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People always find BBs and shit in shelter dogs and ask "why would somebody shoot a dog?!?!" and the answer is pretty simple, it's because when dogs are loose they kill livestock, and so people defend their property against this stupid menace

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Solar panels have a finite lifespan (30 to 50 years?), so you're basically saving some money by pre-paying for some number of watt hours, not opening up something unlimited.

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Distributed edible permaculture, though? That sounds more like a society built around abundance rather than scarcity, but it is much more something that people have to do and commit to rather than a consumer product people simply buy.

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I used to hear people talk about gardening as a radical act, whatever happened

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Turns out that when you need to create a bunch of multiple choice quizzes, the ability of LLMs to hallucinate plausible-sounding wrong answers is actually exactly what is needed.

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@IanSudbery Yeah, I've yet to see a demo that doesn't still require a manual curation step. Still it seems somewhat less taxing to not have to come up with everything on your own.

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I know it's just the billing code but I can't get over this "import beer" that was brewed a quarter mile away

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While I'm being grouchy I wish I could demand my money back from Remarkable for their scam of a product.

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@Elucidating What's wrong with it? I nearly bought one

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I think RSS is unreasonable because... Look, I get that you want to read things without being tracked by corporate ad campaigns, but you have to provide some way of making yourself visible to authors if you care about them at all. Writing into a void is fucking miserable. Letting yourself tick up a count in somebody's Substack statistics so that they can at least see an anonymous page impression is the least you can do.

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This is one of several situations that bother me where, in reaction against excessive corporate data collection, we've gone too far in not voluntarily offering telemetry, to the point of being antisocial and unnecessarily keeping open communities from having important features that walled garden users enjoy

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Instagram is super depressing because you see a cute thing like a video of a guy pretending to try to eat dinner while a cow is there aggressively eating his food, and then you realize that the guy makes a video exactly like that every day and it's apparently his full time job

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The video - any one of them - is clever and I'm glad he did it. It sucks that the grind of producing this useless multiplicity is the only way to promote anything enough to benefit from it. It's never enough just to make a product, you have to live it as your life.

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Is leaking stories about sex parties actually a strategic move to pump the valuation

chris__martin,
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There's not a single thing I believe about a company in OpenAI's current phase of hypemaking, even "bad" things

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when you try to buy something from a computer

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We're supposedly hyper optimized for commerce and then point of sale systems just routinely fall on their ass and prevent sales

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thirty years ago replacing mail catalog ordering was supposed to be the one thing the internet was definitely going to be good for

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Instead it turned out that keeping a website running and capable of reliably accepting orders is achievable by nobody but amazon

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"yes I would like to buy a thing please"

"error.payment.order.creation"

  • a statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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If a dragon doesn't spend the gold then their collecting it doesn't really influence anyone's lives, does it?

chris__martin,
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I thought the point of the dragon myths was that it isn't worth risking anything of value to attack the dragon because gold isn't a component of a good life. Somebody else hoarding something only makes it seem important.

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Vegans make some pretty good food but they lose me at fake meat. To adapt a mitch hedberg joke: Soy beans, you got your own thing going. I already like you, you do not need to imitate the animals.

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I guess photovoltaic panels serve one of the roles of trees, they do offer shade, though there's a lot more trees are doing

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I could write a lot criticizing the criticisms of the programming languages I dislike, people fixate on the wrong things. e.g. it sucks that js has built-in values and that some of them are not very commonly needed functions that squat on names like == you might prefer to bind something else to, but this is so superficial and not js's main problem

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I do think it's bad for the psyche this notion that if somebody offers something for sale, and you take it without paying, it's fine and good as long as you hacked a computer to do it.

chris__martin,
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The point is that when you're breaking a lock you can't pretend that you aren't doing something out of the ordinary, just like when you forge a signature

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