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by amy_petrik 2y ago
>It's pretty hypocritical to unironically use an Italian idiom for a Mediterranean pidgin that literally means `language of the Franks`, I don't know if that has an argument fallacy like ad hominem, would we call this "ad
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
Just to play devil's advocate on de-industrialization here -- The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced”
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
Hal Finney died when Satoshi disappeared, it's an old theory though, not recent. The thinking is either Satoshi died, lost the billion dollar keys intentionally or unintentionally, or beats to a different drum and is in it for the lov
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
><!ENTITY x ...> and then you use them as &#x; maybe you are familiar with < representing < Okay. This is syntactically painful, APL or J tier. C++ just uses "&" to indicate a reference. That's a
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
That's a bit confusing to me, I don't understand. I think that type of tagging can be ambiguous. Just to suggest a better construct: <tag type="tag" class="tag" purpose="tag" tag_subtype="em
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
XML is honestly the greatest and I'm not sure why it didn't take off. People sometimes ask me, "what impacted the humanity the most - electricity? antibiotics? combustion engines?" -- no, no, and no, it was XML. Everyt
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
Not sure if insurance is mandatory in the US or not It's mandatory and requiring proof when you register your car. Your insurer also has a line to the DMV (car registration government) to say, "FYI this guy is not insured" a
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
B cell antibodies are a the B cell receptor. T cell antibodies are the T cell receptor, which is just an antibody attached to the T-cell (in simplistic terms of a complex system). There are other tradeoffs. B-cell antibodies have a much
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
I am using Plus from Australia, and while I am not getting a full glass, nor am I getting a half full glass. The glass I'm getting is half empty.
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
the bodybuilding scene has gotten more advanced than just steriods, for example: - SARMs (selective androgen receptor modulators) - eg ostarine - they hit your muscles androgen receptors selectively, nominally other receptors (ie reproduc
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
the use of customer-central water usage data piques my interest. there's a huge market for selling water and waste data to advertisers and other companies interested in consumer data. This is one of my friend's startups, smartpi
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
> modern CPU emulating PowerPC emulating 68k is just fine. I personally like to run my PowerPC 68050, 6502 NES emulator virtual python environment on the cloud, so that way you can virtual machine while you virtual machine while you virt
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
The other interesting things about axolots is they have what is called "neoteny" basically meaning the organism COULD proceed to adult form but never does - the natural axolotl is sort of a half-metamorphized creature for life, si
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
This topic comes up periodically and I feel that there is an underlying incorrect assumption about the use case. The assumption is that these devices, mobile phones, etc, run speech-to-text and upload text to the company. Quite an underta
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
Well it's a couple things - Expectation to be "successful" i.e. social media presents extreme conceptions of success, similar to a supermodel body expectation vs. real life. To say, "I'm looking for work" is t
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
Other part of it, yes, Benny F was quite an edgelord, but it took patience and drive in those days. You couldn't just drop a shitpost in 30 seconds, no, you had to lay out the shitpost in little tiny metal letters, and make copies of
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by amy_petrik 2y ago
my first thought was, "what does it look like fully specced out, 512 GB RAM cannot be cheap" fully specced out it's ~$15k now I bet that'd be a fine $15k AI machine but if I wanted a CPU AI rig a cobbling of multi-core m