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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>An unreliable computer treated as a god by a pre-information-age society sounds like a Star Trek episode. star trek, and twilight zone too
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Also, people are usually like LOL it's just mRNA it goes away But evidence does show it CAN go back to DNA with mechanisms familiar to anyone edgycated in molecular genetics - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35723296&#x
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>I guess the problem is a mismatch between detection capability and treatment capability? the problem is you do the test for 7 billion people, say, 30 times over their life... 210000000000 tests. imagine how many false negatives and fal
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
it was mostly marketing "oooh altivec can do sooo many FP calculations that it has to be licensed as a deadly weapon". Same kinda marketing for MMX "if a programmer was an a MMX guru then basically you have a supercomputer b
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>Lime disease Ah yes, good old Lime Disease, named after the town it was invented in, "Lime, Connecticut", Abraham Lime 1898, former student of Koch's lab in Germany.
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> build digital twins (for the rest of us) on which simulate all-round interventions based Digital twins, what a freaking crock. Imagine claiming to simulate the biochemical pathways of a trillion cells and 3 billion basepairs and a gor
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply; That sounds crooked as hell, sorry to hear. Far as I am concerned, the only person who carbonates my family's water is ME and maybe coca cola. Th
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
the modern skin, you know, uncovered from the outside world. as opposed to the victorian skin which wise hidden away from dangerous UV light behind many layers of undergarments, hoop dresses, 5 piece suits, monocles, and so on
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>How is Cloudflare a parasite? >I never said they weren't bad. >I don't understand the hostility. It's known the community here doesn't like Cloudflare, and anyone who's been on the customer end of Cloudfla
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
the first equals is a boolean test, like "A=B, True or False", the second equals button is an evaluate mandate, like "2+2" -> = -> 4. Evil bit of code under the hood with the treplicate stack
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
1) there is no absolute good and evil, only politics and consequent propaganda 2) thy social media dark mirror hast found that thy politically polarizing content is thy most profitable content, and barring that, propaganda is also profitabl
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
here's the thing If I flew to Japan, overstayed the visa, take a job under the table, just hang out living there... I would not be surprised that, should the government discover me, that I would naturally be deported. I will be happy t
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
Nobody is trying to stop the transitions, electric cars are a dog and for shit. Specifically the batteries, they're hyper-expensive, the range is for crap, and they need to be replaced every X years. The left was idiotic to think dump
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
You are right to say something like this freaks people out and the media would be happy to publicize it - fear sells. Consider the dude who went around NYC with a power saw in each hand -- https://nypost.com/2006/07&#x2
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
You think Iran is going to be bombed and then… not retaliate? If war was a physical fight, that what the US has done is a smack to the face, whereas an invasion might be a swing of a samurai sword. So, what we're doing here is getting
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
I think we need to define "decentralized" here Google in and of itself is decentralized from an engineering perspective. There's no giga-computer in Mountain View that all search requests funnel though. It's a highly d
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>Science should ALWAYS be free to ask questions and explore them no matter how uncomfortable they sound. And this is a huge overreaction to how the left politicized science their way and continued to say that’s it not political. Like whe
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
it's a bit like rocket engines, training a big fat LLM is super duper expensive like a rocket and all else being equal, you'd like to get it right the first try. someone who has built a lot of rocket engines knows all the gotchas
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
sourcee: beerfest (2006) :: Barry Badrinath, down on his luck man-hooker: It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, $15 for a ZJ... Landfill: [Interrupting] What's a ZJ? Barry Badrinath: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> "[Zuck] has mediocre talent"I read it as he not talented himself. Not about the talent he employs. I know Zuck personally and this is one of the big understandings to do with him. If you adjust his selector switch (just belo
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
leetcode will strengthen the youngblood programmer for competitive matters such as competitions or interviews
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
The universe... what a concept. You know, the universe is a little bit like the human hand. For example, you have Growmann's Center right here and then you have undiscovered worlds and and Sector 8 and up here is Tittleman's crest
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
In most of the US, and in urban areas in particular, absolutely E-bikes are king. In California or the bay area in particular, motorcycles are a major contender due to ability to take on highways at speed, but still able to cut through tra
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> But when I saw Java's syntax, I was like....this is not happening. No, you're good, this is the natural reaction of basically all programmers except for those strange beasts known as Java programmers who believe verbosity and
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
there is a small community of people that do indeed run this locally. typically on CPU/RAM (lots and lots of RAM), insofar as that's cheaper than GPU(s).
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
>They are driven by young, dumbass children or inbred rednecks who bought the libertarian/fascist line about needing to own some libs or the line about the government needing to get out of people's lives and let everyone do wha
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> We were sure that a better product would win people over and lead to viral success. It didn’t. Things grew, but so slowly that we ran out of money after a few years before reaching break even. Relevant apocrypha: https://www
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by amy_petrik 1y ago
> has to be done by something closer to the hubble telescope (pointed backwards). state of the art is about 2x diameter, with adaptive optics methodologies that avoid needing to polish a giga-mirror over several years
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
>This tilts the balance on the whole enough to maintain the health of the network. If you change these, you'd need to introduce other mechanisms to preserve the network incentives. This is the real key point here. In the P2P wars,
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
it's a fascinating read however I believe most psychiatric disorders are traced not to the mitochondrion organelle, but rather, the midichlorians

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