darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
A piano rendition of a song previously only sung can still be recognized as that same song. However if you sing a song previously only heard on piano, recognizing that song might not be so easy. Although now that I think about it, the onl
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by darkpuma 7y ago
"Jazz" encompasses such a huge variety of styles and sounds, it's almost meaningless to say you categorically like or dislike it. When people say they hate jazz, it's probably because they had the misfortune of listening
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "the shell and editor have been ported to Linux so some people must have liked it" A manifestation of Cat-V.org Derangement Syndrome I wager.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Compared to Wireguard, OpenVPN is easy to set up wrong but difficult to set up right. Most people configuring their own OpenVPN installation will think the job done when it begins functioning, but there is a difference between functional an
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Suppose you tunnel wireguard traffic through a plain-jane unencrypted TCP connection?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Two years ago everything inside my home in Seattle was covered in in a fine layer soot when I left a window open overnight with a box fan next to it. So yeah, filters are useful.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The alternative to rebar is making sure your structure is under compression with negligible tension.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think even one on one, a sufficiently large constrictor could take down (asphyxiate, if not eat) a full sized floridian. But that's not accounting for tool use, which changes the matter completely.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I heard a story a while ago about a facility working with a lot of molten sodium. The whole building had no running water at all, no bathrooms even, because water and sodium mixing is a problem. Lithium doesn't seem a whole lot safer.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Is putting a big pile of concrete around the reactor not a suitable solution? Concrete is often used as neutron radiation shielding because it's full of hydrogen (in the water chemically bound up in it) and because of its desirable st
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "How does that show any such thing? Unless you're defining someone with dementia as "not a person"." Are 17 year old people "not persons" ? Of course not. Who is talking about non-personhood? We
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If democracy needs to be temporarily compromised to save the planet, so be it. The dogma of universal suffrage should not be our top priority (not that we currently live by it anyway!)
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The results speak for themselves and public opinion polling confirms it ( https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y... ). Old people voting is disastrous for the environment. Are they malicious?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I find that the muscle memory for my personal config is keyed off the visual appearance of my preferred color scheme. So I have no problem context switching between personal config and default config, provided the color schemes are right f
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The assumption that age comes with wisdom is a gross oversimplification. Age is strongly correlated with dementia. Rather than they elderly having greater than normal lucidity, they often lack it, sometimes completely. We don't l
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not. But I see little reason that somebody over 70 at the oldest should be allowed to vote at all (let alone do something even more serious like hold public office!) If you and your friends were trying to decide what to do
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Some of the common-person comments were fine, not insightful but not that bad either. But some of them were really inane, like saying a fluorescent orange high-viz jumpsuit looks like a Navy SEAL uniform (how could you confuse a high-viz ou
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Usually WaPo articles can be read in browser without enabling javascript, but not this one. This sort of presentation is really obnoxious and not at all accessible (which frankly shouldn't even be legal in a world where every busines
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by darkpuma 7y ago
We have systems that give equal weight to a vote made by somebody with 5 years left on the planet and somebody with 50 years left. That's a huge incentive divide and it favors short term thinking. In many ways it's unfair and
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If that is true, then the situation seems intractable. The Chinese government won't want to pay for anything beyond it's official figures, but the rest of the world has no interest in those bogus figures being used.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
How is that a misleading title? The video may be benign, but it also hasn't gone over well. Those aren't even slightly contradictory; something that is benign may also be tone deaf, and the TV ad was certainly tone deaf to the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Sugar and caffeine, it's addictive twice over. Although that also describes another beverage, coffee. The difference between the coffee and soft drink industries is interesting though. Two massive corporations dominate almost the en
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "or holding it for a while." I wonder if the FBI has an automated system for monitoring bitcoin addresses that are associated with investigations that went cold possibly years ago, and as such no longer have the active atte
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "the big tech companies don't really touch porn." Isn't that the case because mainstream American advertisers don't want anything to do with it? I don't think it's a matter of west coast tech compa
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Exactly. You may as well try to compete with a railroad monopoly while at the same time not using any of their existing rail infrastructure. Good fucking luck.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The time it happened to me, I though it would be clever to make instant coffee using something like 15x as many scoops. It was not clever.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
On this machine I get "likely" in firefox, "unlikely" in a firefox private window and "unlikely" in chrome. Not sure what to make of that. (Also all of the installed extensions are also enabled in private mod
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You're assuming that the mass murdering arsonist who says that he was robbed was actually robbed. You should instead seriously consider the possibility that he's insane and his claim is factually incorrect.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Extremely high doses of caffeine are deeply and profoundly unpleasant. The way it makes your head spin and your heart pound make you feel inches away from death, which supposedly you are.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Trying ineptly is still trying.

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