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2y ago
Hahaha! I only crammed some dense jargon into a sentence to give the air of expertise... it's a bit of a trick, finding a combination of math terms that doesn't refer to an actual field of study.
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Nah, when you do that, Murphy's law says that the interviewer will be the only person in the world working on extending nonstandard analysis to spectral hypergraph theory, and my attempt to snow them will reveal that I only have surfac
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2y ago
As a literal graph theorist, I cannot tell you how frustrating it is that (a) nobody seems to understand my work except (b) interviewers use it as a shibboleth to exclude people from jobs that will never need high performance graph algorith
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2y ago
Your theory sounds as if it was immediately preceded by a bong rip. Complaints of downvotes attract downvotes. And you've not responded to two people explicitly inquiring for details about your theory
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2y ago
> It remains pretty potent if you save up enough of it. That's... not what potent means
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2y ago
Mrrrow
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2y ago
Except they don't know if either they or the cancer dies in either switch state.
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2y ago
This has long been suspected due to the spheroidal indentations in the lunar surface.
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2y ago
Yeah, turns out it was flagged that long because dang got a day off. The first I've ever heard of it tbh
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2y ago
Ugh, what a welcome home
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> I kind of agree; there should be a clearer policy regarding the posts allowed here. Either political posts are fine or they're not, but it seems like some have been flagged and others not. Dang has to override popular opinion to k
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2y ago
> How do you construct pressuring the VP to make a procedural step that it is within his discretion to make as an attempted coup? Questions like this are the rational basis for Democrats to claim that Trump, and more broadly, Republicans
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2y ago
The Senate Cafeteria Insurrection of '24? No, blockading the lunch counter doesn't compare to violently interrupting the count of electoral votes. They didn't even beat up any cops. They didn't "storm" the b
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> We also routinely required guns to be surrendered inside of cities back in the 1800s because we understood that there was a difference between being armed on your private property and being armed while getting smashed in a bar. Huh, in
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You don't get it, what about "make America great" implies that somebody thinks the country is in some "ideal" state? The answer to the guns problem is more guns. And if your main guy gets shot, that's just an
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2y ago
I dunno about you, but I was born in the 1980s and my dad cussed like a sailor, loved George Carlin, etc. I'd say that the language has a timeless quality.
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2y ago
> Get them acting as a swarm and you've got something really scary. Yeah, a truckload of drones kinda gets scary inversely proportional to drone volume. Bee drones whose "sting" shorts out a gram of lithium battery could
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2y ago
Yeah, I think I'd use a mix -- not pure gas, but one with a fixed (nonlethal) ratio of oxygen.
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2y ago
Next time, use your towel.
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Yeah, if I was gonna attempt this, it'd be N2 gas, or even CO2, but CO is stupid.
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Panic
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2y ago
What, and do nothing for eternity instead?
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You're not getting the band back together. I've never heard of an organization surviving more than about a year after being acquired, much less get preserved by a parent company in its death throes. If there was any chance of t
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2y ago
I put a UML diagram generator in there somewhere, you just need to run it to get the docs up to date. It's been a while though... but I remember that the name was a really good pun . Good luck!
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Seven years after the merger, one year after the founder attempted a murder/suicide? Not sure what you expected here.
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> ....and thus we have 3x the devs we actually need). When it was framed like that, the business was eager to start a total rewrite project. What fraction of developers is on Team Rewrite?
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2y ago
Counterpoint: a cynical take posted deep in a comment thread in a random corner of the internet may not accurately reflect the values of an entire industry.
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Yes, the ancient Greeks were smoking opium. Nobody said that "everyone" was doing it, but its use was pretty widespread in neolithic Europe even before Sumerians were cultivating poppies Mesopotamia, back in 3400BCE. https:/
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Does it serve as a counterexample? Or did the predicted loss of memory function come to pass? Worth noting that people were smoking plain old opium back in those times; I'd be reluctant to apply their reasoning to fentanyl.
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Precisely the quote I was thinking of, thank you.
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