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by veridies 1y ago
If one reads a page a minute, which is a pretty decent rule of thumb, then a 600 page novel takes you ten hours, and reading ten of those takes you 100 hours. That’s reading for roughly 20 minutes a night over a year, taking some days off.
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by veridies 1y ago
In Blindspotting (2018), a white protagonist is shown as being able to fluently speak an incomprehensibly dense version of AAVE, and it’s revealed later he has no idea what he’s saying (despite communicating effectively). I’ve never seen an
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by veridies 1y ago
Supreme Court justice Sotomayor notes that nothing in the government’s reasoning about not returning Garcia is unique to noncitizens. President Trump says he wants to send “homegrowns” to the gulag in El Salvador, and is exploring his legal
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by veridies 1y ago
This concept is worthwhile, but the author is so focused on malice that he neglects real examples. For example, I think many people agree with vegans about animals’ capability for suffering, and don’t WANT to increase it, but just don’t con
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by veridies 2y ago
For the first example: that’s not censorship? It’s just a bad algorithm. Also, I don’t even know what “left-leaning” means in this context; the top result is from the Australian national broadcaster, and seems pretty straightforward. No one
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by veridies 3y ago
I've been eagerly awaiting the new Lord Peter Wimsey novel! To avoid burnout, I've been reading them as they enter the public domain instead of reading the whole series all at once, and I was hoping that it would be in the first b
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by veridies 3y ago
You're describing The Man Who Was Thursday. Great novel!
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by veridies 3y ago
Some hens begin crowing like roosters. It's really annoying for backyard chickens, but I have had it happen a few times. That suggests to me that while chicken behavior varies based on sex, that is a spectrum, not absolute categories.
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by veridies 4y ago
For all of these, an attempt to add more features (patching, additional car controls, video sharing) leads to breaking something that works. It's not so much that new tech is bad; it's that we reached a stable, pleasant equilibriu
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by veridies 4y ago
I had to write 40 individualized reports this weekend. I fed my notes into GPT, along with a few directions about style, and it spit out competent reports that mostly only required tweaking. It saved me from losing my Sunday too.
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by veridies 4y ago
I'm typing on a Star LabTop. It Just Works, No problems with drivers, no difficult set up; I unboxed it, turned it on, and had a functional Linux laptop. It's very easy to type on, the battery life is great, and I strongly prefer
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by veridies 4y ago
I honestly don't see the point. The Deck is like the Switch: easy to use in both docked and handheld mode. All Valve has to do is to bundle a dock and some new controllers and they have a full fledged game console.
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by veridies 4y ago
I think OP's point is that there's one more major use case — gaming — for which Windows has a newly viable competitor. It's not that Linux is going to replace Windows, but that Windows could suffer a death by a thousand cuts.
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by veridies 4y ago
I just want to note (this is what I studied for my MA) that Krashen is very controversial in the field. Many researchers argue that output is critical to learning, and "interactionism," the idea that learning is facilitated throug
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by veridies 4y ago
That's really cool! Thanks for sharing.
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by veridies 4y ago
Related to this: I had fun the other night trying to explain rhymes to ChatGPT. It could ONLY write rhyming couplets, and even when I explained exactly which sentences in a poem I wanted to rhyme, it would write a couplet. (That even happen
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by veridies 4y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but as someone who recently switched from a Pixel 6 to a Fairphone 3, I just wanted to speak up for it. At this point, a phone is pretty much a phone, and I have no meaningful difference in UX experience.
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by veridies 4y ago
One oddity for me (and I haven't played with a lot of AI art, so maybe this is normal): every time I try to describe a person, it generates like four to seven different faces.
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by veridies 5y ago
It's such an odd coincidence to see this now; I just discovered this series a week ago. I teach elementary school science and math, and I've already used a few excerpts from this (from Universe and Calculus) to help illustrate imp
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by veridies 5y ago
Do you expect that the Nazis were uniquely evil? What trends in German society made them 'evil' that we lack? Ordinary people are capable of great evil when they limit their sphere of empathy.
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by veridies 5y ago
It is the job of a public defender to defend his clients. His statement here is absolutely correct. Prosecutors, on the other hand, have to decide what their jobs are.
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by veridies 5y ago
Yeah, it's sad – Wolfwalkers was a beautiful, innovative film. While you could argue Soul is better, no one even bothered to look into that category much because the winner was inevitable.
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by veridies 5y ago
My reaction to this post was similar — is OP sure he actually wants to be a developer? Because honestly, it sounds like a big part of his problem is that he feels like his work lacks meaning. There are many other jobs out there where he mig
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by veridies 5y ago
Because that catchphrase started in reaction to Black Lives Matter, and is used largely to signal opposition to the goal of constraining police actions. If people were holding All Lives Matter protests in opposition to police violence of al
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by veridies 5y ago
I think the point is that white people are likely to lack this lived experience. If there's a massive difference in opinion about racism in the country between white and black Americans, that difference of opinion may be due to factors
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by veridies 5y ago
Then why aren't they, more often?
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by veridies 6y ago
The post in question is full of strongly stated points, presented with minimal evidence, and in many cases irrelevant to the real argument being had. I would suspect that most people didn't respond because they recognized it as a waste
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by veridies 6y ago
I think you make a good point about how this can be read uncharitably. You're right that I read it literally: a list of specific things which sound good on paper but which can lead to disparate outcomes (with links to explain how each
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by veridies 6y ago
It didn't say that, though. I agree it could be clearer here, but it seems to be suggesting simply that other values should also be considered when thinking about math education. It never seems to say precision or accuracy are bad or r
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by veridies 6y ago
I am a white teacher. It seems wholly innocuous to me, but I've only skimmed it.

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