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by ralfd 5mo ago
> What are some other things that you think "pollutes your brain"? Horror movies. They are going straight to the amygdala but there are no vampires or zombies being afraid of. The nightmare fuel of my childhood prepared me wron
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by ralfd 5mo ago
Ask if the continents move or where always in their place! Or what causes earthquakes?
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by ralfd 5mo ago
USER Travelling with a trolley or suitcase is cumbersome. What about the idea to attach wheels on the suitcase? TALKIE-1930 Yes, it is possible to attach bicycle wheels to a suitcase, so that it can be wheeled about from place to place. The
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by ralfd 5mo ago
USER Why was the American Civil War fought? TALKIE-1930 The American Civil War was fought to decide whether the United States should permanently remain an indissoluble union of sovereign states, or whether the union should be broken up into
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by ralfd 5mo ago
USER What is a Woman? TALKIE-1930 A woman is a being composed of body and soul, the former being earthly, and the latter heavenly. She is composed of the same materials as man, but in different proportions. Man has a larger share of earth,
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by ralfd 6mo ago
> and plausibly similar changes occurred in other regions Sure. But did ALL regions change? And did they change to the same destination? When the environments differed so much? It is easy to see how answers (or the questions themselves)
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by ralfd 6mo ago
> The average european person and the average east asian person are a little bit different genetically, but way less different than any two real europeans or two east-asians are to one another. This is always touted as an “racism-is-not-
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by ralfd 6mo ago
> Don't even know why people Most people (my mom) don't know what s3 and r2 is or how to use it.
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by ralfd 6mo ago
Can we make heat sink out of synthetic diamonds?
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by ralfd 6mo ago
Companies do generally act as tax collectors rather than the final bearers of the cost, as taxes just increase the price for the end consumer.
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by ralfd 6mo ago
It is one of the few instances were the reddit discussion seems more normal/indepth. See the longer comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sgtkdf/tailsl... There are a few gla
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by ralfd 6mo ago
This is their last blog entry. 9 years later ... did Burrito Bison 3 save them? Doesn't seem so?
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by ralfd 6mo ago
For people reading that later: a dog (pug) was feeding right now
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by ralfd 7mo ago
Microsoft stopped manufacturing in 2020. It was not hacked in its lifetime.
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by ralfd 7mo ago
In German this is called "windelfrei" (diaper free) or in english rather terribly named "elimination communication": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication > Elimination communic
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by ralfd 7mo ago
Yes. People willingly accept made up text (stories) if it fits their world view, and for words we always knew that they could be untrue. Why should it be different for images/audio/video?
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by ralfd 7mo ago
> Feels a bit like the kind of stuff you see for sale in tourist areas. Yeah, art is only real if it is unpopular and elicits a “I don’t get it” /s
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by ralfd 7mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by ralfd 7mo ago
Similarly law professor Rob Anderson joked on X that llm hallucinated cases are good law: https://x.com/ProfRobAnderson/status/2019078989348774129 > Indeed hallucinated cases are "better law." Drawing
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by ralfd 8mo ago
Diablo 2 got a new expansion? What year is it?
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by ralfd 8mo ago
Electrec is not neutral commenting, it always giving any data an anti-Tesla spin.
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by ralfd 8mo ago
> "And the woman on the phone was awesome. She was like, 'how can the brick industry help?'" That is an epic sentence!
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by ralfd 8mo ago
You did misunderstand: https://x.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/2017932529882296706 SpaceX worked with Ukraine together to register authorized Starlinks. You obviously can’t simply geo-fence because the usage is not i
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by ralfd 8mo ago
Because most men stopped reading and most women don’t care much about sci-fi . https://archive.is/I1QyW > Beyond the bookstore, much of the architecture of book discovery is informally targeted at women. Celebrity book c
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by ralfd 8mo ago
The website is either old or very retro cool: https://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2026/01-24/020.jpg This picture from a recent concert looks how I imagine the Bay Area: https://www.dnalounge.com&#x2
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by ralfd 8mo ago
On the most recent 2026 page he writes that The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4C did go into print. Crazy to think about that he works on the series since the 60s and presumably won't finish the remaining Volumes 5,6 and 7.
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by ralfd 8mo ago
He writes: > because that’s exactly where my parents and I are from.
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by ralfd 8mo ago
> it's huge compared to anything that has been sent to space before That is the goal of Starship though. The ISS has a mass of 400 ton, the goal is to need only two cheap launches of Starship v4 for that.
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by ralfd 8mo ago
> “Vaguely accurate” does not mean “untrue” The full quote is “vaguely accurate but a disingenuous take”. And “Disingenuous” means “misleading/dishonest/untruthful/insincere/unfair”. > Obviously if he meant to say
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by ralfd 8mo ago
That link denies the conspiracy theory? > “Or did he just have an idea and blurt it out," I asked Vance. > "I'm 99.9-percent sure it's the latter," Vance tells me. Also that to scapegoat Musk for killing the

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