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by adolph 2y ago
Probably closer to "You're Holding It Wrong"
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by adolph 2y ago
Husband alarm activated: Danger Danger, make positive statement and redirect to how they feel about it!
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by adolph 2y ago
> Lenovo manages to do sleep/wake fine in Linux almost as well as Apple in my experience and I sleep/wake my Lenovo laptop regularly -- this is across two different models I have used so far (X1 and X390). I'd rate my Open
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by adolph 2y ago
I had no idea. There doesn't seem to be a way to verify that claim either. Strings "gcaptain" and "konrad" to not appear in the depreciated sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Depre
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by adolph 2y ago
> to be able to experiment and hack random little personal stuff Yes, a more sane approach is just use replit or the like, but this thread is about keeping it complicated. > 2) enter into another subscription-ish contractual relations
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by adolph 2y ago
The giant sloth was the first thing that came to my mind. Nearly every time I'm at the grocery I think about the giant ground sloth theory of avocado evolution: A number of authors, including Connie Barlow in her 2001 book The Ghos
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by adolph 2y ago
As this recent gold market perturbation was kicking off, gCaptain laid out a conjecture that follows Cryptonomicon: Can we talk about how, before WWII, nearly every village in China had a gold Buddha filled with gems, serving as the local
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by adolph 2y ago
DNS to a local address doesn’t expose anything. For example, postulate a DNS entry of myTopSecrets mapped to localhost. If you use it, it will be routed to your own computer. If someone else uses it, they would be routed to their own comput
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by adolph 2y ago
Using a gerund is a touch false. The evidence provided is a change in the ToS from bitly: Upcoming changes to our Terms of Service We are making some adjustments to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy that will affect you as a
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Hydrogen is also not particularly "green" without further spending for generation capacity. Currently, most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels, specifically natural gas. Electricity—from the grid or from renewable sources suc
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by adolph 2y ago
In some ways it is an inversion of inetd. Instead of something that listens to a bunch of ports and launches a port corresponding process, the user has a service that will listen to a random port and they wish to address it in a human-reada
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by adolph 2y ago
Maybe this is an opportunity. Is there already a “DNS for ports” whereby the hosts file is propagated with application process identifiers that are mapped to localhost:port in hosts file?
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Subhead is "Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly - Part 2." The subhead sounds weird, but part 1 makes more sense and is pretty interesting. Perl has many modules to deal with file formats nobody has used since Perl's prime. It i
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by adolph 2y ago
And thus we see one chapter of the thousands across time in the story of how certain species have evolved to evoke benevolent reactions from humans.
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by adolph 2y ago
in skeuomophic brushed metal held the wrong way
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by adolph 2y ago
Could you explain in non-specialist language how similarities between these modern languages now has anything to do with their relationship from some earliest common ancestor? How is that explanation better than convergent evolution or over
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by adolph 2y ago
He was on the Dwarkesh podcast last August to provide some lay person friendly synopsis and updates to “Who We Are.” Worth listening to even if you have read the book (in my mind at least). Warning, link has an auto play when I opened it (b
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by adolph 2y ago
> not a team of financial auditors There is a claim that many federal payments do not have information necessary for traditional financial audits. Maybe a team of forensic auditors would be more apt?
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> Or, even more horrible, they might have family that adversaries can lean on. Isn't that the case for any government employee?
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by adolph 2y ago
In the notes about St Tristan de Cunha, “youngest English accent” does that mean the most recently split from England accents? Does that exclude Antarctic English? Tristan's isolation is also the reason it has the world's younges
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by adolph 2y ago
Any system that doesn’t ruthlessly self edit winds up like a genomic katamari. Systems are like babies: once you get one, you have it.[a.] They don’t go away. On the contrary, they display the most remarkable persistence. They not only per
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This seems like a large apartment/condo complex with a variance for number of parking spaces.[0] I think the distinction between this and a conventional neighborhood is that the central organization retains property ownership. Culdesac
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For other folks who find grid identity as a shared frequency fascinating, this week's Complex Systems podcast won't disappoint. https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/electricity-g...
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> morally culpable Whose morals? What morals?
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> Sure enough, here we are, except it seems nobody is looking out for the best interests of their communities anymore. Thank god for dang. Here's to dang! Even when you do things I might not agree with if I knew about them, this is
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by adolph 2y ago
From TFA: There’s actually a recent study by William Brady, an assistant professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He and his colleagues found that outrage actually helps misinform
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Why would a person misrepresent the memo when the file is there for anyone to read?
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No, that doesn’t clarify anything. Copy-pasting irrelevant responses is spam, please stop.
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> As I’ve said twice now: it was the actual thing that was done (in this case, lowering standards and throwing qualified people to the wolves) that was lazy and stupid, not the umbrella “DEI” itself. No true Scotsman or appeal to purity
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> it will really hurt the Democrats chances of success for the future "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" Nevermind all the people who wanted and invested in attaining this seemingly awful but crucial job and got

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