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by jvm___ 1y ago
Wikipedia says gutta-percha was a household word as it was a popular material to make items out of. Interesting to see the word distribution in Google books, it was super popular but seems to have died off quickly. https://books.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
LLM's can do anything, but the decision tree for what you can do in life is almost infinite. LLM's still need a coherent designer to make progress towards a goal.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
The societal impact of that UI design decision will be interesting to watch play out. People are so used to trusting the first Google search result that it now being AI that's sometimes wrong or hallucinated.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
The bad guys are driving their train when a cop train shows up in the mirrors behind their train. Cop walks up to the window and asks for their license and registration please. Another shootout occurs followed by a multi-track multi-train p
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Apparently the trick for roller coasters is to keep the passengers hearts in the same plane so they don't perceive the ride as jerky.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
I saw a video of some alpine explorer who recorded a video of himself to be uploaded later. He was on some stupid long 500 mile trek through the mountains when the police texted him. They were paving the parking lot where he'd left his
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by jvm___ 1y ago
I'm backwoods camping next week, and we have 25 people spread out over three sites. I was thinking it would be funny to bring some old rotary dial phones and some sort of way of hooking them up, and then just have that as the intercom
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by jvm___ 1y ago
What do you do for a living? I teach math how to be funny.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Just imagining how you'd test this in America. Just launch your target autonomous flying drone and then have the second one intercept it. Can you book range time at white sands?
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Agent Smith had it right when he was interviewing Morpheus in the Matrix.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
African or European packets
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Our local library had a summer reading program. You needed to talk about the book to a librarian, so we were waiting in line. The kid giving the book report was under 3 so it wasn't much of a book report, she asked the usual questions
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by jvm___ 1y ago
I have a 30 minute hourglass that I put on my phone beside me on my desk. I can still see and read notifications or change the song but I'm not allowed to pickup my phone and actually use it.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
It's 400 parts per million. Take a million bags of rice, then take out 400 and dye the grains black. Dump them back in the main pile and mix it all together. Now process it and extract the 400 bags of black rice. Also there's dust
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by jvm___ 1y ago
That'a a very philosophical question. Insignificant to the universe's total mass I guess. Are we the chemicals or just the electrical signals, that makes the mass that makes up "you" even less of an thing.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
The Sun: 99.86% of the solar system's total mass. Jupiter: ~0.095% of the total mass, and ~71% of the non-solar mass. Saturn: ~0.03% of the total mass, and ~19% of the non-solar mass. Uranus and Neptune: Contribute a small percentage t
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by jvm___ 1y ago
What are the chances that the peaceful, think it through, be reasonable crowd is ready to organize the next regime. Or maybe the hotheads with guns are ready to shoot first aim later. Perhaps forcing regime changes on other countries should
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Detectorist was the perfect "the world is a normal place" show during the early days of the pandemic.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Do we get gut bacteria from the people around us? Where does a newborn get their gut bacteria from?
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by jvm___ 1y ago
https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA?si=UMD-FBpBNroELCKE This video explores what's predicted to happen in the future of the universe. The speed of time passing doubles every 5 seconds. And the video is almost 30 minutes long.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
Is tire wear worse for aquatic life than brake dust?
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by jvm___ 1y ago
The Sun is 99.86% of the mass in our solar system. Jupiter is 0.1% and everything else fits in that last 0.04%
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by jvm___ 1y ago
At nations level anarchy is the rule of law.
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by jvm___ 1y ago
https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA?si=LcVxE3w-ohGqZAr7 If you need some existential dread. It's a hypothetical video to portray the rest of the universe, the time speed moving forward doubles every 5 seconds - and it's
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by jvm___ 2y ago
Way back when the first spy kids movie leaked without CGI so the kids were flying Superman style without the associated backdrops.
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by jvm___ 2y ago
Why would you stand up a factory based on humans? When widget-businessman calls up the companies that install widget making machines they'll get the latest and greatest automated production machines in the least human labor intensive w
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by jvm___ 2y ago
How free a country is can be determined by this question. Would you choose to be a randomly chosen citizen? You could be anyone in that country with all the rights, privileges - or lack thereof - that that random person has. I think I'
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by jvm___ 2y ago
Freedom from is the American way. Freedom to is the Canadian way. That's why Canada becoming an American anything is ridiculous and pisses off Canada so much that, for example, we've reduced our flights to America by +70% over the
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by jvm___ 2y ago
Animaniacs has the same problem, they mock politicians and celebrities from the early 90's, but the person their making fun of is just a drawn version of themselves so you're assumed to know who they are and why their being made f
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Broligarchs

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