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And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.
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Comment · 2 days ago
Do you have the link handy?
Comment · 1 month ago
There's no y axis labeled or marked, the visual is vertically spreading each curve out so it's not all one big color jumble. Not sure what the second color means exactly either.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Good article and discussion but I couldn’t find anything about the author? There’s no bylines or about page anywhere on the site.

Does anyone know about the source?

Comment · 6 months ago
Not GP but I like that “organic” implies that it came from a living organism. “Organic content” both carries the idea of specificity of consumption and also the idea that the content was produced by a living organism. The association maps directly onto what OP is referring to.

“Vegetarian” works insofar as it borrows the context of specificity of consumption, but only directly implies consuming non-animal products, which doesn’t map onto the OPs meaning as nicely.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
What kinds of middle policies would you like to see?

Genuine question. This is a surprising opinion to me because I see the democrats as a center left largely moderate party. Agreed that the democrat candidates are appalling and generally show no conviction.

Comment · 8 months ago
Your language suggests you’re an ideological supporter of trump but I’m curious:

What exactly is being imposed by anthropic?

This is from the anthropic letter:

> We held to our exceptions for two reasons. First, we do not believe that today’s frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America’s warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

Do you see these views as “left wing”? Or what do you disagree with here?

Comment · 1 year ago
Regarding billionaires having armies of engineers growing their wealth to massive scale: is that not what they have?
Comment · 1 year ago
The police also killed 19 people but your comment doesn’t mention that.

In addition the military has not taken over, but currently seems to be honoring the demand of the protestors for new leadership and addressing the widespread corruption in the nation.

It’s too early to call, to be sure. But I’m hopeful that there can be a peaceful transition from here towards something better for Nepal.

Comment · 1 year ago
This reads to me as a somewhat quaint snapshot of politics from 30 years ago.

What the author is getting at is the overlapping of the bundles of individual policy stances that we give the label of a single ideology, the folding of the left-right political axis through higher dimensional space. People who agree on some things disagree on others and the old categories become less useful.

These days I think JREG is doing good work tracking political categories if you’re interested and don’t mind some irony-poisoned jargon check him out.

Comment · 1 year ago
I like a lot of the redesign suggestions but how much of that is a result of cards vs no-cards. For example removing the tags and using colored words ("privacy") could still be a good move while keeping cards.

I'm not super educated as a UI designer though can someone help me better understand the distinction?

Comment · 1 year ago
I've been at companies where the company itself has no code assets but depends on a bunch of 3rd party enterprise services to run the core business. Brings up the question of how to measure how much code you have: if you depend on a legacy saas provider, do their lines of code count as your liability?
Comment · 1 year ago
Neat website, thanks for posting. Basically necessary to avoid the twitter “paywall”

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