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by vsnf 2y ago
I think I’m being misinterpreted, which is on me for being unclear. To address a sibling commenter first: no, I don’t think any mention of covid is a political statement, that’d be absurd. We all experienced the mayhem, fear, and uncertaint
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by vsnf 2y ago
please don’t mistake me for some kind of anti-vaccine anti-mask zealot. Having diligently participated in all the responsible social and personal anti-covid measures, my take on the article remains that it was a bizarre choice for the autho
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by vsnf 2y ago
Just so we’re clear and you can be on record with it: you support fascism?
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by vsnf 2y ago
A looming Christofascist dictatorship is not what I’d consider a minor political realignment, but potato potato, I guess
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by vsnf 2y ago
Would you accept a denial? Seems like you’re just spoiling for a fight.
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by vsnf 2y ago
No comment re: recommendations on building, but if you're interested, alternative terminology often includes corporate intel / intelligence.
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by vsnf 2y ago
The dual posting it’s important but does not mark Nakasone as uniquely talented — the post is always served by the current director of the NSA.
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by vsnf 2y ago
For the interested, Tetlock wrote a book called 'Superforecasting', and also set up a company using his research to utilize the prowess of those forecasters ( https://goodjudgment.com/about/ ). I don't kno
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by vsnf 2y ago
Sometimes I feel like I'm being caught in a pincer maneuver by contemporary US society where the far right is wielding increasingly concerning amounts of governmental power to force conservative changes, and the far left is wielding so
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by vsnf 2y ago
I understand that the team at BlueSky is tiny and that they were firstly prioritizing getting a stable, core featureset out, but I firmly believe that keeping posts private to non account holders followed by the iron grip on signups during
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by vsnf 2y ago
In my understanding feral is a domesticated creature that has found it self adapting back to the wild, while a wild creature was never domesticated at all. How can pigeons be feral?
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by vsnf 2y ago
I had an ATT unlimited data plan, grandfathered from way back in 2004 or something. It was wonderful while cellular data was still only available in limited amounts. I only finally moved off it about 3 years ago. ATT never seemed to care mu
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by vsnf 2y ago
I’d kill for a phone with proper music control hardware buttons. I miss my iPod, and being able to control it, precisely, from my pocket.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Pi Hole is nice, I run it as an add-on in my router's OpenWRT install. But it's not useful for my AppleTV.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Absolutely my experience with Starbucks. Their default Pike Roast drip coffee is black as pitch and tastes like pure carbon. It could very well act as a smelling salt to snap one out of stupor or slumber. Their lattes are a treat, though. A
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by vsnf 2y ago
What does it matter what they say. There are no consequences to lying, so the only correct move is to assume they are.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> This result exceeds the performance promised by the manufacturers If only this could be said of more companies products.
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by vsnf 2y ago
A temporary solution lasting until the AI fits in our AI-glasses or stealth headphones.
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by vsnf 2y ago
fwiw I like the windows key. Win-e for explorer Win-x for system commands Win-r for run Win-v for advanced paste and emoji search Win-tab is trash though, I autohotkey it away on every new computer.
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by vsnf 2y ago
The correct solution here is to give credit for the problem to acknowledge genuine clever problem solving, and then offer extra credit for doing it the pedagogical way.
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by vsnf 2y ago
Never would I ever have come up with using logarithms. But I am also a math idiot. My solution used recursion.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> The panel did not identify evidence related to individuals younger than age 50 years. For anyone else who was wondering why they don't recommend it to healthy people below 50.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> Maps, Android, Earth, Translate, I guess? This is fair, I shouldn't have omitted them. They do level the ratio of launches to shutdowns a bit. They slipped my mind because I personally never use of think of them, but they're
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by vsnf 2y ago
I'm of two minds on Google's MO on products. On one hand, I appreciate that they try all sorts of things and seem to have almost no hesitation with launching some things which are quirky or of niche usefulness. On the other hand,
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by vsnf 2y ago
I didn’t mean to imply that it needed to be useful. I just hear about the hypothesis a lot and I wonder what the immediate knock-on effects would be. Does it unlock other theoretical work, are there other proofs that work or don’t work depe
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by vsnf 2y ago
What are the practical implications of a conclusion of the hypothesis, in either direction?
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by vsnf 2y ago
Now embed that tool in all my other tools so I can human-read the binary format without thinking twice and then we can chat.
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by vsnf 2y ago
> In fruit flies, the approach notably extended lifespan, improved motor functions and protected nerve cells from degeneration. Similarly, in mouse models, the approach led to enhanced lifespan and mobility, along with a reduction in neu
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Rare and Amusing Insults, Volume 2(merriam-webster.com)
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by vsnf 2y ago
Honestly, why not. That would allow them to get more aggressive with enforcement for untagged streams, allow them to keep the obviously impression generating engine of the "Just Chatting" OnlyFans crowd, and maybe even with the we

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