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by jvm___ 3y ago
That's a calming thought. All biomass on Earth is a one with 12 zeroes less than the mass of the Earth. Your brain is about 3 regular bottles of water worth of mass. Whatever inside that brain of yours that is stressing you out... is s
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Microbes love on every square inch of the world, or close enough to it compared to humans. Humans live like shower fungus at the local gym, we live in the cracks and near the water sources, on the scale of earth we might as well be microsco
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Someone was curious as to my method so I made a YouTube video. After a year or so of not solving I was rusty on my method, so my YouTube video taught myself how to do it again.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I figured out how to solve a 3x3 over a period of a few months. I was the passenger in a carpool for 1.5 hours each day so I just kept at it. Figuring out the move pattern for swapping the corners on the bottom layer was found by rememberin
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by jvm___ 3y ago
How do you find job postings for these types of jobs? Any keywords to look for? And how do you interview for them? I don't want level 3 support or on-call rotation, just established software that needs diagnostics, bug fixes and upgrad
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by jvm___ 3y ago
What's the word for maps? City map makers didn't want people to copy their hard work, so they'd add a short street or some other feature that doesn't actually exist in reality.
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I keep re-reading and referencing this article as it lays out how the human vs AI internet landscape is likely to shake out. https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
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I've read that the first person to touch a concrete cinder block is the person installing it.
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Which is the reverse of what it was in 1900. 90% wild, 10% domesticated in 1900 Now it's the opposite and the wilds are losing. "Were there really wild Giraffes/tigers/elephants?" Is probably a question that kid wil
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City workers hate that teenagers learned this one trick...
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It's also the only planned trip for the company this year due to weather. So the sub has sat for a period of time before being put in use. Do you think they do extensive trial runs first at the beginning of each season? Like send it to
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The best 'find things on the bottom of the ocean' gear is usually on a ship somewhere, but just happens to be in-between ships, but is on the Jersey islands in the English Channel. Except it still needs a military cargo plane to r
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by jvm___ 3y ago
He put his ass where his money wasn't.
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So the plot of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six comes true, release a virus at the Olympics closing ceremonies and it will spread globally almost immediately.
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Isn't that how Waymo killed a pedestrian/cyclist? It couldn't decide if she was a cyclist or pedestrian, as she was walking and pushing her bicycle, so it never braked. She was homeless so the shape of her bike wasn't a
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Relevant short and long-term memory of every 3d object you've ever seen along a road-side and what the expected behaviour of those objects should be. Does a road-sign usually move by itself? No, maybe someone is carrying it. Is a ball
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Plus the knowledge and intuition that, for example Firetruck >_____________< Fire Hydrant Something that looks flat but is actually a fire hose means you should stop instead of driving over it - this was actually issue in Phoenix(?) A
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by jvm___ 3y ago
My theory. The social contract varies in proportion with the available resources. In cities the friendliness is missing because you don't need to rely on others for food/water or anything else, you can just purchase it nearby. Whe
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by jvm___ 3y ago
If your unaware of who Terrance Tao is... The strategy for the very highest levels of maths is; if you get stuck, see if you can interest Terrance in your problem as he probably has an idea of what to do next.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
How about a $800 mortgage on a $1 million house and $2,500/month buys you a one bedroom basement apartment 45 minutes away from where your kids and ex-wife live. Or both of you sell and split the house and now live in an apartment buil
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Are you you me?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
"S does what she wants and J deals with the consequences" is one of my common sayings - and you're right, me saying that makes no sense to her. We have differing levels of desire to do things with other people. When we'r
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That's part of our struggle. We had an unexpected gift of $1,000 as an anniversary present from her parents. We have free childcare available anytime we want it. We had the entire summer of 2021 to find and go do something together tha
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by jvm___ 3y ago
That doesn't always happen though. I feel the most lonely when I'm alone with my wife. We can only have a back and forth conversation on topics that interest her, or the day to day of the house/kids, anything outside those th
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Not unless they reach escape velocity, although that might not end well for the mouse either.
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http://c25k.com/mobile/dawn-people.html Running groups are very welcoming, and they're only about improving yourself - it's hard to compete with most people in a running group. If you show up enough times to
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by jvm___ 3y ago
But how do you determine the users intent? They asked for the mobile version - but they're on desktop. Do you serve what the asked for? Or what you think they should want? What if they actually want the mobile version - if you always s
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by jvm___ 3y ago
"Reduced competition is the best way to ensure real choice doesnt exist." Your asking phone and app manufacturers to increase competition - which goes against their own reduced competition interests. Each individual company has no
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low switching costs between platforms that wont lock-in users, 100% stop with the abominable surveillance adtech, extensive recyclability and reparability. Who pays for that? What you want is less "pollution". A polluted market wh
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I mentioned not being flexible enough on a Facebook comment and instantly my reels feed is full of flexibility videos.

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