ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
4hr ago
I'm pretty much with you. Native apps are more powerful than web pages, but developers don't reliably use that power to improve the experience.
Sometimes they simply don't develop the (easy) features that web developers would struggle to make, and other times they make user-hostile features that web developers can't.
ulyssessword
22hr ago
it suffers from another kind of representation problem, the opposite of what Fivehour was talking about. In an apparent effort to avoid offending any constituency, the critics who made the selections cast as wide a net as possible.
There's a place for surveys of the field like that. Unfortunately, "The 30 greatest living American songwriters" is punchier than "A selection of 30 great living American songwriters, which is representative of the field as a whole", so misrepresenting it is easy.
Any fair individual ranking system would (most likely) be heavily concentrated in whatever subcategory matched the rating criteria. The same goes for greatest athletes, greatest politicians, or anything else.
ulyssessword
3d ago
Is that how "right of first refusal" usually works? I was under the impression that they would run the auction as normal, then take the $410k (or whatever) bid to the family/charity and give them the chance to overrule the otherwise-winning bidder.
The participants in the auction might not like that their highest bid got rejected, but that's just business.
ulyssessword
3d ago
Wait, how is that any different? Just because it adds up all the time in any office instead of just the one position?
ulyssessword
5d ago
I've been halfway-considering making an LLM workflow for it. They aren't that complicated, and teaching them my taste shouldn't be that hard either. If I wanted to go super-fancy, it could intercept my traffic (when permitted, of course...) and rewrite the sites on the fly to avoid ads, dark patterns, distractions, etc.
ulyssessword
5d ago
Hilarious. I was thinking that by the time I posted this, he might already have dropped out.
Lol, he posted two minutes before you, but spent 7 minutes on preliminaries before clearly dropping out (I skimmed it, so there might be another one before the 7:00 and 8:40 statements).
I don't think they could stop him from running as an independent, but they can pull all their support and tank his campaign that way. I don't know how fundraising works (is it money for Platner, who will spend it on his campaign, or for the Democrats, who sourced it through him and will spend it on the Senate race, or what), which affects how much he could even spend. If it was party funds sourced from his campaign and earmarked for its use, then he might be simply out of luck. If it was personally-allocated funds, then he still needs to have staff willing to accept his money to do work etc.
It would be very difficult to run a campaign of that scale without a political machine backing you. If the Democrat membership as a whole (not just the leaders) reject him, then he won't get any volunteers, staffers, analysts, etc.
As of now, this is a moot point: Platner has suspended his campaign and plans to withdraw.
EDIT: canonical link, (@8:40 for suspending his campaign and intending to withdraw)
ulyssessword
6d ago
If you want to actually tame the pyromane, though, you gotta shell out five bucks, and you won't get the notice until the tame fails, either.
I get annoyed at a door I can't walk through without shelling out money. I'd probably uninstall the game if that happened to me.
ulyssessword
6d ago
(At least according to https://starship-spacex.fandom.com/wiki/Starship_Flight_Test_13)
I made a blocklist for uBlock Origin to make fandom.com links readable. With those in place, it's better than vanilla Wikipedia IMO.
ulyssessword
7d ago
Mine is getting the relationship between things backwards. It's indistinguishable from yours when it's like "1 is more than 2", but very different when it's "Alice is Bob's brother".
That's the more common variant, for sure (EDIT: but I know it as "...the musical fruit"). But it doesn't lay out the cardiovascular benefits, so it doesn't point to any weekly thread in particular.
ulyssessword
9d ago
I humbly request @fribble chooses one type of weekly thread for the Rancho Gordo saga so that I can more effectively monitor the bean situation.
May I suggest the Wednesday Wellness thread?
Beans, beans they're good for the heart
the more you eat, the more you fart
the more you fart the better you feel
so eat your beans with every meal
ulyssessword
9d ago
only 20 years old. This is in my opinion a severe flaw in the worldbuilding. It means that Lily and James had basically no impact post Hogwarts,
Wasn't Percy working directly under the Minister of Magic by the time he was that old? Hadn't Bill already explored new ruins and contributed to research? Didn't Fred and George have an innovative, independent, and thriving business? And they all came from a (traditionally) unremarkable family not noted for its successes?
