smegcicle

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by smegcicle 5y ago
texworks from a regular miktex install seems to support it via SyncTeX
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by smegcicle 5y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but responding anyway. NPR fortunately also does not make the rules. Refusing to use the word 'spooky' because someone might imagine racial connotations creates those very connotations, while co
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by smegcicle 5y ago
and nowadays you could 3dprint new records for it
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by smegcicle 5y ago
Giving someone what they deserve/earn is serving Justice, not Charity
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by smegcicle 5y ago
i think the humor is in the juxtaposition of the abstract nature of chinese philosophy against the abstract nature of copyright law, not that the author of one should be somehow immune to the effects of the other
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by smegcicle 5y ago
you don't have to have watched it to see how it was marketed 'preteen sexual exploration' doesn't need to be a socially acceptable form of entertainment
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by smegcicle 5y ago
'pushing the envelope' is actually a term from the bird-racing nerds community for packing those things while staying aerodynamic
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by smegcicle 5y ago
tldr bird respiratory system is very effective, they breathe in one end of their lungs and out the other, always with either a full breath in their lungs or two breaths in their air sacs (one fresh, one ready to be exhaled) http:/&#x2
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by smegcicle 5y ago
thats it, it's over, git is finished
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by smegcicle 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28642415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640964
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by smegcicle 5y ago
there does seem to be some kind of push against it, as if it's either triggering to anyone who hasn't seen one in real life, or maybe the ui designer is afraid someone will think they're old and out-of-touch? the alternative
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by smegcicle 5y ago
People want to direct more of mozilla's funding to firefox, and obviously leadership sees that as a threat.
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by smegcicle 5y ago
The idea that only uncivilized societies allow for public nudity is an ignorant and self-perpetuating colonialist stereotype. Not wanting eg your wife to see a penis, especially a feminine woman's penis, is laughably insecure at best,
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by smegcicle 5y ago
fully valid women who were born with penises are 1000x underrepresented in your completely arbitrary 'women' group, therefore should get 1000x weighting to their opinion
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by smegcicle 5y ago
you aren't responding to someone proposing that cell phones cause cancer. they were refuting a weak argument that it is impossible, with an example of one kind of unanticipated interaction that could cause such an effect. ie, saying th
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by smegcicle 5y ago
SARS‑CoV‑2 wasn't new and interesting?
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by smegcicle 5y ago
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometim
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by smegcicle 5y ago
how is what you are doing helping? who could it possibly help? the comment you responded to was written in english- in this language, the word 'english' can be colloquially understood as meaning 'in terms you understand'
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by smegcicle 5y ago
For those curious about dabrowski's models, take a look at his 'levels of consciousness'†, where he divides personal driving forces into three categories, which develop in order, if at all: base instincts, societal expectatio
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by smegcicle 5y ago
While the phrasing may make some feel ostracized, it would appear to also make some feel selfrighteous, so maybe it evens out?
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by smegcicle 5y ago
> especially impressed that it caught the "as BS" what i understand from a completely armchair perspective, is that this kind of context-holding is THE feature of this wave of ai models, which is what similarly allows it to gen
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by smegcicle 5y ago
1: i can't imagine anyone trying harder at this than facebook is? 2: marking content as sarcasm completely undermines it's impact. 'sarcasm tags' are unutilized due to lack of purpose, not lack of visibility. how does fa
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by smegcicle 5y ago
> Bitcoin.org needs your support! idk who cobra is, but why would they need financial help, did they buy in at $60k or something?
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by smegcicle 5y ago
iirc that's another term for larger, more efficient engines hanging lower from the same wings
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by smegcicle 5y ago
> aristotle i wonder if that's perhaps the best example of how 'lone genius' works, and that our dismissal of his responsibility for work cited to him is misguided? as in, the genius is in creating a framework, like that o
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by smegcicle 5y ago
about time we start working on the smell-o-vision future predicted in the 6G whitepaper from the international telegraph union https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/net2030/Documents/W...
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by smegcicle 5y ago
> transmen wanting to play male sports I don't think it's odd to leave out of the question, since there would be very little opposition to such a proposal. The argument against would be mostly twofold: 1) it might be 'weir
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by smegcicle 5y ago
are they allowed to drink them? are they allowed to shake them up and put them back?
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by smegcicle 5y ago
I wonder if the pt-br words being so similar makes the difference more explicit, that perhaps the english words being so obviously different, makes it easier to forget? if the topic would ever come up seriously, most everyone would agree th
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by smegcicle 5y ago
> They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives. https://ground.news has an interface that highlights which news outlets with what general bias are cov

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