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dleink··on The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
What do you mean by 'embrace new values'?
dleink··on Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money
I think they both share the "disregarding consequences" part.
dleink··on Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone
I'm interested in your remix of The Economist.
dleink··on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
I'm looking for a solution similar to wordpress but haven't really worked in this space. What's good out there?
dleink··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
I wonder if there's some kind of plateau you reach in a learning a language that way. Like, what if you started working with a hollywood dialect coach?
dleink··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
"Most people are bad at math" doesn't matter, "When someone has those issues they are more likely to be bad at math" is what we're talking about.
dleink··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
That sounds like a dream. I have a distinct memory of doing in class writing in 3rd grade where the teacher would force us to redo it if there were mistakes and give minimal feedback. As far as my 3rd grade memory can recall, I rewrote it several thousands times and never got it all the way right.
dleink··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
Hmm, this rings some bells for some people I know. Did you learn about those deficiencies and proficiencies in a systematic way or through experience? Any resources you'd suggest for thinking more deeply about these things?
dleink··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
When there are three books it's called a "trilogy".
dleink··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
Recall what?
dleink··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
We can safely say that other second order markers of stress have gone up. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cdc-data-shows-u-s-teen-...
dleink··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
Hey, I'm feeling the same way!

It is admittedly odd that I have been very online for a very long time and this is the first I can recall seeing this.

dleink··on How long does music stardom last? A statistical analysis
While not grammatically incorrect[0], it is stylistically incorrect, unless the writing style you're going for is "jerk".

[0] Major sources (MLA, CMos) have made nongendered pronouns suggested

dleink··on On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is prohibited
I went to school with some Russians so I was often able to pick out troll profiles based on slight grammar mistakes and word choice. I imagine LLMs are going to make this harder.
dleink··on Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'
It taught a young me that advertisements can make your head explode, a lesson I carry to this day.
dleink··on Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
Please let me encourage you to write it up! I am in the design stages of a similar project and would love to see what other people are doing.
dleink··on Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
How far along are efforts to run CUDA on other hardware?
dleink··on Unprofessionalism (2013)
I don't think it's necessarily "bullying", but if you want to include humor in your product, it should be original or at least funny. Ragging on nickelback was a hack joke then as it is now. Porkbun is a great example of a company doing humor well.
dleink··on Every company should be owned by its employees
Having worked service industry jobs (US) I think there would be a dramatic increase in my quality of life had the customers been happier.

Not to mention the unrelenting psychic toll of working low wage jobs in a country with a weak social safety net.

dleink··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
I see the distinction. Thank you for clarifying. I think generally speaking I would prefer to have more data on my health. I don't like the idea that this information might be held back because it would make me "paranoid". That is my decision.

I can see that in the general case, it can lead to increased spending and worse outcomes.

dleink··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
The quality of the American medical system has deteriorated to such a point that if the Doctors are not the grifters they may at least be culpable for enabling the grift.
dleink··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
Are you asking if early detection of cancer results in better outcomes? Yes, the data unequivocally supports that diagnosing cancer before it spreads leads to lower mortality.
dleink··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
It offers utility to user privacy.
dleink··on Turning psychiatric labels into identities
Your first two questions I'd answer with, "Yes, trauma."

Additionally, I suspect an expert would say, "Domestic Violence is a crime caused by mental illness."

dleink··on OpenBSD Desktop
OpenBSD doesn't have bluetooth support. I'm on linux as my daily driver, but have started playing around with OpenBSD and FreeBSD on my antique thinkpads.
dleink··on OpenBSD Desktop
Is there an OS better than Linux to accomplish what the parent poster is referring to?
dleink··on Familial Transmission of Personality Is Higher Than Shown in Typical Studies
If "children of child abusers are more likely to abuse children" were to be found undeniably true, how should we use this knowledge? Are you proposing some kind of public policy?
dleink··on Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?
The posts you are responding to said "low income", "poor" and "different income groups". The classism required to go from that to "criminals" is very disturbing.
dleink··on A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors
My brain went to the same place. There was just recently a post on Common Lisp being used in a project to aid in mining tunnel evacuations, so, it kinda fit?
dleink··on I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)
I'm in the same boat. The multiplication tables for me in that zone are constructs from other principles. :) So, Fives and Nines are easy and I can derive the Sixes Sevens and Eights from those. It's definitely extra steps. I think I'm reasonably good at the sort of mental arithmetic described in another post, Those particular operations just remain as symbols until I absolutely need to define them more precisely. I don't have a problem with 11s and 12s, but 5s and Rs trip me up.

The way that our brains process symbols is fascinating. If anyone out there has any literature or reading on this, I'd be interested. Especially, as related to ADHD/Autism.

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