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by serf 3y ago
> So not a common use case either, maybe a desirable one. it's a literal checkbox install option on Ubuntu at least a few versions back (i'm not up to date), so I wouldn't call it uncommon.
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by serf 3y ago
> I've kinda checked out of car culture. well -- with all due respect -- maybe leave comments like the following to people who are into cars. 6.0-7.0 0-60 hasn't been quick for 30+ years. >it'll outrun all but the hotte
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by serf 3y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sock--in it's not generally used past-tense, and it's not that common -- but i've heard it my whole life on the west coast US.
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by serf 3y ago
I think that the inside should match the motif that the outsides set. what I mean by that : the outside sets a tone of professional heavy-duty post-apocalyptic computing, yet the insides are filled with fragile wire connects, fragile routes
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by serf 3y ago
here's some US numbers. The situation is similar in most developed countries, if you care enough go search out those numbers. https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/ https://dqydj.com/historic
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by serf 3y ago
>It's tap water sold at a 5000% markup. it's tap water, processed, and bottled. The processes often include extra filtration and cleaning methods that the individual corporate groups dictate. I'm not trying to suggest that
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by serf 3y ago
a credit score locks people out of an entire tier of purchases that could reasonably be paid off over time if they weren't entirely opt-ed out by credit, it isn't just fancy phones and internet services. i've known home-owner
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by serf 3y ago
>Where the problem comes from is that people put off procedures that are necessary because they are afraid of the debt. there isn't a singular problem in a country where your credit score can dictate the quality of your future. Yes,
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by serf 3y ago
> It's a bit naive to think this isn't done already. anyone that has used gpt4 for a few minutes for anything more than the simplest of questions already knows that this happens routinely. for the easiest to touch-upon things t
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by serf 3y ago
a person can be made to feel capable without requiring a living wage. similarly : work exists outside of wages, as do co-operative and unpaid grand works. the (probably fantastical) hope is that when a 'living wage' as a concept
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by serf 3y ago
>It was not enormously expensive. The entire Apollo Program cost about 1/6th as much as the Vietnam War, and that's direct costs only. you're comparing something to one of the most grossly mismanaged loss-of-value wars the
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by serf 3y ago
unsupervised major surgery.
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by serf 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite) "The CORONA satellites were designated KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4, KH-4A and KH-4B. KH stood for "Key Hole" or "Keyhole" (Code number 1010),[7] with
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by serf 3y ago
good. returning/replacing something at a grocery store shouldn't take hours of overseas phone-calls and arguments. ask me how I know.
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by serf 3y ago
that's only a few elements away from a 'Serial Experiments: Lain' episode.
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by serf 3y ago
>I don't think most of the pirates actually care that much about whether people download their releases. they don't care about who downloads what, but you'd better believe that the market hype drives the attention and sets
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by serf 3y ago
it should be similar given similar construction; one of the reasons dynamixels tend to be pricey is the dual inboard encoder setup. if price is a factor then a servo+encoders setup will always be cheaper; there are some dirt cheap encoders
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by serf 3y ago
car clutches and brakes famously act/sound different in the wet, maybe a clutch or friction material somewhere acting differently?
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by serf 3y ago
you wouldn't give out the same sort of advice when a compiler or linker failed to complete a given task, although one certainly could do the work manually. it's just fashionable to hate on AI, /s or not.
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by serf 3y ago
>I didn't find it confusing. Great! Anyway there are better comparisons to make if you're just trying to convey the concept of instantaneous life saving, many examples of which do not add a confounding additional pharmaceutical
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by serf 3y ago
absolutely disagree. an engineering design document is about information retrieval, not education. It's not made to entertain or educate about new concepts, it's made to be terse and rigidly structured for the sake of aiding the w
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by serf 3y ago
>And, btw, you might well have turned out the same way under similar circumstances, but for the grace of god. that criteria is applicable to literally any criminal, ever. It's effectively useless as a statement about crime and punis
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by serf 3y ago
>I can distinctly remember it hitting me like a bus that I was now wholly responsible for a human. the problem of course being that some individuals never hit upon that realization -- and the statistics regarding the matter make it look
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by serf 3y ago
can you point to examples of otherwise healthy individuals under moderate to high calorie restriction that gain weight due to chronic poor quality sleep? it's not something I have ever been made aware of, and I don't understand ho
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by serf 3y ago
>I have to protest here. Reversing and using the rudder on a 40ft boat works perfectly fine. I've done it on multiple sailing boats. You need to hold tight so that the rudder wont slap you if using a stick. this is a stupid argument
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by serf 3y ago
>That means the government has a lot more resources to work with though how it spends them is another question. it's not that clear-cut. regulations regarding construction are many times more strict, as well employment restrictions
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by serf 3y ago
vincent thomas bridge in LA is from 1960 -- old but not 100+
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by serf 3y ago
no, but i've put some projects that were at one time too complex to easily handle myself back in view with the idea that I can use AI to meaningfully fill in the gaps. like others mentioned , i've already felt as if everything I p
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by serf 3y ago
it's still worthwhile to point out the issues for people who have recently jumped into the occupation/hobby and haven't yet had the time to meditate on why Microsoft having the keys to the worlds' software kingdom might
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by serf 3y ago
this isn't new, we had to make efforts back then too. the efforts were different, sign up for webrings, word of mouth, whatever -- but it was still effort. but as parent said : lack of an audience shouldn't be a reason to avoid do

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