Balgair

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by Balgair 11mo ago
If any 'normal' person wants to experience the smallest titch of this, go take your best American accent to someplace remote (but not in North America or tourist-Europe). The locals there will try to pin which celebrity you are
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by Balgair 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-fnR5G1cs The cereal aisle scene from Hurt Locker always did it for me
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by Balgair 11mo ago
The classic Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Now this assumes that the LAPD/LASD/whomever actually cares to catch the suspect! In my (limited) experience with them, you could incinerate a full bus and they'd not blink an eye, but if you block the intersection at one of
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by Balgair 11mo ago
> You are allowed to like yourself. Yes, of course, but how ?! I don't right now, how do I go about doing that? Play more golf/chess/adult-tag/leetcode/etc? Talk to chaGPT/therapist? I ... I just don'
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Montessori Method schools, my friend. Or Waldorf. There's likely a school near you that is public and uses these methods. If not, there are scholarships too. It's not for everyone, but for all the Calvins it's a godsend.
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by Balgair 11mo ago
So one question is who owns the IP then? I know at the UCs, anything you do on campus is the UCs copyright. There's even little brass plaques they put in the ground when you walk on campus delineating that line. But when these PIs ar
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Anecdata: I've never seen so many Christmas lights go up this early in my little neck of the wood They started doing heavy Black Friday sales ads almost immediately after Halloween this year, more so than I remember from even covid (bu
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Ah, yes, you got me there. I typed that out well before my first cup this morning. Thank you for the correction!
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by Balgair 11mo ago
It's very state dependent. For example, by law in California, auto mechanics make double minimum wage if they don't own their tools (so they can go buy some). That works out to about $68k/yr these days. $120k/yr is not
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by Balgair 11mo ago
> OpenAI, Anthropic, and others will be bought for cents on the dollar. And just like 23andme, so will all that data be sold for dimes.
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Nah, same type. The tank was about half the size of a normal one. The water didn't get cold, just not as hot as I'd liked it to be.
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by Balgair 11mo ago
I had one of these types of water heaters in an old apartment. Thing worked kinda okay-ish? The main issue was that it was electric and if you used the hot water for really any time at all (bath, dishwasher) then it would pop the fuse from
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by Balgair 11mo ago
I'd assume that means the servers are 'air-gapped' somehow. In that, the enterprise servers and the 'free' servers aren't on the same hardware. Now, there is about a 0% chance that is true, and exactly a 0%
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by Balgair 11mo ago
The image machine for him really is something. Buffet is a bigamist. By all intents and purposes he lived with two wives. The legal status was not that of bigamy, to be clear. He married his other wife after his first wife died. https:&#x2
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by Balgair 11mo ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by edited. Like, there are trials underway right now for organ specific editing for genetic diseases. In that, they just do some CRIPSR injection in the liver or the affected organ to regain lost function
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Top talent is also going to these lesser leagues. Mason Cox was a top NCAA basketball player and got recruited to play AFL in Australia. There's quite a pipeline now because that. Same goes for Australia to US football kickers and punt
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by Balgair 11mo ago
The composition of the universe is: ~5% matter and energy. The stuff you and I, dollhouses, dogs, and sugarcubes are made up of. Of that about 99.9% of it is very hot stars. ~20% dark matter. This is currently under investigation, but reall
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by Balgair 11mo ago
One of the 'fun' areas on the net to hang out on is the 'baby-o-sphere' here where everyone is fretting about these demographic collapses. 'Fun' in the way the old net was, as everyone in this area would never
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by Balgair 11mo ago
> 4. Even if the society collapses, a better one will emerge. Black Death killed half of Europe's population, and some historians say that this contributed to Renaissanace, which was a major postive turning point. Labor shortages le
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Boulder homeowners are not representative of the population of the city. Like, a lot of the town is just kids at CU. Also, a lot of the younger families are in what little apartments or condos there are in the city and aren't homeowner
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by Balgair 11mo ago
One I'll (badly) remember about English is: English is the result of Norman soldiers trying to woo Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and for that task was, evidently, effective enough.
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by Balgair 11mo ago
In parts for now, not wholesale yet. And more than just RnD, it's other sectors of the corpo too.
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by Balgair 11mo ago
It will not. One (of many ) issue is that this has no bearing on other regulatory regimes. So, sure, the FDA approves of the drug/device/thingy because the AI got lost and no one is checking what it's saying. But Canada&#x27
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Aside: Inheritance laws are one of those little thought of things that end up making huge differences in a society. The classic one is the changes in Sparta’s inheritance system that essentially caused their downfall. Originally every cit
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Two use cases with my corpo are: 1) Enhanced User guides/manuals. We sell some very complicated and expensive instruments. As such, making them work is quite hard. One of our biggest expenses is our engineers that go out, physically, t
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by Balgair 1y ago
I know this is a bit of a non sequitur but, on my feed just below your comment, some asked for the RSS for this blog. The juxtaposition of the two comments here is just soooo HN
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by Balgair 1y ago
3 weeks!? Man, I'm still figuring out where a decent sandwich joint is by my work at 3 weeks. There is no way that I could be up to speed on a code base in that short of a time. Look, I know what you're getting at, and I know that
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by Balgair 1y ago
Total anecdote here: Watching college ball today and nearly every commercial (80%+) are Christmas commercials in some way. The day after Halloween, not the day after Thanksgiving. I know Christmas creep is a thing, and I may not have been p
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by Balgair 1y ago
Ah, got yah

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