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c54

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About c54

And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.

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    Good article and discussion but I couldn’t find anything about the author? There’s no bylines or about page anywhere on the site. Does anyone know about the source?

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    Comment #47929476

    Not GP but I like that “organic” implies that it came from a living organism. “Organic content” both carries the idea of specificity of consumption and also the idea that the conte…

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    Comment #47726885

    In his interview with Theo Von when asked what he wants his legacy to be and how he wants to be remembered, Sam said something to the effect of: “I don’t think about how I will be …

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    Comment #47227968

    What kinds of middle policies would you like to see? Genuine question. This is a surprising opinion to me because I see the democrats as a center left largely moderate party. Agree…

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    Comment #47195533

    Your language suggests you’re an ideological supporter of trump but I’m curious: What exactly is being imposed by anthropic? This is from the anthropic letter: > We held to our exc…

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    Comment #45355535

    Regarding billionaires having armies of engineers growing their wealth to massive scale: is that not what they have?

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    Comment #45271199

    The police also killed 19 people but your comment doesn’t mention that. In addition the military has not taken over, but currently seems to be honoring the demand of the protestors…

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    Comment #45250031

    This reads to me as a somewhat quaint snapshot of politics from 30 years ago. What the author is getting at is the overlapping of the bundles of individual policy stances that we g…

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    Comment #45087247

    I like a lot of the redesign suggestions but how much of that is a result of cards vs no-cards. For example removing the tags and using colored words ("privacy") could still be a g…

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    Comment #45087159

    I've been at companies where the company itself has no code assets but depends on a bunch of 3rd party enterprise services to run the core business. Brings up the question of how t…

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    Comment #45067285

    Neat website, thanks for posting. Basically necessary to avoid the twitter “paywall”

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    Comment #44759734

    Relativity Space | Long Beach, CA / Stennis, MS | Full-time Multiple software teams hiring to help build the next great orbital launch company. Our Terran-R vehicle will be a stron…

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    Comment #44346379

    I haven’t validated it myself but Kagi is trying to offer this kind of small web search https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

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    Comment #44337599

    It’s a riff on the classic resource for learning Haskell: https://learnyouahaskell.com/

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    Comment #43511953

    You may enjoy the book Atomized by Michel Houellebecq, he coined the term in the late 90's in a similar vein of what Nate is referencing in his post.

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    Comment #42647415

    I’m interested in the alternative YouTube front ends like Pinchflat and Glance mentioned here. Ideally I’d avoid scrolling the YouTube homepage while still giving views and likes/s…

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    Comment #42505384

    I'm interested in trying this out and started to go through the login flow for youtube, for some reason it opens in a tab within the Grayjay app which then means I can't use Google…

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    Comment #42491901

    Ironically even clicking this imgur link on mobile is half covered by popups (on iOS)

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    Comment #41092259

    I was lucky to meet this giraffe and its creator in 2016. It’s quite impressive and clearly a labor of love. Has strong home garage hacker vibes. The creator was excited to show us…

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    Comment #39918408

    To a local observer yes, but to someone moving at a different speed no! FloatHeadPhysics does a good job explaining some of this https://youtu.be/OpOER8Eec2A

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    Comment #39918370

    FloatHeadPhysics does a really good job of explaining these kinds of things https://youtu.be/TJmgKdc7H34

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    Comment #38836066

    I read somewhere that Evangelion has similar cultural impact with the Japanese as Star Wars does in the US. In that way naming this app NERV is similar to the US’s “Star Wars” stra…