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by philsnow 1y ago
(Which is why, of faith, hope, and charity, only charity will remain with us in heaven / in the beatific vision)
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by philsnow 1y ago
In (American, at least) English, there's a very common pattern of vowel reduction on unstressed syllables, resulting in "schwa-ification" [0][1] where all such vowels become indistinguishable from each other. In this case, we
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by philsnow 1y ago
There’s also SDAM / severely deficient autobiographical memory, which can make it harder or impossible to remember a consistent narrative of the events of your life, including who you’ve hung out with recently, what you talked about wi
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by philsnow 1y ago
My ideal agenda has certain things showing up wayyy before they actually happen, like anything that I need to buy gifts for. However, I don’t want to see “take out the trash bins” until day-of (maybe unless I’m going to be out of town the
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by philsnow 1y ago
Sloop manager for replacing progman.exe in windows 3.1, for me..
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by philsnow 1y ago
It’s less of > my baby is going to die, woe is me and more of > have I failed my baby so much as a parent that he won’t even grow to adulthood (much less have a wonderful, happy life) It’s not exactly a rational feeling; it’s not like
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by philsnow 1y ago
I thought the evolutionary impetus for fetal hemoglobin was because it greatly increases the efficiency of fetal oxygen uptake across the placental interface? From shadowgovt: > I have seen no literature on whether having fetal RBCs in a
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by philsnow 1y ago
> do I even need this crate at all? 35 lines later I had the parts of dotenv I needed. I'm not saying you copy-pasted those 35 lines from dotenvy, but for the sake of argument let's say you did: now you can't automaticall
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by philsnow 1y ago
Unrelated, but I moved to a more rural area a while back and I’m surrounded by orchards and fields a fair amount of time, and my mind just can’t wrap itself around the scale of agriculture. One avocado tree can produce around 200 avocados p
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by philsnow 1y ago
This doesn't read like LLM spam to me. Punchy 2- and 3-word sentences are a rhetorical device that I haven't seen ChatGPT (at least; I haven't really used the others) use at all.
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by philsnow 1y ago
Don't miss the link thrown in the second to last paragraph to https://x.com/Mick_Gordon/status/1918146487948919222 , a demo Mick Gordon put together, to which @anukarimusic replied > Lol on the second day
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by philsnow 1y ago
GDB already has a TUI.. it's pretty "vintage" though. I looked at the screenshot at the top of the repo README and it looks like it has a lot more creature comforts (read: any at all compared to GDB).
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by philsnow 1y ago
> A Jesuit priest would probably be considered a heretic by the average American Evangelical. I've heard the same comparison made of Martin Luther (that the average American evangelical would consider him a heretic).
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by philsnow 1y ago
Is this why certain USB keyboards I have don't seem to do anything in BIOS? I keep around a really dumb/boring dome keyboard for this purpose.
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by philsnow 1y ago
In the first image ("How old is [Stinkie] compared to the other mumble mumble* starters?"), the cumulative age distribution mostly falls off as you might expect, but it looks like there's a very noticeable bump about 4-5 y
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by philsnow 1y ago
A compressed file that is only one byte long can only represent maximally 256 different uncompressed files. Signed, a kid in the 90s who downloaded some "wavelet compression" program from a BBS because it promised to compress all
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by philsnow 1y ago
> Firefox prevents syncing multiple profiles with the same Mozilla account on the same device. If you create a new Firefox profile and then try to sign in to Sync with the same Mozilla account used in the other profile on that device, Fi
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by philsnow 1y ago
> By the time I've browsed on a couple topics, I have enough tabs open I can't see the titles any more Sidebery or TreeStyleTabs lets you see the titles no matter how many you have. ... Well, you have to scroll, but it's s
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by philsnow 1y ago
Because the client requests pagination by lastEventId (a UUID), the server needs to remember every event forever in order to correctly catch up clients. If instead the client paginated by lastEventTimestamp, then a server that for any reaso
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by philsnow 1y ago
Löve (lua thing for graphics / games) historically had this but the names were all sex-related (SECS, LUBE, COCK, AnAl, HUMP, Polygamy, Swingers, Quickie). None of the project names were metaphorically related to their functions. It&#
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by philsnow 1y ago
Reducing costs (and then trying to drum up community goodwill by "releasing" an open source tool) is not the same thing as generating revenue. https://github.com/Azure/peerd does not have a "pricing&quo
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by philsnow 1y ago
My interest in biology isn’t driven at all by stories, history, or “adventure”, but rather by the awe-inspiring complexity and majesty of all the microbiological processes and their interplay. Yes, it’s pop science, but last be year I read
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by philsnow 1y ago
There's a ton of overlap between "powerful stuff that's easy to write in (g)awk" and "powerful stuff that's trivial to write in perl", but I find awk to be succinct without losing readability.
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by philsnow 1y ago
The dozen or so TLMs I've ever been to have had their readings in the vernacular. All the other parts are either the same every time (or have only a few variations) or are propers (specific to each day). I never studied Latin, but I d
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by philsnow 1y ago
Anecdatum, but I still feel like part of a community when I go to Mass in a language I'm not familiar with, because its rhythm and flow are the same more or less everywhere. Disclaimer: I'm definitely not old enough to predate va
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by philsnow 1y ago
> Out of curiosity, Who hosts the holy servers? The Dicastery for Communcation [0]. They're ASN 8978, and geolocation for all their IP addresses says that they're actually in the Vatican city state. [0] https://www.
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by philsnow 1y ago
I'm commenting on this way way too late for anybody to read it except for jasonfarnon, but: Doesn't gmail prefetch / proxy img srcs, in order to not give away tracking/open information to the sender? Or is that somethin
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by philsnow 1y ago
I was surprised to learn that markets (NYSE and NASDAQ) at least are closed on Good Friday. Some article ascribed it to superstition about a previous crash that had happened on some previous Good Friday, but debunked there being any connect
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by philsnow 1y ago
Why are pointy knives going in the dishwasher, though?
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by philsnow 1y ago
I kept waiting for Chekhov’s gun (the sphere) to be fired.. but then the story ended. I enjoyed it, to be sure, but I guess I went in expecting it to be more Stross-y.

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