tcskeptic

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by tcskeptic 5mo ago
Just to be clear -- this story is fictional, it did not happen in real life. It has become a bit of an urban legend because of a video game but does not have a basis in fact.
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by tcskeptic 6mo ago
My parents moved from Texas to Chicago this year to be near my sister instead of me (their son) because in their very traditional minds they need to be taken care of by a daughter in their old age. I get to send checks. I thought it was a
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by tcskeptic 6mo ago
The idea that any results of AI productivity enhancements that include data from 2024 are valid is bananas. I’m not even a programmer — but the step change since late fall 2025 is incredible. I have a young relative that manages in house pr
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by tcskeptic 1y ago
Completely different style and purpose of resting. The long hot rest is for fat and collagen rendering. Nothing like this kind of rest after high temperature grilling or roasting.
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by tcskeptic 2y ago
Does this at a minimum set a market value for the attempt to move to for profit? IIRC the new for profit will have to buy the assets of the not for profit at fair market value?
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by tcskeptic 2y ago
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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by tcskeptic 2y ago
I think the point being made is that it seems plausible that a term used in Britain to refer to literal boys was repurposed later in a different context to be a demeaning way to refer to an adult man working with cattle in the US.
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by tcskeptic 3y ago
> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes; they happen after the fact. We have the illusion of being in the driver seat but really we are just along for the ride. How can you conclude this with any
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by tcskeptic 3y ago
Girls don’t like boys girls like beards and money?
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by tcskeptic 3y ago
My school got one (in Malaysia). It was the first computer I ever used. Typing BASIC programs in from magazines and saving them out to cassette tape. Good times. It felt magical.
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by tcskeptic 3y ago
Unless you have a way to drip feed chlorine into your pool it absolutely will not have the same chlorine level, unless you are running your sag incorrectly.
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by tcskeptic 3y ago
I own these. The experience using them is substantially better than using grocery store clippers. The cutting edges meet very precisely and firmly so I get a very clean cut with relatively low pressure every time. There is very little &qu
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by tcskeptic 4y ago
Happy to see this, I will be buying a couple of pairs if the sound quality is anything close to the prior generation. I love my current pair and have considered paying over retail for another eBay pair. I wish Siri were better -- it is goo
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by tcskeptic 4y ago
Most companies have explicit and firm salary ranges for positions already -- I would bet MS is one of them. They just didn't put them in the job postings until now.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
The confidence is for the slope of the regression line. Are you objecting to something the interval is not trying to accomplish or am I missing something (entirely possible)?
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Ah! Contronyms! Words that can mean a thing... and it's opposite (or nearly so). Dust, cleave, overlook... many others. One of those enjoyable corners of the language.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
I suspect they are talking about this: https://radiodns.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Guidelines-o... Essentially small images sent OTA that allow stations to "Brand" themselves on automotive
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
The Munro guys have talked about how rapidly Tesla quality has advanced— going from amateur on early model s to impressive of later model 3s. I wonder how much of this is that early amateur hour stuff? I take the Munro guys opinion pretty
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Ah, thanks for letting me know. It was an amazing visit.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
RaMell Ross shipped himself from Rhode Island to Alabama in 2021. He has created an installation called Return to Origin currently on display at the Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. I got to see it recently -- it is fascinating and mo
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
But it seems to me that the people that are most focused on being productive and optimal in this weirdly obsessive way are pretty high income -- they are not just scraping by to pay rent. I work with a company that does manufacturing here
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
I was thinking about this recently watching a conversation between Lex Fridman and Bryan Johnson and it struck me that there is a huge difference in optimizing lifestyle choices for human physical and mental performance, and optimizing life
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
That is a really interesting approach -- if you remove the words with any of the letters in SLATE, what is the highest ranked word? (If you have it to hand)
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
I have found it very useful to frame things in terms of my future self. This works for both things I want to do, and things I want to stop doing. For example — get home from work, tired, don’t want to go row. Instead of saying to myself “
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
China sabotaging ASML profit on to prevent decentralization of chip production from Taiwan and maintain leverage over the US in Taiwan sovereignty struggle.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Whatever happened to the customer is always right? Have you ever met a customer?
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Its not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK. Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a y
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Is your position really that no one should be allowed to produce products that are unhealthy? This seems incredibly invasive.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
I had the same reaction -- I don't follow the industry much but know that Business class accounts for an outside proportion of revenue and profit for the airlines... which doesn't seem to be addressed at all.
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by tcskeptic 5y ago
Legalization would make it much easier for escorts to coordinate on john screening. See for example the research done by Cunningham/Deangelo/Tripp on the effect of Craigslist shutting down their Erotic Services section. And that p

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