amy_petrik

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by amy_petrik 8mo ago
No, it's simple. If you get a passport in "annexed" Venezuela, it would be a US passport. It would be a US territory similar to Puerto Rico which is part of the US. Passport is just an example but a good barometer. This imp
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
usually either use Grok to optimize a mistral prompt, or you can use gemini to optimize a chatGPT prompt. It's best to keep those pairs of AIs and not cross streams!
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
Nominally - although perhaps more often barking and not serious - is if you're a super duper qualified US citizen, you either can find a job there, or, you sue the company for discrimination, either way you get paid. The latter being t
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
also a sense of broken promises to the CTOs fault javascript coder joined taking the company's statement in good faith "everything will be javascript, the front and back end both" and happily did it New CTO joins, warmly visi
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
hello I like terramaster if you're looking for budget. software is a bit potato (it's all there, and you can install apps, just 7-8/10 polished, not 10/10), hardware build quality is solid for 10 bays i like asus lockers
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
>Why would they need to coordinate to keep the price from dropping during a spike in demand? They wouldn't you're right. But I would expect for them to follow the sorts of behavior we've observed in other markets - egg pri
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
And the two combined present an enormous ethical challenge but also enormous potential - radioactive spiders imbuing superpowers upon humans they might bite, magical ooze creating anthropomorphic turtles, and so on
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
It's a simple catch-22 - women don't want to leave the workforce because one salary cannot support a family - yet women remaining in the workforce, since single-salary is infeasible, thusly doubling supply of workers, lowering sal
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
>Who is going to be buying the products and services if no-one has money to throw around? Let me answer your question with another question - if the population pyramid is inverted and birth rate is like 1.1 babbies per 2 adults.. then ho
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
> This is a change in behavior. I agree with this and believe it due to something parallel to the India litter crisis. In india people may freely throw garbage anywhere. Because garbage is everywhere. They did studies "clean up A
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
I'm less scared of the hoster pulling down your site - not the end of the world - then decided to charge you bandwidth fees for all the MS-DOS attacks. The former presumably has no financial impact, the latter, potentially brutal
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
1) epigenetic inheritance is just if a horse stretches its neck to reach up high, so to do that horses children and their children, and so on, until you end up with a giraffe 2) yes methylation and epigenetics resets, not so much at meiosis
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
Also see that great '80s movie with "Iceman" from Top Gun aka Val Kilmer and that creepy dude from Apocalypse Now aka Marlon Brando together in an '80s remake of The Isle. That particular movie seems to have fallen off
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by amy_petrik 10mo ago
>(he described it as a slow motion bullet shot from a movie, landing in something/someone and then flashing the one frame, presumably the intention being "haha, get shot with the child porn bullet") That's the slipper
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by amy_petrik 11mo ago
> but every second you waste thinking about revenge is a second the bully won another time. It's also another second you are not dedicating for the people you love and care. I agree with this and this is why I'm an advocate of
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by amy_petrik 11mo ago
Guys, guys, I don't think we're on the same page here. The conversation I'm trying to have is "stop mutating all the dynamic self-modifying code, it's jamming things up". The concept of non-mutating code, only
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by amy_petrik 11mo ago
> where do we actually hit diminishing returns with clock precision? ah yes - that would be Planck's second which can be derived from Planck's constant and the speed of light
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by amy_petrik 11mo ago
it's called the slow sirol in my circles
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by amy_petrik 11mo ago
another point worth mentioning is some substances the body cannot synthesize: vitamins, amino acids. cholesterol.. cholesterol is not one of them. the body happily synthesizes as much cholesterol as it likes. so diet this and diet that as
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>But then who brought god into existance? Sam, Elon, Zuck, choose your favourite
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
I disagree. The pickup driver still has hope. A dream, a wish, a future. They may be aggressive jerks on average, surely, maybe they think they're better, maybe they're a bit emotionally out of control, sure. But if they'
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> Microsoft is directly tied to promotion of women employees, and as a result, a lot of women now occupy positions they would not otherwise. Again, the impact is decreased ability to execute. I mean are you saying women are worse leaders
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
it's also a "moneyball" situation - hire hyper expensive AI stars or get 10-fold? 100-fold? cheaper smart AI folk sans star power
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Fun story behind the name, per the language inventor Hendrik K. Grubbs, Phd. "Dr. Grubbs, what inspired the language name" "A Hooker down by the docks" "WHAT?!?" "Yes, I went to her lonely one Friday, she
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>it's obvious that ice can't be legally culpable well, why not? we need a good politician to make it illegal for ice to form on an airplane, that would fix the whole thing. also, make it illegal to ever get sick. Checkmate,
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
more like "try that in a small town" police will see what happened, "atta boy" and get on with other things. never even reaches the courts.
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
problem is that humans are extremely willing to enter echo chambers and the walls of the echo chambers are built of addicting infinite feed algorithms, that's the core of it, outrage exchanging outrage amongst people who agree on one t
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
I mean... if you ask me prescriptions for things like cholesterol or blood pressure should be OTC, benefit outweighs the risk. Nobody is getting high off statins. Imagine how much that would save our healthcare system. Insulin is the one
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>And to be clear: I’d happily die for a cause to give my life some meaning. It's not a bad cause, allowing children to watch pronographie's, but may I suggest some causes one might find more satisfying? 1) cancer 2) cheap and p

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