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by upfrog 2mo ago
The author has been an established blogger since well before the modern AI boom. It is of course not impossible that their writing technique has changed, and they now use AI heavily, but preferring BC/AD over the alternative/not a
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by upfrog 3mo ago
I really don't like the idea of vertical tabs, but given how so many web pages these days work, I should probably give them a try. That said, the tree-based approach is fascinating - points to Zen (and related efforts) for trying such
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by upfrog 3mo ago
I don't remember if that exactly is line-for-line what I did, but I was at least doing something similar, and not having success.
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by upfrog 3mo ago
Two things that I noticed: - Firefox did crash on me more frequently. It wasn't a daily, or even a weekly thing, but it was more of a problem. - Firefox limits how small I can shrink my tabs in the tab bar. Chrome also has a limit, but
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by upfrog 3mo ago
The listed flags do in fact have a great deal of variation, and are uniformly beautiful to look at. Yes, we probably need a moratorium on flags with a sun-like-object on the left, but even in that over-used motif, there is a lot of variety
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by upfrog 3mo ago
Anecdotally, Grok is mostly not that anti-woke. It is coasting off of its reputation from Elon's marketing. That said, it does have meaningfully fewer guardrails, which is a real benefit.
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by upfrog 3mo ago
If we find a way to make 4-6 years of language instruction reliably lead to a reasonable level of language competency, maybe. But until then, the student's underlying interest in the language is much more important than any abstract se
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by upfrog 9mo ago
Jailbreaking is definitely an option, but there is value in spending money to provide a market signal instead.
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by upfrog 1y ago
You get invited by actually trying to play. Not everyone who tries will get in, but it's a lot more likely that you'll succeed if you work the problem, instead of throwing up your hands in disgust at the world. Non-technical skill
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by upfrog 1y ago
There are in fact civilian situations - many of them captured on camera - where the difference between carrying in condition 1/2 vs condition 3 is critical to the outcome. Active Self Protection on YouTube has thousands of examples of
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by upfrog 2y ago
For the benefit of people who come to the comments first: If you want a comprehensive debunking or substantiation of the claims about crypto debanking, then this is not the place to go. If you want to read 23,000 words on banking regulation
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by upfrog 2y ago
For an alternative take on this, here is Patrick McKenzie (patio11)'s take on some similar issues: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan... A lot of people in this thread have been
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by upfrog 2y ago
Don't assume that your history would be an immediate dealbreaker. With enough time, they are happy to ignore a lot of that stuff. Just be honest. Of course, if you don't believe in any of the causes you might need a clearance for,
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by upfrog 3y ago
Is this an accurate representation of your meaning? Because technology has been relentlessly solving or making progress on solving human problems for thousands of years. Agriculture alone is a series of technological improvements which have
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by upfrog 3y ago
First off - we don't know why pressure against her increased recently. We just don't. We can make up stories about it, and try to assess their plausibility, but we don't know what really happened. That said, I think that the