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by serf 2y ago
why does this logic make sense to anyone, ever? someone does something bad -- by all means that gives whoever carte blanche to do whatever is just as bad or equally so to the victimizers. This doesn't make sense -- even less sense wh
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by serf 2y ago
would you expect double the nobels if you doubled their available resources? another loaded question : do you believe the nih is the single government ran example of a perfectly lean and well managed agency without excess expenditure?
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by serf 2y ago
hardware key and physical attestation mechanism -> fde via key -> hosted encrypted userland or per-user virtualization. it's not perfect and it's a lanky chain to keep maintaining, but it's not un-doable.
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by serf 2y ago
you can most definitely change the levels of components in a fried food. the oil gets 'dirty' from extended use in frying. Why is it dirty? It's not dirt, and it's not oil breakdown (in most cases). The oil is drawing co
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by serf 2y ago
because those of us that do not use social media can just about entirely ignore mark zuckerberg. one cannot avoid seeing Tesla vehicles, and the sky is littered with Starlink constellations at night, and every media outlet in the world repo
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by serf 2y ago
first: the person who doesn't want to be reminded is probably not the person that is approaching you and actively telling you that they are approaching the end of their life. second: speaking to them about their plight isn't the s
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by serf 2y ago
>Are lions evil? lions aren't consciously deciding against a rationally plausible alternative, they are eating what is available. similarly human cannibalization stories generally center around the concept that the people driven to
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by serf 2y ago
>Restaurants is a few places where a tablet is a godsend. Children aren't always involved in adults conversations, so they get (obviously) bored at the table. A tablet guarantees some time off to the parents. as a fellow restaurant
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by serf 2y ago
>Someone in a wheelchair, or who is blind or mute, is much better accomodated in America than in most of Europe. (In part because the former is richer.) I guess it just depends on who you talk to and their particular values. I love my co
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by serf 2y ago
without a big genetic assay isn't it virtually impossible to know whether or not the trait (hydrophobia) persisted due to the symptom itself rather than just a correlated advantageous mutation that brought along hydrophobia as a happy
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by serf 2y ago
>Not using a small amount of thermal paper each day is I think a pathological over-optimisation I agree, but OP is judging interest in order to produce a product from this concept. Using a bit of thermal paper each day on a personal basi
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by serf 2y ago
>apparently, in the “future” pilots will wear enormous retard helmets it sucks that 'retard' is coming back into common circulation as a slur/derogation. it felt like we were moving away from it for awhile until recently.
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by serf 2y ago
asking without malicious intent : is this behavior just attention-seeking for the rich and famous? If Carmack mentioned a new game he was working on every other week people would stop and listen (and it would likely eventually materialize),
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by serf 2y ago
I guess; but to anyone out there reading this : the cheapest available rtx with the memory you need is likely just fine for experimentation unless you're dead set on experimenting with some notoriously heavy hitting large-vram suites.
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by serf 2y ago
we can't all live in Bedford Falls, and the police aren't there for the benefit of the every-person no matter where you live. it's a nice bit of propaganda that they're there for us, but I urge anyone with that idea to s
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by serf 2y ago
not a model per se but there are plenty of safeguards on, for example, oAI products. Go ask an oAI product 'draw a portrait in the style of Patrick Nagel'. Here's the reply I got : "I am unable to generate images in the
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by serf 2y ago
well, historically it was because manufacturers didn't have the opportunity to sell six-figure cars, so they had to use the cheapest acceptable steel alloys in order to produce a product that people could afford -- and paint was a &#x2
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by serf 2y ago
>Covid is probably the most thoroughly studied disease in history by a mile though. last estimates I read mentioned 400k covid research papers, diabetes had over 1.5m and 'cancers' , as varied as that topic is , has many many m
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by serf 2y ago
the problem being that focus isn't the sheer soul metric that establishes productivity, its' field dependent. similar studies on body doubling also showed participants feeling more social pressure to conform to well-established me
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by serf 2y ago
I like RTS strategies. I like having a grand strategy of some sort that works out in a final dramatic movement. I find it mentally satisfying, regardless of the media, when a plan works out.
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by serf 2y ago
medieval builders would have relied on the use of flame and natural light. I think it all looks great with the exception of white-spectrum LEDs as far as the eye can see; the natural lighting of the past Notre Dame during early morning was
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by serf 2y ago
I had a The Dickies tshirt that I was banned from wearing in public high school.[0] coincidentally I have also been to a show where the lead started pissing on everyone -- but he didn't ask. (Mike V and the Rats).. you'd think tha
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by serf 2y ago
>It doesn't help you figure out anything mechanically or visually. people sell entire franchises off of a few pre-rendered generic-fantasy still images -- I would have to disagree with the premise that this is useless as a visual co
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by serf 2y ago
same here, id be more interested in the list gathering technique than the list itself..
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by serf 2y ago
absolutely wrong -- if you're not clever enough to think of any other reason to run an LLM locally then don't condemn the rest of the world to "well they're just using it for porno!"
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by serf 2y ago
>Hot rodding about fast cars. the whole hotrod culture produced those fast cars in order to compete with the police, it then turned into in-group competition, and then formal racing. 'hot rodding' wouldn't exist without co
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by serf 2y ago
most people care about scratches because they look like shit. paint is a bit more than just corrosion protection at this point, otherwise mfgs would just slap on the thickest toughest machine-tool grade enamel and call it a day. why don&#x2
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by serf 2y ago
>For example: Mitutoyo seems to have a monopoly on producing accurate digital calipers that have battery life measured in years (using one dainty little LR44 alkaline cell). They use approximately fuck-all for power whether switched on o
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by serf 2y ago
I tried to stick to Prusa stuff through the release of Bambu products in order to support the notion of a group that can give-take within the OSH concept -- now they offer zero value comparably. The Bambu products are better if you'r
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by serf 2y ago
scrolling thru the post the NeoTokyo screenshot struck me instantly, I ran through the hallway thousands of times - I ran a server for that mod for some years and had great fun with a small community of good/capable people.

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