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by tasha0663 5y ago
> Step 43636: During this phase, the training gets unstable at times, so we have snapshots of occasional horrors like this. Ah, make that three things the public shouldn't see being made: sausage, legislation, and waifus.
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There's a thread on the "zalgo" issue on GitHub where he's being a jerk. And he has a sizeable past history of jerkdom. Don't blame the victims that the well was poisoned, blame the jerk who poisoned it. Do I really
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Yeah, I hate to get all tinfoil, but something smells off. MobileCoin patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200184467A1/en One of the men listed on there was the subject of a wild gossip thread that had
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I feel like that's comparing apples, oranges, and bananas.
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These make rounds every once and a while, and I've dunked on his art before, so I clicked around a little more and landed on this one that had some pictures of Ringo actual holding a print of it. https://www.ringostarrart.co
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I always wonder what the ideal amount of food waste is supposed to be. Zero is a post apocalyptic hellscape.
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I have a feeling it's more broadly true that centralization is an emergent property of networks. Webs 3 -> n are no exception.
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The idea of NFTs as access keys makes me wretch. How can we make DRM worse? I know, let's make it speculative and even worse for the environment. (Re: proof of stake, I'll believe it when it happens without Ethereum forking again)
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Eviscerates. This is a vivisection. We can see how it works, but this kills the frog.
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There's a lovely ad for malt extract tonic (wink wink) on page 19 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1/?sp=... Totally not beer!
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One thing the author didn't foresee: the persistence of cat memes https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1/?sp=...
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Everywhere except Hawaii: Bats TIL there are mongoose (mongooses? mongeese?) in Puerto Rico.
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Anyone here know what > Embargoed Until: Thursday, January 6, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET means? And why? This is months old by now and would have been nice to know.
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We had a bat in the house years ago. In my 3am stupor I tried to let it out until Dr. Spouse berated me and said we must catch it. Darn thing disappeared. Animal control came and couldn't find it. That's when I started reading a
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He's one of the more entertaining figures of that generation. IIRC there were some huge flamewars between him and rms during the Xemacs fork. He still maintains XScreensaver, but now his day job is the ownership of a bar/pizza&#x2
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I've cracked the code: (S)a(T)osh[E] (N)akamoto But this answer just leads to more questions.
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Checks and balances. The President doesn't make the laws, but (s)he executes the laws. If you strip away pardon power, there ain't much left.
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> the editorial section is about 3% of the magazine While you have a good point, it says a lot about SciAm that they ran such a piece: - that was so shamefully anti-intellectual - so soon after Wilson's death - with a special mentio
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It's the power of denial. The sunk cost is enormous.
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Consider a Blockchain where proof-of-work mining takes place by solving a hard problem: for a given set of parameters, determine how long life will last in a realistic ancestor simulation. Consider also a play-to-earn game in the form of a
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I would always take the SkyMall catalog when I was a kid. It was a comedic gold mine. Personal favorite: Safe-T-Man https://www.gusworld.com.au/rotd/9610/safe.htm
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> Maybe it's just that for publications to survive anymore they need as many rage clicks as they need earnest ones. The possibility that this cynical interpretation is correct is exactly why I made sure all my ublock settings were
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Those were published before Helmuth stepped in as editor in 2020. One of the themes discussed in the article is that this is representative of a direction that she is steering SA in. Really, the evidence you shared supports that notion.