AnimalMuppet

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811.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
> The world will never run out oil supply, demand will likely go first. Not sure I buy that. Oil will still be in demand as a chemical feedstock. In fact, there are already people saying that oil is too precious to use as a fuel.
812.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Slow can be fast. As I got older and more experienced, I didn't produce code faster. I just produced the right code . If you don't have to try five different things, and debug them along the way, you can be a lot faster without
813.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Off topic, but can someone ELI5 (or at least ELI20) what the deal is with FODMAP? I keep hearing about it, but I don't understand it at all.
814.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Including 80486? Woah. I guess I feel really old now...
815.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
100%? You don't. But when you see people confidently stating unreasonable things in short posts, it's a common tip-off for a bot/shill/zealot/troll. When they assume a starting point that is two standard deviation
816.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
That works... for the duration of this administration. Given the precedent, though, there's no reason for the next president not to fire all the new ones and replace them again.
817.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
All right, let's say that the current war isn't legal, and neither was Korea, Viet Nam, Grenada, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya. It's not what the Constitution says, but it's been that way for a long time, across m
818.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
China-supplied hardware doing nothing useful may make them a paper tiger. May. The problem is that China probably doesn't sell their top-of-the-line stuff, so we don't really know.
819.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
It's not an existential issue for China . It's an existential issue for the CPP , because Xi made it so. He made reunification with Taiwan by... 2049 (IIRC, but I admit I'm fuzzy on the exact date) a test of the legitimac
820.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Personal attacks are against the site guidelines. If that's what you are going to talk to people, don't do it here.
821.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Actual headline: "Why Trump wants to spend $1 billion on Great Salt Lake" (unless they changed it, or there's some A/B testing going on).
822.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
But they're not thinking. Seeing is not believing. They're in the office, but are they sitting there playing minesweeper, or are they really working?
823.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
At the time, when there were so many different platforms still in existence, "easier to implement" was in fact a major component of "better".
824.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
That I want to be on? No. What usually happens is that I give my email to somebody (an auto repair place, say), for one-time use, and they add me to their marketing mailing list, even though that is not what I gave them my email for .
825.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
It's not just announcements. SLC (at least) used to have TVs playing the "Airport Channel". Last time I went through there (and maybe the time before?), they were gone. It makes a big difference. You still have announceme
826.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Because some people here found it interesting enough to hit the upvote button.
827.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Isn't this war profiteering, just with a slight indirection? And what does Paul Graham have to do with it?
828.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
All right, but if outside is one atmosphere of sulfur dioxide, you still don't want any air leaks.
829.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Pretty sure it's not going to find earth conditions to be warm . If it's an upper atmosphere bug, it may not find Earth to be too cold, but it won't find it to be warm.
830.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
What has meaningfully changed here is the rate at which Trump goes charging across lines that result in court cases. As best as I remember, it has always been the case that executives make decisions that result in court cases. I've
831.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
You can still get time alone to recharge - maybe not as much as you like, but at least some. The price is, you also have to take the kid solo sometimes, to give your spouse a chance to get alone and recharge. They need it too, even if the
832.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
They did. But they never developed it into science in the modern sense. They had a universe in which the gods did random things for random reasons. That didn't lead them to expect a rational basis for the construction of the whole un
833.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
I'll go further. Oppenheimer and Whitehead (neither Christian) have stated, in their respective histories of science, that the Judeo-Christian world view was absolutely necessary for the start of real science, that it could not have o
834.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
In addition, people have intrinsic worth/value/identity because they are made in the image of God. So, yeah. "Must earn their worth" may sound "Christian", but it's not Christianity.
835.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
If you've been doing this for 36 years, you're probably not too far from retirement. So if this is the last gig before you retire, what do you care if it's a career dead end? But even if it's not your last gig... I thin
836.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
The first amendment has never been held to give immunity for libel or slander. So if you think it's a first amendment violation, you need to learn that the first amendment does not give blanket immunity for speech that harms others.
837.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
On the other hand, if you were non-suicidal and going for a walk in the desert, you might take a gun, to protect you from rattlesnakes, coyotes, javalinas... (or are javalinas just an Arizona thing?)
838.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Because they perceive themselves as leading something bigger than a USA-only movement. Their concept of themselves has them being much more important than just affecting one nation.
839.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
No, the problem is that AI takes an existing problem and makes it massively worse. Because there is basically no limit to the amount of plausible-sounding drivel that AIs can spew, they can drown out all other voices in a way that regula
840.
by AnimalMuppet 6mo ago
Do you know that you can just buy a whiteboard? Or was the point a shared whiteboard? If your Teams-or-equivalent doesn't have it, there's still an app for that.

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