20 years old is plenty if you just do things.
ulyssessword
13d ago
Here's the great Ronald Reagan on immigration
If someone lives in America but does not "become an American" (like it's impossible to "become a German"), then they are not who the letter-writer is talking about. Something like 90% of the immigration debate is about assimilation, and you can't dismiss concerns about poorly-assimilated residents by pointing out that it's not impossible in America.
ulyssessword
14d ago
The Xth Amendment clearly says Y. Therefore Y.
lol. lmao, even. It's a great ideal, but it's very clearly not the reality.
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The second amendment guarantees the right to keep weapons of war in case military action is needed, and yet people have trouble getting their hands on a duck gun.
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The fourth guarantees personal property, and yet that property can be suspected of a crime and seized through civil asset forfeiture without triggering those protections.
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The fifth protects against self-incrimination, but a judge can still jail you if you forget (or "forget") how to decrypt a harddrive.
I'm sure people could add more to the list.
The US is a small and radical outlier for having it; almost every other country on Earth is more sane.
I wish I could include Canada in that list. As of the start of the year we don't just have birthright citizenship, we have ancestryright citizenship, where you are Canadian if any of your ancestors were Canadian, back to the founding of the country.
ulyssessword
14d ago
Would those federal agents be from the blue city, or elsewhere? EDIT: and if they're from the city, are they meaningfully different than local authorities?
ulyssessword
17d ago
I'm betting it's a repeat of this misinformation. Neither Claude nor Grok (for Twitter search) could find anything, not even an uptick in rumors. Two hours is easily enough time for things to spread to the mainstream sources on something like this.
ulyssessword
20d ago
I think we have to stick to pedantry here, and set aside the wider view. It's a separate entry in the list in the article, and having a known bad item on the list is weak evidence that the list as a whole is bad.
Remember that the original complaint was "1: It's easy to make up as many unofficial days as you want.". Trans Awareness Month is plausibly made up by a small group and listed by an aggregator, but not actually celebrated by any significant number of people.
You could easily argue that trans issues are overrepresented in general, but I think this is a reasonable objection on that one point.
ulyssessword
20d ago
I'd believe it.
I did a spot check of one of my Facebook friends: 12 posts so far for Pride month (up from nine last year), two for Transgender Day of Visibility (Nov 20), and one for Trans Awareness Week (Nov 17-21), and one last year for International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. None for Trans Awareness Month over the past two years.
Maybe it's because he's Canadian, but I doubt it because LGBT issues are more international than most.
ulyssessword
20d ago
the top level is filtered.
ulyssessword
20d ago
Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer,
Somehow, it went from shooting the officer in the neck (in official documents) to hitting the officer in the shoulder (earlier in the article) to firing a gun at the police officer (here). Give it a few more paragraphs, and maybe we'll learn that Song never touched a gun at all, he was totally somewhere else with good friends that will vouch for his whereabouts.
And the Guardian is supposed to be a barely-left-wing news organization. I shudder to think what actual partisans are reporting.
ulyssessword
21d ago
In that case, why you believe you are a different gender is irrelevant.
I don't see how that follows. If endocrine disruptors cause your gender-center to misfire, then the proper response is better food/material/pollution standards. If social contagion causes mass delusions, then you have to change the social context. If it's linked to abuse, then strengthen and improve child and family services. If it's purely genetic, then you're pretty much stuck with it because eugenics is unthinkable. These are not exclusive options, as different ones can be true for different individuals.
In each case the causes suggest cures. A chemical cause hints that there might be a chemical solution, and same for when it's caused by peers.
ulyssessword
21d ago
I don’t think it’s a big leap to go from “some population groups run faster” to “some population groups do management/science better”.
That's why the term "neck-up creationism" was coined.
Some people accept that physical traits (including important ones like health and athleticism) are affected by genetics but reject the idea that cognitive traits are. That phrase points out the inconsistency.
ulyssessword
21d ago
Nah, you win when they transparently make idiots out of themselves.
This is a social context, not a legal one. Rules-lawyering your way into an exception means that you're out of touch, not that you're protected by the rules.
Yesterday, if you'll allow (presumptive) early-teenagers. It happens every couple months or so, it's not common but not exceptional either.
Claude says 1/630 live births have Down's and about 50% abortion rate (with bad tracking/stats), which suggests 1/315 conception rate. Compare it to 1/790 live birth rate in the 1970s (same source), and increased screening+abortion isn't even keeping pace with the increased incidence due to aging parents.
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