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by biesnecker 4y ago
I've literally never been asked my college GPA, let alone high school. My first job out of school wanted to know that I had a degree, which I did, and asked me practical questions. Every job since has asked me about previous jobs and t
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by biesnecker 4y ago
That is quite similar to how I play now anyway, so I might be really good at this version.
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by biesnecker 4y ago
"Combustion and Flame" has to be one of the best journal names out there.
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by biesnecker 4y ago
Webster defines "missile" as "capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object" -- the modern use I think came from "guided missile," but in practice we've dropped the guided in most cases.
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by biesnecker 4y ago
Am I the only person who read that title as `Bullsh[T]`?
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by biesnecker 4y ago
I'm so sorry to hear this. My kids love Technoblade. He's one of the few streamers I know by name. Gone far too soon.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
The hell it doesn’t! Let me tell you … ;-)
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Chelsea FC, one of the larger clubs in the Premiership, is owned by Roman Abramovich, one of the Russian oligarchs personally named as a target of sanctions as a result of Russia invading Ukraine. Given that, and the possibility that his as
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by biesnecker 5y ago
There's a pretty wide gap, though, between "nicely representable in rust" and "mechanically translatable from the C++ implementation" that mostly requires human effort to span.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
It's not though? Sure, there are edge cases (breastfeeding being labeled as porn, for example), but the vast majority of what is blocked as porn on major social networks is actually porn as understood by most people. That's not th
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Actually unintentional but I saw it after and chortled
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by biesnecker 5y ago
It's a little nuts to me how many articles cite the $10 billion price tag as astronomical when we spent that in maybe 2 weeks during the peak of the Iraq War, and for what?
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Seeing Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum a decade or so ago totally changed my view of seeing things in a museum vs. seeing them online. I'm a child of the internet and had this view that seeing it on my screen was good enough, but wow is
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by biesnecker 5y ago
I randomly bought The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching two decades ago at my university bookstore and it changed me forever. I’m not a Buddhist today but I’d like to think the core principles are still there. A tremendous loss.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Anecdotally a lot of that is coming from California, though, which would have no net effect on the median line, right?
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Over the weekend I wrote a tool to help me figure this out: https://github.com/biesnecker/wordlesmith Wordle's wordlist is interesting. There is a large (~10,000 words) list of words that it will accept as guesses
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Wordlesmith, a tool to find the best Wordle guesses(github.com)
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by biesnecker 5y ago
I'm in a similar boat. 1.75x is probably the best speed for me for most speakers, but until I was able to speed up audio/video I also had a really hard time paying attention in lectures / watching informative content.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Though tbh nothing sounds more relaxing than a warm cup of homemade coffee and some net gun target practice in the morning :-D
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Are there any major non-porn OnlyFans creators? I’ve never seen it referenced outside of adult content.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
They're not actively scanning your phone, they're actively scanning files you send them.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Who is scanning your phone right now with PhotoDNA?
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by biesnecker 5y ago
> This is a false-positive rate of 2 in 2 trillion image pairs (1,431,168^2). Assuming the NCMEC database has more than 20,000 images, this represents a slightly higher rate than Apple had previously reported. But, assuming there are les
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Sorry, I know I don’t have below average IQ, I was being snarky. :-)
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Leave? I work for a FAANG, and have for a while. Maybe I have below average IQ, too, but I've met and had the pleasure of working with some of the smartest, hardest working, kindest people in my career here. Some assholes too, of cours
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by biesnecker 5y ago
If it had turned into a friendly, America-loving democracy that would tolerate our bases, then it’s an unsinkable aircraft carrier bordering Russia and China. Pretty good real estate.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
Works fine for me in Chrome 91.0.4472.164 on a Mac.
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by biesnecker 5y ago
+1 I would not publish mine, both because of a lot of work-related things, but also a lot of weird / inside-joke / funny but probably only to me references in them. I also believe firmly that the act of creating flashcards is part
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by biesnecker 5y ago
I have ~10,000 cards in a Chinese deck (learning characters in college ~20 years ago is how I started with spaced repetition) that I built throughout the 2000s when I in college and then living in Shanghai. I don't add much to it anymo
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by biesnecker 5y ago
I’m very wary of putting my flashcards (about 25k in a bunch of decks stretching back nearly 20 years now) in something that either 1) I own fully (I’ve bought the software and it will work even if your company doesn’t); or 2) at least prov

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