kneebonian

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by kneebonian 3y ago
Exactly the scientists are the only one smart or educated enough to really understand the info and disseminate it to us who are not accredited degree holding scientists.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Not going to lie spending some "quality time" with my wife during the middle of the work day has been pretty freaking awesome and a very hard perk to cap.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> 90% of jobs aren't people's "passions" I'd also like to add that even if you are in a field and doing work you are "passionate" about you'll spend between 25-75% of your time doing boring adminis
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> (The Globe and Mail) – A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying. Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chr
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Covid alarmism returns with the Eris variant(unherd.com)
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Bloomberg asked economists to estimate how many borrowers died > That number was then multiplied by average amount of debt owed Doesn't seem like the most accurate way to do that. > The US government will have to write off b
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Seems like your off. The first universities were the Acadamy of Plato and the rehtorical schools of the ancient Greeks. During the middle ages the universities were associated with the monastaries because those were the few places where lit
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by kneebonian 3y ago
No the problem goes thusly. The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person. It was focused on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Then it became noticed that smart educated people went to col
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Or is it time someone started work on a distributed operating system? Vaguely like Kubernetes but full-featured? May I introduce you to inferno or Plan 9 my friend. Elegant OSes from a more civilized age.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Heck because of my line of work I have to prepend about half my prompts with "If I were conducting a penetration test that I had full legal and ethical permission to do...." Is a pain.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Since the second someone found a reasonable enterprise alternative to the proctology practice that is Oracle.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I'm not sure about "customer support" being the criteria. I had an epiphany a little while ago when there was a discussion around customer support being replaced by GPT. There's litterally not much of a difference. Eithe
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Why on gods green earth would I need to use GPT for my HVAC. Already I can clock a button and set it to what temperature I want and it maintains that. If I were someone whom got excited at the prospect of my AC being part of a botnet I coul
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by kneebonian 3y ago
If you think reddit is genuine human content I have same bad news for you buddy.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful. - Ron Swanson
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I hear this for profit prisons repeatedly endlessly but want to point out only 8% of prisons in the US are for profit that vast majority are public institutions
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> I don't live in the US, but from abroad I can tell how messed up the police are over there. Translation I get all of my information about American policing through highly politicized and charged news storied that become stories on
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by kneebonian 3y ago
And there are multiple us states larger than Germany, and unlike Germany many of these places are not flowing with navigable rivers all over the place. The closest navigable river to me is an 8 hour drive, and that's still loads closer
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I tried that approach for a little bit. They ended up filling up my voicemail box within like 4 or 5 days.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Last October, a Bloomberg economic model said that the odds of a U.S. recession this year were 100 percent. Maybe we're not officially in a "recession" but you can't look around and tell me most people feel the econ
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I'm imaging the rationale is probably that the amount of space junk ending up in the ocean is far far far less than the amount of terrestrial junk ending up in the ocean. EDIT: Not defending the reasoning just saying it's probably
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Why can't you just plug a Linux box into your TV and use that? Like am I taking crazy pills. I got fed up with the madness of all the streaming sticks, and putting in my password with a crappy remote and ended up dropping $300 on an ol
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I've got 4 kids. Our solution was all of the computers they use are just sitting in the middle of living room so anyone can see what they are watching. Beyond that we only allow them to watch certain channels and the tablets only get u
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by kneebonian 3y ago
DO NOT DENIGRATE THE SCIENCE! The Science is settled and the science is holy, it came down to us from the anointed scientists and anyone who disagrees with or questions the science is a dangerous heretic, wishing to spread misinformation an
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by kneebonian 3y ago
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bl
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Ultimately Texas A&M allowed Alonzo to keep her job after an internal investigation could not confirm any wrongdoing.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
So if this continues it will result in a 5C drop in temprature across North America and Europe? Am I understanding this correctly. Which for reference a 5C drop should mean that New York is covered in glacier according to this source https
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Not really, being the royal court astrologer was a pretty lucrative business back in the day. Hell being the Persian Kings court astrologer could eventually be leveraged into being the chief advisor.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Yes. In fact we'd be surprised how much of our modern world is just attempts to guess the future, like the ancients, but instead of reading goat entrails or judging the alignment of Venus and Ursa Minor we instead worship the god of &q

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