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by jameskilton 10mo ago
https://xkcd.com/3167/
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by jameskilton 11mo ago
> The PR was opened, the workflow run, and the PR closed within the space of 1 minute (screenshots include timestamps in UTC+2, the author's timezone): It's an unfortunately common problem with GitHub Actions, it's easy to
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by jameskilton 11mo ago
There's a lot of research on this, particularly from Robin Dunbar, who gave us "Dunbar's Number" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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by jameskilton 11mo ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No. I remember the freak-out of the 90s. The world was going to be at 10 billion humans and unsustainable, leading to world-wide famine. Now we're at the other end. It will cycle, the human race will
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Software Wisdom(jasonroelofs.com)
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by jameskilton 11mo ago
Americans today are incapable of envisioning a better future and incapable of envisioning a worse one! We as a society are now only able to focus on what problems exist now, and to demand that they are fixed tomorrow. There are a lot of pro
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by jameskilton 1y ago
As Matt Levine has said multiple times in "Money Stuff", Tether has found the perfect business plan. They hold billions of actual USD, and get to keep all of the interest for themselves.
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by jameskilton 1y ago
This is just beating around the bush. The only reason anyone even knows about RFK Jr, much less his current job, is because of Trump. The actual solution is that Trump must go. But America voted for this. Get RFK Jr removed, and Trump will
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by jameskilton 1y ago
My favorite: 9 5s. 55.5555555% uptime!
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by jameskilton 1y ago
I couldn't help but notice almost immediately one feature that is not human oriented, but most likely exists because it's easier for a machine to parse: single (":") vs double colon ("::"). This is not human-
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by jameskilton 1y ago
I invert (Clair Obscur most recently) because I'm controlling the camera. If I want to look to the left, the camera has to move to the right. I can't play third-person any other way and I have tried!
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by jameskilton 1y ago
The only reason we look at the 2nd Amendment as we do today is because of the NRA. The founding fathers had vastly different ideas for drafting the 2nd.
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by jameskilton 1y ago
Software's job is to tell other people what the computer is doing.
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Article has been hugged so commenting more along the comments here. Pharmacy school teaches Calculus. Why would that be? Do you need to run derivatives and integrals to fill prescriptions? No. Teaching maths, particularly calculus, teaches
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by jameskilton 1y ago
What? The U in "UFO" stands for "unidentified". It has nothing to do with aliens. Were there intelligent enough species out there to have solved space flight and found us and visited us, we would know. Having just (f
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by jameskilton 1y ago
The Trough of Disillusion. Though we definitely aren't down there yet, it's coming.
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by jameskilton 1y ago
To be clear, Stripe is one of multiple payment processors OnlyFans uses. I don't know what the other ones are but they do have a processor that is more favorable for NSFW content, and all related payments go through that/those pro
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by jameskilton 1y ago
Given things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_b... , probably not. Seems like you can just keep shoving mass into it.
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by jameskilton 1y ago
No, I think we all have a pretty clear interpretation of that ruling. If no-one is going to uphold the legality, or lack there of, then there is no rule of law. SCOTUS is not going to hold POTUS accountable. Therefore, Trump is above the la
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by jameskilton 1y ago
The last decade has seen an increase push in what Google started calling "Zero Trust"[0] and dropping VPNs entirely. The issue being that once someone got into a VPN it was much, much harder to prevent them from accessing importan
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by jameskilton 1y ago
I dealt with this kind of thing for years growing up, and for the most part grown out of it but it can still strike me out of nowhere. The feelings of the walls of the room suddenly racing away from you, or the feeling that your hands are s
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by jameskilton 1y ago
Because for probably the vast majority of Republican voters, this is effectively a religion (identity politics). It doesn't matter what the Republican party chooses to do, voting Republican is a part of who people are and to do anyth
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by jameskilton 1y ago
Facebook / Meta and Mark in particular are an amazing case of someone who is, at least at this point, incapable of learning from past mistakes, or even recognizing the mistakes they have made and are continuing to make. Facebook's
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by jameskilton 1y ago
So here's the actual problem: People. People want to escape Earth because of people. But escaping Earth is impossible alone, so you have to escape with other people ... which means you're bringing along with you every single probl
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by jameskilton 1y ago
> That is like asking how we can make our cities better for cars, or our workplaces better for the furniture (emphasis mine) I love this analogy and am going to use it. This is a fantastic article. In the end, everything is still, and
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by jameskilton 1y ago
Comment seems to be flagged and gone, but yes they referenced wanting a "Butlerian Jihad".
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by jameskilton 1y ago
The original "Luddites" had very valid concerns about the impending reduction of quality of the clothing they were making and subsequent working conditions with the advent of automated looms. Likewise many people today, myself inc
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by jameskilton 1y ago
My basic understanding is that they combine, basically you just add the masses together. That increased mass then means more gravity, so the event horizon is pushed further out.
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by jameskilton 1y ago
What is this? There's a lot of red flags here. * The name "D" for a programming language was taken in 1999: https://dlang.org/ * There's no source, the docs install link is wrong (repo is https:/&#
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by jameskilton 1y ago
And the NY Times continues to miss the forest for the trees. "A.I." isn't doing anything. It's just a tool. People are using these tools to help accelerate the destruction of Democracy that's been going on for at

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