phikappa

Joined 14 years ago

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32
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15
Member since
Sep 25
founder, gamer, tinker & thinker, oneday politician, aspiring writer and once part-time mathematics student.
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Comment · 2 months ago
In my headcanon octarine is a colour between orange and deep purple. Sometimes it has a hazy blackish halo.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
"but "Green policies forbid those actions nowadays" is a bit of a dogwhistle that you oppose environmental protection regulations broadly (not merely overzealous ones that have side-effects that make combating certain types of wildfires harder in certain situations)"

thats a bit of a "dogwhistle" that you're not actually convinced that green policies can ever be deranged and counterproductive. On the contrary. I don't know if you're a a brainwashed virtue signaler, but I'm assuming it. You don't say so outright, but the mental gymnastics of calling someone a climate changer denier who just said climate change is widely recognised are staggering.

This truly is the least intelligent timeline. Please check with Dunning and Kruger if you're part of the problem.

Comment · 3 months ago
sure but anthropic is not literally in the comments complaining, so it's not quite apples to apples, right?
Comment · 3 months ago
there go the next 4h21m of my day. Couldn't be more excited!
Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder if this ritual of meta-self-policing serves some particular purpose or if it's just a case of the brain drawing comfort from going through a familiar ritual. "This comment adds nothing" is like the reverse amen in church of our days.
Comment · 3 months ago
DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch misunderstandings about DNS propagate around the world (github.com/514-labs)

There I fixed it for you.

Comment · 4 months ago
I think we'd be better off limiting whom to kill to one person only.
Comment · 4 months ago
I mean sure, but look, I will not make the same mistakes.

Also my context is totally different. And MY oven concept has none of the drawbacks of their oven and Claude tells me I'm definitely on to something.

I'm off to the notary to sign the docs for Oven.ai (got the domain for only 300k!!) See ya on my yacht!

Comment · 4 months ago
There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.
Comment · 4 months ago
I wouldn't call it so much a false friend as forest/foreign (and forfeit and I'm sure a bunch of other words) all coming from the same Latin "foris" root and being semantically related.

In Italian, outside is just "fuori".

You're a foreigner to what you've forfeited in the forest.

Comment · 4 months ago
Interesting case of double-layered false nominative determinism. Although foresta in Italian means "forest" and thus the surname would seem eminently plant-based, it actually means "foreigner", which I guess he also ended up being as Italian immigrant in the US. The etymology of forest and foreigner is closely related and means basically just "(from the) outside".
Comment · 9 months ago
what is it about it that you hate and that makes you associate it with linkedin? I don't hate it, but I feel the linkedin comparison. maybe because of the many linebreaks?
Comment · 1 year ago
tell me you're a chinese propaganda account without telling me you're a chinese propaganda account

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