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Two things here. First, you have to know what to ask an LLM. A book on a subject is already organized with all the information that could be returned by the same prompts that would…

I went from “regular” keyboard to kinesis freestyle 2 to kinesis advantage 360. The switch to the freestyle 2 was basically seamless. Switching to the advantage 360 was brutal, but…

Someone made a video based on the paper, if you want to see the cards being used and a little more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA

I was wondering what kind of metric could be used to visualize a nation’s ability to project power. Maybe some ratio involving the furthest distance from the capital city to the na…

I’m not following here. Marathons are very much actual races. They even give out 1st/2nd/3rd place awards and everything.

There’s a lot of possibility in between hunting and eating fast food. Buy some healthy food at the grocery store and pack a lunch to bring with you.

I like using conventional commits but I’ve often wondered if some sort of tagging/labeling using git-notes wouldn’t be better: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes I’m just unsure th…

Being able to play music doesn’t imply consciousness. It implies intelligence. We’ve had player pianos for ages. It’s an ability, not a phenomenology. Being able to appreciate and …

You do still actually need the credential process though, in order to demonstrate that a person has in fact received that education.

Those countries are usually quite strict about who they will subsidize though. Not a bad thing IMO.

Especially when “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair

Wasn’t Concorde like 20-50% more expensive than a normal first class ticket for the same itinerary? So any hacker considering a SST flight should also be able to afford the first c…

You can also essentially work remotely in an airplane now. I haven’t tried videoconferencing, but I easily do all my other software work on trips. So a couple extra hours might eve…

But buying from scalpers only really works when they’ve already bought out the supply. Couldn’t people just go right to the ticket site instead of through a scalper? The only way t…

> Scalpers will just do two transactions, one high one for the privilege of being able to buy the ticket, and then the sale at the listed limit. I don’t understand this. If you can…

I agree with supply and demand dictating the price on scarce items. I don’t agree with letting middlemen butt in and drive the price up by exacerbating the scarcity, and making a p…

FWIW I agree he’s not taking a good approach, it does sound like he’s flipping the bird on the way out due to frustration with not getting his way. I also agree that government ove…

> Criminals aren't intimidated by prison time. I’m sure this is true for a subset but is not universal. I imagine just as big a subset or even the majority of criminals simply thin…

That’s not a revealed preference, but a stated one. My guess is that the councilman perceives the revealed preference to be: “I’m willing to give up privacy for convenience” and th…

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> I prefer to focus on reducing the potential for abuse. Sounds great in theory but at the end of the day the backstop to bad behavior is force, one avenue of which is incarceratio…

Not really, unfortunately, even on wired LAN latency is noticeable, but I'm just editing code so it's at least doable. Resolution isn't bad. I wouldn't recommend it for graphic wor…

I gave up on a hardware solution to this and currently just use Screen Sharing to "remote" into my personal machine from my work machine, which I guess only works because they're b…

> I have been trying to ask people this but its havent gotten a satisfactory answer. > I mean I have never consumed and never will so why is it that your society finds it acceptabl…

Actually it's more like flying in the clouds with no instruments which can lead to spatial disorientation when you exit the cloud cover and realize you're nosediving towards the ea…