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by amy_petrik 1y ago
if you think it's bad now for reasons of increased reliability and efficiency throughout -- wait till the population starts dropping as boomers die and zoomers don't have kids
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
The solution to spam is that everyone replies to the spam and engages up to the point that human labor is required, thus making it financially impractictable The solution to this problem is not to provide YOUR ID but to provide AN ID, again
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
well here's a big surprise of BWT BWT is a transformation transforming a string into "suffix tree space" You can do searches - very fast searches - in BZ2/BWT compression space Discussed in the '90s in the legendary
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
"Windows 2000 was peak Windows to me." Windows ME was peak windows to 2000
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> there were much more toxic masculinity vibes \ I am very sorry to say toxic masculinity is returning. We girls really need to be getting out there and keeping down men, it's for their own good, lest they literally be flinging the
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>Globalization is fundamentally enabled by the US Navy and US military supremacy guaranteeing shipping trade on the oceans. >This has not been the historical Norm. It's actually historical anomaly caused by the power vacuum of wo
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
We really shouldn't be taking chemicals used on animals for veteran purposes and use them on humans too. For example, ivermectin. It's a drug meant for horses similar to another horse tranquilizer, ketamine. Can you imagine a h
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>" Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters. " >Can anyone help on this? >Without fail, every single time it gets removed instantly. Hello, yes, I can help! You see, dark pattern algorithms found that polarizatio
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> The only reason I have to hire a junior would be to develop them into a senior over 3-5 years, and companies are far too shortsided to think about that training pipeline. Well and, without special arrangements, once trained for 3-5 yea
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>Does this example even compile, given that ptr is not declared anywhere? that comment was not a comment but an interview. and you just failed it.
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
nature of the beast, high risk early on, cheap, price goes up as derisking occurs. for startups and drugs. risk is priced in. to everything
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
we leave poor performance stats and correction as an excercise to the user
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Technically you could use ivermectin to stave off a screw worm infection in humans but lol that's silly. What kind of quack doctor would ever use HORSE TRANQUILIZER on a human lol. That's for horses not people. We need common s
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>dominicans >no homeless bro if everyone is homeless than nobody is
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
also worth mentioning the Smithsonian air and space museum (there are two, the one people know about on the national mall, and the less well known but way better one somewhere in virginia) -- the latter one also pulls the same stunt - free
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
We should allow anyone who wants to come to the US, to come here, to use our welfare system (housing and food are a HUMAN RIGHT). Learning a new language is also pretty damn hard and the US citizens are pretty well educated, so we ought to
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
some guy said something along the lines of "all we know is this is a space object, and it's trajectory, a 1 in 100 chance, is exactly the trajectory of AN ALIEN SPACESHIP ATTACKING EARTH!!!!" I mean, really. Who is surprised
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>In theory, but since this attack has to happen at the time of pairing and leaves evidence--the key you are trying to pair doesn't work afterward- You're assuming the goal is to discretely enter the vehicle and leave no trace.
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Realmovies were the new hotness, evolution of video piracy was >vivoactive is the OG (stream only format, like 50x50 pixels, NO KEYFRAMES - no fast forward, rewind, or seeking), talking about 1995 here >realmovies - higher quality, se
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
He founded the frankling institute in philly and declared it shall have a giant heart, he founded the university of pennsylvania state university, he invented electricity, the very pipes series that the internet interconnected, he invented
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
I disagree, this is neither an Orwellian nor an Huxelian dystopia, but a Gibsonian AI megacorp dystopia
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
the type of maths my man here is saying is along the lines of saying (the average) men are taller than (the average) women, very much true, and there's signal there and there's genetics that make men on average taller... but that&
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
This comedy bit explains the thinking of such folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibWo9t6pos#t=10m
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>"Markets" should not have a veto on policy in a democracy. capitalism is meant to be organic thing like a bacteria. a self-organizing network. one cannot legislate nature, one cannot legislate human nature. Imagine making cr
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Alright let's stop toeing the propaganda line here. MOST drugs do different things. The most extreme example, one of the "dirtiest" drugs, is benadryl aka diphenhydramine, an over the counter common drug. It basically does
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>hub-center steering, well I mean, the choices war to have a Stalinist style strongman to pull things like this, vs a Marxist style / "Committee of Public Safety" type power cabal scapegoating all things white, hetero, mal
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged.. Pretty straigthforward. "The scene" originated in 6502 or 68000 or what have you assembly programmers in the '80s. If you program assembly, you crack software. I
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Just to go off of this, carpenter bees are closely related to mason bees and are another kind of solitary (non-hive bee). I think carpenter bees are the greatest and I can't stop thinking about carpenter bees. They are a bee, which i
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
the crux of ag soil "energy" is just nitrates and stuff. some plants like beans and lentils recharge nitrogen in the soil (hence the old native american trinity or whatever, corn, beans, and some other plant). fertilizer, that&#
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
The death knell for the industry is the redefinition of the unit of American society. The unit at the time of DaBeers smashing 1947 "Diamonds are Forever" campaign, in 1947, was the -family-. It wasn't too long after women&#

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