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by 634636346 3y ago
For those unaware, Undeadly.org is a very unusually engineered site. It's written in C, and it runs under FastCGI on OpenBSD's (edit: home-grown) httpd.
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by 634636346 3y ago
Supposedly Spez was made a mod of that subreddit by a troll who exploited a bug/feature that allowed you to make anyone a mod of your subreddit. However reddit did host that community for years (Spez claimed the creep mods were helpful
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by 634636346 3y ago
> futurology(18m), I had no idea futurology was that big. I remember years ago when it used to be a singularity/life-extension/transhumanist subreddit, and then it got brigaded by climate change activists, to the point that mos
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by 634636346 3y ago
How many Funkos do you own?
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by 634636346 3y ago
ICEs have numerous inherent disadvantage over EVs, including more moving parts and higher and more frequent maintenance costs, and are inevitably going to be displaced by EVs, provided electricity is cheap enough (and probably some batter
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by 634636346 3y ago
If geoengineering worked, was safe, and was much more affordable than meeting the aggressive greenhouse emission reduction targets needed to forestall further warming, climate activists would still oppose it anyway, since they've come
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by 634636346 3y ago
> What the problem with Lex Fridman? It's pretty clear he's playing up some kind of "rainman autistic AI savant" persona, and also, he exaggerates his credentials. On his website he describes himself as: >AI resear
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by 634636346 3y ago
As a silver lining, perhaps the cash-grab, zero value-added clones will no longer clutter our google results?
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by 634636346 3y ago
I post on a handful of niche reddits (science/tech, not porn, like the average redditor), and the user experience is abysmal. Besides the upvoting/downvoting nonsense and imperious mods, half the time my posts get caught in the sp
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by 634636346 3y ago
As with the Carthaginians, it was also long-fashionable to downplay or even deny Mesoamerican human sacrifice, until the weight of the archeological evidence corroborating the scale of the Conquistadors' accounts became too great: htt
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by 634636346 3y ago
See: https://ooni.org/post/2022-quick-look-quic-censorship/ I assume Google and co. will fix this if it ever starts to seriously benefit platforms like KiwiFarms, which in the last year was being blocked by Centur
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by 634636346 3y ago
Are you two talking about me? The irony in my "defense" of him was anything but subtle, and you should have had no difficulty construing my implication that he's a BS artist with a history of making obvious BS claims, like 34
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by 634636346 3y ago
Alpha was also the first 64-bit processor Linux supported. AltaVista was originally just a tech demo for Alpha. The homepage, at least early versions, had little "AlphaPowered" graphics on it.
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by 634636346 3y ago
> bullshitter No, he's not a bulshitter. It's just his "hustle." Totally different. Or in the YC/PG sense, he's a bit "naughty": http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html Right now
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by 634636346 3y ago
I never implied he used steroids. His claims of muscle gain were never rigorously, independently verified, and were likely invented partially or whole-cloth. He named a researcher at San Jose State University, and said she did hydro-static
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by 634636346 3y ago
He's a human optimization expert, totally legitimate, and not a snakeoil salesman, who just so happened to put on 34 lbs of muscle IN A MONTH following a style of training, HIT (not to be confused with HIIT cardio), that the scientific