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by fsckboy 8mo ago
jumbo shrimp are actually large shrimp. that the word shrimp is used to mean small elsewhere doesn't mean shrimp are small, they're simply just the right size for shrimp that aren't jumbo. (jumbo was an elephant's name)
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> If a bank actually wanted to serve working people, they would be open on weekends. banks are open Saturdays all over in the US. TD Banks are open on Sunday.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> It is called a metonymy or called synecdoche (square/rectangle)
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
if your fellow countrymen decide that in exchange for the benefits they will accept the noise and passive data gathering, and establish some ceiling restrictions, I don't really care what ill tempered reason is motivating you to start
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property no, there really doesn't need to be. i'm not saying that i'm in favor of autonomous drones flying around, i'm simply not in favo
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
these are basically like the things Yogi Berra was famous for saying, like "Nobody goes there any more, it's always too crowded." and apropos this moment: You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> I don't see any harm that could come from saying "a less addictive algorithm needs to be available to users"? consider air travel in the present day. ticketing at essentially all airlines breaks down as: premium tickets
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
i think what keeps it alive is that it shows up on the default "extensions you might especially like" screen inside the "install extensions" menu
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
people who do understand thermodynamics will already understand the problem, but innocent people who don't understand thermodynamics should not be misled by poorly chosen examples presented as proof.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> i.e. The lack-of-a-thing that makes a thermos great at keeping your drink hot e.g. the lack-of-a-thing that makes a thermos great at keeping your drink cold too
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
it's legal to say "I can't raise my arms over my head". it is then prohibited to ask people about disabilities, should somebody think to inquire. I was not saying "tell this to a judge", i was telling HN that y
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
dude, you inhabit financial nutball territory which is where most discussions of "reserve currency" take place, "not even wrong" territory.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
actually they multiply, 12th root of 2, to the 12th
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
"la forge" in french is feminine, it would need to be LaGitette
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
don't you mean 11-fold? ... oh wait, they aren't even consistent
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> "I bought a two tib SSD." no you didn't, that doesn't exist, you bought 2 trillion bytes, 99 billion bytes short
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
musicians use numbering systems that are actually far more confused than anything discussed here. how many notes in an OCTave? "do re mi fa so la ti do" is eight, but that last do is part of the next octave, so an OCTave is 7
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> The cowling of the current turbines serves the same purpose, but needs to cover 360 degrees of rotation this doesn't make sense. if you are not worried about fan blades flying off in directions other than the fuselage, why cover
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
"i can't raise my arms over my head" doesn't contain the word "medically". could be religious reasons, or simply personal superstition.
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
you can't invest in US equities without lots of exposure to the USD. not investing in US equities would be... a strange investment strategy exchange rates, interest rates: the best way to think of them is making all the other numbers b
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> It's roughly equal to giving 5% discount on hardware, not a big deal when the profit margin is 70%. using your numbers, Nvidia didn't drop 70%, it's more on the order of the 5% so at least from that angle, the news narr
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
the Venezuelan oil leases you are talking about was 1990s, not 1970s. for Venezuelan oil leases to be comparable to wind farms you'd have to have the Venezuelan govt say "we are taking the leases away because we don't want an
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
(I didn't read the article but the headline said "C++" and it did not say asm {...}, so here is a brief description of what's going on) if you want to multiply two 8 bit numbers together, worst case (biggest numbers), yo
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth. i just looked up mass of sun vs mass of moon (they differ by 10^30 vs 10^20), and the elemental composition of the sun: the moon would enti
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
assuming your conclusion, why would we need a new phrase?
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
it appears to be a website in the french tongue
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
FTA: This scroll is one of the most important literary documents still in private hands. and: However, the return of the scroll to the auction block echoes an earlier controversy. In 2001, when the manuscript was last offered for sale, C
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
you would not expect that the purchase of luxury goods would correlate with appreciation in various investment markets? if not then, when Lambo?
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
did you ever read the story of the fox and the grapes?
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by fsckboy 8mo ago
> to generate future trajectories for autonomous vehicles directly from sensor data we will not have achieved true AGI till we start seeing bumper stickers (especially Saturday mornings) that say "This Waymo Brakes for Yard Sales&q

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