HocusLocus

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by HocusLocus 1y ago
The whole article seems to be about bad practices. If the human does not follow good practice is there a reasonable expectation that the AI will? It is possible that Gemini engaged in these practices also, but it's hard to tell. &quo
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It was Jimmy Carter days and the OPEC Oil crisis. Prior to 1973... electricity and heating oil was cheap, there were many single pane windows that didn't seal completely. So the default condition was houses as originally built, cooler
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What does it mean when the most biting and whiny headlines hit me the opposite way?
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The article is interesting, but of special note is a beautiful glimpse of the Arecibo observatory in its heyday. I miss it.
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Burma Shave
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It's time for people to start talking about the asteroid instead
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Radars uniformly set on high sensitivity. You're looking at the noise floor within [x] miles of the radar. The sudden smaller size of a couple was a manual dbm adjustment. They seem more common these days, I think because when you
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Chirps or it didn't happen
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meeds moar umbrella
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Upvoted to discourage greyness. Your observation is very applicable and is heavily grounded in human nature. It's even funny! But it turned grey because no comment mentioning Trump is complete without the author stating how they FEEL
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Good Q. Since there are many wetland plant species and willows that are beaverlike you could ask how would they become established in the first place, and how would their growing mass and persistence compare to a beaver's after a catas
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QUICK: Name the animal whose industry is most visible from space. Day or night? That was a trick question. Day. Easy. The Beaver. If it were not for beavers evolving beside us, the Eastern US and much of the world would very nearly resembl
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As a kid I stressed our Olivetti divisumma 24 ( https://www.ithistory.org/sites/default/files/hardware/Olive... ) with a million times a million. It entered a perpetual mechanical cycle that even unplug
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
So it's only useful for encoding spheres!
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Remember when kids were safe in Central Park? I was going to link to The Prince of Central Park [Rhodes, 1975] But Wikipedia is too flaky to remember the 1975 novel, only the 2000 movie
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and a DeLorean and a flux capacitor
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Somewhere in storage I have an "Enron Ethics Manual" I spotted and grabbed at a flea market. Someday I'll sell it on Ebay: "Enron Ethics Manual, never used"
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RIP Mocha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0E-0ntoNWo
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Okay so there's a deficit among the 'refined information' concerning organomercury compounds. But regarding vaccines, there's been some bad road. A recent 'novel' approach had something routinely escaping the i
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> You could live off being musician, because people liked music I like how you're turning the article around a bit. So many voices you hear these days are saying thing like, "My father was a [x]. I've been an [x] all my l
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Like 'even and odd' on steroids.
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Turbo Pascal: One of the earliest bang it out languages that compiled so tightly and quickly it was like a reduced instruction set with benefits
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name checks out: iLoveOCaml
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"So you were part of that tiny nose robot thing then?" "No accountin' for mobs. They wanna blame someone." "Wha ya expect, they'd name a high school after ye?"
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A friend in IT (and sharp as a tack to this day) gave me empirical evidence that LSD's toxicity is nil. He used to hang around in a subculture that were not 'street users' eating blotters by any means, they had plenty of con
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Bath Salts. If rabies was a medicine. LSD lets you keep your marbles, they just become more colorful and roll around for awhile. It is disassociative though in a way that pain can be experienced differently. Solitary is okay, but don&#x2
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That's why I don't vape nicotine. Small molecule, sold in concentrate, mixed by who knows who. A high school chemistry experiment. If a butcher offers you a 4-ton pork chop by mistake at least it's obvious you shouldn't
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Everyone gets the Internet they deserve.
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First year should be smartphone avoidance training with devices that deliver electric shocks.
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A chat with Gemini AI that turns whacky(thysys.com)
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