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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
There are numerous alloys that work perfectly fine for containing liquid sodium.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> exact same moral panic as the one that happened during the advent of the internet Or, for that matter, the invention of writing. [Writing], said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I believe that juglone functions as a natural herbicide, reducing the competition from other trees. Maybe it also has activity against fungi?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Yeah no you don't. Your model of productivity and QoL improvement went off a cliff in the 60s. I'm not talking about the "60s". I'm talking about the entire history of the human race from the Paleolithic until
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Sometimes it goes in circles, fixing one problem, but unfixing one that it had fixed in the previous iteration. I've had that happen several times.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Immediate showstoppers are having an open office plan or hot-desking. Yes. Not just because it's an unpleasant environment (though it is), but it's a sign of major management cluelessness. "Wait: you're hiring me to
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> 6. Old laptops Salesmen have Mac Pros or fully decked-out gaming rigs, programmers are still on Pentiums.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> - The interviewer is wearing a suit. Came here to say this, specifically. > - "Can you send us your high school diploma?" Related: asks questions about that McDonald's job you had in high school, even though you have
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> just because it’s so intent on satisfying your whim instead of saying No This really, really, really needs to be fixed. It's probably the most irritating (and potentially risky) part of the whole ecosystem. Nothing more infuriat
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> 1. An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. It wasn't an "error". It was the way things had to be, as shown by pretty much every society that advanced past the hunter-gatherer or roaming bar
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
This was happening long before corporations were even a thing. At one point, roughly 90% of the human race worked in manual agriculture, generally as some form of unfree labor (serfs or slaves), with most of the other 10% as foot soldiers,
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> The weather in Norway sucks big time. Seems like a matter of taste, but then I live in Alaska. :-) Edit: right now it's 50 degrees F and misty. Perfect, as far as I'm concerned.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> How would this result in the growth of a new tooth in the right spot? O I'd guess the same way teeth grow in the right spot to begin with. Stem cells somehow "know" (the mechanism wasn't fully understood the last I
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Someone apparently once built a 200 horsepower steam-powered trombone: https://wondermark.com/true-stuff-the-steam-trombone/
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
As far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too. Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few lilac accents), but the hardware was damned solid. Linux probably had more to
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> > and that is never going to change other than at gunpoint. > The addition of this half-sentence reads as incredibly odd. There are millions of Americans who have taken oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States (Not &
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
If Apple is sitting in the middle proxying the IP addresses, and not keeping any logs for longer than they absolutely need to, law enforcement could go pee up a rope, right?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Wow, a lot of Barney fans on here. :-)
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
TFA is behind a paywall, so I don't know if this was mentioned. I've read that the Romans used to import arena sand from a certain area in North Africa because it was somehow better than the local sand. I think it was also used in
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
It is (or was, see my other comment) pretty good at generating standardized boilerplate code, which was quite useful. Not so good at anything that's (for want of a better term) "creative".
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that ChatGPT-4o is worse in pretty much every respect than previous versions, and that the previous versions themselves seem to have been dramatically dumbed-down? I'm on the verge of canceling my subscript
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> ATM's killed bank tellers for the most part, Has it really? I haven't noticed any drastic decline over the years. Maybe some, but I wouldn't describe it as "killed". What universal ATMs and cards have really ki
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
They must've been really pissed off at Barney the Dinosaur. (for those who haven't had the (dis)pleasure, this was a television show that was enjoyed by toddlers, but extremely annoying to anyone over the age of three: https:&#
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> functions can be written to extend it. Unless I'm mistaken (which I may well be), you can't do that at runtime , only at compile time.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> IMO, the OC is incorrect. First-class functions exist in many languages. Note that I did say "Some of the more modern languages have that facility, but it's rarely as elegant as it is in Lisps." Example: JavaScript is so
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
They don't. The person who tweeted/xed/whatever doesn't know what he's talking about. 270 gigs of data? Entirely possible. 270 gigs of source code ? YeahNo.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
There are a lot of people who simply don't understand the hydrologic cycle. They genuinely think water gets "used up". Then there are those who think that just because water is in short supply in California, the same is true
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Or like the way that in the U.S. north a Yankee is someone from New England, in the U.S. south a Yankee is anyone from the U.S. north, and in much of the rest of the world, a Yankee is anyone from the United States.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> like the fact that libel and slander are illegal, despite that seeming to me as a pretty direct contradiction to the First Amendment. Libel and slander are civil torts. The First Amendment only applies to the government . You cannot,
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> The power of Lisp really boils down to the personal experience of having a connected REPL. Yes, and it's a lot more than just typing in one liners (as the person below suggests). For instance, in standard C you can't redefine

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