dumpsterdiver

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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
No, I mean irrelevant, as is your newest argument. The functional capabilities of technology between planets is irrelevant to the observation that disparate groups develop similar levels of technology independently.
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Irrelevant.
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
> and it won't sound good if you haven't done a lot of intellectual homework Before you can create a language or theory around music, there must be music. The math didn't come first. First came the music, and the math simp
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
> Companies that penetrate networks uninvited looking for vulnerabilities to create blog content should be prosecuted IMHO. Your comment could be rephrased as, "Companies who carelessly collect and store sensitive user data insecure
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
It’s a fair question, and I didn’t find it pedantic. My understanding from earlier comments is that it required a legally binding contract that wasn’t practical to offer to individuals due to all the clerical work required basically. I may
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
I’ll never be able to get the image out of my mind from when I was about 12 or so, in the toy isle with a friend who rode his bike to the store with me… I had a toy limousine in my hand and I caught sight of a puddle on the ground which lea
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
I was looking for a word earlier that describes when it slowly dawns on a person how profound a thing is that’s been right in front of their eyes most of their life. The word I settled on was revelation, and one of the revelations I revisit
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
To be fair, almost every new college student (exaggerating) starts off wanting to join the mysterious field of psychology. As they continue to learn and grow most of those students use their critical thinking abilities to conclude: * There
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Not to mention the sight itself is much less notable than the sky-tearing pressure waves you experience when you’re on-site. As soon as those engines fire up it’s very obvious why it’s so much different from watching it on a screen - the so
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Agreed. Applying the views of few to many displays a lack of journalistic integrity. It’s a distasteful pattern that has become pervasive, but even more disturbing is the fact that so many people seem to be comfortable with it.
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Indeed, the only hint they would have that they were not alone would be the "weak" gravitational effects of all other existing matter pulling at the fringes of their visible universe. Perhaps they'll refer to this phenomenon
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
> what have you really discovered? You’ve discovered magic. When you read about a wizard using magic to lay waste to invading armies, how much value would you guess the armies place in whether or not the wizard truly understands the magi
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Setting aside time for relaxation and leisure activities is highly productive, but unfortunately that isn't something that becomes obvious until your work visibly suffers from "all work and no play". The costs of overworking
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
Fair enough.
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
It would be better to simply use the adverb form "usually" and apply it to the word "cost", instead of using the adjective "usual" and applying it to "electric wheelchair". "Electric wheelchairs
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
The attributes "old" and "established" do not describe the accuracy of a thing. Humans believed that the earth was flat for thousands of years in various cultures - old, established, and wrong. The geocentric model of th
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
This is why I believe the policy of obfuscating strategically important sites in map data is counter productive. If you overlay the Chinese provided obfuscated mapping data over mapping data obtained by your own military apparatus, the &quo
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
> the AMD ecosystem for that is absolute trash > there are zero reliable and detailed public benchmarks on MI300x I not very familiar with the space, but as an outsider looking in your datapoint appears to support the parent poster&#x
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by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
My goto is journalctl -xf. Best of both worlds :)
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
> Yes, but when the unfinished work is published, it is well known that it was incomplete. Just as a rose by any other name is still a rose, shit is still shit no matter how you frame it, and unfortunately shit tends to stick better than
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
They lose control of it, yes.
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
It seems like the location these are generally found in could offer clues. If they were blacksmith related I would expect them to be found closer to the buildings where they would be used or stored. If they’re for a military related purpose
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
Agreed. Definitely calibrate your internal register for “this is what taking mushrooms feels like” using a low dose. IMO it’s especially important to familiarize yourself with the anxiety / exhaustion that can occur as the drug takes e
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
Yeah, at that point you'll just have several videos of everyone looking bad, instead of just one. I truly do believe that if/when people like this finally get their way and have nothing left to rail against, they'll simply lo
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
In cases where a small vulnerability is successfully turned into a larger vulnerability, everyone wins, right? Considering that there is “more than one way to skin a cat”, it is not a given that vulnerabilities further along the chain will
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
To save anyone a click, 3rd party cookies are defined by Google in this case as cookies that have the “samesite=None” attribute. So explicitly only cookies intended to track users by sending cookies across domains.
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
You could close your eyes and then as far as you could tell nothing would exist. Then you could go around calling everyone a liar who claims that reality is still there even though you aren’t seeing it.
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
Regarding “security”, consider that at one point in history there were no known security exploits for <whatever piece of software>, and so simply asking “why not” may have only elicited shrugs. After a few decades of having your softw
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
Yeah, that really is so neat to visualize. That there’s a hard line when the escape velocity reaches exactly the speed of light, and poof. Frozen image of the past right in front of your eyes. And think… once we crossed the event horizon as
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by dumpsterdiver 3y ago
> What distinguishes a black hole from other objects is not its mass, but its spacetime geometry Fair enough. Primordial black holes are a good theoretical example of environmental density conditions being perhaps a larger factor than ma

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