johndotsun

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by johndotsun 3y ago
The original (I think): https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ First improvement: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ Later iterations: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ https:/&#x2
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by johndotsun 3y ago
The virus having been accidentally released from the lab doesn't require that the virus was modified in or by the lab between the time of leak and the time of collection.
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by johndotsun 4y ago
The best solution I've found to connecting to multiple client orgs in Teams at a time is to use it exclusively in the browser, and use a new Chrome profile for each client to keep things separated and working. I don't use the loca
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by johndotsun 9y ago
In the "M C" sampler near the top next to the pumpkin thing there are two of those "cool s" that were the subject of an article I remember being posted here discussing their origin. Proof that the "cool s" is a
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by johndotsun 9y ago
How are you treating them? I'm using a 2014 Toshiba Chromebook 2 which is made entirely out of plastic and while it's not in perfect cosmetic conditions it's still 100% functional and doesn't show any signs of impending
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Obviously it's a subjective experience. If you are able to work in those types of jobs without hating that every second you spend there is a second doing menial low pay tasks; that it is a second of your life that's been wasted o
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by johndotsun 9y ago
While retail work was a very simple work environment as you state, I found it to be an experience in misery. it may be simple but dealing day to day with the coworkers and managers in those environment was pure hell. If my only option in li
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Before attending college I worked at walmart for several months, and I also spent a few months working construction. You do not want to work in either of those environments. You're a person with intelligence, agency, and presumably the
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I agree that the intuitive feelings can be a good starting point for better analysis, but I don't then incorporate those ideas into my model of the world without verifying them to a sufficient degree of rigor. If the subject is somethi
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I'm personally very conscientious in avoiding forming models of the world around me by incorporating what my brain decides "feels satisfyingly right" based on my own anecdotal observations. Humans have been operating as you d
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by johndotsun 9y ago
>Hits the nail on the head. Our brains are back propagating, recursive neural networks that are consistently making predictions about the next input in the stream of input signals as it changes over time. When the prediction results are
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Have you ever been to a dairy?
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by johndotsun 9y ago
>Seriously, the housekeeper's situation may not be too far off from the archetypal startup employee working 18 hour days and sleeping under his desk. None of us know, and none of us should claim to know. Do you really believe that s
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I think part of the issue is that in areas where there's not super abundant public transit that the majority of the population uses instead of cars, the likelihood of having a negative encounter with the type of people that are so unpl
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I wrote a fairly long reply addressing each one of those sources, the kind of thing I didn't want to turn this comment section into, but I deleted it once I realized that there was no pm or email to send to. Just to summarize my though
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Perhaps we should take this into private messages, I'll message you my reply. Edit: oh it looks like hacker news doesn't support private messages, I guess I won't be replying.
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I'm an atheist that would love to read a journal article describing the discovery of evidence for the existence of God. Do you have a source?
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by johndotsun 9y ago
MMA might be a beautiful martial art but it's still a blood sport. Young men beating each other's faces into a bloody pulp and doing their best to give the other guy a serious (and cumulatively permanently damaging) concussion bet
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by johndotsun 9y ago
>It is $5/mo for accounts with less than $1000, but you're not going to get better than that at a bank. That might be true of the big national banks with a branch in every town small and big alike but it's not true of the
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I suppose it's useful if you're really into wild camping. Realistically how often would the average person, even someone living in a rural state, need to catch, clean and cook their own food? How many decades has it been since a s
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Saying Americans have become complacent and lazy because they don't know how to catch, clean, and cook a rabbit is like saying that Americans have become complacent and lazy because they don't know how to steer a covered wagon acr
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by johndotsun 9y ago
I thought the Pixel line was more meant for internal consumption and as a tech demonstration for the capabilities of Chrome OS rather than as serious effort by Google to create a high volume mass consumption product.
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by johndotsun 9y ago
Thinkpads are great if your standards for screen quality are incredibly low. I can't speak for the ones released in the last couple years but seemingly all of the older ones have garbage tier screens. My T430 has a screen that is at be
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by johndotsun 9y ago
How do you know it was the same fish?
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by johndotsun 9y ago
There are millions of people travelling to these areas every year. As this article outlines, even a few thousands of people per year travelling unrestricted in this park in its first few decades of popularity has lead to long-lasting damage
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by johndotsun 9y ago
My father has been a truck driver from the late eighties on. He is from rural Mexico and became a naturalized citizen of the US in his early 50s a couple years ago. The extent of his formal education was through 6th grade which was the furt