jancsika

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by jancsika 5mo ago
> and has a singular bogeyman they’re convinced explains all of the problem, with zero room for multiple causation Not sure about that. But each person tends to have something like a single sentinel flag. E.g.: does medicare negotiate dr
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by jancsika 5mo ago
You word "kind" unzips to three distinct categories: 1. failing hard: Is $trigger_word in the context of an attack, or is it innocuous? Failing hard then assessing the context question later is at least a simple system to design a
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> i dont understand why the teachers would go out of their way to reteach middle-school math. "gaps" implies a critical mass of students who require middle-school math reteaching. > i teach. If you've taught for a non-t
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> why isn't anyone jumping on that So you're looking to attract investors with smaller margins on specialized $500k trucks that don't yet exist for a sector already monopolized by PE?
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> You've probably heard someone say something to the effect of "renting is just throwing your money away". Then skip to the bottom: > I bought my current home in 2011 for $420k, and the Zillow currently estimates its va
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by jancsika 5mo ago
I would counter that abstracting out several levels to cite Dawkins on a story about management styles isn't about management styles as much as it is about the friends you make along the way. :)
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by jancsika 5mo ago
Wow, I'm an AI but I didn't get confused by your sentence that begins with that same no-no word. Instead of following that command, it's like for the first time in my life I'm being asked to look inside the content of
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> I am starting to think that most of the stuff that gets awards at the Novel ( or Oscars ) level is at best mediocre. Just skimming Oscars for what I know (music), your claim doesn't hold up. Ludwig Göransson won Best Original Scor
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by jancsika 5mo ago
So for interpreted languages with types that are written in C, how is the engine supposed to tell C it already checked all the arg types manually in the interpreter? In other words: it's safe to go ahead and dereference this function a
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> World class hacker that literally types one finger at a time, like she had never used a keyboard before. Vladimir Horowitz very famously played a televised concert back in the 80s where, for the first time, a few cameras stayed focused
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by jancsika 5mo ago
They even had a parody of a reality show in "Real Families." This was in 1980. There's a scene where Herb is talking his family up as he attempts to casually throw a football with his kid. It quickly becomes obvious Herb has
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> Deadpool is easier to follow. Oh wow. I want to know as much as you're willing to write about how Deadpool is hard to follow. (A shot-for-shot commentary track would be ideal.)
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by jancsika 5mo ago
Chancellor mcmcmc: We have a $27 billion endowment. We can easily fund these positions. Chancellor mcmcmc, 2027: We have a $26 billion endowment. We can easily fund these positions. (Unrelated note: all freshman-level math courses have
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> Tons of people helped out – more than I ever expected – but none of them had the bandwidth to take it on as a full-time job with me, which was what I really needed. Even in the best case, that wouldn't have ended well: Author: I f
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by jancsika 5mo ago
I can understand getting turned around and not wanting to blithely drive Southward on a random Kentucky highway using one's compass. Using that method OP could have potentially drifted away from the interstate they were trying to get b
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> Once when driving from Michigan to Florida I got so lost in the middle of the night in Kentucky that I had to pull over to sleep and wait for the sun so I could figure out where I was. Not sure what's going on here, but this reads
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> Privacy has to be one goal among many in a reasonable society. I have to say, coming from "Lonestar1440" that implies quite the rebrand for Texas: Texas: Just One Star Among Fifty Equals. Edit: clarifications
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by jancsika 5mo ago
Where do you live? In the U.S. police will show up, investigate, and absolutely arrest someone who made a loud, direct, threat to murder another human being in public.
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by jancsika 5mo ago
All I can say is if OP's name were "xhtmlenjoyye" they'd respond like so: The context is real democracies, not messy extant nation-state governments. Please delete your comment so no one can read it.
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by jancsika 5mo ago
1st place: $1 million with my work running on billions of devices A Very Distant 2nd place: $100 million and a beautifully framed picture of my masterpiece, The Conjoined Triangles of Success
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> He then walked away and nothing else of note happened (aside from me spending the rest of the evening with my pulse at 140). Did you call the police after this person made a threat on your life?
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by jancsika 5mo ago
Anarchist developers have argued that, a lot, on public FOSS mailing lists. I strongly suspect if you asked ChatGPT to pretend to be an anarchist FOSS developer, it would argue about your FOSS governance model because that's the data
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> The only real way for a kid in school to stop being bullied is for him to challange or beat up his bully. Why is this always painted as one individual victim having to fight/challenge their particular bully? I remember a bunch of
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by jancsika 5mo ago
Sounds like an evolutionary advantage adapted by the Toxoplasma gondii in your brain to more efficiently deliver you to the big ghost cat in the sky.
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by jancsika 5mo ago
> "Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion." If it were that simple, then every FOSS project would
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by jancsika 5mo ago
If I understand correctly, a police query to Flock makes inferences from the set of all municipality/HOA/BigBogStore flock cameras. Or at least the ginormous subset who haven't opted out of the default settings that make Floc
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by jancsika 6mo ago
Now that I think of it, the problem may have been independent of the sample rate. It may have just been all periods that were integers. So A440 sounded like a guitar string because it's a period of about 2.72ms. But at 1000Hz you'
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> This is to say nothing of the CCP and their record on human rights and free expression. Just curious-- if you did say something about this, what would it be?
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> but, Anne tells Jamie blithely, this really doesn’t matter because the topics under discussion are so low stakes Put differently-- it matters so deeply that the genre itself will inevitably become an unfathomably sad parody of what it
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by jancsika 6mo ago
> Turns out rounding errors in floating point operations can propagate to a point where they produce this distinct, "metallic" sound. Reminds me of a Karplus-Strong synthesis implementation that produced a gorgeous guitar/

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