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by hughesjj 2y ago
I mean at that point what do we consider multicellular organisms? Did you see what was going on with those frog skin cells and "xenobots"? Also, our gut bacteria kinda makes us a symbiote at a larger scale.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Not even that. There could be better civilizations than us out there that either 1. Died off or regressed 2. Plateaued 3. Is sufficiently far away or stealthy enough for us not to notice them (whether intentionally or not) I've often
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Yup. That it happened isn't by chance, but the particular instance being the one to happen & dominate is by chance.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Biden has been the most pro union president since the new deal though Totally agreed that neoliberalism is a cancer though
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I think they're rebutting that an actual understanding of policy enters the equation at all
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by hughesjj 2y ago
DNC really channeling that "don't get fired" energy
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by hughesjj 2y ago
You know, nothing gives me competence in my incompetence than seeing just how fucking successful Trump and Elon have been despite their lack of competence
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Statistically no. Stein has 0% vote in most swing states.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I think they just have a higher reproduction rate. Shorter generations and wider ones too. Hell I'm from a rural family that voted majority trump. I'm a bud not a stem. I'm also 33 with no kids.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
"law" is an incredible term used for "an observation a physicist made about the author citations of academic papers at one point in time", especially when you try to extend that to software development, and realize that
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Gotcha, Singleton sole proprietorships it is. Down with complexity, break up every business! /s
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by hughesjj 2y ago
.... Test sites for the blocklist? What? Also they do share the most blocked/raised/lowered etc sites: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard We've had this problem of "good defaults" before with
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I think it's more filling the niche that Google's self immolation in the name of ad revenue started. Besides kagi, there aren't really any solid search engines today (even ddg), and OpenAI has a reach way beyond kagi could d
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I've been saying it's like an intern who has an incredible breadth of knowledge but very little depth, is excessively over confident in their own abilities given the error rates they commit, and is anxious to the point they'l
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I remember in like 5th grade rural PA schools learning about Boolean operators in search engines and falling in love with them. For context, they were presenting alta vista and yahoo kids search as the most popular with Google being a &quot
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I'd bet at least 25% of code attributes to me in gitfarm at Amazon was generated by octane and/or bones. God I miss that, thanks for the other person on HN introducing me to projen. Yeoman wasnt cutting it. These days I write a s
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by hughesjj 2y ago
It's basically the world's largest logistic enterprise. It's like Amazon but for much heavier/more dangerous goods and service areas.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Because the army doesn't build levees on the missippi and gps & Internet are strictly used to murder people Just like the Roman legions only built roads for murder conveyors and weren't ever used by normal citizens Facial reco
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Also most large concerts, especially if it's not all ages
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Plenty of shade to throw around, Ticketmaster+livenation sucks too.
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Selling 1 ticket for 100x != Selling all tickets for 100x Especially not when many of those 100x prices are from scalpers or rescalpers in the first place. Once a ticket is seen as an investment vehicle it gets divorced from the intrinsic
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by hughesjj 2y ago
That sounds like Stan was rebasing someone else's work though? And wait was Stan rebasing main ? I mean yeah, in that case it's definitely, definitely wrong to use rebase. In general though I always rebase my feature branch an
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by hughesjj 2y ago
100%. Also the author citing California and Florida as "successful" terraforming projects is a bit ironic in 2024. Nature seems to be taking them both back... The world is already super fragile, especially in regards to climate
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Our of curiosity, is there any way to line the pipes with PVC or similar? Like a large scale version of those "pipe fixers" they pump up with air/water that lines existing pipes and hardens in place? I could see problems wit
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by hughesjj 2y ago
This argument seems weird to me because even without rerere I found myself doing a lot more work managing merge conflicts with git merge instead of git rebase As a git merge fan, are there any tips or tricks you suggest beyond the stock git
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Also if you use rerere you don't really spend much time doing repetitive rebases after the first rebase
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by hughesjj 2y ago
I really wish there was a global setting to turn this on by default/in config but afaik for backwards compatibility reasons Linus doesn't want to do that so the advice I've heard is to just configure it as an alias Personally
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Are there any good companies which sell laptop to rackmount conversion kits (or vendors which offer such)? This has been a problem for me pretty much every time I've recycled an old laptop. The CPU/mobi/ram still works fine
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by hughesjj 2y ago
Network propagation delay ;-) Imagine the world without a speed of causality, where everything was updated instantaneously. No CAP theorm, no Byzantine generals. Being a programmer/information theorist would be so much easier lol
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by hughesjj 2y ago
> didn't fail or get shot down as political overreach? Progress requires testing the system and seeing where the failure points are . It's significantly better than the relative nothing we've gotten from past admins. Als

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