smogcutter

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by smogcutter 4mo ago
It is, however, the setting of On the Road.
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by smogcutter 5mo ago
The pun being that “eu-topos” would be “good place”.
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by smogcutter 6mo ago
It seems to me that calling the customer to get them to agree on a quote is the most important contact? It’s like telling a salesman to just enter data into a CRM and trust their livelihood to an AI closer. See how that goes over.
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by smogcutter 7mo ago
I think a missing piece of this analysis for the present is the way that hyper-skepticism can come back around and make you just a different type of mark. Sovereign citizens, for example.
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by smogcutter 7mo ago
> Additive Manufacturing, industrial robotics, the Internet, and the proliferation of computers had already made large portions of manufacturing and low skill white collar jobs redundant by the mid-2010s. I think a much more realistic ex
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by smogcutter 8mo ago
Lots of farm stands in NY’s North Country operate like this. With Zelle, etc, there’s no box of cash sitting out and you don’t need to worry about making change.
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by smogcutter 8mo ago
Except for the Europeans that are literally fighting Russia.
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by smogcutter 8mo ago
But being willing to pay for something is a pretty good indicator for being willing to pay for other things too.
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by smogcutter 11mo ago
To add - there’s also an Austrian general named O’Reilly, and a famously subpar Macdonald for the French. The French at the time were busy inventing nationalism. Someone suitably aristocratic could find a place as an officer basically an
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by smogcutter 11mo ago
> I'm pointing out that that's not something they did Well that settles it then!
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by smogcutter 11mo ago
If only you could go back and tell them what a waste those walls are! I’m sure the Mongolians would value your expertise.
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by smogcutter 11mo ago
This is a good point as a tangent. “Cargo Cult” is a meaningful phrase for ritualizing a process without understanding it. Debasing the phrase makes it less useful and informative. It’s a cargo cult usage of “cargo cult”!
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by smogcutter 11mo ago
Even bending over that far backwards to find a useful example comes up empty. Those kinds of emails are so uncommon they’re absolutely not worth wasting this level of effort on. And if you’re in a sorry enough situation where that’s not the
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Gotta go to Mo’s!
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Irulan’s books are state propaganda! The true Paul Atreides is only revealed in Leto II’s secret diaries.
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by smogcutter 1y ago
But we’re way beyond templates here. There will be niches in research, high performance computing & graphics, security, etc. But we’re in the last generation or two that’s going to hand write their own CRUD apps. That’s the livelihood o
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Something I hadn’t thought about before with the V-K test: in the setting of the film animals are just about extinct. The only animal life we see are engineered like the replicants. I had always thought of the test as about empathy for the
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Your square color photos are almost certainly made from medium format film! The most common frame size used in 120 is a 6x6cm square, especially in consumer cameras of the time. 6x6 cameras stayed popular for snapshots because they could be
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by smogcutter 1y ago
There’s a spectacular moment in Django Unchained where Leonardo DiCaprio (a generational plantation master) asks something like “why don’t they fight back?” If you understand both the answer to that question and the fear underlying its aski
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by smogcutter 1y ago
I turned screws in an Apple Store in that era, circa iPhone 3G/4. Internally that policy was called “getting to yes” and it was a huge pain in the ass. The idea: customer comes in with a broken screen. You surprise and delight them by
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by smogcutter 1y ago
I’ve switched to a thumbs down in traffic and can’t recommend it enough. Let’s then know how they should feel without escalating like a middle finger.
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Obviously someone was playing a barbarian
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Done properly, phonics shouldn’t be about memorizing rules per se so much as practicing them deliberately, until they are internalized. For some kids, phonics mostly comes naturally. That sounds like your daughter, and myself for example
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by smogcutter 1y ago
For my sins, I teach middle school. There’s plenty of different angles on this, but I’d like to highlight a recent one that may not immediately occur to people here without young children: COVID retirements hit the elementary schools partic
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by smogcutter 1y ago
What I find fun & interesting here is that this prompt doesn’t really establish your credentials in typography, but rather the kind of social signaling you want to do. So the prompt is successful at getting an answer that isn’t just r
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by smogcutter 1y ago
And part of the joy of Eve Online is that if you want, you can be a reason travel is dangerous.
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by smogcutter 1y ago
> This way of thinking is likely more productive for what they are doing. Which is… attempting a rigorous understanding of evolutionary biology, rather than idly ruminating. I hate to use a dork-ism like “update your priors”, but this is
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by smogcutter 1y ago
Sure, but think of a good help desk tech: if they waited for users to accurately report useful information, nothing would ever get fixed.
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by smogcutter 1y ago
> Film negatives have 12-stops of useful dynamic range No, that’s not inherently true. AA used 12 zones, that doesn’t mean every negative stock has 12 stops of latitude. Stocks are different, you need to look at the curves. But yes most
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by smogcutter 1y ago
It’s very obviously a rhetorical exaggeration.

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