sparky_z

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by sparky_z 13d ago
You've never heard something selfless and good described as "noble"?
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by sparky_z 21d ago
It's also acutely poisonous to dogs, so if you're a dog owner you already have to be careful not to leave anything sweetened with xylitol within reach. I personally won't buy anything with xylitol in it for that reason.
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by sparky_z 1mo ago
The shorted headline is ambiguously misleading. I first interpreted it as them essentially saying "We need to be punished".
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
I also have the sidebars constantly reappearing, and I don't have cookies disabled. It's really annoying.
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
It would take the typical English speaker many years of dedicated study to learn Mandarin Chinese to a level of fluency required to take advantage of any token savings. "Caveman speak" can be adopted instantly, by anyone (in, pres
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
If they started using that power to change what time they started every few months, you don't think that would cause logistical problems?
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
> leadership at Jellyfin decided to throw the blanket after a burning themselves out for free. What does this mean?
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
In a sense, they do exactly that! But since there are only two single-digit numbers in binary, it makes for a pretty short table.
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
Sign of the times, I'm sad to say. The Internet is just chock full of them these days. It's gotten to the point where most of the articles on the NYTimes frontpage don't even mention him.
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
"If you haven't used your emergency go-bag in over a year, why do you want to use it now"? "If you haven't used your passport in over a year, why do you want to use it now"? "If you haven't used your
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by sparky_z 2mo ago
It's confirmed in the DVD commentary. The stunt pilot had to do it at a high enough speed that it would "outrun" the rotor wash.
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by sparky_z 3mo ago
I don't follow your argument. Why would those facts make PSAs effective at changing consumer shopping habits? If my response sounded like a non-sequiter to you, well, yours sounded like one to me. The article is not about whether retai
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by sparky_z 3mo ago
And doorbell footage of the crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_Y_yf84m8 Holy shit, it looks like it was going at full highway speeds (at least) in a residential neighborhood. Doesn't look like it attempts to sto
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by sparky_z 3mo ago
What does it mean for the ghosts to be "unable" to reverse direction? Isn't that just another way of saying that the original ghost AI was programmed to never choose to do so? There are, in fact, a lot of things they never ch
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by sparky_z 4mo ago
What makes an assessment "accurate"? If there was an objective answer to that question that could be used to adjudicate the rule, then the process wouldn't be needed in the first place. > It seems like you agree it would b
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by sparky_z 4mo ago
Are they not going to tell us which company's self-driving tech was installed on the bus? That seems like very relevant info.
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by sparky_z 4mo ago
There are some fun ideas here, but also some rough edges. Using today's puzzle (steak->boring, which I have not solved yet) as an example: -It's not clear to me whether the game is intended to accept any valid intermediate move
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by sparky_z 5mo ago
Here's another hypothetical. Imagine you just became one of the world's most famous people overnight. The entire media apparatus, and a team of wikipedia editors, were racing to fill in every one of your biographical details, inte
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by sparky_z 5mo ago
Not to defend the FBI here, but I don't see anywhere where they described it as a leak. In fact, they're officially denying that any such investigation is taking place. It's kind of silly to jump from the article describing
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by sparky_z 5mo ago
Not that surprising if the thing that failed was the thing that notices whether or not you put something in the trunk in the first place. Unless it does that routine at the end of every ride, regardless of whether it thinks something is in
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by sparky_z 5mo ago
Scenario: A company's costs increased because of both the tarriff and some other factors (perhaps a supplier increased their prices, and the staff unionized and negotiated a salary increase, all around the same time). They probably wou
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by sparky_z 5mo ago
Before clicking on this link, I hopped over to the Wikipedia page and read the intro section to get some quick context. Turns out that was unnecessary because this "article" is literally just the Wikipedia intro, almost sentence f
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by sparky_z 6mo ago
The Bronx isn't "anywhere else", it's a region of New York City (one of the five boroughs), just like Manhattan is.
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by sparky_z 6mo ago
You're missing the point. I only use an Android because it lets me install whatever software I want. If that's no longer an option, then I'll pick based on other criteria, and then the iPhone beats the Android phone every tim
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by sparky_z 6mo ago
If only we had just slightly increased the length of each day so that the year divided perfectly into 365 days. Then it would be an even better analogy.
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by sparky_z 7mo ago
I remember many years ago (maybe around 2014?) reading about a smallish European country that implemented this sort of thing really well. There was nothing but glowing praise for it at the time. I want to say maybe it was Latvia? Does anyon
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by sparky_z 7mo ago
I suspect you're reading too much into that phrase. It seems more likely to me that the reporter here contacted one or more of the case report authors directly to ask for a copy of what instructions they received from the journal at th
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by sparky_z 7mo ago
Why would adding a new supplier to the market cause the price of power to go up?
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by sparky_z 7mo ago
Sure, if you emphasize selectively you can make it sound like it says that. Here are some other quotes from the article that clearly refute your interpretation: > The journal decided when it first started publishing the article type “tha
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by sparky_z 7mo ago
It literally wrote a blog post [supposedly on its own initiative] trying to gin up outrage at open source maintainer after he denied the LLM's pull request. Here's the original write-up of the incident: https://theshamb

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