QuarterReptile

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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Tracking satellites is computationally intensive, Starlink has many satellites, and friends generally don't jam friends' communication satellites. The old jokes about aggressive NFL Copyright enforcement would really pale in compa
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>The Catholic church, as I understand it, has largely decided that this approach is overly cautious and expensive since a decision of a single person (by the virtue of being the pope of Rome) is already guaranteed to be correct. Vatican
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I assume better survivability against anti-satellite weapons.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
To say nothing of the definition of "definition", or at least a common understanding. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRelVFm7iJE
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
So, you would like another independent non-government entity with full access so they can evaluate DOGE? Like a DO(DOGE)E?
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>They are a single-issue organization, and that single issue takes precedence over any other consideration. Increasingly not, but still sometimes yes.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets. The downsides are the bots, the exodus, and the stupid renaming, but it's been almost entirely improvement to me. I was pretty tired of Mastodon and thus happy to return when El
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
At the risk coming off as pedantic, it ceases to be a self-promotion tool if the system is destroyed.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
My 5 year old Surface pro gets 4-5 hours. I find 10th gen and later Intel to get about 8.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
It hasn't happened yet, but if it did, then it still wouldn't be useful.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
You're being down voted because your source links known disinformation sites (detailed elsewhere in the thread.)
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I have a very particular set of skills...
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
And yet here you stand, spending your time trying to convince me that it is a waste of time to convince me that you are wasting your time in trying to change my feelings. Should I believe your words or your actions?
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Certainly someone needs to be second-guessing doctors, because they routinely make decisions that fail to adequately consider both costs and risks. I grant that the insurance companies don't do a good job of it, but don't fall for
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
This is a bizarre take, pretty clearly out of step with who cares about the 2nd amendment.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Few things are as worthy of time as arguing whether feelings are right or wrong. If you can't tell right from wrong, you totter perilously close to becoming a beast, and it's worth trying to save people from that.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Everyone is talking in my town about how it feels like its 15F outside today. In Alaska I bet that would not be news. Executions are somewhat less commonplace than random lethal violence. Plus, everyone knows how to reduce random killings,
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>Are you not an inhumane executioner denying life saving procedures based on 10 sec check and some AI data? Parent pointed out that the CEO was a person. Sophistry ensues, where you denied the humanity of the deceased because of your dis
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
It sounds like your conspiracy theory is that Trump is just trying to pull off a big payday? I won't demean you by suggesting that you're unaware of the absurdity in that. As to giving free hotel stays to the government, I'm
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Trump 45 never got off the ground because he just tried to pick the smartest generals, who in turn disagreed with him on many things and eventually broke with him. Republican legislature is similarly undisciplined. On Democrat agendas, a si
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
You haven't lived until you've spent a whole weekend at work rushing to fix a production-limiting issue because the boss doesn't know, though you do, about the other division's production-limiting issue which cannot, und
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Almost all parts require it, but none are about it. That's how background knowledge works. If you can't get over the drudgery of learning scales and chords, you'll never learn music. The fact that many learners never understa
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Just don't touch anything through Walmart, but yeah, these deals are pretty much real. Play Walmart games, win Walmart prizes.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
It guarantees that Nvidia's margins will be shifting downward by painting the biggest target anyone has painted on his own back since the US in Desert Storm.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>If you have $20M and your lifestyle requires no more than $800K/yr of income taxed a waaaaay lower rates than the working stiffs pay on the same, Won't somebody think of the "working stiffs" who have to slave away fo
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
No, the water wheel ("water brake", they called it) was real, it was for wasting energy, and we didn't go anywhere; but also, yes, it was a submarine, in form, albeit not exactly in function.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
At a previous job, we ran a nuclear reactor but didn't want much electricity, so we'd use the power to turn a giant water wheel with all the surplus steam...
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
My suspicion is that the proliferation of cremation has significantly reduced the incidence of wakes. That, and US American society has so much functional separation that most of us probably interact very little with the elderly, thus also
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I couldn't quite follow the wording, but it sounded like open-casket visitation, but at home instead of a funeral home.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>Why do people constantly equate what car someone drives with the size of their reproductive organs? Minivan --> probably has a lot of kids. Seems like a fair connection!

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