snake_plissken

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by snake_plissken 2y ago
Not a designer or a manufacturing engineer so perhaps I don't understand the minutiae, but things we know that just work: Switches Buttons Dials Knobs and 3.5 mm jacks
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by snake_plissken 2y ago
I really want to use these advanced approaches more, and they make a lot of sense in the daily fantasy scene (this analysis was for tourney long EURO 2024 I think?), but for something like season long NFL, I am convinced it is mostly luck:
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by snake_plissken 2y ago
Unsurprising if you have noticed the way (I am going with 10-15%, unsubstantiated speculation) of people drive these days: -Running red lights -Not stopping at stop signs -Driving way too fast for the street/road they're on -Passi
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The Chinese-funded and staffed marijuana farms springing up across the US(npr.org)
6 points by snake_plissken 2y ago|0 comments
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by snake_plissken 2y ago
I heard about this on NPR the other day and immediately thought of the Skyscraper Index. Self-fulfilling prophecy, financial divination or not statistically relevant?
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by snake_plissken 2y ago
Haven't finished reading this but I do wonder about the (still fairly common?) belief that Russia and China very much distrust and despise each other. They're much different than they were in the middle half of the 20th century w
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by snake_plissken 2y ago
This is really cool, nice work! I knew U-boats operated off the Eastern US coast but I did not know they operated so much in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Tangential, I've been watching this documentary series called Battlefiel
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
There are two types of Friday deployments: A) Deploying major changes B) Deploying small changes/bug fixes Don't do A.
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Embattled lender NYCB seeks cash infusion, source says(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by snake_plissken 3y ago|0 comments
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
How does this work exactly? 1) A blogger publishes an article warning about scammer/fraudster/terrorist known as person Person X. They publish on January 1 2024. 2) Person X wants to get this info out of the Google results. 3) Pe
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
That "sorry I assumed you already knew this" part of the answer is wild! So artificial but so real at the same time. I can't think of the word to describe that kind of behavior, it's not patronizing, it's like pas
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
When CEOs or college presidents or others go before Congress like this, is it because they were invited or is it because they are subpoenaed? If it's the former, it really feels like talking to Congress is like talking to the police (
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
I've always held TIE Fighter as the pinnacle. The story is epic and the dog fighting is very intense, not only early on when you're in an unshielded TIE Fighter (going up against TIE Interceptors and the Escort Shuttles with that
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
I can't find the actual picks that this LLM made, are they listed anywhere? As squirrelmaster commented [1], would be very worthwhile to see how this picked in regards to the (betting) markets: against-the-spread (ATS) and the money-l
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
And a non-Amazon link =^_^= https://www.cambridge.org/ve/universitypress/subjects/physic...
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
Can someone explain why it goes from strictly multiplication/division for Somos 1,2 and 3 but then at Somos 4 the addition operation is added? It seems completely arbitrary.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
I must admit, it is slightly unsettling knowing that there is a communications side channel out there which could effectively DDOS every mobile phone. Not for nothing, I understand why it is useful to be able to broadcast messages/aler
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
I vehemently (border line militantly) refuse to use these services and actively tell friends and family not to use them. There are a few reasons but at the core, it's not right that people can pay to jump to the front of airport secur
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
How do you consider this a loan by the city? They sold the management concessions for a (potentially) fixed fee and in 75 years they'll get the rights back but nothing more. Or you're saying, this concession is equivalent to $1.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
How is this not a bigger story? Was just at our local corner store, they've apparently been down all afternoon.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
I had been floating around this theory that the original Wagner "mutiny" was actually a maskirovka ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception ) and was being coordinated together by Putin and Pr
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
Thankyou for sharing this.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
This is incredible! How does it work? Kevin Harlan's voice sounds EXACTLY the same: https://my90stv.com/#0-fAbPN9CgM
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
Man you read these airline "stuck on the tarmac for hours" stories and it makes you want to explode in rage. Even if it's only 50% true, this one is next level; can't remember a story remotely resembling this situation.
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Shadow reserves – how China hides trillions of dollars of hard currency(thechinaproject.com)
1 points by snake_plissken 3y ago|0 comments
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
Can you expand on this? The words "satellite" and "parking lot" do not appear once in the WSJ article.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
How does this qualify as hysteria? Who even knows CO2 is being transported via underground pipelines and that during a leak you have to worry about the gas settling and suffocating you, and that any cars/trucks will be un-able to oper
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
What about Casino? That always comes back as my favorite movie of his. And at a respectful 178 minutes.
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
These things are pretty dense and generally difficult to read but here are a few nuggets/hot takes. Could potentially apply to VPNs - Sec 2-3-(B) - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill&#x2F
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by snake_plissken 3y ago
A rather refreshing take on the work from home topic. When gas prices were at their peaks last summer I found it a little perplexing that the Biden administration wasn't advocating for more work from home policies, so that people didn&

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