knodi123

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by knodi123 11d ago
I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but what if you were a jew, and you applied that reasoning to your hitler-loving neighbors back in nazi germany? Modern politics is fundamentally different from the way things used to be. The right-wi
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by knodi123 22d ago
I looked into it. Yes, you're correct, I was wrong. Although there is a speed limit of mach 5 (theoretical, not reachable in practice!) for shockwaves in normal atmosphere.
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by knodi123 28d ago
Isn't it true that you can never generate a supersonic projectile with just air pressure?
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by knodi123 1mo ago
wow, that was a pretty fast copyright takedown.
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by knodi123 1mo ago
toss a raw tree trunk to distract him, and run in the opposite direction.
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by knodi123 1mo ago
A møøse once bit my sister.
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by knodi123 1mo ago
LCMS and ELCA are practically different religions, IMO. In fact, my pastor at the time had a long angry rant about one of his peers who gave a speech at an event where ELCA pastors also spoke- he said that speaking alongside them gave the
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by knodi123 1mo ago
I know dozens. I'm sure I've met thousands. I used to be active in a lutheran (LCMS) church. If that's where you form your social network, you're likely to be _primarily_ around people who believe in abstinence before m
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by knodi123 2mo ago
there are plenty of text-based digital music notation systems. Then, you commit periodically as your composition evolves, and you can have all the history/fork/undo whatever that you might want.
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by knodi123 2mo ago
The DOS version has a special place in my heart. I memorized the opening text and thought it was an eerie and cool bit of original poetry, before learning much later that it was a quote from Shakespeare's _Julius Caesar_. I still rem
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by knodi123 3mo ago
This is technically true, but not helpful. These online services have buttons that say "rent" and "buy", they don't say "rent for a little while" and "rent for a longer but unknown amount of time&quo
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by knodi123 5mo ago
Not unless your noise is louder at certain dominant frequencies than the source. The article gives examples, but the algorithm basically throws away everything except frequency peaks, in order to make the lookups faster.
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by knodi123 5mo ago
Don't be silly. There's a third option, neither side gives up for a while.
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by knodi123 6mo ago
> the link only becomes clickable if you hold down a modifier key. Fun trick not a lot of people know - In a web browser, links which are normally clickable become UN-clickable if you hold a modifier. On a mac, it's (option). It&#
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by knodi123 6mo ago
lol, that's the stupidest thing that I've ever watched all the way through with a grin the whole time.
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by knodi123 6mo ago
Why would they film a demo video of it spewing out barely-coherent rambling repetitive drivel? If your model sucks at writing essays, maybe just tell us that, and film a demo of it doing something it IS good at?
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by knodi123 7mo ago
> even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude. But then they'd look the same! :-P You're reminding me of the old story about the leprechaun, commanded not to tamper with a marker over t
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by knodi123 9mo ago
I guess that makes sense. Thanks.
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by knodi123 9mo ago
> "would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors..." It's a dumb law, but, devil's advocate - isn't that how porn shops work? And porn shops also sell some non-por
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by knodi123 10mo ago
but what about my senile mice? please, won't somebody think of them??
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by knodi123 11mo ago
I chuckled, but presumably it's useful for applications where you want data types to take up the same amount of space, like for matrices or database columns? Or maybe where you coerce different data types into boolean? The language
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by knodi123 1y ago
"But what if black people really _are_ subhuman?" No thanks. Not biting. I disagree, but arguing that topic just makes me sad and angry, and I've never changed a racist's mind.
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by knodi123 1y ago
> The judge is an incarnation of evil and a pedophile so I don't think that's his Mary sue Although... he did rather famously have a thing for underage girls... https://medium.com/belover/cormac-mccarthy-w
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by knodi123 1y ago
holy racist dogwhistle, batman. chimpanzees are animals, and the only people who think differently are the straw men in the imaginations of people I prefer not to spend time talking to.
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by knodi123 1y ago
he's been moaning loudly and histrionically about how london is doomed because there's not enough white natives.
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by knodi123 1y ago
her followup post: Deleted my post, which I published before Ruby central released their blog explaining things. It’s ultimately not my place to say or speculate about what’s going on. It’s obviously a disastrously bad roll out or whatever
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by knodi123 1y ago
Try looking at the giraffe's recurrent laryngeal nerve. What isn't beneficial is sometimes retained as long as the cost isn't bad enough to impair reproduction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_la
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by knodi123 1y ago
> and then sort out everyone's status after the fact. Did they do that? Or did they throw out the ones with valid visas too? (hint: It was the latter. Details are in the article.) The bigger problem is that they "invalidate
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by knodi123 1y ago
> Burden of proof is to show that AGI can do anything. Yeah, if this were a courtroom or a philosophy class or debate hall. But when a bunch of tech nerds are discussing AGI among themselves, claims that true AGI wouldn't be any mo
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by knodi123 1y ago
I googled it, and I can't find support for the claim that DARPA is monitoring internal progress of AI research companies. Maybe you can post a link in case anyone else is as clumsy with search engines as I am? After all, you can goog

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