genewitch

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by genewitch 4mo ago
i used to have a great way to sum this all up but i stopped arguing with people via that medium so i have since forgotten my spiel. It's not that the media will lie, necessarily - although let's not pretend they're above ly
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by genewitch 4mo ago
how can anyone trust any media report? Even if it is reported from multiple outlets? In the US the sum is around 39 billion dollars for pharma advertising, nevermind our military-industrial complex, as well. How can any media that has under
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by genewitch 5mo ago
my EXPLICIT SOURCE was 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003429 do you require other ones, or do you wanna keep harping on the fact i used LLM as a fucking search engine? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle
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by genewitch 5mo ago
i learned FORTRAN in an accelerated tech program in 1996-ish in high school. i used fortran recently to see how "slow" python is, i did matrix multiplies by hand in .c, and .py. Now i didn't write the fortran, the AI did, but
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by genewitch 5mo ago
https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste... as linked in the article, looks like a nightmare. i was hyped that i could recommend something to author friends, but, i can hear it now, "Maaaaaaaaa
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by genewitch 5mo ago
we've corrected, conservative 40 years but probably 20 years (2046) there will be a plurality of agreement that fully autonomous driving has arrived, and in the general sense, not just "certain parts of Frisco and the Valley.&quot
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by genewitch 5mo ago
they give citations which i was going through and literally copied and pasted the CITE to you, not the AI. i only answered the specific question of where the number "48" or the range 40-80 came from. my cite even shows perforation
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by genewitch 5mo ago
Dale Carnegie floating around this thread a lot. Remembering (and using!) someone's name is a magic spell, too.
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by genewitch 5mo ago
My best friend is someone i worked with, and we hit it off immediately. He also was one of the people who interviewed me before hire, too. I left the company because of medication induced issues with co-workers (long boring story... careful
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by genewitch 5mo ago
i agree with you, i've interviewed at a lot of companies, too, and seen only 1 red flag in retrospect. the flag was "we need to hire for budgetary reasons"
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by genewitch 5mo ago
you think that's what it was? The people with 100% of the power in this situation did everything 100% correct and you're not victim-blaming at all?
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by genewitch 5mo ago
not who you asked but the perforation is 3-5 per 10,000; cardiovascular issues is 52 per 10,000, polyp removal carries risks of bleeding or perforation, and underlying patient physiology. RESULTS Among the 30,818 records identified, 82 popu
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by genewitch 5mo ago
my PCP thinks i am over 50 twice a year and mentions i should get one, and he knows i won't pay for anything, so that means my insurance covers it. This is anecdote by induction.
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by genewitch 5mo ago
the native ad is in the NYT, not HN. It is a Native Ad. i don't have the clip where the CEO of NPR discusses "underwriting" via ad inserts that "go with the flow." What bothers me is someone who is correct getting d
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by genewitch 5mo ago
nevermind all this. i agree with it, but it's irrelevant. this is like discussing what will happen when we have UBI or teleporters or mars habitation. It's so far in the future it's funny. As mentioned elsewhere, there is no
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by genewitch 5mo ago
well, hold on. Progress Quest is a zero player game. Paperclips is an incremental; e.g. https://www.incrementaldb.com/ this game has been added to incrementaldb!
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by genewitch 5mo ago
take 1 billion and improve everything but your flagship product. Then take that other billion, and improve your flagship product. Mention on twitter you spent 2 billion on scientists instead of marketing, so hey try our new chocolate .
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by genewitch 5mo ago
it's on your end, works fine here and i go out of my way to piss google off. with that being said, both my extremely liberal doctor of political science friend and myself (i lean authoritarian and center) find it to be ... underwhelmin
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by genewitch 5mo ago
the General Wesley Clark 7: https://youtu.be/Eo6u9DpASp8?t=69 "7 countries in 5 years; Iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off with Iran" well here we are 25 years later finally getting around to
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by genewitch 5mo ago
they do not. Even hair dryer coils don't generally glow, and the old vapes used the same wires, at sub-1% of the wattage. 5-8W instead of 800-1500W. That wire was called "Kanthal", and for a while vapes went to nichrome and
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by genewitch 5mo ago
When i made my own i could make 500-700ml for $20. The expense is all up-front if you don't know what flavors you want or you want to experiment with recipes - the flavoring is relatively expensive if you want a lot of variety. If you&
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by genewitch 5mo ago
Disposable vapes don't have this issue. <-period. you throw the pod away before any sort of degradation to the coil and the wick. That being said... The coil becomes brittle from interacting with the liquid and usually breaks contac
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by genewitch 5mo ago
> the younger generation does not care, [...] more efficient to get a prescription that you like [through apps] Absolutely > people listening to meaningless words made up by machines that help them feel good about themselves sounds ho
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by genewitch 5mo ago
I've heard similar from people who didn't know they had vision issues, saw an eye specialist, received glasses, and went outside and actually saw for the first time in their lives how pretty everything outside is (offer not vali
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by genewitch 5mo ago
they sell psilocybin gummies, ranging from weak to 4.5g per. The ones i've tried were "3 is a normal dose, 6 is space jam, 1 is a nice afternoon off." I took one, and it did make everything a little brighter, birds sweeter so
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by genewitch 5mo ago
my favorite use of a 555 is in a solar charge controller. It is a voltage controlled switch! i have the page archived, but it's called A New Solar _ Wind Charge Controller Based on the 555 Chip (2_7_2026 12 I can upload the webrip if a
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by genewitch 5mo ago
if anyone wants to see what the bradleys in Iraq were kitted out with, https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa this is circa 2008 or so. Mentioned to a friend who always mentions that chain link fencing saved his life and now i co
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by genewitch 5mo ago
haha, i was wondering why i'd never heard the term. So a cope cage is a cargo cult artifact?
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by genewitch 5mo ago
cope cages look like hardware fence (like chicken wire but welded, pig fence, sheep fence, goat fence are closer.) However, the US already put fencing around fighting vehicles, specifically the Bradley, where the fence was essentially &quot
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by genewitch 5mo ago
So people congregating to do things online will do such in places where it isn't illegal to do such things? We're all aware that it is possible to run a private website, forum, chat server (irc-like or discord-like), including &qu

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