grey413

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by grey413 2mo ago
To quote the article: suspected terrorism activities because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City Complete horseshit on many levels, but presumably a legally valid investigation.
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by grey413 2mo ago
As it happens, in humans there is a single gene on the Y chromosome, named SRY, that typically switches on male-linked traits. But you're right, the full range of biological possibilities is very fuzzy . SRY itself a just a regulatory
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by grey413 2mo ago
Biology is often an intensely statistics-heavy field. A remarkably large part of statistics was developed to study issues in biology, particularly dealing with evolution and ecology.
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by grey413 10mo ago
You'd be amazed how easy it is to take down a janky decades old LAMP stack.
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by grey413 10mo ago
It's the web-scrapers. I run a tiny little mom and pop website, and the bots were consistently using up all of my servers' resources. Cloudfare more or less instantly resolved it.
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by grey413 11mo ago
Looking at these bulletins, they appear to be quick summaries of pretty much any nuclear related incident that happens in the US, no matter how minor. I would assume that these are mostly intended for public transparency, and as for a quick
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by grey413 1y ago
As I understand it, English at it's core is a Germanic language that underwent significant creolization with scandinavian sources. That core then acquired a significant amount of Old French and latin vocabulary, particularly in upper c
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by grey413 1y ago
Finding local players is always an issue, but there's tons of folks who prefer the more classic style of D&D. Take a look into Dungeon Crawl Classic and OSR takes on D&D like the Black Hack. Those tend to put dungeon crawling f
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by grey413 1y ago
There's a consistent effort to make all the SI metric units based off of discreet measurements of physical constants. The speed of light is a constant, and the SI second is "defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesi
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by grey413 1y ago
Two dashes are fine, the other options have different literary functions than em dashes, and shouldn't generally be used as replacements.
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by grey413 1y ago
Most people don't use em dashes... apart from professional and skilled writers, who use them regularly. It's a bit of a problem that the same character is both a mark of LLMs and skilled writing.
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by grey413 1y ago
Em dashes are very similar to semicolons. You use em dashes if your related sentence is in the middle of another sentence, and semicolons if it's at the end. They're frequently used in skilled and professional grade writing.
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by grey413 1y ago
En dashes, I'll grant you, are pointless. Those can go away. However, em dashes are a different case. The main reason why it's desirable to use em dashes (beside convention) is for clarity of purpose. The hyphen is already a very
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by grey413 1y ago
I imagine it would have been up to the typesetter to make the call. The conventions for dash usage are fairly straightforward. You use em-dashes for asides, en dashes for ranges, and hyphens for most other cases. Its easy to figure out the
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by grey413 1y ago
It's infuriating that people are drawing this conclusion. LLMs pick up on em dash usage because professional and skilled writers use em dashes. They're a consistently useful, if niche, part of the literary toolkit. But, no, now it
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by grey413 2y ago
A ping pong ball would be roughly 2 trillion trillion atoms, for reference
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by grey413 2y ago
Yep, that was also my takeaway. In addition, the population of mitochondria regulates the proportion of their specializations via fission and fusion among themselves. I wonder if there are any disorders related to disregulation in the proce
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by grey413 3y ago
The fourth amendment requires them for search and seizures.
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by grey413 3y ago
Well, the writer is the community manager, so at the minimum they are reading the CoC. That in itself shapes their moderation, which shapes the community. However, in my experience core community members will read things like this CoC, at l
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by grey413 3y ago
Things like this are actually some of the main reasons I'm moving my family to Europe. In Europe, my kid can be her own person with her own schedule and her own environment to explore on her own terms. In america, she'd be isolate
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by grey413 3y ago
I agree. For reference, the underlying cause of the Darwin and Wallace coincidence was the establishment of modern geology by Hutton (which established the earth was old and naturally mutable), along with the large-scale collection of biolo
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by grey413 3y ago
It's worth emphasizing that part of the reason why publishers are happy to work with providing libraries with ebooks is that libraries are extremely good customers. There's something like 100,000 libraries in the US alone. A singl
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by grey413 3y ago
If the IA is creating their own digital copies of physical books, it could be argued that that the IA is creating and distributing derivative works. I'm not certain, but my impression is that derivative works have little in the way of
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by grey413 4y ago
That's very interesting. Just goes to show that there's plenty to be learned. Thanks for sharing.
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by grey413 4y ago
Well, worry not! Research suggests that the human body can produce up to a quintillion unique antibodies ! A vaccine is a drop in a solar-system. https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2019/2019..
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by grey413 4y ago
Also very true! Blunting logarithmic growth is a huge net positive.
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by grey413 4y ago
You're being overly proscriptive about vaccines. Vaccines have multiple layers of effect because our immune systems have multiple layers of effect. You don't neglect the seatbelts just because the car is more likely to crash in th
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by grey413 4y ago
Something that following the progress of COVID vaccines really taught me is that vaccines have an important role in reducing the severity of a disease in addition to stopping them outright. I'd much rather get a mild flu than a moder
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by grey413 4y ago
It seems like you got it in your head that the COVID vaccines would be a able to stop infection entirely, and were disappointed when it didn't for your family. It's not surprising that you did: a lot of the messaging at the time r
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by grey413 4y ago
"When it comes down to it am I more concerned about the disease or the vaccine?" The disease. You should really be concerned about the disease, not the mild immune system trainers.

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