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I mean, come on, you know what school was like. None of your classmates read jack shit. Your doctors and therapists probably didn't either.
I cannot get behind the idea that kids need to be reading things in school from topics tailored to their interests. That's what they should be reading outside of school. You have the entire rest of your life to read whatever you want.
Replaced my oven's gas igniter for the second time. I am sick of owning appliances
disappointed to learn that old man ear hair doesn't serve any, like, biological purpose
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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Fonts, for the love of god. Remove web authors' ability to control what fonts the users render
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But the manuals for how they were supposed to learn to do their jobs are written down, you can just get them and read them
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Realized this year that if I can't get access to any decent medical professionals, I can simply read the books that they were supposed to have (but probably didn't bother to) read in school
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This is just straight out of Machiavelli, really. You don't hire mercenaries to fight your wars for you, because they aren't ever going to be personally invested in the outcome.
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What people need for health is information and a book is a lot faster, cheaper, and more comprehensive than an expert consult
the metric to watch is how often someone can look at the software, think about how it can be improved, and make the improvement in a single sitting
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@brentsimmons@indieweb.social Wow, at ios 15 I am not even on the chart.
You *can* replace an iphone battery, but all the apps you use will abandon you
TIL the Mennonite family we get milk from also does solar panel installs
you can request information from NOAA and it comes to you in an email... slow web goals
It's not unusual for people to become so enraptured with a technology, like electricity, that we become immediately willing to destroy all sorts of shit with massive projects for it
nobody talks about how many documents you have to falsify nowadays
The thing about "replace AI with humans" is do you think they'll be hired employees in places with labor protection
I got more different general purpose message queue services than I got javascript frameworks
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For certain economic measures it probably sounds good to shuffle the population about as through a global assembly line. Does it make machine's fodder happy?
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@foone@digipres.club Been using this thing lately, seems okay https://priv.au/search?q=audience+participation+callouts
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We don't need more money for scans and pharmaceuticals, we just need a physician who can take a god damn patient history!
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@stux@mstdn.social Who? Why? What's the bad actor motivation here, just profit-motive spam?
The dream is that you're a company following commonly accepted practices that aspires to be more innovative, but the reality is usually more like you're a company with a combination of bespoke and outdated practices that aspires to be more normal
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The goal should be places where people are actually living, where anybody could live an entire life. Instead it's like we have one kind of place you grow up in, another you go to college in, another you find a job in, you move back to the first kind of place to have kids, another kid of place specifically for queer people, and then you go to Florida to retire.
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There's just one monster, and they throw the ball to him. This isn't a game
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@agatha@gts.snkrgirl.cfd @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt It's fascinating because the entire point of several years of early math education is just getting kids used to the idea that one value can have any number of equivalent representations, to understand the difference between a quantity and an expression. Utterly failed
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For various therapy specializations in particular it seems normal to just have one 600-page textbook which is simply a comprehensive manual for practitioners
There's one reason I've lost all respect for Christopher Nolan: In the scene where Odysseus kills everyone, he's supposed to be completely nude, his beautiful godlike body on display. Where the hell is your courage, director?
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Science fiction is almost entirely things that absolutely 100% can't happen. It's just a particular set of things nerds like
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@oz@uate.social Mostly afaik by people who never made much money from it, so not at all the set of people we're talking about when we talk about where AI spend is coming from. Different people, different type of activity
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Free software idealists are just like AI singularity acolytes, the difference is just which god they think they're on a path to birthing
Somebody once called this the Martin anti-establishment reflex, but being immersed in all the complaints on here (some of which are quite over the top) has turned me into a claude code defender and that is not a position I ever wanted to find myself in
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I don't know how nobody seems to notice or care that like half of extracurriculars is just various convoluted largeness competitions
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@ross@social.rossabaker.com Would you mind linking to one of those repos inundated with PRs? I posted a general request for examples a while back but nobody responded, I've never seen what that looks like
given the state of AWS documentation honestly I think throwing an LLM at it is the only rational response
I wish people would stop using the word "epstein" to mince words about the president's sexual abuse
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@gemelen@mammut.moe Asking to make sure but I believe no, sorry
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One season in Patagonia they had to force some contestants to quit because they actually were going to starve to death for the competition if they producers hadn't intervened
Meta put out a little promo demo video for their glasses, and it shows people playing blockbreaker and snake. How embarrassing
This isn't even a situation that calls for the law to catch up, atlanta already has "no-cruising" rules
Part of the problem with the incentives about how to write in essays and stuff I guess is that if you explain anything, it seems you're perceived as mincing words, as not taking a hard enough stance. People love the "real talk, come right out with it, guns blazing" but what it actually means is just opening with a page full of contentless vague positioning