jounker

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by jounker 22d ago
I‘ve seen lots of people go the other way, moving towards a more self centered view of the world as they age.
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by jounker 22d ago
In college, studying mathematics, probability was the course in did best in. The funny part is that I have a form of ilnumeria. Effectively I can’t count. As a result I have no desire to try to actually count things, and the easiest way fo
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by jounker 3mo ago
This.
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by jounker 3mo ago
My minivan seats seven. It has the footprint as a toyota camry. It’s only marginally heavier than a camry. Can you please explain to me again why you need a lincoln navigator or the like?
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by jounker 3mo ago
Sarcasm aside, most shoes are pretty bad for your feet.
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by jounker 3mo ago
Apple has a runtime system that looks a lot like smalltalk. Everything at that layer is dynamic. They needed a language that could seamlessly interact with that system.
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by jounker 4mo ago
Im not sure if I feel seen or accused. :)
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by jounker 5mo ago
There are wonderful parallels with Wilhelm II of Germany. It just takes one idiot at the top with no understanding of his own failings to undermine decades of careful diplomacy and policy.
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by jounker 5mo ago
The person you were responding to said that cyan feels like a completely different color to them, neither green nor blue. I had the same reaction when it gave me a color that I immediately identified as teal, and I learned my colors as a mo
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by jounker 5mo ago
In recent years we’ve learned that humpbacks are generalist feeders with a wide variety of feeding strategies adapted to different kinds of prey.
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by jounker 5mo ago
I think damalig falls cleanly into the prolog family.
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by jounker 5mo ago
<snark>So they reinvented speadsheets?</snark>
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by jounker 5mo ago
And yet people struggle to get Elon Musk out of their feeds on Twitter.
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by jounker 5mo ago
Im not sure where your sense of history is coming from. One of the US‘s founding events was a boycott of British goods for political reasons.
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by jounker 5mo ago
You seem to be lacking in imagination.
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by jounker 5mo ago
I think the point is that the story’s universe is populated by intelligent life forms that did not evolve from any lineage of meat. Hence the reference at the end to the hydrogen cluster.
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by jounker 6mo ago
A v1 was 30 feet long with a 20 foot wing span, and had no evasive capabilities.
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by jounker 6mo ago
As far as I know just the USA, and yes, even black doctors.
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by jounker 6mo ago
As an aside, it is a well established fact that doctors, as a whole, take the the pain of black people much less seriously than the pain of non-black people.
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by jounker 6mo ago
The problem might be that our brains charge per token, which makes reviewing hard. :)
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by jounker 6mo ago
Isn’t the entire point of a cryptographically secure hash that you can’t derive the original information?
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by jounker 7mo ago
Palantir’s entire business model is a GDPR violation, isn’t it?
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by jounker 7mo ago
Thank you for articulating this so succinctly.
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by jounker 7mo ago
Really? Wind and solar are cheaper. Electric cars and motorcycles are more fun to drive. Fossil fuels are profitable for a small group of powerful people, and they spend vast amounts of money to spread falsehoods.
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by jounker 8mo ago
This is the way. You have to have some amount of flexibility in your plans.
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by jounker 10mo ago
The person you’re replying to is saying that in the several years the technological means to impersonate people at scale has become widely available, and because of this financial institutions are having to strengthen their security measure
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by jounker 10mo ago
As a US citizen, I have to say that you are completely mistaken. The US is a privacy hellscape.
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by jounker 10mo ago
They’re also responsible for the preservation of more human life and well being than any other organization.
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by jounker 1y ago
It’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.
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by jounker 1y ago
My washing machine has a timer. I do the wash when local electricity rates are near zero.

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