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  • The forgotten art of squatting is a revelation for bodies ruined by sitting

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  • Did you follow a training programfotr rest squats, or just try to do it for as long as you could each day? I'm interested in any resources on this you may have

  • Is there a good take-down of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" book?

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  • studying doesn’t work (my “rich dad” got rich being an analphabet owner of stores)

    This is fundamentally the same argument as:

    The lottery works (my "rich dad" won it)

    You have to think with expected value over large samples with stuff like this. For every analphabet dad that risks by opening a store and succeeds, how many have failed and we don't hear their stories?

  • Thoughts??

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  • For most of us, we aren’t in college to learn a specific skill so much as we are there to learn how to be taught. To prove we are capable of taking instructions and producing results as requested.

    This is true to the extent that you won't be solving Organic Chemistry 1 or Linear Algebra exercises at your workplace, but I think it's misleading. If anything, from my experience, people focus too much on producing the results and not enough on learning the skills. A lot of people stay on the mindset of "I only need the degree / where am I going to need that / the industry has moved on from this" and don't build strong foundations

  • Leftist stance on strict/stricter traffic laws?

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  • You would need to demolish half of every city in europe in order to replace every stop sign with roundabouts. But for places close to the entrances to the city, plus large interchanges they're great.

  • Leftist stance on strict/stricter traffic laws?

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  • Laws against drug posession and use target people that 99% of the times pose no harm to others. Drunk driving laws target people that can potentially harm, handicap or even kill innocents. This seems like an important distinction to me.

    I concede that cops will probably disproportionately target minorities, but I doubt they need these laws specifically to impose their will or harass them.

    "Higher intoxication" laws are necessary for DUI, imo. Is the severity of someone driving with 0.1 g/l over the limit the same with someone driving while scoring 1.2 g/l? It's like scoffing at increased charges for murder vs assault.

  • Leftist stance on strict/stricter traffic laws?

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  • What exactly is batshit about these laws?

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    Leftist stance on strict/stricter traffic laws?

  • Man with Hebrew Neck Tattoo Admits to Crucifying Pastor in Arizona, Says “It’s Commandment to Rid Israel of Evil”

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  • Most Judaists in the "state" of Israel seem to be a-ok with murder, though

  • Step 1: Get nukes. Step 2: Never give up your nukes.

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  • I doubt it's easy to keep it secret, especially in the middle east where american presence is high. I admit I do not know a lot about the DPRK's nuclear weapons program, but a quick search shows it wasn't really a secret.

  • Step 1: Get nukes. Step 2: Never give up your nukes.

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  • I can't be the only one that finds this cringe, right? It's not like nations have a big red "get nukes" button at their governments' central office. And Israel has bombed Iraq's, Syria's and now Iran's nuclear power plants, all of which were civilian energy projects. Iran is even a signatory to the NPT and has been under IEAE surveillance for decades at this point. I don't know about the cases of Iraq and Syria, but I assume they are similar.

    My point is, if these countries were trying to get nukes, they would get thwarted immediately.

  • Video games are killing your gym gains. They put you in a fight or flight mode, producing cortisol in your body, inhibiting muscle recovery after working out. CNS fatigue makes you weak in the gym.

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  • I can't tell if this is satire or not

  • "Limited nuclear war"

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  • The american urge to unleash nuclear armageddon

  • what to hate about AI

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  • There's no inherent difference. It's people mistakenly generalizing after hating on current image and text generation AI models. And there's obviously a discussion to be made about how these models were trained unethically by stealing data, but a) that is irrelevant to their usefulness as a technology b) it was recently shown that you can train them with purely public domain data with good results (yogthos posted an article from Stanford the other day).

    GenAI is not (inherently) a grift, unless you believe the following applications are nothing but grifts:

    • machine translation
    • image upscaling/restoration/coloring
    • support chatbots
    • etc

  • what to hate about AI

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  • Just because AI became a buzzword doesn't mean that these technologies were not under the AI umbrella. I have an AI book from 2003 that mentions solutions to problems such as object detection, obstacle avoidance, machine translation, language generation and so on.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 23 - Failed Colour Revolution Edition

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  • In my experience, it doesn't matter if they open at 10 or 11, because people will start showing up at 12 or 1am. And there's some bar/night club hybrids (bar floorplan but packed with standing people and the music is at night club volumes) that for some reason society has marked as "after" places -- where you go after your "main" club. These don't peak before 2-3am, it's insanity.

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    I hate westernized and Anglo pronunciations of Slavic/Eastern European names (rant)

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  • After some googling, I found this:

    ć: A soft ty sound as in "Katya" or "feature"; occurs nearly exclusively in the combination ić at the end of family names. F Radić, Pavelić, Ranković, Milošević.

    How do you expect people to know how to pronounce this without having studied the language before hand? It's a pretty stupid thing to be angry about. People are raised with native language(s) and they can't pronounce sounds or combinations of sounds not found in them without some training.

    Japanese is easier to pronounce for English speakers, because it consists of simple syllables that map almost 1:1 with English ones. And people still mess up pronunciations, because of course they would, that's how languages work, unfortunately.

    It also helps that some Japanese words appear in English as their phonetic pronunciation and not their literal transliteration. E.g. tofu is actually written 'toufu' in hiragana, with 'ou' being a long 'o' sound.

  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 22

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  • Why do people comply with England's honors system and always call knighted people 'Sir'? I see it all the time with popular figures (e.g. Attenborough, Ferguson) on social media comments and I'm not from the UK.

    You can also notice this in wikipedia. The page for a knighted person will always start with "Sir X is/was a ..." even in languages other than English. The only exception I found to this was French wikipedia. I hope their journalists and general public do not comply with this idiotic nonsense as well.

  • Are there Chinese video games with left thoughts?

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  • No fun allowed

  • Living in LLM 2030

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  • The one time i used the web search thing it copied and pasted stuff directly from the sources, so maybe I made some wrong assumptions about that. But limiting their replies to what exists in a given web page shouldnt be too hard

  • Living in LLM 2030

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  • I haven't watched Black Mirror so I can't really compare.

    we don’t need to accurately predict all the exact ways it will go wrong ahead of time to make a point about how capitalism interacts with technology

    I agree with this, that's what I said at the part where you quoted me. But I think there should be some thought behind the satire. You could complain about:

    • The energy costs of running these models

    • People getting displaced because of new data centers using up all the water/electricity in an area

    • People treating LLMs as oracles

    • People using LLMs instead of actually learning the thing they're studying

    And so on. These are more fundamental problems than a server slowdown, an LLM alarm clock or the canned "As an LLM I cannot..." response.

  • Physical Education @lemmygrad.ml
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    Daily stretches - where to start?

  • GenZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    Same train driver in China, 26 years apart

  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
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    Resources to read on Iran, the Shah's regime and its overthrow?

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
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    What the fuck, Amazon?

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