sporkologist

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by sporkologist 5y ago
Would it help to have a higher rust/concrete ratio?
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by sporkologist 5y ago
I think a bullshit job is one where you don't get paid, or get paid very little.
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by sporkologist 5y ago
I just think of that f***ing Disney smirk.
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by sporkologist 5y ago
It's obviously his fault, but the cops could have prevented him from tragically taking his own life
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by sporkologist 5y ago
> drugs and heart disease being the main cause of Floyd's death It's Floyd's fault, he was minutes from death's door, wheezing and barely hanging on to life, when the police showed up and tried to extend his life by k
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by sporkologist 5y ago
They are intimidating them, you know, like fascists do sometimes
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by sporkologist 5y ago
The 2nd amendment is good for them, the 1st, not so much
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by sporkologist 5y ago
There are toddlers running amok in government! At least this time we're not talking about the President
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by sporkologist 5y ago
Yeah it tells the glue machine to lay it on a little thicker next time.
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by sporkologist 5y ago
Yeah but it's still "Elon's 2nd hand NFT"
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by sporkologist 5y ago
Do NFT's really only have value upon their first sale? Wouldn't that be basically a donation to Elon with no expectation of value on the secondary market?
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by sporkologist 6y ago
No, more likely Microsoft Paint 3D
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by sporkologist 6y ago
3-axis mill for $45k? And looks flimsy. Compare to a Haas at the same price.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
This legislator needs to know that the Beatles are using backwards masking on their records and this is causing the youth to be rebellious
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by sporkologist 6y ago
How does your service compare to Protolabs?
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Take sand out, put a bunch of highly processed synthetic polymers in. Sounds good for the environment.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Calculators are faster, they have real buttons. Much more reliable than hoping you hit the right area on the glass screen with your not-so-precise finger.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
I couldn't find a source for that, but if they did that, they are screwed, because no physical chain of evidence (videos of the drawing, the actual lotto ball machine, etc)
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Sure you can say non-funny things, but don't expect your audience to stick around forever, if they are searching for laffs.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
It's very hard to imagine a machine that could pull this one off. Was each lottery ball prepared with a weight that would favor it? What kind of mechanical scheme is even possible that could do this? An extremely precise lightning-fast
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by sporkologist 6y ago
Less-funny people complaining
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> The keyboard is extremely inefficient. It was not designed for efficiency. It was designed to look like the Ionian mode, with accidentals on a separate row. If you are offering the Janko keyboard as any kind of alternative, I would hav
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> I'm coming from a place where I do know the jargon. That doesn't mean I have to like it. Why does the jargon matter? It all describes the same stuff.
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> I'm not talking about heptology. I'm talking about music. It's called an analogy. It was about terminology and jargon. I'll try to be more non-abstract going forward. > stop rejecting every change that diverges
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> You do not welcome changes. You approach the very idea of progress with condescending skepticism. You sure have me figured out. Progress is overrated; everyone should be playing harpsichord only. And no parallel 5ths, and also the trit
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> Instead, people like you insist we all stick with 17th century western notation for eternity Not that good of a reader, I avoid sheet music when I can
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> I wish I could say that your attitude was rare in music. Unfortunately, it represents the majority in professional circles. The attitude of needing to know your scales? I too have found that to be the prevailing attitude in professiona
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> Factoring in different muscle memory for each individual key also requires tons of extra dedicated practice. That skill is totally unnecessary, and could be completely factored out by using a chromatic layout, allowing the learner to f
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> I just did. Mathematical proof. Is that right. I don't recall seeing any theorems, lemmas, axioms, or really anything resembling proving anything, mathematical or not, but I have seen a lot of blustery naïve rhetoric. Just saying
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by sporkologist 6y ago
> the student can skip learning 11/12ths of the required muscle memory. That's a very significant, and very measurable gain. Citation needed

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