IvyMike

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by IvyMike 1y ago
> People who assume that everyone is an idiot but themselves are rarely correct. This is an off-by-one error.
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by IvyMike 1y ago
How will ChatGPT learn the next computer language now?
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by IvyMike 1y ago
Galaxy brain: indent using U+001F Unit Separator
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Temple Grandin says this keeps the riders calmer.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Just put your dishwasher in airplane mode...
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The github references this document: Timo Richter, Stephan Escher, Dagmar Schönfeld, and Thorsten Strufe. 2018. Forensic Analysis and Anonymisation of Printed Documents. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multi
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The golf animation is described as a problem, but I say it depicts what would actually happen.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
This guy is in contention for pope, and he's definitely got an edge in this contest. https://collegeofcardinalsreport.com/cardinals/pierbattista-...
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The real hack is to have two drills. Seems excessive but once you do it you'll never go back.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
"In conclusion, this study provides additional evidence that many prescription pharmaceuticals retain their full potency for decades beyond their manufacturer ascribed expiration dates. Given the potential cost savings, we suggest the
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Stability of Active Ingredients in Long-Expired Prescription Medications(tesble.com)
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I don't have a ton of experience gluing PETG--the one I've used is "PETG Gloop", which I don't think he tested. I wonder if there's a close analog, or where it would fall in his rankings. (PETG Gloop SDS is av
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Big 1984 energy coming from this story. “It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ra
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The Eaton fire is currently destroying Altadena in what I would call regular neighborhoods on regular streets. On a good day, it's like 20 minutes from Downtown LA. It's hard to fathom. https://www.reddit.com/r&#x
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The "The cardinal mistake is inconsistency" is 100% true. We used to call the guiding philosophy of working in these codebases "When in Rome".
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by IvyMike 2y ago
If you have home automation, surely you've run into this situation when Comcast flakes (or similar): "OK, Google, turn lights on" "Check your connection and try again" As far as I can tell, if you have Home Assistan
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I think you would really have needed to learn Perl in the 1990's. Perl had three huge advantages (at least for me) when I first used it in 1992: 1: familiar syntax which paralleled well-loved tools (sed, troff, grep) 2: associative arr
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I always liked this clause from the Underhanded C Contest: "The Underhanded C Contest was a programming contest to turn out code that is malicious, but passes a rigorous inspection, and looks like an honest mistake even if discovered.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I just gave a connection white supremacy and evolution denial, not trying to prove any absolutes. Everything you are saying seemed kinda obvious and thus I didn't mention it.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
As a whole? White supremacists hate the idea that they could have had non-white ancestors. Belief in a white Adam & Eve is much more in line with their world view. Non-whites were created by "the Curse of Ham". https:/&
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Back in my day we just looked at the ctime of /dev/mouse
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by IvyMike 2y ago
In some ways, it's right on schedule: https://twitter.com/deepakvenkatesh/status/18483562170366856...
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I went to a state school, but I understood that the system in the Ivy League is: The smart kids get to take advantage of the rich kid's money and access, and rich kids get to take advantage of the smart kid's smartness. Depending
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Reminds me of Von Goom's Gambit https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v031n06_...
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by IvyMike 2y ago
In my foodie circles I hear makrut lime more often.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
There's a future issue looming: at some point, a lot of the natural gas peaker plants build for 2021 capacity will be idle almost all of the time. (Based on how often my local peaker plant seems to run, that may actually already be th
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Did you just invent yet another linux audio stack?
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by IvyMike 2y ago
If you're curious, here's her PhD thesis. (It's dual-language German/English): https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/deliver...
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I'm currently building this 3d printed version of the Antikythera mechanism. It's not easy: https://www.printables.com/model/284372-antikythera-mechanis... It is insane how complicated this is, and this is
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The ones I've seen in person do not "only annoy police"; they may have been trying to provoke a police response, but they were just harassing normies on the street as well. Linking to the ones I've seen: https:/

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