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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
That reminds me of this, https://xkcd.com/1897/ perhaps it was based on something after all.
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by BitwiseFool 2y ago
The refrigerator is a distraction, the toaster is the real threat.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"You're smarter than this." Regardless of how correct you are, or how persuasive you might have been up to this point, uttering this accomplishes nothing and is entirely counterproductive.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I assume that person is talking about blood tests for suspected DUI's. >"All U.S. states have driver licensing laws which state that a licensed driver has given their implied consent to a certified breathalyzer or by a blood sa
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"Everyone thinks they are familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect. Probably 95% of people get it wrong." How sublimely apropos!
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
If someone were able to break Bitcoin's encryption we'd have much bigger problems to worry about - It would upend modern cryptography.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
This is a tangent, but I'm genuinely shocked that "dune.com" is not the website for the Dune franchise.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I'm fairly certain NASA will dispose of Europa Clipper in order to prevent any chance of forward contamination, just like what was done with Cassini.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
One of my ThinkPads had a debilitating thermal throttling issue. On occasion it would inexplicably limit the CPU to .39 GHz and the fans would spin at max RPM. Yet, it wasn't hot to the touch and it hadn't been doing anything to b
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
It could also be a snowball effect or a self fulfilling prophecy. If liberal news outlets produce 10x as much content as conservative news outlets, any model trained on newsmedia would end up having a liberal bias, no? I don't know wha
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
"Book Banning" is always to be taken with a grain of salt. What typically happens is that a school library is not permitted to have copies of books considered inappropriate for children of a certain age.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
These sorts of accounts are just not worth the hassle. The interest rate seems spectacular but it's contingent on satisfying conditions that are easy to miss each month. Plus, the fallback rate is punishingly low. When looking at the e
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
The brilliance of naming an ideology "progressivism" is that it is forever associated with something people consider beneficial, progress.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"Yes, of course giving people money makes their lives better. It especially works when a very small subset of the population receives such treatment, such that their relative income is higher than those outside the experiment.&quot
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Is there some poison pill in the bill? It's a really common tactic for the party in power to put wishlist items in the "Good things for America Act" that they know the opposition cannot support in order to get fodder for maki
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Can they make us adopt the Metric system while they're at it?
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
In our internal Q&A system I make it a point to describe what the resolution was, even when the mistake is something obvious or embarrassing that I did. I like to think my legacy will be leaving several dozen self-answered questions on
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
It would be surprisingly difficult to do, mostly because of local politics and views on development. See https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2017/08/puc-pulls-p...
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I prefer the term "Domain Scalper". As it so happens, domain squatting is a legal term and it refers to buying the domain of a registered trademark just to sell it to the owner of the trademark. It doesn't even have a good re
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"provide an ELI5 but for a software engineer (ELISE)? Have they literally created a device that causes photons to travel into the past?" I spoke with the client and I still don't understand what they're getting at. S
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Interesting video, but I can't help but think the roadway is now worse. It's disjointed and there are two intersections instead of one. Why not install a red light or a roundabout?
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
When I was in school we were taught about Iambic Pentameter and even had a few demonstrations. But I was never able to grasp or appreciate the significance of it. To me it seems no different than the 5-7-5 rule of a Haiku. Neat, but nothi
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"...or just vote with your Dollar" What do you mean by this? People can't really vote with their dollar when it comes to the USB Implementers Forum and the decisions they make.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"or will forever be demonizing the very people you want to help" I'm not demonizing anyone and this choice of words shows a gross misunderstanding of how most people feel about theft. >"because they're not be
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Don't assume my stance comes from a Catholic upbringing, or from any religion at all. There's no need to frame this in terms of "honor and the nobility of suffering". I'm not saying people should suffer, I'm
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"It's not entirely clear how punishing it harder" It seems like nowadays 'punishing at all' is a serious issue. If the police say they won't show up for theft under a certain dollar amount they've basi
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"But if the only two options are give everything away for free or put everything behind a paywall, the internet as everyone knows it is dead." There's also the third option, saturate the "free" version with an i
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Low background jpegs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Those simple web 1.0 sites made by college professors are a gold-standard in my book. I always enjoy finding them in search results. Although they are becoming increasingly rare.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
The trouble is, how do you effectively oversee an agency that specializes in lies, misdirection, cover-ups, coercion, and blackmail? I also worry that our three letter agencies have collected an immense amount of dirt on Millennials and Gen

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