whytaka

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by whytaka 4mo ago
While financialized society is still standing, I'd much rather have money than material wealth. Security and freedom, time, and well-being. Worth much more than another luxury t-shirt.
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by whytaka 7mo ago
But people are expected to understand the part of the system they are responsible for at the level of abstraction they are being paid to operate. This new arrangement would be perfectly fine if they aren't responsible when/if it b
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by whytaka 8mo ago
Can I ask how you made the animations in the Use Cases section?
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by whytaka 8mo ago
They have a feature where you can take a photo and create a world from that. If instead of a photo you have a video feed, this is one step closer to implementing subjective experience.
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by whytaka 8mo ago
I think this is the key component of developing subjective experience.
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by whytaka 1y ago
And yet still a more contemplative and responsible approach to morality.
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by whytaka 1y ago
> I think people don’t participate in religion because it asks of them. Many people are lazy, greedy or hedonistic. It takes effort and “practice” to be virtuous or religious. Say what you will of "wokeism" but it is an ethic t
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by whytaka 1y ago
Negative press about religion, whether its corruption or its inefficacy, has led to lower participation in religion the world over.
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by whytaka 1y ago
Surely that's more Western philosophy than Christianity. If anything, Christianity impeded social progress. Even now, the most vocal Christians would contend that moral truths owe to scripture than reason.
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by whytaka 1y ago
I want an all-screen iPod gen 2-4 as a phone.
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by whytaka 1y ago
I haven't used float in at least half a decade. CSS is easy.
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by whytaka 1y ago
What is the difference?
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by whytaka 1y ago
The word has many interpretations. You've touched upon just one (and the most fallacious: ad populum) of them. The masses can be extreme if they are: - wrong - deviates sharply from historical norms - undergoing mass psychosis
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by whytaka 1y ago
I've been building https://www.webring.gg . It's a webring creation and management tool that lets members vote new websites (and website owners) to join the ring. I'm hoping that good webrings can hold the integri
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by whytaka 1y ago
I've been building https://www.webring.gg . It's a webring creation and management tool that lets members vote new websites (and website owners) to join the ring. I'm hoping that good webrings can hold the integri
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by whytaka 1y ago
Two problems from what I've seen so far: 1. Browser navigation overlapping website viewport in iOS Safari. What is the real height of the viewport? 2. Floating side panel on macOS: necessitates needless extension the app body. Also, th
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by whytaka 1y ago
What's a general news forum with high quality commentators you think is relatively devoid of astroturfing?
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by whytaka 1y ago
This is mitigated by wrapping the main scrollable content in a container that has height: 100dvh and overflow: auto. It means that phone controls are always showing but it made a bottom anchored menu reliably static.
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by whytaka 1y ago
I only caught a glimpse but what I saw for iOS Safari concerns me. The browser navigation overlaps the viewport. I wonder if this'll break websites/apps that anchor a menu to the bottom.
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by whytaka 1y ago
"The best design is design that gets out of the way" as a maxim will probably hold. Users may state a preference for "delight" and claim to be delighted by maximally rich graphics but I doubt it'll move the needle a
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by whytaka 1y ago
Even if one were to deny humans the will to "act", to think - as a verb, as some action being committed by a willing being or an automaton - by my definition, requires some weighing or surveying of possible answers. If I were to a
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by whytaka 1y ago
Webring.GG - www.webring.gg It's a democratic webring creator/management app where members can vote on new websites to join their ring.
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by whytaka 1y ago
It's no complete solution against AI slop but I've been working on www.webring.gg which is a democratic webring manager. To join, websites are invited and voted on by current members to keep slop from polluting the integrity of th
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by whytaka 1y ago
My conjecture is that when people started to see non-taxi branded cars just idle on streets without parking, forcing people to cross over lanes around them, it broke a social barrier.
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by whytaka 1y ago
I, for one, find joy and humor in my complaining.
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by whytaka 1y ago
I am now convinced that Uber/ride-sharing is responsible for the deterioration in our high-trust societies. Uber made it ok for regular drivers commit road violations with impunity.
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by whytaka 1y ago
https://www.webring.gg I've been working on a webring creation and management app with embeddable widgets for member sites.
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by whytaka 5y ago
> If you can't reproduce it, it's not science. Just a point that not all science can have empirical and reproducible study.
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by whytaka 5y ago
As a self taught dev myself, check out my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366106
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by whytaka 5y ago
CODE teaches you about how computation can be structured out of circuits and switches and ultimately transistors. I now understand the fundamental nature of electronic computation. UNIX taught me about the how an OS deals with hardware reso

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