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by jawilson2 2y ago
> All climate predictions have proven to be wildly inaccurate Climate models are not inaccurate. They have error bars and a range of possible outcomes, but the models presented to the leaders and the public are in like the 10th percentil
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by jawilson2 2y ago
> However, (there) is never a _single_ instance of a Native American running away from their tribe to join the colonists I have heard and quoted this for years, but I'm actually questioning whether it is true now. It just seems unbe
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by jawilson2 2y ago
"Obscure person has died (with no explanation of why I should care)"
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Bosch? We are semi-unhappy with ours. Our kids will open it to quickly grab a cup or bowl if nothing else is available, and forget to press the "Start" button to restart it. Our old washer would auto-restart after being opened. Oh
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Entirely possible, I'm on a work-issued laptop and I can't install extensions, because raw-dogging the internet is safer than letting employees block ads.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
> You can usually gain something by losing some performance This is a pretty canonical description of tech debt, right? "Get it working, ship it, we can worry about performance later."
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I'm finding it slightly ironic[0] that this site takes 162 MB RAM (according to hovering over the tab in chrome), scrolls incredibly slowly, and has hijacked the right-click menu so I can't open links in a new tab. I definitely ag
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Like 75% of these kinds of phrases in American English, without looking it up I'm going to assume there is a racist etymology behind it.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
It's like the Google Pixel ads showing how you can take a picture, and change all of the scenery with AI. Nothing is real, and you can't trust anything you see or hear. I would be pretty disappointed in my wife if she A) forgot my
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by jawilson2 2y ago
This must be related to why HIIT is so effective at quickly dropping fat, even in short (<15 minute sessions). 10 Tabata sets of 40 sec sprints and 20 sec jogs has always been my go-to to lose some weight quickly, while continuing to run
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Douglas Adams keeps coming up in this thread, but this sounds a lot like the Total Perspective Vortex.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
The coolest thing copilot or whatever did in vscode for me was generating a block of boost::regex code for c++. I started typing it, and it generated a block of 10 or so lines that would have been 10 minutes or so of deciphering boost docs,
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I guess I don't understand...what is going on here? https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
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by jawilson2 2y ago
My kids are in middle and high school, and they all have school-issued 13 in chromebooks. None of them have print text books, they are all online. I HATE studying with them, because of this. It is a nightmare to try to read a physics or mat
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Not really, though I suppose you can interpret art how you like: The Lord of the Rings was actually begun, as a separate thing, about 1937, and had reached the inn at Bree, before the shadow of the second war. Personally I do not think that
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I have CDs from software I bought in the 90s I can install today (probably in a VM). I bought it, I should be able to make it work SOMEHOW for the next 100 years. Just release an update with the phone-home commented out.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Over the summer, my son had a baseball tournament in Detroit, and we were driving from Chicago. I have never driven an EV before, and I wanted to see what it was like before a lease is up on one of our cars, so I decided to rent one and try
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I feel the same about the Grateful Dead. I like jam bands, I like all of the bands and musicians that hung out with or played with them, all of my friends like them. Ripple is pretty nice. I should absolutely like them, but whatever magic i
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Like Hamilton. Total bomb.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Cool it with AI hate? Love Firefox, I don't understand slapping "AI" on a browser.
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Try 5 years to get into foreign service, then pivot to IS?
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I was trying to remember the name of a book series I read as a child in the late 80s/early 90s. I gave ChatGPT part of a title (it had Scorpion and a few other words in the title), a few plot points, and the decade it was published, an
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by jawilson2 2y ago
Found Mark Rippetoe's account. If anyone is interested in learning about weight lifting, Starting Strength (by Mark Rippetoe) is a GREAT book to start with!
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by jawilson2 2y ago
There are a lot of people who respond like this. It reminds me of years ago when JCPenny stopped having "sales," and they just set prices to be permanently low. [1]. It cratered their business. It turns out people love having coup
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by jawilson2 2y ago
I agree and disagree. I've definitely experienced this, but I've come to the conclusion that the problem is bouncing around in my head for those 2 hours, quietly grinding away in the background. Then, when person B explains it, my
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by jawilson2 3y ago
> I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and the HD to an SSD And you still meet the specs of the current Macbook 16 years later.
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by jawilson2 3y ago
Do you count OpenCL? https://www.khronos.org/api/opencl
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by jawilson2 3y ago
Ooh, the Mandela effect strikes again! I swear I've seen the video of him saying it, but can only find Daffy.
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by jawilson2 3y ago
Pretty sure this usage is from Bugs Bunny, who derisively/sarcastically called Elmer Fudd Nimrod to mock his hunting skills.
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by jawilson2 3y ago
If I place a ton of buy orders just off the top of the book, without the intent to actually buy, other market makers and algos WILL react to the new weighted midprice and raise their offers. This is basic market microstructure supply and de

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