coryrc

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by coryrc 1y ago
OT: Do you know if was he being serious, joking, or "haha only serious" in the linked message?
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by coryrc 1y ago
> It is about doing something productive and worth-while. Uh-huh. What percentage of software engineers jobs are "worthwhile"? Working on Amazon's nth hosted OSS SaaS? Making better DRM? Revamping your bank website to the
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by coryrc 1y ago
> What are they supposed to do about that? Do like banks: Know Your Customer. If someone performs a crime using your assets, you are required to supply evidence to the police. You then ban the person from using your assets. If someone
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by coryrc 1y ago
We stopped dropping bombs on Germany after they surrendered. If you are militarily defeated, then surrender typically results in the bombs stop dropping... unless your catchphrase is "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab&q
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by coryrc 1y ago
Also no one yelling at you for going too fast next to docked boats :)
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by coryrc 1y ago
> and take even longer to biodegrade I didn't think they did at all, but turns out to do so slightly: https://biosphereplastic.com/microbes-that-biodegrade-plasti...
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by coryrc 1y ago
> old galvanized bucket in our family that's well over 80 years old It's got lead in it. Not everything in the past is better.
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by coryrc 1y ago
I celebrated the anniversary of the (internal) bug asking for SVG support in Google slides. I think it's up to 15 years now? So, uh, don't get your hopes up.
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by coryrc 1y ago
Because the US military/govt has a say in what US companies sell to foreign militaries and that's what the restrictions were at the time. Remember this was early on in the full invasion.
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by coryrc 1y ago
"All of the electricity consumed by Amazon’s operations, including its data centers, was matched with 100% renewable energy in 2023." https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-renew...
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by coryrc 1y ago
"DOE issued the emergency order without a request from the plant owner, transmission provider or grid operator"
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by coryrc 1y ago
trump stooge activities cannot be blamed on data centers. The relevant technical authorities did not want this.
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by coryrc 1y ago
USA uses 21.3 TWh of petroleum per day for transportation. Even if AI was fully responsible for all data center usage (it is not even close) we're quibbling over 20 days of US transportation oil usage, which actually has devastating
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by coryrc 1y ago
You can leave what's there and run new ones.
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by coryrc 1y ago
Freeway is a great example in more ways: large swaths of society were destroyed in the process of making them (less purposefully in the case of the Internet/social media I think) and paradoxically reduced social connections despite see
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by coryrc 1y ago
Not every place is built in a dry forest which traditionally burned regularly but the current infrastructure is built around never burning. The only risk in, say, Michigan, is the power going out at inopportune times.
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by coryrc 1y ago
How much solar does Ontario get during the heating season?
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by coryrc 2y ago
"Common cold" is a virus. Vaccines train your immune system to fight things. Bacteriophages fight bacteria. They actually do the fighting. They are quickly cleared by the body, so they are useless for prevention.
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by coryrc 2y ago
If you come into ED with GGP's symptom's, you might only have an hour to live. Hopefully for you it's bacterial and didn't pick up resistance from horizontal transference from a strep throat treatment that's trivial
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by coryrc 2y ago
Do you not use an ad blocker?
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by coryrc 2y ago
No, but it was a bad example because I was thinking only of the authorship point of view. A better example would have been the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir. We're pretty sure it's real; there might still be people alive that remem
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by coryrc 2y ago
We need to implement it! Steffanie Strathdee could save her husband's life because she was the director of UC San Diego’s Global Health Institute. "Regular" people deserve to live too. https://www.buzzfeednews.com&
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by coryrc 2y ago
They're viruses, so they work by infecting bacteria and making the bacteria create more of itself. Antibiotics are found by isolating a compound some i.e. fungi naturally produces. We figure out how to produce the compound and don&#x27
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by coryrc 2y ago
That's definitely true. History has been thoroughly manufactured by humans. Naively, I thought the storage of computers might preserve first-hand accounts forever; it might, but it might not be discernible.
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by coryrc 2y ago
They were real because they were made by people all along. Now you can't tell. I think you're right my analogy is imperfect. I'm only human (or am I? :P)
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by coryrc 2y ago
Yeah, which is why we need to stop using antibiotics for cases where we could use phage treatment.
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by coryrc 2y ago
Because you'll end up finding bacteriophages and wonder why we're wasting so many lives and much money on antibiotics. Antibiotics are lazy. Sure, some people have to die, but at least you didn't have to spend any time taking
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by coryrc 2y ago
You and I remember pre-AI famous works. "Hey, I'm pretty sure Odysseus took a long time to get home". Somebody goes and prints 50 different AI-generated versions of the _Odyssey_, how are future generations supposed to know w
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by coryrc 2y ago
Anecdote: my wife wanted to trade up from a 3 to a Y. We won't so long as Elon is involved. I also have an "Occupy Mars" shirt. It was one thing to bandwagon onto some topical events by a CEO who was touting Tesla's 100&
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by coryrc 2y ago
That's moving the goalposts. There are plenty of candidates for Congress they voted against as well. But, sure, how about Barack Obama? https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-creatin... The one who c

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