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by cwillu 2mo ago
It always was a health risk; nobody seriously drank booze for the health benefits, did they??
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by cwillu 2mo ago
The article appears to be trying to smuggle in a notion of “the organism cannot be killed in water” via a path of indirectly repeating the reference that the water cannot kill the organism in the food; because the chemical treatment of the
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Congrats on finding the outlier.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
You'd have a point if any other western country had police work in their top-10 most dangerous fields, but they don't.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Hear hear.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
If your notion of good/bad policing is predicated on perfect policy, your notion of good/bad policing does not survive contact with the real world. I expect this argument is actually a poison pill for some anarchist or libertari
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by cwillu 2mo ago
And that's fine (ish) when the centralized authoritarian socialist organization consists solely of members who joined voluntarily.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Exactly: The problem with rats' nests of infrastructure is that it is effectively impossible to determine what wires are structurally load-bearing in unexpected ways, and there's literally nobody in a position of authority that wo
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by cwillu 2mo ago
I'm not for “successful policing”: the term is way too ambiguous and I know that many people would have definitions in mind that I would find repugnant.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
This aged well…
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by cwillu 2mo ago
SpaceX, not Starship. While I don't agree with the “starship will never orbit” haters, the viewpoint itself is coherent.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Not having massive exposed and untested surface area is very much desireable. Every platform has a highly restrictive list of formats and containers for this exact reason.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
If Big Deployment is using a stock ffmpeg build rather than one that actually enables only the things they actually use, I feel like that's on Big Deployment.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
If you ask for a beef patty here, the server will look confused, and then bring you a hamburger patty on a plate
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by cwillu 2mo ago
The most common control circuit has the button triggering a relay which then powers its own trigger until the circuit is interrupted elsewhere; this isn't compatible with the same button cancelling the call.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
The 90s called, they'd like a word.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
His link includes procedures, which suggest he was testing the hardness of some surface coating or similar: > For the pencil hardness test, reference ASTM D3363, pencils of increasing hardness values are moved over the surface in a preci
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Their discomfort at being reminded of the real world consequences of their actions doesn't make what you said stupid.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Huh?
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by cwillu 2mo ago
“as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks.” Oh no! Not the advertising networks!
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by cwillu 2mo ago
But how will my PM get his fancy overlay of our website with the heatmap of user clicks and dwells to grossly misinterpret?
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by cwillu 2mo ago
git add -p or git add ‹file› -p
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by cwillu 2mo ago
It wouldn't be the first time ollama's llama.cpp fork reintroduced bugs and was missing important optimizations.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
And? Currently patents are predominantly used to prevent interoperability and impose costs.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
It comes with the territory; IMO if you don't occasionally have a few comments go negative, you're probably not saying anything of value.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
Allow me to translate: “It a near certainty that they will fuck you over eventually; the question is will it be next year, next decade, or will you win the lottery?”
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by cwillu 2mo ago
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/math/0411418 for the in-browser html rendering
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by cwillu 2mo ago
It's not just a loop; it's a knot!
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by cwillu 2mo ago
I never thought I'd have so much sympathy for Kate “Forgive me, Mr Data; I am not accustomed to work with non-living devices that… Forgive me again. Your service record says that you are alive.” Pulaski, but here we are.
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by cwillu 2mo ago
It is entirely possible (if perhaps unlikely) that the correct theory of everything is a relatively straightforward expansion of the current standard model.

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