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by samplatt 3y ago
All objects are surprisingly movable when they encounter enough mass.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Here in Perth, Western Australia we have a few main streets aligned for the sunsets and sunrises. They get... very bright.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Always been frustrated that this abstraction became so commonplace. It's not even like there's ever been a time in history where 'online' meant 'safe and reliable'. Marketing always wins out, I guess.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense, but is entirely foreign to me (at least for soda). In my history of 20 years of software/DBA in the Australian mining/construction industry, most have had free coffee but none have had f
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by samplatt 3y ago
Sorry; not understanding your outrage here. You expect your work to provide you with free soda? Or you expect a FAANG company in particular to do so?
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by samplatt 3y ago
Still waiting for The Moral Virologist[1] to have it's AI debut. [1] https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/MORAL/Moral.html
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by samplatt 3y ago
You're comparing RAM amounts to other RAM amounts without considering requirements. 24GB is more than (most) current games would ever require, but is considered a uncomfortably-constrictive minimum for most industrial work. Traditional
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by samplatt 3y ago
I'll disagree. The last 20 years I've been a DBA/DA/dev at a slew of medium/large/ultragiant mining/construction/engineering companies. In almost every single one, there's a young gun quietly ope
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by samplatt 3y ago
I mean... Barring some pretty big catastrophes occurring, Europa is likely to outlast Europe by several orders of magnitude. If the moon is happy to wait, they'll inherit the name regardless.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Blood test, my man. No sense asking people on the internet what you MIGHT be missing; get a test and find out for sure. Posting this from Australia though where the test is cheap. YMMV.
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by samplatt 3y ago
I'm ~60% sure they themselves are trying to bait someone, into an anti-abortion argument. They're definitely deliberately taking the most provocative stance possible, and trying to provoke more people along with them. edit: re-rea
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by samplatt 3y ago
It's not just amusing (and for some, uncomfortable) terminology. Pregnancy stimulates the mother's immune system in ways normally associated with fighting a parasite, and the fetus defends itself using techniques that successful p
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by samplatt 3y ago
American Football today is almost as dangerous as the sport in Rollerball (1975). This is probably a better comparison to Roman circuses than Kill Bill.
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by samplatt 3y ago
>Most computers are 64 bits for decades now. Desktops and laptops and servers, sure. There's an awful lot of 32bit processors in industrial controllers.
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by samplatt 3y ago
I didn't think it was LLM-generated, but wouldn't be surprised if it was. What tipped you off, and what makes you so certain? Is there a checker you can easily run it through?
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by samplatt 3y ago
You're not countering gravity, you're countering the mass of the helicopter vs. the mass of the air moved. Thus, since the air is thinner: to push larger blades going at the same speed, OR the same sized blades going at a faster s
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by samplatt 3y ago
I could tell what phase my desktop was in the boot process by listening to the HDD. Being familiar with autoexec.bat and config.sys, I could even isolate which command was being run. And then Windows begun loading and everything was just a
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by samplatt 3y ago
What distemper? Also, your second sentence contradicts your first one, just FYI.
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by samplatt 3y ago
What a rude and deliberately-ignorant way to choose to reply.
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by samplatt 3y ago
...For some industries.
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by samplatt 3y ago
You're correct but being overly pedantic. Not only is Unreal one of the biggest engines chosen for use with VR games but it's also one of the easiest and most effective for modders to retroactively inject the ability to use a game
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by samplatt 3y ago
I'm having troubles following the math on that paper. If the beginning of the Habitable Epoch was 10-17MY after the big bang, when was the end?
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by samplatt 3y ago
I assumed they meant "pretty much every beer _type_" has a different strain, which you pretty well proved in your reply. That might just be an assumption, though.
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by samplatt 3y ago
"Funny" story along the same lines from an alumina refinery I worked at. Part of alumina requires use of a lot of extremely corrosive sodium hydroxide liquid, which eats through aluminium like the acid blood from Aliens. A neutral
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by samplatt 3y ago
> I once helped out in a sound booth where the cables picked up AM radio This right here is part of the reason the "coathanger versus cable test" annoys me so much. All these wonderful graphs "proving" that cables don
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by samplatt 3y ago
Fascinating. Have you read the story story, The Moral Virologist? I've always been curious as to how close to realistic it was, and you seem a person that could answer that.
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by samplatt 3y ago
Amusing that this has been released so close to the hbomberman video on plagiarism ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ ).
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by samplatt 3y ago
1) can be a result of 2). When a car makes regular maintenance really easy and/or cheap, it's going to be more likely to never break. My Toyota Prado had the oil filter easily accessible at the top of the engine bay instead of bei
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by samplatt 3y ago
I don't mind this idea, tbh, as impossible to police as it would be. Social media still has negative impacts to mental health without the algorithmic feeds but at least it'd be a lot easier to control.
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by samplatt 3y ago
No, but it's nice when they are, because it makes the audience feel clever and occasionally allows more meaning to be conveyed.

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