thatoneguy

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by thatoneguy 10d ago
TIL there are player pianos that don't require pedaling and paper rolls like mine does
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by thatoneguy 3mo ago
"American" is a poor demonym because "America" is both North and South America. USian would be a better fit and "Native USian" would naturally include all indigenous and non-indigenous people in the US.
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by thatoneguy 4mo ago
Yeah, I remember. I still have Usenet postings about the genetic algorims conference back in the '90s and some magazine clippings about researcher from the University of Sussex where I first learned about genetic algorithms back in hig
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by thatoneguy 9mo ago
Yeah, I remember it being a fourth option alongside the others but I quit just before Google lost its serifs and its soul
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by thatoneguy 10mo ago
Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace. I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensive lenses than Hasselblads to take photos.
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
Reality has an anti-Elon bias
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it. The data's longevity was probably helped by being a potent source
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
Is it fair game to just return fire and sink the crawlers? A few thousand connections via a few dozen residential proxies might do it.
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
It doesn't take a lot of juice to send signals straight up. Iridium has been using transceivers to do similar IoT things for decades and my old Inmarsat satphone used a fraction of a watt to get my voice up to geosynchronous orbit just
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
Film worked for a long time (and still works) despite the availabilty of film printers.
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
Amazing! Literally the premise of the HBO show _True Blood_ from the 2000s. Japanese scientists invent artificial blood which allows vampires to "come out of the coffin". OK, I guess we'll wait and see about the vampires. But
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by thatoneguy 1y ago
In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union - Yakov Smirnoff, probably
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
My-not-much-better-than-placebo sertraline sure has been working its placebo-like magic for 30 years next year. How long are these double-blind studies? Surely they're not years long to show that the placebo effect is maintained over a
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
I've owned a Leica Q2 and Q3 and the former was what finally got me to ditch my phone's camera and get back into photography. Leica's color science is some of the best out there, even if their technology stance is a bit like
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
I don't get them either since the hosts are typically "regular people" talking about often complicated subjects that they are by no means domain experts in. I find the format of "Dumdum Host A read some articles about so
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
Right? How can a non-profit decide it's suddenly a for-profit. Aren't there rules about having to give assets to other non-profits in the event the non-profit is dissolved? Or can any startup just start as a non-profit and then de
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
I just had to sign a new version of my doctor's office consent form an hour ago letting me know that generative AI would be making notes. God help us all.
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
Yes, it's much more rare and completely curable simply by cutting the bad part off. But Jobs chose a diet of fruit juice and hubris (mostly hubris) to try and fix it and he died because of it.
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
Both the communicable and noncommunicable prion diseases still require a particular protein (and typically protein isoform since some folks are resistant to vCJD) to be present so I think this would work on both forms. That said, someone do
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
This reads a lot like my childhood of the '80s and early '90s in the US with zero supervision due to having a single mom. Total survivorship bias, however, as plenty of bad things happened to my fellow kids that I was lucky enough
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
No, because you're not _in charge of_ the executive branch.
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
An imagination that seems very reasonable to commenter but wildly off-base to everyone else. I'd personally bet more on a resurgence of typewriters and film in the next decade or two over deeper integration with the increasingly contri
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
For anyone else, OP is not referring to the original FFI that leads to madness (and worse): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
While this wasn't available in 1985, if it's a pile of parts that add up to, say, Addams Family Pinball, then that's the going rate for at least 1.5 grams of weapons-grade plutonium from the DoE last I checked (NRC and possib
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
Wait I thought blockchain was going to save us?
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
At least in past court cases I’m familiar, you can’t use an impersonator and get people to think it’s the real thing. It’s not like Tom Waits ever wanted to hock chips https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-
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by thatoneguy 2y ago
Yup, just like Boeing ditched the leadership steeped in engineering for leadership steeped in Excel.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I went through IVF and I can't make babies that have my particular mutation in them (even though it's not apparently disease causing and unknown to science) unless I sign a shit ton of paperwork. So, we have to go with the Gattaca
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Yeah, but this is different because it's largely just money -> more GPUs -> more people looking at the problem -> better results. You can't stumble upon an 8K TV overnight but you can luck upon the right gold mining claim

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