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by eutropia 6mo ago
We had such a ritual in our games back when I was in high school: the start of the campaign luck roll. The idea was that your starting circumstances would be modified by the d100 zocchihedron roll. One time, my buddy rolled a 2; our DM grim
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by eutropia 6mo ago
Version 2.1.113 is available as of this comment. I think the brew version lags behind the other ways of installing it.
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by eutropia 6mo ago
There's a time and a place for everything, and rejecting popular media as "lowest common denominator" is the most uninspired form of cultural elitism. Is it cynical to want your <art project> to make a profit? Or for it
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by eutropia 7mo ago
these sorts of "your opinions must be financialized to be valid" takes are the equivalent of the middlebrow dismissal. "Smart money" is an illusion that only holds up until they do something in an area you're famili
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by eutropia 7mo ago
yes and his work is fairly sympathetic to the reactionary centrist and right agendas - not to mention that the anxious generation is supported by a thin veneer of the most wildly cherry-picked data they could get, and they ignored just abou
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by eutropia 8mo ago
is this marketing or is just relating what they did to keep things secure? https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by eutropia 8mo ago
This person didn't have any one else and they say their fiance died and essentially they became a a shut-in, but that the chatbot steered them towards taking care of themself. What would they have gone through with nothing to talk to a
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by eutropia 8mo ago
It's a damn fine lamp. Really makes a huge difference for feeling energetic and productive! I experienced exactly what the author mentioned with the white lamp, but the support was top notch. Glad to see the details!
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by eutropia 8mo ago
If spacex can trick people into paying 10x as much for compute as the next datacenter, they'd be much better off simply building those datacenter satellites and driving them out to the desert and parking them there instead of trying to
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by eutropia 8mo ago
is "do my best" some kind of weird censorship-speak euphemism for "die"???
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by eutropia 9mo ago
ICE isn't doing police work (police are somewhat accountable to their local populace for keeping people safe), they're ostensibly (selectively) enforcing federal immigration regulation. But please for the love of god explain how &
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by eutropia 9mo ago
Yes but the packing density of flour varies cup to cup, within the same measuring cup, resulting in different amounts of flour. > J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, the managing editor of the blog Serious Eats, once asked 10 people to measure a cup of
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by eutropia 10mo ago
Yeah, this was a problem for me until I upgraded to using actual speakers with an amp and everything. TV sound is terrible for dialog these days!
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by eutropia 10mo ago
Buses got significantly more reliable as a result of reduced traffic, more ridership on subways allowed for more police presence at stations, reducing crime. Public transit got better.
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by eutropia 10mo ago
A book for which literally zero professional archaeologists or anthropologists were consulted and which promulgated more noble savage bullshit as a result. That "life of leisure" picture was based off of the work of one guy who wr
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by eutropia 10mo ago
As a fellow infrastructure and tooling engineer with a long tenure on one team: this tracks. You do occasionally get to scoop up the rare low-hanging fruit to get a shiny win that all the engineers appreciate; but for the most part it'
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by eutropia 10mo ago
Instagram chief orders quiet layoffs to please investors in 2026 fixed that title for you
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by eutropia 11mo ago
Why and how is your homelab distributed like this?
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by eutropia 1y ago
They buried the lede... Arko wanted a copy of the HTTP Access logs from rubygems.org so his consultancy could monetize the data, after RC determined they didn't really have the budget for secondary on-call. Then after they removed him
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by eutropia 1y ago
I think that if they had been up front and transparent, and cut the PR bullshit corpospeak from their damage-control post, this would have been something that's much less embarrassing for all involved. Something like: "Hey all, RC
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by eutropia 1y ago
Could someone with more insight as to the decision-making at Ruby Central weigh in on what's going on here? Between this and drama with the conferences over the years I'm just confused. They've been busy launching podcasts an
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by eutropia 1y ago
I built a newish gaming PC on AMD components and flashed SteamOS onto it. It just works out of the box, although it does sort of think that it's an oversized steamdeck. My previous gaming PC was a 2016-vintage windows machine with a ve
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by eutropia 1y ago
No, they aren't. But I suspect that if you had to construct an actual argument instead gesturing smugly at innuendo that your point would fall apart. Please explain your "100x" stablecoin argument and if you feel like it, you
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by eutropia 1y ago
might be able to incorporate an ambient AI scribe into this flow pretty well, plenty of docs are seeing success with that.
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by eutropia 1y ago
TFA also acknowledges this: > There could well be many other functions that have since joined in with the sleep cycle (such as memory consolidation), but the authors hypothesize that mitochondrial function is the process that underli
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by eutropia 1y ago
Yes we should encourage changing minds. ...Except I clocked Israel as having genocidal ambitions within days of Hamas' attack, right about the time their generals started talking about cutting off power and water to the entirety of gaz
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by eutropia 1y ago
The only good thing about this launch is that it will push the other (sane) companies to release their new frontier models.
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by eutropia 1y ago
I thought apostrophes were used for truncation: `'08`?
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by eutropia 1y ago
a million times this. Clone Wars microseries did more for my love of star wars than all the movies put together. pure effing magic.
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by eutropia 1y ago
datum: I'm ND, but I'm a good test-taker. There were plenty of tests for subjects where I didn't need to study because I was adept at reading the question and correctly assuming what the test-creator wanted answered, and usi

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