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by fsckboy 15d ago
we need an Android app to "actively" complain to and about Apple, and an iPhone app to collectively agitate against Google
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by fsckboy 18d ago
> Burning Man is _not_ the problem Burning Man is completely discretionary, you need to compute the total discretionary carbon footprint, and then the BM carbon footprint
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by fsckboy 18d ago
> pay mine off every month so financially the same as a debit card actually it's better than a debit card, your purchases "float" for half a month on average you get to pay later. if you, as you should, maintain a regimen
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by fsckboy 20d ago
> What makes them dead? It's still the only consistently supported thing I encounter online. online is dead too, no app uses paypal, and plenty of online merchants take credit cards more than paypal; they even offer their own credi
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by fsckboy 20d ago
I've taken antidepressants for years (20 mg prozac) and have sometimes tapered off them, restarting later. I can barely tell that I'm taking them, I feel 100% like myself on--and off of--them. I know they do something because when
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by fsckboy 20d ago
> You legs may have a comparative advantage at running that's not what comparative advantage means except in a degenerate sense. if country A is worse than country B in both making clothes and making paper, their comparative advant
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by fsckboy 21d ago
given: evidence tampering goal: not getting caught their need: evidence of tampering
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by fsckboy 21d ago
you raised a good point but (et al) didn't touch on the meaningful questions: where does the "core team" of developers of DuckDB now reside? are they now "captured/cashing-in/getting paid" at AWS, or will
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by fsckboy 23d ago
The United States of Mexico has 31 states.
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by fsckboy 23d ago
that study was specifically "asylum seekers" which is not migrants taken as a whole. isn't the migrant population substantially higher than the asylum population?
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by fsckboy 23d ago
> then the energy required to run them isn't free either i think his point was that if you are in a remote location with solar and or wind power, the power is free because you can't do anything else with it (without transmissi
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by fsckboy 25d ago
his implementation does not save space which is fine because that was not his intent. to make a programming analogy, he turned spaghetti-code into structured code.
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by fsckboy 26d ago
> about primates that have high carb-sugar diets but doesn't explain why their brains remain so small compared to humans. Maybe they will eventually evolve? if they have abundant sources of carb-sugar, there would be no selection p
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by fsckboy 26d ago
> I don’t think that would fly as a defense in court but that's not the point, the point is to not wind up in court by presenting a phone that no long contains evidence but seems plausibly like your phone so doesn't arouse sus
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by fsckboy 27d ago
engage with the people you want to engage with, don't with the people you don't, you didn't offer any correction to that.
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by fsckboy 27d ago
don't straw man, making a certain group of people mad, if it detects people who are problematic teammates, is an unmitigated plus.
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by fsckboy 27d ago
> It’s funny you picked 160. no, it's not anything like a coincidence or a quote of Buffet. People always say "160" as the example number because the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler series IQ tests are among the most commonly
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by fsckboy 27d ago
cheap laptops are cheap, simply don't use your "real" computer.
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by fsckboy 27d ago
how about they do what they want, and you do what you want, and you don't collaborate with each other if you can't get along? no reason to be angry. if one of my hiring practices would reliably generate that many f-bombs, i'd
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by fsckboy 27d ago
there are people out there who don't want to hold your hand. stop advocating that we discriminate against them because you feel you need your hand held.
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by fsckboy 27d ago
the mention of laptop was not adding a laptop requirement to the original question
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by fsckboy 27d ago
waist-to-hip ratio already took us beyond BMI, a long time ago.
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> When the sun’s rays shone through the glass, they were amplified by four metal plates positioned at 60-degree angles; triangular mirrors between the plates further amplified solar wavelengths sorry, there was concentration, but there
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
usage: > I draw a line on advertising for myself the typical phrase in English, "I draw the line at advertising for myself" would mean that is the thing that has gone too far , something you will not accept . you used a slig
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
there are different flours available which vary in suitability for different purposes and in cost. King Arthur Flour has a computer controlled mill and they offer a service to bread makers to let them specify their own "recipe" fo
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program it is guaranteed in Scheme, and it affects the semantics of programs in a completely positive way. Much of compute
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> People in these jobs don't live long enough on average to get diagnosed not to mention the other devil in these studies: some professions are statistically going to have the lowest rate of every possible disease. you can't j
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
> I take the point interesting, because if you want a steak medium rare in France you order it "au point", "at the point" > Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that i
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
the reporter was "hacked" in cooperation with the hacker in order to write the article
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by fsckboy 1mo ago
humans evolved to have risk seekers and risk avoiders. some people try it, the other people watch.

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