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by at_a_remove 2y ago
It seems what would be best is something topical that did not "go systemic," which blocked androgen receptors from receiving DHT. I have been tiptoeing around this topic because, while I desperately need testosterone supplementati
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
This is strongly reminiscent of the main animation in the arcade video game Qix.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
This is partially a question and the rest is shameful confession: I had haltingly used cvs as a solo programmer, and when I was suddenly no longer a solo programmer and had to use git, everything went haywire. I am an Old and we never wer
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
At a Starbucks years ago, a woman next to me requested to plug into my USB charger, which had an open port. Since any interaction of mine with a new person was doomed to awkwardness, of course I ended up with the sadly comical three-try, t
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Gracious, I never said that they were the only people informing me on society. They make for some interesting seed quotes and ideas for further discussion. The American Dream as a concept is probably worthy of a series of books, not reall
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
That's close to what I have gleaned. You'll recall in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , HST goes on and on about the American Dream, as if the duo could locate it in a physical place, like finding the source of a river. In this
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
And you get all of that energy back when you powder that aluminium, mix it with rust, and manage (with difficulty) to ignite it.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have a very vague concept for this, with a different implementation. Some, uh, sites (forums?) have content that the AI crawlers would like to consume, and, from what I have heard, the crawlers can irresponsibly hammer the traffic of said
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
How I learned it, as a mere undergrad, was that the mass of the virtual particle for the field in question determined exactly how long it could exist, just by the uncertainty principle -- much like the way the virtual particles drive Hawkin
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I love ffmpeg, but yeah, some bits are a little ... obscure. Right now, I am looking to normalize some audio without using ffmpeg-normalize, a popular Python package. Nothing against it on a personal level, I just ... want to know what is
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I am here to sell you on one word: ramdisks. If you are doing processing with intermediate steps you do not want to keep? Ramdisks. Oh yeah. Oh yeah .
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I wonder what the people against anonymity would make of the Federalist Papers, if they even remember them. Many of the "founding fathers" of the United States wrote under pseudonyms or other such distractions. Probably a dismis
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have deep but vague thoughts around the concept. My first intuition is that we have put too many things under NULL and None and such. Partially, we use ... and I'll be very broad here ... "variables" as boxes we look in fo
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Do not have faith. Once they pick some dumb track, they will stick with it until they either lose legally or lose in the court of public opinion (donors). See also: Oberlin. If this is a one-party state, record those calls! Best thing to
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Anonymous username, as real name is, uh ... I had hippie parents. Kind of a hapax legomenon. Rotate usernames, trashing old ones fairly often. I started the rotation after an employee of my then-local ISP blabbed my IRL name in IRC, even
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Easy to implement, but much room for optimization. The rules are simple, but give rise to complexity. Despite conservation of mass and such not being a part of the rules, what appear to us to be "objects" arise, and can even exhib
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
This looks interesting for an eventual project. I want to separate out music into groups, then into shuffleable playlists. I would eventually stream each to one of those local FM transmitters so I could build a few radio stations for my mo
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have passed on at least a few codebases. Sometimes, people get bright ideas and just dump what's working to do greenfield stuff. This is why an ex-coworker recently wanted me to come back to braindump on something I finished in 200
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
So here is my question, or one of them, as someone starting this whole journey: exactly what metadata do you want outside of artist, song title, album title? Because I can see there's a lot to be had. Embedded album covers, subgenr
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I believe that this is a technical issue now. In a more ideal world, procedure, legislation, regulation, protocols would be followed to slow the growth of antibiotic resistance, but there are just too many Defectors for that approach. It
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I agree and will add in a few bits: although I will obey the language's idiom, in general, I like to keep the number of "things it does" per line of code to the minimum. Kind of an anti-code golf. I also document (or comment
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Multiple visualizations. A seed, a sprout, a tree. A baby, a child, an adult, an elder. And so on. I am still a fan of vitrification and dumping the end results along the subduction zone of a tectonic plate, myself.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I was once given this ridiculously short deadline to provide a full project. "We're going to be Agile and run this through Agile processes." I hadn't met the stakeholders yet (I would in fact not meet them at all) or
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I would say that, on balance, one must prove DNA to be not -junk. The idea that you can have DNA of some critter and there aren't some errors, unused bits, and so on, after what must be trillions of copies, well, I would find it stati
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Oh, ultrasonics can definitely harm flesh if focused. Yes, I am the guy who tested it with a room humidifier. I knew it would hurt, I did it anyway.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I used to do a great deal of local mapwork. Google Maps tends to not do rural areas as well as urban or suburban areas, usually missing the existence of Road A and then assigning the name of Road A to Road B, that kind of thing. The naive
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I recently saw one painted primer black and immediately felt like going home so I could watch Johnny Mnemonic . It appears to be a triumph of aesthetic over function, needing only EL-wire underlighting to look like it escaped from the Tro
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Then you could replace the LLM with a much cheaper RNG and let it guess until the "bad math filter" let something through. I was once asked by one of the Clueless Admin types if we couldn't just "fix" various sites
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I did that, too, but I took it a bit further, possibly as a product of not having vision for about a year as a toddler, other than "light" and "dark."
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Hi! Physics BS, but they let me take some grad courses, including a Spacetime and Relativity class. I can help. The word "mass" is used in physics in three different general contexts. First, we have mass in mass-energy, as in &

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