robbedpeter

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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This is closer to musician instrument preferences. The audio component of switch mechanics isn't as important to me as the tactile experience. Tiny changes in the springs can be felt, your keys will feel too weak or stiff. The mechanic
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Or hire private mercenaries to firebomb bot farms. He's got the money. Hire those YouTube hackers who pwn scam call centers to find the bad guys, run all the people out and torch the servers and phones and buildings. Modern society is
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Unless you know someone very well, you'll be missing context when interpreting body language. Even then, sociopaths and con artists can seem extremely well known to you and you won't have a clue that everything you think you know
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's the sticky crap - sap, cellulose, sugars, plant fats. This can fix larger debris in place, accelerating pitting and weathering of the rail. The co2 pellets freeze the sticky crap, which then gets shattered and dispersed, leaving c
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
old.reddit.com/r/PromptSharing/comments/ubff9u/celestial_sea_floor/ This is art. Generative algorithms are simply new tools to work in digital visual media. Fancy stencils. They're tapping into the same al
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Interesting rabbit hole, I can't find any detailed reasons why co2 is better or not to use LN2. LN2 might also then be too cold and affect the temper of the steel, or it might evaporate too quickly, requiring a lot more mass than co2.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's cheaper and safer using co2 pellets propelled with ordinary air than liquid nitrogen. It gets sufficiently cold, and sufficiently abrasive to freeze, shatter, and disperse the sap and plant fats and other sticky stuff. Co2 cleaner
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Right, but at some point it's like trying to keep back the tide with a pushbroom. If you're Elon, maybe you can get a big enough broom, or build a sea wall, but a million individuals with brooms are just going to be wasting their
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
He's still on Twitter, as recently as this morning.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Living in America entails your daily expenses and significant portions of your tax money go to China and other dystopian dictatorships around the world. It's implausible to live ethically - like the meme of personal recycling, the prob
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It mimics the satisfaction of that intrinsic social need. It's the high fructose corn syrup of socializing, only more toxic.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I'm going to challenge this based on the idea of fractal geometries, wherein a universe exists in which the number 1 doesn't exist.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
For me, the paranoid/anxious/fixated type of high can be a feature, not a bug. I try to meditate when it happens. Marijuana can be a tool to exaggerate the way you're feeling about mistakes, shortcomings, and flaws you percei
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Elsa-gate and other nastiness shuttle have been a big wake-up call for YouTube to get their shit together on the kids area of the platform. Nice, wholesome, patriotic Russian propaganda like that shouldn't be possible to post. Mandator
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Z-Nazi nuns and nurses. More or less, just not fixated on jews. My empathy for Russians declines daily, it seems - they had decades to work things out but seem to have decided that klepocratic autarchy was good enough, or was someone else&#
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Or which version results in the least engagement / fastest click. You don't necessarily want to prompt introspection about privacy.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Your prejudice against drug use and users is unfounded and ill-informed. Addiction and the negative consequences of drug use are almost entirely driven by social and psychological isolation. Overdoses and tainted products are caused by ign
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
We are brains in vats. Bone vats. Supported by complex biomechanical, electrical, and chemical systems that convert food to chemical energy and filter waste for the brain. So is the important part of the question whether reality is being mo
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This like this are now a matter of automation and tedious scripting - you could easily integrate dall-e into a platform/sprite game builder. You could probably make a killing doing something like a minecraft skin generator... You could
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I'm so glad I left desktop support, but I still empathize. Running a network of hundreds of endpoints means you have to sacrifice laziness. That means you have to log in again after leaving your computer for five minutes. Because if yo
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Yeah, let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents. The automatic logout policies are there for a reason. Bypassing that means one day, somebody's going to forget and leave an important worksta
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Deliberately bypassing that puts your employment at risk. There's a reason you're being forced to log in.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
No, it's not. If I pay for a movie, but I then download it from The Pirate Bay, it's still piracy, but nobody loses anything. I recently went over my media collection and did some conservative guesstimation of my spending over the
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's not taken. It's copied. Digital piracy is not theft. It's unauthorized copying. It would be taking and theft if you deprived the owner of their content while copying it for yourself. Like stealing money with wire transfe
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Maybe it's both. Maybe they're colluding to maintain their increasingly geriatric grip on power. Maybe they're working together to stoke division and partisanship to prevent meaningful change. Red vs Blue is the dumbest form
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Oversubscription should be regulated and totally transparent to the customer. Something on the monthly statement like: "You pay for symmetric gigabit internet access. You share this line with 4 customers, and load balancing means your
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It depends on turbulence, though. If it's a wide uniform flow, there are no vortices to exploit, so the intuitive assumption holds. You need the vortices to work against, and certain configurations will have negative impact, so a fish
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
People can also choose for themselves within the constraints of their biological predilection. Society becoming tolerant then becomes subject to sexuality fads, and the percentage of people is identifying openly with sexuality of any stripe
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
If you only look at one meaning of the word and you feel like being brutally pedantic.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Facebook just sucks all on its own, I don't think it's failing because of any larger market trend. Meta has only itself and overweening arrogance to blame for its failure. They've got enough money to make dying a long and ted

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