oh_fiddlesticks

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by oh_fiddlesticks 1mo ago
A bit of an unconstructive, unwarranted jab, if I may say so.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 4mo ago
Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic
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by oh_fiddlesticks 4mo ago
Go nad or go home
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by oh_fiddlesticks 4mo ago
We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yield a benefit in a narrow situation but at some great
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by oh_fiddlesticks 4mo ago
If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 5mo ago
It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 5mo ago
"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
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by oh_fiddlesticks 5mo ago
Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 6mo ago
> Fortnite "Usage" I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 6mo ago
This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 6mo ago
So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what? > "Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same year as the Epstein files? Wishing a companies
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by oh_fiddlesticks 7mo ago
My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said tha
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by oh_fiddlesticks 7mo ago
Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep."
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by oh_fiddlesticks 8mo ago
After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and permanent fixture.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 8mo ago
Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsessed tribe has moved in and is holding conferences o
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by oh_fiddlesticks 8mo ago
> 1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it? FTA: > Context matters: Google built it
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by oh_fiddlesticks 8mo ago
https://roc.camera/ This was on hn this year, and it was, in classic HN fashion, dismissed as a problem in search of a solution. Well, perhaps people in this thread will think differently
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by oh_fiddlesticks 9mo ago
In my case, as you said it may not have exacerbated it, but for me it certainly perpetuated it. A retreat into the online world seems like a comfort in difficult times but it is a retreat, and the longer you stay retreated, the less likely
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by oh_fiddlesticks 9mo ago
Yeah but I'm glad you don't consider the ipad a toy. It's not a toy, i predict that we're going to look back at this time of 'ipad + headphone kids' and roll our eyes as much as we roll our eyes at bloodletting
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by oh_fiddlesticks 9mo ago
> "liberation" It's more like inviting the troops besieging your walls inside and celebrating because "we have less enemies outside the walls to deal with now!" It's the thin end of the wedge, you give it an
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by oh_fiddlesticks 9mo ago
256 million rows, nice coincidence.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 10mo ago
Yep
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by oh_fiddlesticks 10mo ago
The government's where the offices of a software company are physically located exert control over them. To follow this logic to its end and apply it even handedly results in nation based NIH syndrome surely?
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
Really disappointed it's not the mammals being discussed here.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
>technological advances are permanent that have long term impacts That's not necessarily true, look at the clockwork cylinder fished up from the ancient Greeks that was apparently an Olympic oriented calendar. And.... the pyramids.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
>The easiest way is to actively work to make a high-profile project successful. Reminded me of Proverbs 22:29 "Have you seen a man skillful at his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before common men."
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
There is absolutely a disparity between private and state teaching quality. I don't think thats an objectionable statement. Also, while not wanting to paint with a broad brush, people I know who work in state run schools are aware of
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
Having read a fair amount of the literature, it's not that compelling. I would encourage people to stake their life on it, let's put it that way.
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
The source code of life is recorded and transmitted using physical matter. Physics very much matters to matter. For development of any information storage systems made of molecules, there must be a supportive development environment. To eve
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by oh_fiddlesticks 1y ago
That's what the OP demonstrates....

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