failwhaleshark

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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Yep. Packing unprepared students in based on non-merit items (including legacy) and disadvantaging prepared students is absolutely ridiculous. It's bad enough that the standards are low for student athletes because it's all about
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Systemd is a swiss-army-kitchen-sink-knife monolith of brittle complexity. A proper init system similar to runit or s6 would be written in something safer (minimum unsafe) like Rust, be modular, simpler, follow UNIX philosophy, and not try
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Yep. 62nd Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, McChord Field. C-17's.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I loved that guy, his writing and his shows. His end made me sad and it seems like an enigma. Perhaps he had everything material but felt isolated from meaningful human connections, like with his daughter. Undiagnosed/untreated depress
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
BCI is out there until it's not. Interestingly, I interviewed at one of the many startups who wants to implant thousands of sensors directly into the brain. The only issue is they had the same problem that MIT Lincoln Labs has: they&#x
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Heavy-duty anticoagulants. Don't have a bleed. The hemolysis must've been insane. I wonder why ECMO pumps aren't always mechanical baffles or a bulb to be easier on the blood. Just playing drums or a riding a motorcycle can l
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Portable ECMO. Yikes. Perfusionists typically think ECMO = circling the drain. If you can survive it, you are basically Iron Man as mentioned elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Interesting. What happens when one country requires removing content while another country requires it to stay?
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Disclaimer: Did some work on a FutureCar/FutureTruck team back in the day. GM: throwing shade on EVs since the EV1.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Twitter isn't FBI raid-proof and that's a SPoF. The US govt has the technical power and legal force to shut it off when it has or invents the authority to do so. This existential threat means Twitter, in the absence of moral/
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
People with different values and living situations can understand each other if they want to. It is factually true that after the age of majority, family relationships technically become optional. Burning bridges for petty reasons or annoya
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Morning HIIT in microdoses, working up to more. Evening exercise won't do anything and will probably make it worse, e.g., body thinks it needs to stay awake to party / dance / get some lovin. Evolutionary psych basis possibly
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
IIRC from past studies, early morning exercise improves sleep the most. I prefer late night, but I'll go with the data.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Yep. Sigh. Haters gonna... Sigh. He's done a lot of good as a civically-involved public intellectual and debater than most academics do writing research papers few people read to "move the needle" towards where many things ne
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
No. It's a signal of the lack of the Golden Rule / interpersonal, real reciprocity. I worked at a STEM department in Pac12/Ivy that was very family-like. I think that's what he felt was missing and turned him off because
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I don't know them but someone shouldn't lie about their bio if that were the case. But maybe it was a fancy place off a dirt road? There's plenty of those in Saratoga and Los Gatos, CA. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The onus is on the indiv
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
In 2010, I had $3/month at 24 Hour Fitness for life + $5/month for SuperSport.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Mirtazapine (atypical antidepressant) helped me for about 2 years, but then it was downhill from there. Gained 60 lbs on 200 (27 on 91). It's used in certain cases for people to gain weight. When it worked, it was amazing, but the we
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
In Virginia c. 1956, my grandmother was supposed to have an appendectomy. The Navy surgeon did this and also performed a radical hysterectomy (involuntary sterilization). It was said the surgeon was drunk, but it could've been a purpos
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I guess there's really a slippery, spectrum definition of "space." FL3300, FL2600, etc. The Kármán line (FL3300) could be considered "space" since it's roughly where aerodynamic lift is no longer possible.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
What other business in the entire world bills large, random amounts of money without explicit, informed consent? Also, does your insurance cover these random bills or is it copay/80%?
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Neat. Works with Unicode! Feature request: giant passwords like that one that was posted on the side of a building. I ran it with network off and saw the code, so it looks safe.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
To be fair, Stanford's admitted hospital food is really, really good and the care is the best around. Through a botched 12 lead ECG, I ended-up in their cardiac unit over a holiday a few years back. It was better than most hotels. Insu
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Here, take this for-profit, inelastic demand service you need right now without seeing the prices. Trust us. You won't be bankrupt soon. Like, what are you going to do? Get up from the ER gurney and comparison shop at another hospital
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Hi GPT3 brother!
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Gross structural scanning is essentially worthless when it comes to pathway functions.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I remember when a ray-traced scene 320x240 took 30 minutes to draw with only a few shapes and light sources. Seems very light (no pun intended) on content. Computer graphics is all about hacks to save expensive operations. Topics I would ex
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I don't understand how noise from worthless losers on "social" media translates into a threat to life. I just shrug and keep doing what I'm doing. Their hell is their lives. I don't need to get involved.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I guess you don't read much or watch many movies. This is a device used in almost every museum heist plot to the point that it's cliché.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Aside: Nightclub patrons wouldn't understand what they were looking at and would throw glass bottles at the Mona Lisa.

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