StrictDabbler

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by StrictDabbler 1mo ago
I'm not worried about privacy on any of that. Maybe a little about locations, but it's not like I'm randomizing my fast food visits to hide my tracks. My concern is Goodhart's law. "When a measure becomes a target,
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by StrictDabbler 1y ago
As a West Coaster, I had to look up nearly every term in this article. As usual, "Canadian" almost entirely means the central/east areas.
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by StrictDabbler 1y ago
Oh good, I've been waiting for this.
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
I'm glad to see WCRI is still there, though it's hard to claim it's fully "off-campus".
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
There's no single cause. Forming memories requires many parts of the brain. Injury to or illness in any one of them can cause anteretrograde amnesia. It's like asking "what makes a person unable to walk?" Arthritis, para
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
The pronunciation of the word is already on the boundaries between "awk-toe-poos", "awk-tuh-puhs", and "awk-tah-piss" depending on your region just in America. So adding an additional "-es" that can b
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
A human or animal corpse that was accidentally mummified is still called a mummy. It's a technical term. A lot of mummies are just people who died in a peat bog, desert or ice cave. Many mummies were also made cruelly rather than respe
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
The drying is straightforward, water evaporates, but do you maintain a personal mikveh? I'm reading through the requirements and this is a serious piece of plumbing, expensive to install at home. But it has such a purifying ritual func
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
I hope they can get access to the materials collected by "The Art of Sierra" team. That team went around collecting hundreds of documents including many original background paintings and then completely failed to produce the inten
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
Oh, of course. My reply wasn't intended as a challenge. I'm just enthusiastic. It's one of my favorite "bad" games.
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
I have also been obsessed with "Below the Root" since it came out. Dale Disharoon/DeSharone had an odd insight into textures. Look at the ladders. Look at the vines, both those that can be climbed and those that can be cut wi
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
I enjoy the similarity between this and the famous "Huey Lewis and the News" rant from American Psycho.
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
Appreciate it. Sincerely, 156876
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by StrictDabbler 2y ago
156876 Just logged in, there's nothing left. I remember being so annoyed I hadn't signed up a few weeks earlier and gotten a 5-digit instead.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
You're aware that plenty of people have a child and don't succeed on any of these levels? Many millions of people. Their children suffer for it, of course. Having a child doesn't fix anybody. Suggesting that it does, through
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
It's frustrating that you explicitly said you don't want kids and 1/4 of the responses are "have kids". I would suggest (re)watching Groundhog's Day. After that I would suggest taking up a hobby that involves a
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
"The Law was named for Grant De Patie, a gas station worker who was killed in 2005 by an underage drunken driver ... Grant was dragged 7.5 kilometers before his body was dislodged from the white Chrysler LeBaron."
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Make a little stop off in 1996, when Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall was procedurally generated and the map took 70 hours to cross. Buggy, empty-seeming and many issues with persistence. Procedural generation has always been Bethesda's goal.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
The sexual economy of the time was barter-based. It was understood that women traded sexual access for economic advancement. Women couldn't even have their own credit cards. They had to be married and co-signed. In that context Feynma
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
This is a technical use of the word "collides". The Cruise car failed to yield, continued at a green light, and was struck by the fire truck. So presumably it did not detect the truck. It is sad that automated cars are being asked
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
That push was the first thing that happened after the Apollo/third-party nonsense. "Hey, we have a platform that's full of incredibly useful and obscure knowledge. It's so known for this that a video about how useful we
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
It's also a "prisoner's dilemma" that involves playing against every other company on the planet. If you don't patent an idea that you use somebody else will and they will extract rent from you. So you must "de
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Pooled water is tightly restricted in California by law. The combination of the climate and the land continuity with Mexico and Central America makes them particularly vulnerable to mosquito-borne illness and those concerns have been built
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
The tire story was the result of Nordstrom's absorbing a local department store chain in Alaska. They weren't just taking in a product Nordstroms doesn't stock. The dumb version of the story was good PR at first and was disse
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
That is a single-blind test unless your wife consistently made two portions with labels, randomized which one you got, tracked your migraines against a blinded list of the labels and examined the data afterward.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
You might be half-remembering the TNG episode "Relics" in which Scotty is rescued from a Dyson sphere after seventy-five years in a transporter buffer. Scotty demands, and eventually obtains from Guinan, an actual bottle of Aldeba
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
There's an Isaac Asimov story from the 50's that I wonder if you've read. It's called "Blank!" In the story the scientist takes a friend forward 22 hours, but outside the time machine door there's nothing.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
It's amazing how people keep looking past the question. I am saying that a citizen walking into a police station with a gun is obviously in more danger than a person who goes in without a gun. Absolutely that's intimidating. It&#x
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
These are attacks on people in custody. How is that remotely relevant? None of these people had the opportunity to open carry a gun when those attacks happened. Regardless, I am not saying he should not be allowed to do it. It's not bo
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
It seems to me that if you haven't invested in a proper gun safe for your car you shouldn't be carrying in the first place because there are definitely places that you cannot take a gun into, even in Texas. I have never known a gu

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