sophacles

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by sophacles 5d ago
Beer may have lead to the domestication of cereal grains. This is not my theory, here's an article about it: https://nautil.us/beer-domesticated-man-234697 Specifically, we have evidence of beer older than we have evid
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by sophacles 5d ago
I know what you meant. But the words you used apply to my reply too. It's a reminder that any attempt at an objective definition of "drugs" includes alcohol and caffeine, and that there is a huge cultural component to "g
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by sophacles 5d ago
Yeah, it's really gross that coffee cups are left all over the place. But yeah, rise in caffeine consumption in place of ethanol is thought to have enabled and fueled the enlightenment, and been a major factor in the industrial revolut
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by sophacles 6d ago
You're not responding to their actual comment, you're arguing something else. As for "someone else will do it if i don't".... (aka your argument). That's true of a lot of things, and I sleep great at night choo
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by sophacles 7d ago
The poem in question conveys not just accurate history, but also it presents an argument in favor of standing for your neighbors . Even more, it conveys the feeling of loneliness when it comes to be your turn - both another argument for co
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by sophacles 7d ago
I'm sure you do. The poem can be taken both as a lesson in why one should defend all humans, as well as a lesson in exclusion from the bottom up.
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by sophacles 7d ago
Seems to me flock didn't prevent either kidnapping.
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by sophacles 7d ago
We care about the immigrants becaus we know the rest of the fucking poem.
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by sophacles 8d ago
Good comparison. One is a multi-year claim by people who have been given ample opportunity to provide proof and completely refuse to do, even in courts of law. The other is a potential development in a breaking story. Oh wait... its not a g
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by sophacles 10d ago
Most of them seem like a pretty common kitchen garden to me. And all of the plants are native to that area, or close enough that people who had been farming for a few thousand years at that point would have brought them from neighboring lan
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by sophacles 19d ago
So without a hierarchy, things scare you to the point of declaring them terroists? So why aren't you screaming about the horrors of OSS and family parties? (BTW Christianity does not have a hierachy, not a universal one anyway, some gr
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by sophacles 19d ago
So is Christianity and the GOP. What's your point?
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by sophacles 19d ago
It's also worth noting that the idea of Antifa as any sort of organization is 100% shitty fiction. It's a fucking hashtag (and the spiritual predecessors of hastags like email label, etc for the years prior). Anyone organizing or
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by sophacles 19d ago
> Using twice as much ram per cache entry makes the cache half as large, assuming your cache is bounded by ram, unless the queried, unexpired result set is less than the ram budget (which I would tend to doubt... lots of randomized queri
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by sophacles 20d ago
RAM is cheap. I'd find myself far far more concerned with: * unbounded growth of the cache and properly invalidating after TTL expires (a few GBs of slop is nothing on a server with 64 or more GBs of ram, unbounded growth is a problem)
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by sophacles 20d ago
Imagine you're an engineer at cloudflare, an 8 year old (at the time of launch of 1.1.1.1) company. The company is wildly popular and any service launched is going to have a lot of traffic and a lot of attacks right away. Any problems
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by sophacles 20d ago
Cloudflare talks about having datacenters in 300+ cities. Presumably they have at least a few servers per datacenter. They saved 130 servers worth of memory... not even the minimum number of servers they have (seriously though, they probabl
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by sophacles 23d ago
I'd reckon that even in this modern age there are on the order of 10^9 people who don't know what a syslog server is.
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by sophacles 27d ago
If you're buying second hadn books by the lot, you'll get a lot of duplicates and its eaiser to scan wholesale and dedupe in the computers than it is to try to run a sorting operataion on "things".
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by sophacles 29d ago
One tylenol is good at reducing my fever. 20 tylenol will likely damage my liver and might even kill me. I'm not saying tylenol is bad. I'm not saying it's good. I'm just pointing out that your position is equivalent to
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by sophacles 29d ago
WTF are you on about? They aren't tax positive. The deal might "theoretically" be tax positive in 30 years if things go exactly according to some plan. In the short term they are usually associated with large tax breaks for s
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by sophacles 29d ago
It's incredibly disingenuous to wonder why people would be concerned about projects that: * Take a bunch of their tax money with no benefit to them * lower their property value * Make electricity and water more expensive (both of which
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by sophacles 1mo ago
When node was new there were many browsers (different rendering and js engines, not just chrome reskins) and standards and "proto standards" were moving very fast. Different browsers and versions would have very different support
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by sophacles 1mo ago
Because the people here upvoted it.
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by sophacles 1mo ago
We see a huge amplification of single mistakes by these automated "efficient" processes. Just yesertday there was a story on the front page of a completely innocent woman who kept getting the felony warrant treatment over a data e
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by sophacles 1mo ago
Equally likely is that your friends were trying to make themselves sound more important and made unverifiable statements and let your existing trust relationship do the lifting. That kid in middle school didn't have a girlfriend in Can
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by sophacles 1mo ago
Flock amplifies existing bugs. Sounds like Flock is the error.
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by sophacles 1mo ago
More like 25+ years ago. In the early 2000s you saw a lot of celebrities pushing vaccine fear because they read some book version of "doctors don't want you to know this one wierd fact" that made the best-seller list or anoth
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by sophacles 1mo ago
> I probably would be ok with it instead of acting all disgusted and call them subhuman. I never said this, i never implied this. I never even mentioned a preference for one over the other. The only things i suggested were lesser were th
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by sophacles 1mo ago
> Personally I (and I imagine many other people) could just swap a "real ice cream" for a "frozen dairy desert" and probably not care too much This is a fun statement. It's a complete reversal of the opinion you&

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