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by jihadjihad 4d ago
My condolences to your tooth enamel.
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by jihadjihad 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
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by jihadjihad 7d ago
We've been over this for a couple decades now. The average consumer simply cannot tell the difference between lossless and compressed codecs. Even back 20-25 years ago when people carried around CD players, vanishingly few people batte
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by jihadjihad 7d ago
This is a hard truth many wish to deny. An article published every month decrying the poor habits or lack of good habits of children, with a not-so-subtle implication that it is the fault of the children themselves . It is 100% true that &
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by jihadjihad 14d ago
This appears to be the relevant blog post by DHH, from last month: https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
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by jihadjihad 15d ago
OT, but Azriel/Azrael translates to the Grim Reaper/Angel of Death [0]. 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Azrael
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by jihadjihad 18d ago
The images are awesome, in an “I cannot believe someone would upload this to their site” kind of way. The blueprint with the “LOAD-BEARING WALL!!!” includes nonsensical labels like “Dining Broom” and “Witchen”, and I am supremely disappoint
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by jihadjihad 19d ago
> A remarkably detailed image I know it's 600 ly away but my eyes kept waiting for the images to crisp up anyways, spoiled as they are.
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by jihadjihad 20d ago
It makes me want to find a way to boot up The Incredible Machine [0], so many hours spent on TIM and TIM2 back in the day. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine
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by jihadjihad 20d ago
Brian May, too.
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by jihadjihad 21d ago
The Band’s cover of Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” is superb, particularly the addition of the accordion. A band called Lake Street Dive has a phenomenal cover of Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl”. Scary Pockets is a group with rotating artists
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by jihadjihad 22d ago
> I often work with data scientists and have to productionize their jupyter notebooks At least it’s Python/Jupyter and not R, SAS, or MATLAB.
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by jihadjihad 22d ago
Dolly wrote the lick herself, and when she was in the studio with the session players, they wanted her to show them how to play it [0]. She ended up having Chip Young lay it down on the record since her long fingernails made it difficult to
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by jihadjihad 22d ago
Her vocals were exceptional, too. One of my favorite videos I've randomly come across on YouTube is "Jolene" slowed down to 33 RPM [0]. The comments are hilarious as well, but the clarity of her vocals and the vibrato that ca
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by jihadjihad 22d ago
Caroline Ellison, Sunny Balwani
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by jihadjihad 23d ago
Enpissification?
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by jihadjihad 23d ago
> anything short of putting your life on the line for profit Why should they put their own life on the line when there are so many others whose lives could be used instead?
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by jihadjihad 24d ago
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll fi
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by jihadjihad 26d ago
Is it bad that I was disappointed after reading this, hoping for a library that handles callbacks, called NickelBack?
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by jihadjihad 26d ago
> probably some weird ai mix of quiche and cake Quike? Cache?
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by jihadjihad 27d ago
It's always funny to me how often comments like yours show up, despite a long history on here of diverse thoughts and intellectual curiosities, technological or otherwise. But especially funny and bewildering in this case is that you h
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by jihadjihad 27d ago
> Is this going to be the best thing I read all month or all decade? Many times it is only possible to know that post hoc . There are several books I've read that, in the moment of completing them, stand as the best I'd read i
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by jihadjihad 28d ago
> before the 50s and 60s everyone knew you should cover up and women wore bonnets. That too much sun was bad for you. I'd say partly true, mostly false. As sibling comment mentions, much of this was driven by fashion and class etc.
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by jihadjihad 28d ago
For the graph database idea in Postgres, PG 19 has native support for property graphs [0]. You can set up your tables and their relationships as nodes/edges, then query against them using Cypher-esque [1] syntax. 0: https://
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
Sinister mode: Romania versus Chad, Monaco versus Indonesia, Senegal versus Mali, Egypt/Syria/Iraq/Yemen, etc.
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> The idea that anything other than my needs should factor into the generation of text for me is patently offensive. And this attitude is incompatible with any models produced by frontier labs. Your needs will always be subordinate t
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
If I had a boat and always dropped anchor at the same spot, regardless of tides/weather/etc., I'd name it Fixpoint .
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
It’s a super old unit of measurement for mass [0], idea being that a “grain” is a single seed of wheat etc. 1 gram is a little over 15 grains, and there are 7000 grains per (avoirdupois) pound. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jihadjihad 1mo ago
> then why are you building it? To make Croesus look like some bum under an I-80 overpass.
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Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana(nytimes.com)
15 points by jihadjihad 1mo ago|3 comments

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