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by tejtm 2y ago
If non-corporeal entities have priorities that are incongruent with a living individual preferences the default should be the actual person's choice. How is this even a question? (edit: to not put words in anyone else's mouth)
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by tejtm 2y ago
I chalk it up to "complexity envy" If they have real problems why can't we? source me: CS by edu, science geek by choice.
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by tejtm 2y ago
raccoons are not in the weasel family I don't think, closer to bears if I recall but I have to run so no citation
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by tejtm 2y ago
This neglects the cost of extraction. In particular, the most rare (and therefore precious) commodity in the solar system and indeed the universe is the 4 billion year old bioreactor we refer to as "topsoil". Getting all the othe
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by tejtm 2y ago
Technically if you car is recent, it is a cell phone with wheels but I digress. This reminds me of biologists bickering about what is or is not a gene, and endless snorefests of ontologists bickering about the semantics of a label on an ed
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by tejtm 2y ago
Indeed. I would wager that over the last several decades BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) has done more to advance our knowledge of biology than any other algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biote
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by tejtm 2y ago
Your employer may already be getting paid by a government for you to work, but that is above your pay grade.
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by tejtm 2y ago
View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text Not your fault, but please always provide fall back text.
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by tejtm 2y ago
be afraid. methane hydrates; strip mining ocean floors could keep fossil fuel consumption going at current rates for millennia. but before that we could get we stuff in the permafrost all terrible ideas ... so probable. https://
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by tejtm 2y ago
Granted. My only exposure was folks using it to gloss over what could have been expressed in 7 bit clean ascii if you knew the codepage it had been encoded with. I apologize for the mischaracterization of legitimate use.
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by tejtm 2y ago
And don't forget IRIs for when you have really dirty data and can't be bothered to clean it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Ide...
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by tejtm 2y ago
"The only way it would have "benefited" would be that the web would only be developed by lisp programmers." Considering the state of the web I do not think this is making the argument you intend.
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by tejtm 2y ago
Total bike and trailer builder and believer of yore here. One can fail to appreciate the additional breaking forces and shifts in balance a loaded trailer introduces to the bicycle. Where the trailer attaches should be as close to the cent
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by tejtm 2y ago
He tried to keep his crew alive ... so there is that.
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by tejtm 2y ago
and Portland State University! https://www.pdx.edu/psu-space#psas Undergrads, not catching on fire in space!
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by tejtm 2y ago
one theory is it is anti-viral. can't infect a gene you can't find because it is a needle in haystack
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by tejtm 2y ago
https://search.marginalia.nu/
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by tejtm 2y ago
If you are interested experiencing old steam engines running and can get to western Oregon there is the "Great Oregon Steam-up" every summer. https://www.antiquepowerland.com/steam-up/
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by tejtm 2y ago
"Freenet" already had a very specific meaning in the early ninities which could only be obscure if one was not paying attention. I still maintain my freenet email address from 1991. I recommend you find your own name for your ve
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by tejtm 2y ago
Thank you! I was hoping if I spewed some vague hand waving someone knowledgeable would fill in with accurate details.
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by tejtm 2y ago
There are different types of nova. This type happens when one of a close binary pair is a is a compact stellar remnant, it already spent its fuel and is a * dense* inert planet sized mass of neutrons. The other star in the binary pair i
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by tejtm 2y ago
And, Jobs visited Amiga in 1983 which also suggests the idea came from him.
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by tejtm 2y ago
That was done in Amiga 1000 cases 1985-ish. I would be surpised if they were the first. https://www.commodore-info.com/computer/item/a1000/en/deskto...
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by tejtm 2y ago
Current is _generated_ in static lengths of wire. At any point the voltage exceeds the design, it arcs. Current passing through imperfect conductors are heating elements. Both sparks from shorts and excess heating of conductors are possibl
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by tejtm 2y ago
And I want to see UV like our proto progenitors, enough of these little brown birds we can't tell apart.
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by tejtm 2y ago
In Orson Scott Card's "Enders Game" as well. Children had been bred and trained to be tactical so Ender's siblings applied their talents locally to manipulate geopolitics as a side story.
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by tejtm 2y ago
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statments (DEI) For those previously blissfully ignorant; such as me.
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by tejtm 2y ago
BORING
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by tejtm 2y ago
Perhaps surprisingly; yes. Most likely only because the population density of tertiary markets still allows it.
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by tejtm 3y ago
FYI https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowdeploy/jobs/I9F9sI... Peer’s Certificate has expired. HTTP Strict Transport Security: true HTTP Public Key Pinning: false Certificate chain: -----BEGIN CERTIFICAT

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