samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
There was an attempt to blatantly push eugenics via a sperm bank[0], and it was active until 1999. Nowadays they are just more discreet about it. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choi...
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by samtho 3y ago
Sex has been separated from reproduction, at least in the few species we know of that partake in it for pleasure only. Humans engage in a variety of sexual activities that ostensibly cannot result in a pregnancy. You talk about verbal contr
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by samtho 3y ago
> And court can easily decide that you are no longer "anonymous donor", because you "accepted paternal role", by giving money, by paying for dinner or even by answering messages! There are precedents for that! The onl
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by samtho 3y ago
This just does not happen if the donation was done with the correct contracts and paperwork. Gamete donation has been a multi billion dollar industry for many years would not exist if those donors, anonymous or otherwise, suddenly would be
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by samtho 3y ago
We are already here. Modern sperm and egg banks are just the eugenics industrial complex with a few branding tweaks.
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by samtho 3y ago
> I don't think that parenthood has anything to do with genes. Genetic mirroring is a powerful force and the role of nature plays a far greater part than most are willing to admit.
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by samtho 3y ago
My most recent project uses an STM32F030C8 which has 64Kb of flash and 8Kb of SRAM. This is actually a beefier STM32 than I usually go for but was cheaper and more available at the time of the design. I didn’t say it was never updated. Ever
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by samtho 3y ago
This is infuriating and would have led me to start a smear campaign against the leadership ultimately leading to a vote of no confidence.
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by samtho 3y ago
JavaScript is the most common language for building interfaces and being event-driven. These two aspects make it uniquely suited for hardware applications. But even as a JavaScript (and specifically not TypeScript) zealot, I cannot get behi
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by samtho 3y ago
Sitting all day is just one of many things that likely cause it. Sitting pushed organs around in a different way from standing or laying down.
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by samtho 3y ago
People always crap on tech for being useless while ignoring that 95% of fintech companies exist solely and completely as a vehicle to generate money for a very small group of people.
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by samtho 3y ago
I think there is (or was, depending on the institution) a disconnect between the curriculum and what skills students needed. For context, I was a tutor, instructional assistant, adjunct professor, and finally a curriculum advisor for the Lo
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by samtho 3y ago
I often work in a resource constrained environment where my program size is measured in two-digit kilobytes, RAM is measured in the single-digit kilobytes, and it can’t exceed some current measured in mA/h. When I am simply sending a U
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by samtho 3y ago
I will argue that Gollum looked better than the goblins in The Hobbit trilogy, however. It helped that Andy Serkis played both the mo-cap portion and provided the voice and subsequent acting.
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by samtho 3y ago
This is sort of related to putting an actor's face on another, often in the case of the original actor being unavailable, including being deceased - the ultimate case of unavailability. I suppose there are two ways to include an actor
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by samtho 3y ago
People steal bud light because they can’t afford or don’t want to pay for it, not because it’s illegal to have or consume. The war on drugs had done untold damage to our society by reframing drug problems as a moral problem rather than a me
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by samtho 3y ago
Embedded development but specifically low-powered embedded development. Not everything is wifi and cell network, sometimes you have devices that wake up, broadcast a signal over LoRa or Zigbee and return to sleep. Specialized batteries can
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by samtho 3y ago
This feels like building codes in the US, you can read the law but the law points to expensive to acquire materials required to comply. This should be illegal and people should be pissed. I don’t care if lawmakers contract private industry
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by samtho 3y ago
With current industrial processes, they usually will use some chemical reaction to create new CO2 because the can be certain of its purity. Most methods of capturing CO2 involve changing the chemical.
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by samtho 3y ago
Most reasonable people understand the difference between accident and negligence. How is it we are able to have professional engineers sign on off plans if they know they will be held personally liable for failures? This is very much a solv
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by samtho 3y ago
The tragedy here is usually that you don’t recognize you’re in one until it’s long sense past and you find yourself nostalgically remembering how it was and wondering why it changed so drastically and for the worst.
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by samtho 3y ago
This is not a good reason to be anti-controlled burn. You said yourself that this was due to negligence by the USFS. If anything this should highlight the importance of doing controlled burns so that there is minimal chance of these raging
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by samtho 3y ago
The manufacturer of the heat pump system is rarely the maker of the refrigerant but they maintain a close relationship with them. That relationship would be harder to maintain if they suddenly decided to use a very common substance rather t
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by samtho 3y ago
It’s not really about price, you can get refrigerant grade CO2 for about $2/lb while other common refrigerants can range from $4-$14/lb. The problem is making sure equipment is certified to handle r744 because it does have a diffe
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by samtho 3y ago
For those not familiar, r744 is a type of refrigerant, similar to r134a and r404a. In any refrigeration system (A/C units, refrigerators, freezers, heat pumps), a type of refrigerant is required to move heat out of the target location
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by samtho 3y ago
At the end of the day, the question is never one debating simplicity. If you consider the amount of complexity implemented just to even boot into an operating system to run these systems, the lack of simplicity is already a forgone conclusi
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by samtho 3y ago
It might be OK on a technical level, but my concern is where someone is showing off a project they used to supposedly learn how to implement HTTP/3 but only goes far enough to use an HTTP/2 implementation because fully implementin
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by samtho 3y ago
I understand what you’re saying, but if someone decides to post a link to their project that is an HTTP/3 server in under X lines of code but only implements HTTP/2 features, is it really an HTTP/3 web server?
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by samtho 3y ago
This may sound sort of “old man waves at cloud” of me but one thing I’ve found sad is the gross over-complication of later versions of standards such that the sort of project linked here may not be as practical for something like HTTP/
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by samtho 3y ago
I know a number of people who moved from across the pond that actually do American phonemes fairly well. What gives them away are minor inflections and sentence cadences that sound a little off. Hard to describe, but it makes them sound lik

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