Igelau

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811.
by Igelau 6y ago
Remember that the Jacquard loom was invented so people could have frilly damask fabrics, and that's where punch card programming came from. You can't conceive of what advances might come from the study of something seemingly frivo
812.
by Igelau 6y ago
My top score was 210 after I figured out not to run through the middle.
813.
by Igelau 6y ago
> Synthetic fertilizer yields the most pounds of produce, but the yields of nutrient-dense food, soil microbes, insects, atmospheric carbon sequestration, etc. are all abysmal. Please explain how synthetic fertilizer reduces the yield of
814.
by Igelau 6y ago
You can carry sledgehammer just about anywhere as long as you look like you're supposed to be.
815.
by Igelau 6y ago
This is the Alignment Problem Lite. Instead of an AGI sending the harvester drones to turn us all into paperclips, we have ML harvesting our sanity for clicks and views.
816.
by Igelau 6y ago
Of course. I just wasn't aware that there were modems for the IIe.
817.
by Igelau 6y ago
> Most of the sites were developed using an HTML pre-processor or on an Apple IIe. IIe? Sure you don't mean the iMac G3?
818.
by Igelau 6y ago
That's not eugenics. It's one of those short-sighted "utilitarian" views that you'd usually see on LessWrong or something. It's not eugenics though.
819.
by Igelau 6y ago
You say there are no commandments, but these two concepts pass the duck test for commandments. > YAMA – Moral disciplines > NIYAMA – Positive duties You also say there's no creed, and then talk about "bliss in after life&quo
820.
by Igelau 6y ago
It's completely possible he rediscovered it independently, and free from the religious trappings. > Yet he presents it as if he "discovered" it. This is pure intellectual dishonesty. You might want to contemplate your accu
821.
by Igelau 6y ago
Dog breeds are different from produce varietals. With produce they get consistently the same fruit with grafting and such. The genome is locked in place. Animal breeds are more subjective. There isn't really an analogous way to pin one
822.
by Igelau 6y ago
Nor do I think anyone was celebrating John F. Kennedy as some polymath. Degree in government. Navy. Career in government. Pretty narrow focus. Can we even call this an article? It makes no sense. What is Applied Divinity Studies anyway?
823.
by Igelau 6y ago
There's an alternate universe where the USA held onto superpower status with acoustic cats and bat bombs.
824.
by Igelau 6y ago
Those are iPhones.
825.
by Igelau 6y ago
> before CTE was even named, let alone well-known It wasn't named yet, and wasn't described using all the diagnostic tools we have at our disposal today, but it was very well-known. They were calling it "punch drunk&quot
826.
by Igelau 6y ago
It only looks that way because we get in more on-purposes.
827.
by Igelau 6y ago
Airbags are not designed with the bodies of children or infants in rear-facing carseats in mind. They're actually really dangerous for them - potentially lethal.
828.
by Igelau 6y ago
> I pity the fools I got no time for this jibba jabba!
829.
by Igelau 6y ago
It's a .com and the first thing you see is the duck.
830.
by Igelau 6y ago
It's all meat. Even your bones have meat in them.
831.
by Igelau 6y ago
Consider it translated, with "meat" being the closest word. There's an artistic choice to it as well: "They're made of out organic tissue" or whatever you might find more palatable just doesn't have the sa
832.
by Igelau 6y ago
Is this about that? I always thought it was more an exercise in pointing out that other life in the universe may not be recognizable as such. It's hard to imagine such a thing directly, but the story gets us to the border of it by flip
833.
by Igelau 6y ago
If I had to guess, compared to other primates it takes human young too long to be any good for anything. Permanent breasts would make cross-nursing more feasible in the event that a mother died or couldn't produce enough during scarcit
834.
by Igelau 6y ago
Seriously. Sometimes I think everything wrong with America would gradually settle down if we could just collectively disillusion ourselves from the notion that human female nipples are an indecent horrid thing.
835.
by Igelau 6y ago
take them home, pour some wine, and get them sizzling up with a nice fat sausage
836.
by Igelau 6y ago
PSA: mildly risky click if you follow the link to the CodedMails Unsplash Collection. Not sure which template needs the pantsless girl losing her Star Wars t-shirt. Maybe one of the Notifications templates?
837.
by Igelau 6y ago
You mean the ungoodlist?
838.
by Igelau 6y ago
It took me a while to figure out that I had to click the button on the gaudy header to scroll down. When the article previews started bouncing in sporadically, I scrolled back up to get my bearings. I went too far and accidentally scrolled
839.
by Igelau 6y ago
Interesting. I find 'salesperson' pretty easy to pronounce, and it has the advantage of not being homonymous with "cellar". Mileage may vary for your dialect and accent.
840.
by Igelau 6y ago
1974 just called to clarify https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4569756

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