bregma

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by bregma 11mo ago
Still too verbose. Here's a TL;DR. Meta is borrowing a whole lot of money and they're lying about it to investors.
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by bregma 11mo ago
It's been tried a number of times. It has never worked out well.
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by bregma 11mo ago
Ah, just like home.
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by bregma 11mo ago
Just yell out "Who is number two working for?" and then give a courtesy flush.
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by bregma 11mo ago
I remember moving from SCCS to RCS because it was considered superior.
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by bregma 11mo ago
You still have to be aware of the difference between precision and accuracy, and how to propagate precision through calculations to maintain accuracy. It's a forgotten skill that lets us now create data out of whole cloth and call it a
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by bregma 11mo ago
If you believe really hard and really try you can transmutate lead into manganese. Of course, eating all that lead will probably kill you first. At least your Lyme won't be a problem any more.
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by bregma 11mo ago
Is that what cocaine smells like?
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by bregma 11mo ago
> counter circuits were shared with the refrigerator Ouch. Code here (Ontario) is that not only does the fridge need a separate circuit, but counter outlets need two separate circuits: each socket on the duplex outlet is required to be o
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by bregma 11mo ago
I strongly suspect ethics are inversely proportional to the size of the deal.
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by bregma 1y ago
> in Git every clone is a fork That's backwards. In Github every fork is just a git clone. Before GitHub commandeered the term "fork' was already in common use and it had a completely different meaning.
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by bregma 1y ago
To simplify: if the exporter lowers their price, the consumer pays the same, the exporter gets less, and the consumer pays the tariff to the government. If the exporter charges the same price, the consumer pays more, the exporter get the sa
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by bregma 1y ago
Mesothelioma caused by asbestos is only a single disease. It has a known cause. It has been well researched. The causal links are clear: prevention is the answer. It doesn't matter that other cancers are different diseases, that is irr
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by bregma 1y ago
Algebra is very visual. Picture the variables and parentheses and constants just moving around, like a choreographed dance. Same with calculus, picturing the curves and areas and surfaces, until you start hitting more than 3 dimensions.
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by bregma 1y ago
Not to mention the freezing point of ethanol is about -20 F. Just touching beer frozen solid enough to insert is going to instantly freeze surface water. You'd get your buttcicle maybe a quarter of the way in and it's going to sta
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by bregma 1y ago
What they mean is all the spinoffs of getting there do not count. Microelectronics, computers, leaps in materials science, massive advances in medical and health sciences, and techniques and processes for very-large-scale project planning a
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by bregma 1y ago
Instructions unclear: cattle prod is now going to require an embarrassing visit to emerg to remove.
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by bregma 1y ago
> politics, religion, and rust Is there a real distinction between any of those?
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by bregma 1y ago
My wife went to El Salvador a few years back. She did not talk to men: men do not talk to animals in that country, that would not be a masculine thing to do. She talked to a lot of women. You get an entirely different view of society from t
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by bregma 1y ago
Flip side is there is a glut of lawyers who will sue for the tiniest bit of negative reporting under slander or libel laws. Next thing you know media corporations are sending emoluments to the highest authorities just for reporting facts li
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by bregma 1y ago
Purely a matter of personal taste. Chicken pate on toast is popular in many regions.
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by bregma 1y ago
The actual NASA chicken cannon just used gelatin blobs because at muzzle velocity the effects were the same but there was a lot less bones and feathers to clean up.
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by bregma 1y ago
But ideally you could stuff it with a dozen thanksgiving turkeys themselves stuffed with ducks stuffed with regular chickens stuffed with sausages. Be prepared: there will probably be leftovers.
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by bregma 1y ago
Mostly because if you settled down a tilled a field of barley you had a reliable source of beer. Finding beer in the wild was and still is an almost certain failure. The roots of global civilization are brown and frothy.
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by bregma 1y ago
Real chemtrails are already invisible. When you see a contrail it's because the jet engines have been poorly maintained to cut costs and increase quarterly returns to the shareholders.
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by bregma 1y ago
Set a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man afire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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by bregma 1y ago
The Globe and Mail is a very right leaning newspaper. The National Post is a far-right echo chamber rag; it's the Toronto Sun for people who can read without moving their lips. In all cases it is important to interpret editorial conten
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by bregma 1y ago
It's everywhere. It's in the ECMs that control your brakes.
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by bregma 1y ago
It's not all about the realtime. It's also about the process isolation. If a Linux driver crashes, it takes down the entire system. If a QNX driver crashes, it's not part of the kernel so it can just be restarted. It's n
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by bregma 1y ago
The QNX call to do that is mmap().

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