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Are you happy? Ignoring everything else that's been said, I truly mean this: are you happy with the person you are?

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> You still, however, know that the author is who they say they are This doesn't mean anything since "who they say they are" is an anonymous username with no real life correlation.…

Arch has pacman and that worked so well that it had to have AUR which is just glorified curl | bash. Linux distros managed it for decades when the vast majority of binaries you wou…

No, I agree with him. Everyone knows Russia has territory inside Europe. Does that make it European? Post-Ukraine not a lot of people would call it European. It's just a word at th…

All Europeans know what is meant by Europe. We just don't agree on it. But it does mean "not US or someone hostile to us" and that's enough of a definition without splitting hairs …

This is a really interesting question. Is it? My intuition would say no since you have no inherent duty to protect or help others. I have no clue though.

Is this the first time you have ever thought about the idea of supply chain attacks? This is the first thought 90% of people have and it doesn't work. Too much work to manually ver…

If ChatGPT can make a good plan for you from 5 bullet points, why was there a ticket for making a plan in the first place? If it makes a bad plan then the coworker submitted a bad …

If the documents they're putting out are bad, then they're doing bad work and that eventually comes with consequences from your coworkers and superiors. If they're doing good work,…

> The unstated elephant in the room is that you can't possibly know how much thought the originator has given to this. You can just ask them if they reviewed it in detail.

> So I guess the takeaway is: if elections are so close that a tiny amount of voters sway them, the problem of polarization is already pretty extensive enough that AI probably isn’…

Very well could be.

BTW, despite disagreeing with you on this topic, I read other parts of your blog and, as somebody else who experiences manic episodes, I actually more or less 100% agree with your …

> If consumers actually want unique local flavors an non-frozen foods, and are willing to pay a premium for it, sysco would have never gotten a foothold. This is rooted in the assu…

My point was that this is just the same tactic that corporations have been using for decades. For example, rather than fix systemic issues that cause them to dump mass amounts of g…

I can't say I agree fully with the original video either but this is just blatantly trying to reframe the same facts presented in said video, but placing the blame on consumers rat…

So if the new data is correct, there's no heat death or big rip, no? Everything just crashes back into itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

> Why call it Peng? > Peng (traditional Chinese: 鵬; simplified Chinese: 鹏; pinyin: péng; Wade–Giles: p'eng) or Dapeng (大鵬) is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun (鯤; 鲲; kūn; k'…

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 contains a fun keypad to reverse engineer. I thought I could simply extract the password from the text but the author lightly obfuscated it (w…

It comes from wanting the law to behave like physics and be universalizable. It is not at all like that in practice.

> it never has before. Look up the Digital Markets Act.

Yes but a human brain needs years of training to to get the basic skills, and further needs to refine on a specific style which can take anywhere from days to months/years dependin…

You need to live near a population centre to find them, that's true. It's the same reason other minority groups such as homosexuals urbanized so quickly.