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Yeah this is interesting. It makes sense...you're filtering out low level background noise so all you really get is the higher volume stuff like speech. Just like adjusting squelch…

> Hey at least it's not the worst behavior we've seen from a Linux file system creator... I think that dubious distinction would go to Hans Reiser.

Econ or Bloomberg had an article about a month or two ago about stores locking up their merch and the motivations for it, and why it's such a stupid idea (sales plummet when you ne…

Yeah I'm not seeing a downside to this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p... https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of... I'm sure there's plenty more out there.

Pharma spends more on marketing drugs than developing them. If marketing drugs is prohibited, especially through dubious kickback schemes with doctors and hospitals, there'd be a l…

Hyundai is Korean

Teachers unions also negotiate for things that make it nearly impossible to fire an underperforming teacher.

Relevant: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-...

> This is an implementation of PaperWM-like scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm. If you like Sway/i3wm’s commitments to stability, avoiding scope creep etc. but dislike the …

This. Use it with vim and spend a day mapping any repetitive tasks to streamline things. It's magic. You could also use a bash script for creating backlinks, and it probably wouldn…

Personal preference. Perks include consistency and hackability. Mutt for instance hasn't changed a whole lot in decades. The relative simplicity and stability also means I'm not ru…

Funny bit of trivia, Patty Hearst went on to be in several of John Waters' movies.

My favorite markov experiment was feeding it the works of Nietzsche from Project Gutenberg. Really brought out the late stage syphilis, but was still very distinctly Nietzsche.

> LLMs demonstrate complex reasoning, multi-modal understanding, and emergent behaviors that go well beyond simple pattern continuation. Can they win Wordle yet?

I wish I had read your entire comment before ordering "The Making of" because now I'm paying double shipping to get "Dark Sun" as well.

Corning used to make these bowls (called "Grab and Go", I think) that were very difficult to break. You could cook in them, eat out of them with utensils that damage normal ceramic…