cecilpl2

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by cecilpl2 3y ago
Have you been to Burning Man or various Burner regional events that take place all over the world?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I wonder if this is the etymology of the lovely speakeasy "Bourbon and Branch" in SF?
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> they've been slashing their prices And yet still have margins of >20%, dramatically higher than any other manufacturer. > and they make cars which catch fire At a rate roughly 10% of gasoline-powered cars. > they still ha
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Artemis 2 is scheduled to send a crew around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 is scheduled to land a crew in 2025. SLS has already launched its test flight. Starship HLS (the lander) is funded and in development.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
There is a simple wetware solution, which is that she learns to say your name before saying something she wants you to know.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Douglas Adams on horoscopes: > In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the sh
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
There are an infinite number of real numbers, and yet "blue" is not a real number. A set can be infinite and yet not contain all things.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii/... It's confirmed.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Because most people like it and it improves metrics. From the discussion on sticky header [0], > Our preliminary results show that an overwhelming majority of test participants reported positive experience with a sticky header. Participa
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Just give them as much money as you want and don't worry about the tax consequences, since there is no gift tax. I am assuming you are in Canada.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I tried several times to play chess against it. It made reasonable if poor moves for the first 10 moves of the game. It also gave plausible-sounding if entirely incorrect explanations of why the moves were good, such as "I'm playi
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This is completely believable. I spent about 5 minutes with it and got very similar results up to the vocab generation part: https://imgur.com/a/WreEknh
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Yes, it is indeed how IVF works. You inject fertility drugs using a giant needle. It sucks.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
The following FEN is a mate in 4 for black with only 4 black pawns on the board :) 8/3p4/7k/8/8/4pp2/P3p3/4K3 w - - 0 51
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I can also make my eyes go parallel, and it's fun to be able to stare into both of someone's eyes at the same time :)
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Have you ever worked with education software? I have. It's awful. Until 2011, my local school district was using a DOS-based attendance and grading system. No GUI. In 2011 they switched to an internet-connected system that looked like
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
My dad and ex-wife were both teachers. My dad was up at 6 and at school for 7am. Worked 7am-3pm (8 hours). He did marking for an hour or two most evenings, and a solid chunk on the weekends. Probably 50 hour weeks. And that's after 20
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
ippon nihon sanbon yonhon gohon roppon
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Japanese is worse. You count "1 thing", "2 thing", "3 thing", except the word for "thing" changes depending on the shape of the thing you are counting. So thin flat things like paper or shirts are 1 m
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> As far as GDP, Ethereum spawned an entire new industry with tons of companies paying actual salaries to people (in fiat, if I might add), all of whom bought lattes and cars and houses, and some, I'm sure, also bought Peloton bikes
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
"Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
There is an excellent (very) short story by Ted Chiang called "What's expected of us" that I think you'll like. https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
No, he had $500k in stolen crypto. This was 2012.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
No, it was going 14,240km/hr according to the video, which is about 4km/sec. Not near escape velocity.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> In hibernating bears and newborn humans, the turbines generate heat, which is stored in fat. More commonly, though, each turn of the wheel assembles a molecule of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP—the energy currency of our cells. Interes
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This reminds me of an amazing place I stumbled upon while traveling around Croatia: The Museum of Broken Relationships. https://brokenships.com/ It's full of tokens and mementos, both happy and sad, along with stories
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I have to admit this is not what I expected to be reading about when I clicked on it.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
My point was more that the majority of public job descriptions use "Software Engineer" as the title. The vast majority of engineers I have ever worked with call themselves Software Engineers. And one of the main examples in the ar
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
This must be enforced only on an adhoc basis when complaints are filed, or only in certain jurisdictions. In BC, I have worked as a "Software Engineer" for 15 years with just a Bachelors and no engineering license, including for l
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I'm sure you're a nice person but I don't just trust unsubstantiated claims I read on the internet.

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