mrguyorama

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by mrguyorama 12d ago
Is your implication that the world is a better place if it is impossible to remove someone like Matt from control of a company?
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by mrguyorama 12d ago
>Friends that worked their described the "beef" as being a weird loaf of pressurized mewt-like protein before its sliced It's just deli meat. Arby's is extremely open that their roast beef is deli meat roast beef. It&
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by mrguyorama 12d ago
They sell a fast food priced sandwich that is a pound of deli meat and a glob of cheese sauce. It's meat and cheese. How is anyone ever confused by this? Are you confused people eat taco bell? Are you confused by a cheese steak sandwic
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by mrguyorama 12d ago
"A fish rots from the head" is true for unofficial structures just as much as it is for official structures.
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
Spoilers have full support for manual deployment, as they are sometimes used to manage your energy during descent. Deploying the spoilers manually would have brought the wheels down and that could have allowed thrust reverser deployment. No
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
I would expect, that if they tried to deploy thrust reversers, that event would have been included in this summary. If such an assumption is safe, then the implication is that they didn't even try to deploy reverse thrust which is insa
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
>Is it really better for users to download and run straight up executables with no security model? Yes. Unambiguously, a system where the only code that runs is code that you explicitly run is more secure. Social engineering and basic
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
On Firefox, when it reopens, it isn't actually running any tab other than the one you were looking at when it closed. When you switch to one of the other tabs, that's the first time they are actually instantiated and run. So if yo
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
I think most people have done "a bit" of cheating of some kind. Asking older friends about what to expect from tests. Asking older friends about how to approach a difficult assignment. Reading older assignments to see how they got
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
The only people who ever would have taken any of this as a "Plan" are the moronic current admin. Killing a few heads of Iran was known to not be an effective strategy, because the power is in the hands of the IRGC as an institutio
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
>But they are not looking to destroy the world or the region, and yes, sorry to say, but Iran is. Then why did Iran discontinue their other WMD programs, like much cheaper and easier to manage chemical weapons programs? Why is Iran holdi
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
Why did Iran willingly disassemble their other WMD programs, like bioweapons and chemical weapons, if they are irrationally bound to destroying Israel? Chemical weapons are perfectly effective for that desire and dramatically easier to buil
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by mrguyorama 16d ago
I loved this one as a kid in first grade because it just makes it so clear and obvious what the problem even is! I didn't need diagrams pretending to inflate a balloon in a cylinder, or an animate gif warping from globe to flat. Just,
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by mrguyorama 17d ago
>I wish there was a low fee credit card network that merchants didn't charge a fee for, so I could continue the simplicity of digital payments but opt out of this crazy Visa Infinite rewards accounting boondoggle. This is called &qu
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by mrguyorama 17d ago
The big problem that bothers me is the ability for post-hoc justification. Any interaction with cops will result in them curating your entire digital presence to craft a damning story about how deviant you are, for doing things like googlin
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by mrguyorama 17d ago
On the first day? Barely, though in "good" daycares, you usually have a connection because placement is competitive and you got in through nepotism. After a couple months? If you don't know the other kids by name and some oth
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by mrguyorama 17d ago
The behavior is congruent with my experience in abstract, in that all models will regularly do things you didn't ask for, will regularly go "above and beyond" by their training I expect, will regularly make changes that are e
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by mrguyorama 18d ago
Explicitly bypasses your rights too! Cops don't need a warrant if they can buy it with your money.
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by mrguyorama 18d ago
>When a small studio gets bought by a bigger one, it typically results in more production from the small studio No, you get the small studio forced to produce more, when that is not how art is made. Eventually you milk it dry and it su
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by mrguyorama 22d ago
These companies keep shrieking that LLM agents will hack everything and kill us all if we let them get out uncontrolled. They then continue to run these agents with vague tasks and "sandbox" them with way too much access. Either t
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by mrguyorama 22d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker It's old tech There's also the classic of dead reckoning, which is usually infeasible but modern commercial aircraft have the capability of bounded accuracy in their
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by mrguyorama 22d ago
The thing that bothers me most is the tens of millions of Americans who are doing everything they can to ignore the most blatant and corrosive corruption our country has seen in at least a century. After spending the past 20 years screaming
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by mrguyorama 22d ago
America has a substantial fundamentalist christian population who was handed a conspiracy theory about ID cards being a sign of the antichrist as depicted in Revelations decades ago and just will maintain that conspiracy theory for eterni
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by mrguyorama 22d ago
Facebook is definitely safe. I provided my ID to try to regain access to a hacked account and they never even responded to the request.
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
It's rare because almost all kidnappings and other harmful things done to children are done by people who aren't strangers: Aunts and uncles, parents, coaches, family friends, community leaders, religious leaders, day care employe
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
In Florida gated communities, the standard transportation method is individual overpriced golf karts.
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
More like the busybodies who have never experienced an adverse event in their life and are utterly ignorant of recent history and think some news coverage means the entire country is in terrifying threat of pedophiles grabbing kids off the
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
We've literally been through this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal It's always corrosive to society in a way other vices really aren't. Money is a massive influence and incentive,
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
This was functionally enabled by default by Minecraft being java, including the part where it was popularized by a java applet of a very early version. That ran well back in 2012 on shit hardware.
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by mrguyorama 23d ago
Infamously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#A... This flight had a new system to allow passengers to see what the pilots saw. There's a chance that the passengers got to see the panic in

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