bratgpttamer

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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I love being left alone with my thoughts, but I'd probably push the button anyway, not out of boredom, but because it's a rare opportunity to see what the infamous psych lab electric shocks are like.
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I think a big thing that's overlooked is the difference between psychological and physiological dependency, as well as the stigma or popular idea of addiction. Weed doesn't feel addictive in the classic sense, especially in comp
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
"If your revenue stream is unfairly disrupted, just sue the major corporation with your backup pile of cash, switch over to your backup line of credit, and if all else fails, ask daddy for a small loan of a million bucks to see you thr
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Holding Occam's Razor constant, perhaps the meaning of "conspiracy theory" has been expanded. Not everything has a causal chain that's 100.0% provable with publicly-available evidence. See also: https://en.wik
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Real Programmers don't use punch cards; they toggle the programs in directly via front-panel switches (in octal).
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I read something a while back where the owner/CEO/VP/Head Brewer of Sam Adams, who was expected to go to certain beer/brewing events and basically have a beer with each vendor, would eat a packet of yeast beforehand. He
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Classes cost money. Books make no money. Charging by the minute to read books makes money. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prison...
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Their Oligrapher tool is pretty cool, even if it does act like a Six Degrees Of [Clinton|Bush] engine
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
crickets
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
> Ham radio operators may notice them when shortwave signals fail to skip over the horizon, shooting through holes instead of bouncing back to Earth. Sudden GPS errors can also result from the anomalies. These effects may be troublesome,
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
"The Senate Parliamentarian had a doctor's appointment today, so regretfully, we couldn't pass this even if we wanted to"
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
As someone who has lived their entire life outside of OR/NJ, I cannot stand full-service gas stations (slow, silly, annoying) and will go well out of my way to avoid the few that still exist. I used to routinely drive between PA and NY
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I think this is the point the OP is making - one that's been made for years: if "everyone" used Tor, simply using Tor wouldn't be a useful indicator.
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I'm not sure what deliverables you're referring to, but if it's not useful for shielding one's identity from prosecutors/persecutors, why would spies, grifters, traffickers, terrorists, child abusers, and puppy-kick
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
A friend of mine is a (retired) MD/MPH who was asked in February '20 to be on some task force or another. I congratulated him, but he said turned it down. I was kinda shocked and asked why. "Imagine you're the captain of
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Sure, but I'm talking about a day-to-day practical level. Most people will only ever need to modify A/CNAME, occasional MX and TXT, and maybe an SOA/PTR. Even the more arcane record types (as far as I've ever used them
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
> There’s no reason to care about online privacy > [I just said] I was a privacy researcher. Is "privacy researcher" some kind of euphemism here? > There’s no money in being a creep about it, so people mind their own busi
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
[criticize(p) for p in worldcoin.properties]
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I feel like DNS is one of the more straightforward protocols, especially on a practical level, and especially given that most interfaces are a dropdown and two text boxes. I have noticed a lot of developers shy away from it, probably becaus
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
When this first launched, I thought it was some kind of performance art, or a clever attempt to establish a precedent against building such things. Then, I realized he was serious.
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I can't decide if it would be easier to convince people of the benefit of extra steps/slow internet/privacy protections, or to reflexively engage their skepticism/critical thinking muscles upon hearing Save-The-Children-
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Same, but seems it's already archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20230728131032/https://dmitriid....
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Cambridgehaven Syndrome is marked by an inability to start an anecdote without "When I was at Harvard/Yale..."
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Agreed - but, isn't character assassination a classic technique of authorities employed against those who disagree with them?
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Dumb question: how do Adobe, et al. do it when creating the standard color wheel/color picker? Would there not be some kind of Levenshteinesque mapping possible, against something like `FlattenedColorLine = Circle2LineProjection(Genera
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I took this as a tongue-in-cheek remark akin to "dead patients are stable" - the implication being of course that "stable" doesn't mean "good" or "healthy".
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Bankers gonna banker
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
As far as I've heard, the rationale is that it's still federally illegal. Many dispensaries get around it by using some kind of "ATM mode" on the keypads, where they round up your purchase to the nearest $10 then give yo
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
Recently, I was drinking with a (Russian) friend who commented that I'm the only one he struggles to keep up with while drinking and that he goes home blackout drunk every time we hang out. We don't drink that much, and decided
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by bratgpttamer 3y ago
I'm not sure what's "convenient" there (or, conversely, what's "inconvenient" about dismissing gang violence), but there has always been squabbling over MCIs. From Wikipedia: > A mass casualty incident

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