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by gilmore606 4y ago
Built bridges my whole life but you fuck ONE goat....
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by gilmore606 4y ago
This is very much not true; I lost over 100lbs and saw the evidence in myself, before I adjusted and started eating a high protein low calorie diet. If you don't consume protein and don't work out, you will lose muscle mass, even
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> Unfortunately the fringe that believes in it are central bankers. What seems more likely? - Central bankers who control the economy do not understand the basic principles of the system they manage. - They lie about their motivations fo
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> and why must a normal person give a damn about the misfortunes of junkies and alcoholics? I give a damn about living in a society suffering from a surfeit of junkies and alcoholics. That affects me.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Why? I've been drinking a 250cal protein shake for lunch almost every day for years. When will I die?
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Once humans stop writing code and let AGIs do it, that is what code will look like. And it will be glorious. 90% of the code we write is pathetic shims and scaffolds to let our extremely-limited minds work on it, not useful instructions f
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by gilmore606 4y ago
When I was obese and I thought about my own obesity, I decided it was under my control and I changed my habits (this was hard!) and I lost 110lbs. There was no more to the picture than my eating habits. Perhaps I was a strange outlier; lu
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by gilmore606 4y ago
I thought this would be a retrospective on the infamous Good Times email virus. Good times.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
Actually, his character in Repo Man goes on a rant against communists that seems out of place -- unless it's the same person from Red Dawn. So it's probably part of the RDCU (or Dawniverse if you prefer).
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by gilmore606 4y ago
You don't cold call, you hook up with a small agency, who also doesn't cold call. They are plugged into the VC network; when some startup needs outside technical help, they ask their VC to find someone. Your agency gets those ca
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> effectively ban minors from the Internet. Oh no! Anyway...
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by gilmore606 4y ago
> Three dot menu button In the biz we call this the "trident wound", spread the word.
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by gilmore606 4y ago
The people downstream watch hours of TV shows and internet media every day, most of which is created by people with elite-aspirational values. They also receive the clear message that these values are elite values. This is how values tric
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by gilmore606 5y ago
I think it's more that they can't imagine controlling a public speech platform without censoring it to their advantage, so they can't imagine anyone else would not immediately do the same -- to them.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> Do you really think a book with instructions in a room plus a man to carry them out understands Chinese? Do you really think a blob of goo with static sputtering through it, designed by no one, accidentally mutated from pond slime, und
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by gilmore606 5y ago
This was the real C64 manual: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_64_Programmer%27s_Re... and it was fantastic.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
You are thinking of Carl Sagan's novel Contact, in which the rich benefactor HR Hadden makes his fortune on a device to mute TV ads.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
Young people: No, obviously. Old people: Yes, obviously.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
ffmpeg -i in.mp3 -af anequalizer=c0 f=70 w=100 g=-24 t=0|c1 f=70 w=100 g=-24 t=0, anequalizer=c0 f=4000 w=7500 g=-24 t=0|c1 f=4000 w=7500 g=-24 t=0 astats=metadata=1:reset=48,ametadata=print:key=lavfi.astats.Overall.RMS_level:file=log.txt -
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by gilmore606 5y ago
On a current project I needed to get RMS volume of the mids of an audio file in 1-second isolated segments. I wrote a bunch of code to do just that...and was floored when my partner pointed out to me that ffmpeg could give me that exact da
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by gilmore606 5y ago
Google 'MMAcevedo' for a horrifying short story take on this concept.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> And they'll complain to your boss if you try to make them. Really? Have I led a sheltered life? I cannot rightly apprehend the state of mind that would see pinning deps as bad. It only helps you!
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now. This, but also don't underestimate the personal satisfaction of "eating what you kill". I feel far less alienated from my labor than I did as an FTE.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
I once caused a blank box to appear on Rakuten's homepage for several hours. My boss had to fly to Japan to apologize in person to their CEO.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
That was one of the first attempted applications for GOFAI in the 80s. Check out CADUCEUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CADUCEUS_(expert_system)
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by gilmore606 5y ago
Sure but there's probably a downside as well.
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> Aristocrats used to explain that they could not be dispensed with because they had superior value and were needed to administer and guide while exploiting the collective labours of the population. Modern large shareholders and executiv
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by gilmore606 5y ago
I did! At age 14 I used it to make newsletters for my church. It was a big step up for me from Newsroom, which could only layout in a 2x3 grid -- I could finally do WYSIWYG column-flows with embedded clip art! GeOS felt like the future to
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> refuse to read the literature ... and instead lean on gut feelings, anecdotes, and cargo cult-ing I mean, if it works for programming...
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by gilmore606 5y ago
> Deep learning will be acknowledged as a dead end I don't disagree, but as soon as next year? Why do you think so?

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