doctor_blood

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by doctor_blood 5d ago
You would need to eat the seeds of SEVERAL HUNDRED apples in one sitting, and you would need to grind them up finely beforehand to get full amygdalin absorption. We're talking about almost a cup, or 100+ grams of apple seed here. Your
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by doctor_blood 3mo ago
We had a number of ways of detecting sockpuppets, and I was part of the mod team at the time, so I could verify they were real users. The change in standards was a combination of things; the old guard, many of whom had left at that point, l
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by doctor_blood 3mo ago
I left a few creative writing forums I had been a member of for over a decade because of how much garbage was being posted. Perhaps even more upsetting than the number of people flooding the front page with reams of nonsensical AI prose was
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by doctor_blood 3mo ago
Beneath a veneer of respectability the NYT has always been a rag. In Steven Levy's "Hackers" he mentioned MIT stidents were calling it the New York Slime back in the 70s.
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by doctor_blood 5mo ago
For those unfamiliar, the 1875 9th ed. was known as the scholar's edition due to how many eminent persons had contributed; it's a fascinating snapshot of the late 1800s. Other material that would be fun to put online in a hyperlin
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by doctor_blood 5mo ago
Small world - I'm currently cleaning up scans of the EB 9th edition to put it online as a mediawiki site; I'm including all the illustrations and plates so I'm only a third of the way through. I've been testing different
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by doctor_blood 7mo ago
"Godzilla Had a Stroke Trying to Read This and Fucking Died" is a meme frequently posted in response to incomprehensible/extremely dumb posts.
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by doctor_blood 7mo ago
Kriss doesn't touch on the deeper issue of why investors keep giving money to people that openly advertise themselves as con artists.
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by doctor_blood 7mo ago
I can't even stand to visit YT without the combo of Blocktube/Unhook/uBlock Origin/SponsorBlock/Return YouTube Dislike. (Some people may also find Clickbait Remover useful.) Blocktube is a godsend; it adds a context
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by doctor_blood 7mo ago
Actually I would like see a post-mortem that showed where all the money actually went; they somehow spent ~85x of what RSI has raised for Star Citizen, and what they had to show for it was worse than some student projects I've seen. We
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by doctor_blood 8mo ago
Today on "Hacker" News: a third of the commenters wring their hands and question the morality and legality of subverting copy protection on software almost half a century old.
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by doctor_blood 9mo ago
I don't think the FSF foundation has been an effectibe organization for a long time, but giving money to the Linix Foundation is even worse. Look at where their money actually goes - a vanishingly small portion is actually used to impr
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by doctor_blood 9mo ago
Unfortunately there isn't much information on what texts they're actually training this on; how Anglocentric is the dataset? Does it include the Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition? What about the 11th? Are Greek and Latin classic
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by doctor_blood 9mo ago
"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus" (In Eclipse Phase, TITAN - the Total Information Tactical Awareness Network - mulched humanity when it went rogue.)
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by doctor_blood 11mo ago
LGR took a look at it on his channel; a very tiny book, with very tiny art, apparently all grabbed from google images. Something of a letdown.
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
I was trying to buy a copy of the Iliad and found that they combined the reviews of EVERY TRANSLATION AND EVERY EDITION - I found people talking about 30+ versions on the same listing! Reviews for Fagles's Iliad were combined with Pope
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
Not really? On something like Xenforo2, there's a setting that makes a new account's posts invisible until that account is manually approved by a mod - in conjunction with the spam prevention tools - https://xenforo.com
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
It sounds crazy, but it turns out the finish on the phone makes a huge difference. I never used a case until I got a Galaxy S9; that phone was like a greased eel. Went from dropping my phone zero times in 8 years to 5 times in one week.
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
Just tested it myself; FF reader works as expected for both desktop and mobile. The server was under a heavier load than usual - it's possible the page hadn't finished loading for you, or was missing elements when you toggled read
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
That doesn't explain why Visa/Mastercard have gone after written erotica (gumroad, patreon, etc), Japanese manga/doujinshi distributors (DLsite), and video games.
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
What would be the point? Without emacs all you're left with is another markup language.
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
https://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wat...
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by doctor_blood 1y ago
Is there a name for this authorial voice and cadence? I see midwits posting exactly like this on twitter and linkedin; it's insufferable.
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by doctor_blood 2y ago
Careful there, stronglikedan - Hacker Newsians are easily confused and don't understand sarcasm.
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by doctor_blood 2y ago
YouTube fundamentally does not respect the time or attention of users - even if you pay for YouTube Premium. The only way I can stomach YT at this point is with blocktube and unhook; I can disable parts of the interface, block channels and
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by doctor_blood 3y ago
>wary of the group There is no "group" - 4chan is not a monolith, and many of boards have members that do not mix at all. /tg/ - the traditional games board (TTRPGS and the like) - might as well be an entirely differe