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jay_kyburz

5,550karma·2,804submissions·February 1, 2009
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Yes, It should be expanded that no company can own residential property, and more importantly, each person can only own one property. People should go find something else to invest their savings in.
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Actually, I'd go one step further and say they are harmful to everybody else. It might just be my circles, but I've seen Carl Sagans quote everywhere in the last couple of months. "“Sci…
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I wonder if they could push out an update. That would be super scary.
7mo ago·view thread
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Wish my spelling was better :<
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I've been posing online with my real name since the 90's because if forces me to self sensor. I don't say things on the internet that I wouldn't say to people in the real world who…
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Some QR codes are really tiny. I think people just make them large so you can see and focus on the easily.
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"Where There Is No Doctor" would be a good place to start. https://hesperian.org/
7mo ago·view thread
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This is why both google and microsoft are pushing Gemini and Copilot in everyone's face.
8mo ago·view thread
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update: I read that word will place an em dash if you use two dashes "--"
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Yeah, this is what I don't understand, surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately. I assumed MS word was just inserting them automatically when the user used a minus symbo…
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I have two kids in high school. It's frustrating to me that the teachers spend so much of their time encouraging kids to make their writing more interesting, and less direct, and padded to meet w…
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I've been using this method for 25 years, but ruthlessly delete completed tasks and things I decided I don't want to do after all. Kind of like inbox 0, but for my _todo.txt I would probabl…
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err, that's what Valve is doing?
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Where possible I like to ask it to evaluate a few options. Which is better, x or y, and why?. I don't hint which idea I prefer.
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The FiiO Echo Mini popped up on my feed the other day. I think its cooler. https://www.fiio.com/echomini
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I hate when I accidentally hit return halfway through writing my prompt and it gives me two pages of advice about some nonsense half sentence.
8mo ago·view thread
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I came to the comments to express the same sentiment, expecting to be an unpopular opinion. Pleasantly surprised to find your comment at the top. Hosts should make sure they know who is posting conten…
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I'm all tis and no rizz
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If you lie (or exaggerate) about a disability and claim a benefit, you could be denying somebody with more serious disabilities getting the help they need.
8mo ago·view thread
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Really? They nagged and nagged and nagged and nagged me until I finally upgraded.
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>The goal of government should be summarize the beliefs of a fully-informed public in order to act on their behalf. I fully agree with your position here, but do you think the government has a roll…
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Canada should just join the US. (Joke <- have to be explicit these days. )
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I wonder if you could pay a few air fairs and have the procedure done overseas and still come out ahead?
8mo ago·view thread
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I just shared what I found. I don't know why Mastodon comments would be less interesting that reddit comments.
8mo ago·view thread
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what is a11y. Can we just write words out please.
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Who cares what tool was used to write the work? The important question is what percentage of reviews found errors or provided valuable feedback. The important metric is whether or not it did the job, …
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I thought the author was attempting to highlight the hypocrisy of using an AI to detect other uses of AI, as if one was a good use, and the other bad.
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