Gene_Parmesan

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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
They made multiple drops, one for $30,000, another for $70,000, following months of correspondence. There's plenty of context if you read the link -- unless you are for some reason accusing the FBI of wholesale fabrication of a story l
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
No judgment is meant here - I am always so curious about people who think water is bland. When I'm thirsty, cold ice water is the best tasting thing on the planet to me. I enjoy the taste of diet pop, but I also find myself reaching fo
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
It's worth noting that chess grandmasters can burn up to 6000 calories per day while competing in tournaments. It's an absolutely exhausting endeavor, and I imagine sheer endurance can play a huge role. So yes, performance does fa
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
The problem is education won't reach everyone, and the broad, easy availability of the drug gives people the incorrect feeling that it is much safer than it actually is. ("If they let you just buy it, how dangerous can it possibly
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I think when most people talk about "ending censorship" they are talking very specifically about speech. Any link between the idea of speech and the sharing of child abuse material or drug marketplaces is extremely tenuous. Most n
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
It was great for rap lyrics - which makes sense because it's a heavily lyric-centric genre. Sometimes the artists themselves would provide annotations, people would provide context for veiled references, etc. So to me it makes all the
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
It's the difference between textual mimicry, and what we humans do, which is communication. We conceive of an idea, a concept, that we wish to communicate, and the brain then pulls together appropriate words/symbols as well as the
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Nah, not really. Video games have been shown to be very good at increasing problem solving, planning, and fine motor skills. The problem is parents (including mine) who didn't/don't put reasonable limits on their use. A kid w
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I spent six years working as a lawyer and absolutely despised it. Early on during this hell I rediscovered a curiosity in programming I had as a child. I became obsessed with it and within about six months knew I had to try to do it as a ca
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
It certainly does, depending of course on where you migrated from. Someone from a first world country and who has established assets is going to be in an easier position than someone who doesn't. And unfortunately, in this country cred
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Okay, but search and browsing history is not a good way to extend this data for these populations.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Personally, when it comes to technical topics, I have not ever found an extended analogy that made a subject less confusing. Analogies are fine as a quick way to introduce the flavor of a topic -- saying "Kafka is like a river..."
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I don't know anything about MathBox, but manim's niche is animation for videos.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
This seems to be a viral inaccuracy: https://www.howtogeek.com/664624/does-zoom-really-monitor-wh... That article claims that Zoom does have a feature allowing hosts to see whether people have the zoom window focused
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Nah, not really. Automobile pricing is closer to traditional K offer/acceptance laws. Additionally no car dealer would advertise such a deal without including a clause stating the price is subject to (usually many) conditions and could
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
The sort of well-to-do 40+ lawyer you describe is really only something found at "biglaw" firms, and not only that, but people at biglaw firms who have managed to make partner. Getting hired into biglaw is like getting hired into
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Phew. Good luck to all of them. I was part of the crowd that used law school to avoid entering the job market on the tail end of the 2007 crisis. I actually really enjoyed law school itself; it's a good fit for people with brains that
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Wow that's dumb. I've done some reading on 3d computational geometry for hobbyist game engine reasons, and in my admittedly limited experience, very few of the algorithms involved are intuitive enough to be derivable in an intervi
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
If you take the name National Security Agency at face value, it makes sense.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Why does anyone think abolishing copyright is a good idea? Your friend writes a novel. They've never been published before, so they shop it around to various publishers, but no dice. A little while later, they see a hot new entry on th
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> A lot of rural communities have no other viable options for some items as well. I sometimes fantasize about what it would be like to live in a mild-to-moderately isolated community - moving to Hawaii, northern Alaska, some random islan
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Definitely components are the way to go. These have gotten very well known recently in the game dev world thanks to entity component systems, which is what I would call "heavy components," but you can also do "light component
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I unabashedly love WPF but I 100% agree on the need for a CSS-like interface for styling. It's a blind spot that was forgivable ten+ years ago but nowadays there's really no excuse for it.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
In fact, this is what they mean when they say it's almost impossible to know who the real sociopaths are. The true ones are so charismatic and good at manipulation that, unless you are extraordinarily close to them or get on their bad
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Snip and sketch allows you to save a copy of your snip. For me, that's the tool that comes up when I do the Win+Shift+S shortcut. Really handy tool and shortcut.
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I think the whole idea is cool! It doesn't have to be useful to be cool, in fact some of the coolest projects are eminently unuseful. I think this is an awesome resume project. They've built an IDE (which is impressive by itself),
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Well, technically it's a disorder at that point - delayed sleep phase disorder, which I have secondary to ADHD. Circadian rhythm is genetically determined and all long term studies of delayed sleep phase show it's essentially impo
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
> There are also catch-all laws in the US that one can go to prison for, basically for acting in "bad faith" but never actually doing anything else criminally wrong. As someone who used to be a criminal prosecutor in the US, I
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
Unfortunately this is significantly harder than you might think. The perps tend to be citizens of countries who happily turn a blind eye to their activities so long as they aren't infecting their domestic systems. What interest do Russ
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by Gene_Parmesan 5y ago
I have found (and know several who agree with me) that Google search quality seems to have taken a dive in recent times. It's almost like instead of just searching, it makes assumptions about my purpose for searching and funnels result

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