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by CptFribble 3y ago
You don't need to skip eggs! They are high in cholesterol, but the dietary cholesterol from eggs doesn't impact your serum (blood) cholesterol levels the way other fats do. Eggs are one of the best bang-for-your-buck foods you can
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Star Citizen will likely never be finished, precisely because the person in charge, Chris Roberts, is notorious in the game industry for being the human embodiment of scope creep. Even the earliest games he directed or produced as far back
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by CptFribble 3y ago
If you read The Fine Article, you will see it's not actually about security, but about police corruption - pressuring business owners of a certain skin color to hire off-duty cops as security under threat of losing their business licen
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Why are we still not talking about plasma gasification? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification As far as I can tell, the only real "disadvantages" if you can call them that, are: 1. more expensive
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Does this signal that OpenAI is seeing the limits of their own technology being hit just around the corner? There is already no shortage of investment and hype around their core product - but it definitely does not seem like something you&#
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Some students will always try to cheat, that is inevitable. But saying that whether schools are for teaching is "debatable," while a popular meme, is a false and harmful assertion. Regardless of what you or any of us consider to b
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by CptFribble 3y ago
the difference is that grocery stores are easy to search completely - don't like the cereal options on the end-cap? just walk down the cereal aisle and see it all immediately. Amazon on the other hand, actively makes it difficult to se
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by CptFribble 3y ago
I think it's worth reframing this analogy: An artist using an artbook as reference material = good An artist with one billion arms, using every artbook ever published, creating millions of images per second in every possible style for
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Proper bike infrastructure isn't just extra lanes next to cars. Typically "proper" includes things like protective walls, and bridges specifically for bikes + pedestrians separate from cars. It is entirely possible to design
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by CptFribble 3y ago
NB: certain aspects of holding 2+ FT jobs are harder to parse out before being hired - particularly meeting times. It's not typical to ask what time morning standups are in an interview, but juggling overlapping meetings is one of the
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Isn't it because of the beneficial SEO? I'm sure we all well understand the benefits of landing a product on the first results page of a well-known historical figure.
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by CptFribble 3y ago
The first reason that jumps to mind is that cost is not a factor for everyone. For almost any given price level, there are actors for whom the cost is still worth it. Some examples and their given cutoff point, at which the payments are no
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by CptFribble 3y ago
Without copyright, moneyed interests would be able to simply wait for promising new artists to create something that resonates with an audience, then copy that thing and aim their massive marketing budgets at dominating that audience with t
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by CptFribble 3y ago
[removed by commenter due to incorrect information] apologies, I was misinformed. consider this comment retracted
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by CptFribble 3y ago
"State" in this context is the same as the state in "head of state," AKA "a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government." Other examples of this usage are "natio
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by CptFribble 4y ago
there was quite a long period of pre-history where homo sapiens were living alongside other branches of humans - around 300,000 years ago there could have been as many as 8 (!) other species of humans running around. I imagine we developed
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by CptFribble 4y ago
IMO the real danger of good AI is that we don't have the collective intelligence to safely manage our expectations writ large. This train of thought is a little messy, so apologies in advance: - Just like the fusiform gyrus responds to
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by CptFribble 4y ago
> China will be more than happy to sell us chips this is a narrow view of the possible outcomes. a huge amount of our military and intelligence capabilities, as well as much of our advanced manufacturing (i.e. the things that make us rel
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by CptFribble 4y ago
I see the most likely "bad outcomes" more narrowly focused: - total loss of trust in online content due to unending torrent of AI content leads to either a return to traditional media for news & etc, or leads to the end of onl
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by CptFribble 4y ago
On the contrary, as a fresh grad with (presumably) lower COL requirements, you can be more flexible on the salary front than a lot of recently-laid-off senior SWE who may have homes + kids that need to be paid for. Take it from a millennial
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by CptFribble 4y ago
I think it's more an indictment of the idea that "bigger company == better company," the story typically told by Business People. Managing large amounts of people is hard, and there are limits on how many can be effectively c
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by CptFribble 4y ago
I don't think you need to worry too much - those laid off workers are coming off hot SF salaries. Most of them won't really be at a "lower rate." A 5-year Googler laid off from $300k+ TC isn't going to just up and m
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by CptFribble 4y ago
This assumes an equitable distribution of purchasing power among market participants, so the only barrier to truth-dominant news is whether a majority of market participants demand it. Unfortunately this is not reality. There are many reaso
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by CptFribble 4y ago
The point being made here is that "raw talent" is frequently the removal of barriers via socioeconomic factors. The best predictor of whether a child will graduate college is whether their parents also graduated college. Most &quo
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by CptFribble 4y ago
"Middle-class-ness" in this context shouldn't be the primary goal, because it's only a proxy for "have enough time and space to care." I assure you, poor people care about the environment, but we've stru
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by CptFribble 4y ago
Common Core is not the problem, that's just a political talking point. Common Core is not a curriculum, it is a set of standards. Before Common Core, there were 0 national standards for math (and language skills, but this is about math
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by CptFribble 4y ago
I went to a different school, but I've also experienced similar "teachers" only in chemistry, and even specifically OChem. Difficult/opaque lecture style, very high difficulty tests, openly mocking students in a 500+ per
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by CptFribble 4y ago
According to Google, a typical chainmail hauberk could have as many as 45,000 10mm rings - if we assume that 2cm rings are not excessively more difficult to make than 10mm rings, then 45,000 2cm rings linked end-to-end would stretch around
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by CptFribble 4y ago
Like most things, coffee is subject to diminishing returns. I have also owned nearly every device invented to make coffee - as I'm sure many others here have - and I've settled on a simple over-the-mug pour-over cone, but mainly b
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by CptFribble 4y ago
It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with Shopify dev, especially since many merchants are non-technical and there are an unlimited number of very cheap Shopify "dev" shops that will paste anything you want into your the

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