a lot. So I assume it's about setting time limits for these a
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by smallnix 1mo ago
Great Scott, I think we just hit someone!
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by smallnix 1mo ago
Because risk/benefit assessment is different from person to person.
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by smallnix 1mo ago
Since you map each breadcrumb of the path, how do you deal with differing lengths that would be more appropriate?
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by smallnix 1mo ago
> selecting something else depending on arcane environmental conditions was more of a burden than an advantage What is being referred to here? Does "else" refer to ZGC, Shenandoah? What does arcane env conditions mean?
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by smallnix 1mo ago
Would be nifty if they only did that partial scaling when there's little memory available.
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by smallnix 1mo ago
It's in the article no? > Orexin antagonists (which block the molecules’ actions rather than mimicking it, and thus promote sleep), have been available since 2014 as treatments for insomnia. They work differently from conventional s
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by smallnix 1mo ago
Right, all these non-obsessed fanatics wasted their life. And don't get me even started on non-fanatics!
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by smallnix 1mo ago
By 'destined' I assume you mean 'there was never a way their life would play out other than them becoming slaves'. But the word 'meant' and 'destiny' carry a meaning of "it is the right thing to
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by smallnix 2mo ago
There's the component of suffering for sure, but I think being a functional member of society is the most important. So if you don't annoy anyone with your abnormalities you are more likely to be considered sane.
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by smallnix 2mo ago
I assume they have their own index of the web. Or perhaps there are companies where you can buy such indices. And then mix and match those, perhaps with your own too. Data is basically their business.
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by smallnix 2mo ago
It's from a sci-fi novel, I forgot to add the quote and edited it in. While I understood the idea of shared beliefs for particular cases (god, money), being presented with the full concept was very interesting (that was for me when rea
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by smallnix 2mo ago
> The set-up assumes that the game and life are the same thing, and such is the pervasive nature of the idea of the game within the society that just by believing that, they make it so. (The player of Games, banks)
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by smallnix 2mo ago
With the difference that with time you get free credit automatically. Perhaps somewhat comparable to optimistic unchoking in BitTorrent :)
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by smallnix 2mo ago
Free membership which accumulates points. These can be spent on books. Books are priced in points according to a metric (TBD). Bad books are 0 points. You can also get points by bringing in good books. (It's like uh some kind of curren
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by smallnix 2mo ago
But this article allows framing this decision in a nice way. It's not a push back against over engineering, it's deliberate trade-off for speed by lowering quality, because quality is relative to the targeted outcome, which is yet
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by smallnix 2mo ago
> The court heard the single child was given his first laptop at the age of 10 by his parents - carers who moved to London from Bangladesh. Ah.. I hate when stereotypes play out like this. It's always those single children.
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by smallnix 2mo ago
> Not only did AI tools then help him unearth needed sources and fill in visual gaps I think that's clear
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by smallnix 2mo ago
In theory a good escalation system. In practice there must be strong guarantees and trust that there are no repercussions for triggering. Otherwise management will tell you over and over to "pull the andon cord / escalate earle &a
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Boeing 737 window dislodged, passenger partially sucked out(reuters.com)
2 points by smallnix 2mo ago|1 comments
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by smallnix 2mo ago
Trends, status signalling?
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by smallnix 2mo ago
Does the human neuroscience global workspace theory postulate true introspection too?
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by smallnix 2mo ago
One example is the introduction of MIMO, a technique to send multiple data streams in the same frequency band in parallel. This requires multiple antennas, i.e. hardware which wasn't there in the previous wifi version. Note this was 20
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by smallnix 3mo ago
> I’ve sat through some pitches like that, where it is very obvious that the founder/CEO has limited knowledge and expertise in what they’re pitching, where the product is limited, but their enthusiasm is off the charts. And for all
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by smallnix 3mo ago
Only outdone by the silent majority
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by smallnix 3mo ago
I agree this blog is highlighting the irony in that. But I think you are overreaching and injecting your agenda when claiming that it says that "many folks asking for things to be “more inclusive” are asking for someone else to modify
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by smallnix 3mo ago
> Why do you think social media is bad but somehow regular websites aren't horrible? But this is the level 2 argument to enforce identity verification everywhere. You are reaching ahead.

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