webnrrd2k

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by webnrrd2k 24d ago
Highly recommend: Life 102 - What to do when your guru sues you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_102
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Yeah, benign neglect is a good response for a wide variety of problems. FWIW, I also call it "the healing power of apathy".
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
I could be wrong, but it turns out that somewhat fatter tires with lower pressure are faster because less energy is wasted by deforming slightly and rolling over small bumps, as opposed to thin high-pressure tire "bouncing" over p
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Re: quis custodiet ipsos custodes... Slashdot has a meta-moderation setup where random users (with at least a minimum tenure and rating on the site) would get to vote on the quality of the moderation for randomly selected posts. I still thi
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Plato said a lot of shit. To be honest, I don't really care. The Bible said a lot of shit, too. I don't need Plato to tell me that in America, black people, native Americans, and all sorts of other immigrants got well and truly fu
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
For low dose melatonin, try liquid melatonin. Around here Sprouts carries it, but you gotta look a bit to find it. The bottle says 30 drop equal 3mg. So you can take small doses easily, and it absorbs under your tongue pretty quickly.
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
I disagree with your charaterization of the problem as exclusively a moral wrong... Was it only a moral wrong? Was the only effect a moral one? Or were there physical or tangible effects, too? For example, were there economic affects? I&#
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Re: two wrongs/people who had nothing to do with the problem Obvious counter examples: plenty of people have been drafted and died in wars they did not cause or start. Also, people pay taxes to educate others, which (hopefully) fixes a
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Manhattan Project: $36B, 5 years ▫ Apollo Program: $257B, 14 years ▫ Interstate Highway System: $620B, 37 years ▫ AI data centers: $930B, 6 years and still accelerating From: https://substack.com/@rubendominguez/note&#x
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by webnrrd2k 2mo ago
Yeah, but it would be more-or-less in parallel, spread over however many organisms
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by webnrrd2k 3mo ago
History is replete with destructive, stupid and failed authoritarian rulers. King John, Ferdinand VII of Spain, etc... just basic research will uncover a lifeline of reading on the topic. Check out Mao's Great Leap Forward killed milli
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by webnrrd2k 3mo ago
Re: movies and elite perspectives, I watched They Cloned Tyrone a while ago and it had a solid "hero movie from a lower socioeconomic class" vibe. I enjoyed the perspective shift and I think it might be a good example of your poin
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by webnrrd2k 3mo ago
There's a pretty good chance the Elon Musk, plus Russia and China have had more-orless unrestricted access to American's data since the DOGE dismantling of US government. Plus, by intentionally removing security and accountability
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by webnrrd2k 3mo ago
What's stopping you?
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We all sometimes feel like this bird(medium.com)
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by webnrrd2k 4mo ago
It's not Lamborghini, but Lotus had the $40,000 Elise a while ago. I don't remember how it worked out in the end, but a lot of people were excited about them at the time. Edit lot -> not
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by webnrrd2k 4mo ago
I think it's a reference to the Butlerian Jihad https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
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by webnrrd2k 4mo ago
As far as I can tell, according to the article, the "science" is get feedback and listen to it. Ok, that was perfectly fine advice, I guess.
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by webnrrd2k 4mo ago
There's a book that ties into this sort of thing - Gold Warriors [1]. It about how, post WWII, the US recovered a bunch of Gold looted from China and used it to set up an anti-communist slush fund. [1] https://www.goodreads.
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by webnrrd2k 5mo ago
This is more me thinking out loud than a fully formed theory, but I suspect that a really large context might be useful when LLMs control more physical things. The huge context could be used to help encode the huge amount of implicit knowle
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by webnrrd2k 5mo ago
I don't know, this seems pretty weak... I am certainly no expert, but there have been a lot of studies, and in reputable journals, that show at least some benefit from fish oil. One study showing that maybe there is a problem with fish
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by webnrrd2k 5mo ago
I'd think that electronic drum heads would provide a good prototype. I really know nothing about it, so I could easily be wrong, but the basics are all there... They are percussive, and the sound varies by how hard they are hit, so the
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by webnrrd2k 5mo ago
It looks like a Plastikov uses a lot of metal Kalashnikov parts that you'd need to get from a kit or machine yourself or something, so I don't think it's really fair to call that gun a 3D printed gun. It uses printed parts,
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by webnrrd2k 5mo ago
I'll put in a vote for the Panini Sutra (Aṣṭādhyāyī) [1], which is a sort of "Backus–Naur form" for classical Sanskrit grammar. I don't understand Sandskrit, but I've heard from people that I respect that the Panin
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by webnrrd2k 6mo ago
Press gangs are back
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by webnrrd2k 6mo ago
I don't think anyone is asking for perfect, I think they are asking for "good enough". If I may be blunt, it sound more like you might have some self-esteem issues, or shame, or just plain immaturity.
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by webnrrd2k 7mo ago
Just as an FYI, if anyone is into reading some good poems, I'd recommend "Good Poems", an anthology edited by Garrison Keillor. It's a great book to start reading poetry. I had a friend who was reading it, and she loaned
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by webnrrd2k 7mo ago
Yes, and cigarettes, asbestos, lead in gasoline, and a few others, too. Clearly there is a place for education and coordinated action among the common people.
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by webnrrd2k 7mo ago
Yeah, that should have been in the contract too -- no using our software to overthrow the government or to implement a fascist state.
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by webnrrd2k 7mo ago
Bond to what -- that's the real question

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