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by compass_copium 2mo ago
Finally, I get to see my company plugged on HN!
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
I'm personally a fan of more than 50% of children surviving past the age of 6, something that didn't happen until the 20th century.
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by compass_copium 2mo ago
Thanks for recognizing my greatness :)
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
It's hard to find good info on Chinese netizen culture in English in general. I loved chinaSMACK back in the day, but haven't found a good replacement. Do you know of any blogs or anything about this?
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Plenty of companies are willing to pick RHEL or paid Ubuntu for that very reason, even though they are infinity times more expensive than free Debian
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
$TSLAQ was a thing long, long before Musk was openly donating to Republicans or running DOGE. It's always been a shit company making shitty cars that fall apart and kill their drivers and make their shitty CEO rich.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
There is a lot of highly classified knowledge about nuclear weapons that has been deduced and published in open literature. That information is still treated as secret, restricted and controlled as much as possible by the US government
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
>Any physics teacher should know the theory for constructing a nuclear bomb. Should we be controlling that knowledge too? Maybe not the best example, since that knowledge is some of the most highly controlled in the world. But to mirror
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Not to harp on you (already being downvoted to oblivion for expressing a reasonable and common opinion), but the whole conversation about LLMs enabling bioterrorism or explosive manufacturing is a bit silly. The hard part of making anthrax
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Amazing timing, Jerkcity hits 10,000 strips in like two weeks.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
You should (I assume it's Rands), he clearly does not want to be rembered as a Jerkcity guy now that he's a Serious Palantir Poobah.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Great, looking forward to needing 16GB RAM to watch youtube :(
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
It's a rewarding project! I fixed up a freebie old Schwinn roadbike a few years ago and it's so much fun to ride. I have a freebie Nishiki too waiting for a decision on what to do with it--touring bike or fixie conversion. Enjoy t
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Oh alright fair enough, measured vs. expected basically?
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
I also took it 20 years ago but I feel like they were (of course I also did undergrad chem 16 years ago so I may be conflating things). It's difficult to explain isomers without explaining why multiple bonds don't rotate.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Are "magic coefficients" not just a result of the units you are using? Like how h-bar is 1 if you are using natural units
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
You had a poor organic course. Even orgo 1 should have you thinking about resonance + electron-rich or -deficient areas of molecules and how those lead to reactions.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Solidarity. Cars belong in the rubbish bin of history. The Soviet Union had the right idea, as usual--make cars unbearable to drive to encourage public transportation.
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by compass_copium 3mo ago
Imagine a Democratic president with a spine like that.
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
There are already people dying of malnutrition, preventable disease, etc. in the third world. Half a billion dollars could do a lot of good there, instead of going towards a pipe dream to make sure people never have to miss work for the flu
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
I guess man. This kind of doesn't apply to workers who are enabling the bourgeoisie state (cops, programmers making systems to feed data to the NSA, etc.)
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
...it's the intrinsic nature of the programmer to have no scruples and work for the shittiest company that can employ them because it offers a big paycheck?
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
My wife tried it with her longest-running handle and it got social media right, but said she was on TikTok and Instagram (both wrong, just old Twitter). It's an interesting mix of truth and hallucination.
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
I tried both of my long-lived social media (Xanga, LJ, MySpace era) handles from my teen and early twenties years (I mostly use disposable handles now). I've deleted a decent chunk of those postings, but they were both recognized (top
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
From what I've read, full body scans are awful for this--your body forms and kills tumors all the time. The false positive rate is ridiculous.
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
Yes, the war was an obvious strategic blunder and (more importantly) an immoral and unjust invasion that should never have happened.
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
From Al Jazeera: >According to remarks carried by the Tasnim news agency, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said negotiations for a final deal will be held during a 60-day period, after verifying that the US implemented
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
OsmAnd~ had voice navigation for me today, whereas it never has before. It could be something else I did tho.
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
Discussing things with colleagues is also how you build collaborative networks. I'm trying to get out of the habit of searching for all information myself and engaging in more discussions with coworkers. I'm perfectly capable of s
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by compass_copium 4mo ago
It's more like asking someone to use a toilet when they have a perfectly good set of pants they're wearing, already on them. Thinking is what makes you human, don't give it up so easily.

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