I think this one is typically called a flu simulator

Lots of good points here, but I’m not sure I fully agree with authors part 3. I think (well thought I guess) of Reddit as less like a well stocked, library which I feel the author is trying to suggest Reddit is like, but instead more like a pub. It’s an online 3rd space and sometimes you get an intellectual conversation, sometimes you get memes, and there’s lots of groupthink and loud voices. But it gets you through the day.

Overall though, the author i think is right. And Reddit really did turn quite a bit from the early days (I can’t remember when I joines but think it was around 2009.) The system rewarded more and more quick meme comments, but that’s every online community I’ve seen (slashdot. Fark). I don’t know how you avoid that and it really has me thinking about how you might make a good public space online; like what Reddit felt like at one point.

Oh man!! Am I ready to be pumped!!!

The internet was also a place you went to, and you could actually turn it off or walk away from. Now it’s everywhere and stitched into our entire lives.

I can’t read the whole article, but the part about shifting mindsets quickly is not only a part of business schools. I think the articles point is that the elite class is educated at business schools, and this pushes a particular mindset.

Cech has a very good study about engineering schools having a “culture of disengagement” and essentially it is a discipline captured by capital as well.

Jstor link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43671164

I thought I was into coffee, but sitting with a coffee nerd at a third wave shop sipping on geishas and trying weird ferments was eye opening. The natural washes I now know are delicious and some of the cold crash ones (I think that was the process i liked) were awesome. It’s a crazy drink that seems like it should be so simple

Exactly where I went to. All to confirm the great atuins sex.

Even just cloud storage uses a surprising amount of energy. I’ve my students calculate a price per rick roll just to start seeing that there are actual energy costs and usage associated with things like google search, storing a cloud file, etc. I forget the paradox name, but we’ve made storing files and the cloud (that is, using other people’s computers) so easy and efficient that we are now using even more energy.

I was super pumped about these as well, and same experience. I have a steam deck and I really just leave docked to my TV for 99% of the time. The steam frame is somewhat surprising (I thought it might come in at a higher price point), but based on my experience just trying out a few other VR sets, it feels like a really expensive gimmick.

What a strange post. Yes. Yes you can mix any flavor you want with oats. I prefer savory and make them like I would cheese grits: butter, jalapeño, garlic, cheese. Or throw in cumin and some chili powder and cayenne. We typically do steel cut over rolled since we prefer the texture. My kids throw on vanilla and maple syrup.

Can’t it be both? Can’t it be that there is higher life quality and also the regime can be bad? I mean I feel like there’s room to criticize both. And then reflect back on one’s own country.

I do think shortening things up a bit would have really benefited it. We had a group discussion of this and some folks were a bit surprised that it didn’t get into the beaurocracy that tends to be a part of the Chinese underworld. I’m not up to speed on Chinese lore, so can’t say much myself.

I enjoyed it mostly. It was not my favorite, but it was a fun twist on grad school life.

d’oh! That’s what I get for trying to type quickly.

This is awesome, and I really no no idea about this!

So: your point is the usage of AI in common vernacular should not have changed from its meaning 50 years ago, and using it in its modern sense as shorthand for LLMs and generative models is bad.

And your point is also that the modern usage of a Luddite is correct and you should ignore the original group and the conditions that led this group to smash the textiles because the usage of that word changing is fine and we should not look at original usage?

Got it. Words change. Sometimes. And other times no.

Any ideas on how to rectify this?

Sounds like the LEDs are doing a great job of that already

That is very true. If you just want to learn it, starting even at something like basic tex may make more sense. The latex ecosystem is where it starts getting interesting though, since there’s been so much created and written for it. BUT that does mean you’re stuck in a weird abstraction area. For when I’m just making documents (and not stuck to a specific journal format), I’m really enjoying org-mode and then piping its output to a tex PDF. I think markdown would work too, but org-mode inherits all the emacs modes, so you can get some pretty complicated in-document scripting done.

Now that is the gift that keeps on giving! I also like the implication that one can “learn” emacs.

Latex is worth knowing, its most commonly used for academic papers, but it opens up a whole world of scripting automated documents. But, to make it really interesting, throw in tikz and/or pgfplots for some interesting power tools. Tikz does A LOT, and is really powerful. But can definitely be overwhelming.

Just within the last week or so old.reddit.com was effectively disabled and stopped working. (I think it might work if you log in, but i quit doing that 3 years ago). It was a nice resource and it’s said that it’s such a shell of what it was. Right when the internet is really needing human voices too