berbec

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by berbec 3y ago
I did. At 35 I sold my Domino's, moved to NYC and started doing freelance tech support. I never looked back and am much happier
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by berbec 3y ago
I have a friend doing her PhD in cancer research. She tells me to take every Phase I trial with a huge grain of salt, because they rarely make it to market. [1] 1: https://i.postimg.cc/L4G0FdWf/cancer-study.jpg
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by berbec 3y ago
I prefer smart light switches to smart bulbs myself. It seems like a cleaner, less wasteful way of getting what i really want - the ability to turn lights on and off from an app/through voice. Putting all this circuitry into a bulb wit
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by berbec 3y ago
> the typical reality of internet pornography, even though is what they want to be made available to kids You think this article show that TechDirt wants internet pornography to be available to children? I'm confused how you got the
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by berbec 3y ago
Correct, they wanted to illustrate how an overly broad law, supposedly designed to target pornography, would instead target art.
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by berbec 3y ago
They specifically were trying to illustrate how overly broad the law was, and > the law they’re defending sweeps in paintings like Manet’s Olympia (1863) It wasn't a bad attempt to "illustrate what pornography is", but an
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by berbec 3y ago
Is it possible because the URL is a php script, the crawler will skip it? I would think OpenAI could figure that level of obfuscation out.
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by berbec 3y ago
Google is amazing. I pay them money for multiple services, but the Google of 2000 would want to kick 2023 Google's ass, take it's lunch money and auction off g.2000's pens. As much as I wish it, Google search is only the seco
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by berbec 3y ago
Thank you for this, but infinite captcha for me.
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by berbec 3y ago
Well, CEOs are increasing their performance at all important job metrics, at a much faster pace than any unimportant "worker" has done, in all of history. Just look at stock price, dividends and/or executive compensation. The
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by berbec 3y ago
Thanks for this, but infinite captcha for me.
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by berbec 3y ago
Is the programming language likely the issue here?
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by berbec 3y ago
I imagine we won't know because of HIV's long life in the body, properly medicated. No one is willing to run a study to determine that, as it essentially sentences the control group to death.
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by berbec 3y ago
firefox & windows
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by berbec 3y ago
Don't forget, every 100 years isn't a leap year, but every 400 is. Their are 485 leap years between 2000 and 3999, inclusive, for a total of 730,120 days.
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by berbec 3y ago
infinite captcha for me :(
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by berbec 3y ago
Not understanding the basic idea of "{I, a loved one} is hungry; I will steal to feed {myself, them}" is an amazing thing to me. I am so glad people exist who can't understand this thinking. Not because of any moral idealism
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by berbec 3y ago
> Is anyone truly needy enough to shoplift? Please tell me this is a troll. Please.... * Eating it anyway when you learn how to cook. * Buying anything on sale, because you can't buy anything else, and anything is better than nothin
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by berbec 3y ago
If you can mount your NAS as an iSCSI volume, you're golden. https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/9chhz6/backblaze...
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by berbec 3y ago
For those to lazy to run base64 --decode, here's the result: // Here's a cake if you thought about inspecting the code before executing it: let css = 'font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; color: red'; console.lo
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by berbec 3y ago
Could someone with knowledge of this ELI5 for me? It seems that this is the way Douglas Adams' Finite Improbability Generator functions. [1] 1: "The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking t
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by berbec 3y ago
actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01314-8
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by berbec 3y ago
The 3090 was the last card to get NVLink, which I believe allows you to do just that. None of the other 3000-series, nor any 4000-series, has it.
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by berbec 3y ago
:(){ :|:& };: explodes fine as a regular user
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by berbec 3y ago
A local paper recommends going straight to the Red Cross. [1] https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/ Their is a pull-down to direct your donation to the Hawaii Wildfires. 1: https://www.hawaiitr
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by berbec 3y ago
If anyone is interested, here's the offer: https://www.eqt-marcel-offer.com/websites/3004_ma/English/10...
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by berbec 3y ago
punch cards per bald eagle
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by berbec 3y ago
A massive power and CPU load decrease in Zstandard is a big win for Intel. AMD has been racking up major pluses in the enterprise space, with RAM, PCIE and core count advantage. Showing that any Intel is faster at such a major CPU load ta
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by berbec 3y ago
This is a nice statement, but the TOS is the important part, not what this marketing piece says. > You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and
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by berbec 3y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36981580

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