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by vharuck 6mo ago
Did both the president and vice president attend past dinners? I thought protocol was to rarely have them in the same location, in case of something like this.
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by vharuck 6mo ago
A lot of Ukiyo-e wood prints have small details that mean a lot to locals. I enjoy learning about them on the NHK's English channel. In this case, the boats are fast (each has a bunch of crewmen) and were used to catch valuable fish. A
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by vharuck 6mo ago
I (or really, my parents) were burned by something like this recently. They bought my kid an FAO Schwarz marble run tower for Christmas. It's made of terrible plastic, with rough seams, and every play session ends when a marble gets st
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by vharuck 6mo ago
> Sure it serves their immediate purposes but what are the long term consequences of this? Do these people realize that every time they sell a piece of their soul to increase their personal wealth it destroys a piece of their society? Do
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Security and Freedom Enhancement Act of 2026(lee.senate.gov)
1 points by vharuck 6mo ago|1 comments
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by vharuck 6mo ago
Gift link to NY Times article by the authors of the act: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/section-702-surve...
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by vharuck 6mo ago
People need to be careful about buying into the shorthand lingo with LLMs. They do not learn like we do. At the lowest level, they predict which tokens follow a body of tokens. This lets them emulate knowledge in a very useful way. This is
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by vharuck 6mo ago
They aren't just amazingly efficient in converting calories to protein, they're great at eating things without much other (agricultural) value to us. They eat the invasive spotted lantern fly!
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by vharuck 6mo ago
I agree with the gist of your points, but not much with these two: >followed by white-collar business formation as customers realize that product quality went to shit when all the people were laid off. These will be rare boutique affairs
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by vharuck 6mo ago
>if you value say "economy" more than "time", you spend a lot of time to save a few cents, but if you reverse that stack order your spend extra cents to avoid spending the time. If the person you're dating has a
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by vharuck 6mo ago
Men are also often the primary breadwinners in families, so they feel the need to take a higher paying job. In families where the husband's job pays well, the wife's career can be decided by personal fulfillment. Teachers are resp
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by vharuck 6mo ago
In my experience, all wealth comes down to either (1) producing and using something yourself, or (2) convincing somebody else to give it to you. Most of us trade labor or goods for wealth, convincing others that our stuff is worth the wealt
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by vharuck 6mo ago
>What dissenting voices are being imprisoned? There have been a lot of political prosecutions of people who disagree. James Comey, Leticia James, John Bolton, Mark Kelly. Luckily, grand juries and judges have prevented them from getting
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by vharuck 6mo ago
>Even if we accept that this would've been enough for a complete shift in how women give birth within France, how does that spread across the world? France was renowned as being at the frontier of medicine. At least, according to th
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by vharuck 6mo ago
>We're fine, the trick is to remember to GET OFF THE INTERNET and remember that reality isn't the same as the Internet. I can understand how somebody could hold onto this comfort: it used to be (mostly) true. Political "sc
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by vharuck 6mo ago
>4. Use acronyms to keep the code terse. Real men never define acronyms; they understand them genetically. I'll see this and raise inherited SAS code where data sets in the process were named "AAA", "BBB", and so
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by vharuck 6mo ago
To swing Pennsylvania, they'd probably just need to send ICE into Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Tell them to ignore anybody with a MAGA hat. Big and blue cities in purple states are the only necessary targets.
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by vharuck 6mo ago
Remember that war crimes were defined to protect civilians. It's usually better for a civilian to be on the losing side in a war with no war crimes, than the winning side of a war with many war crimes.
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by vharuck 6mo ago
Honestly, I thought part of MAD was how, once a nuclear missile was launched, it would be better for other nuclear states to decimate the country of origin than to wait and figure out where it would hit.
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by vharuck 6mo ago
The pattern only matches if both ends are word boundaries. So "diffs" won't match, but "Oh, ffs!" will. It's also why they had to use the pattern "shit(ty|tiest)" instead of just "shit".
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>In the fall of 1919, Faber Birren entered the Art Institute at the University of Chicago, only to drop out in the spring of 1921 to commit himself to self-education in color, as such a program didn’t exist. The German word for color is
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>They already had the network effects and no real competitors. Meta's biggest competitor was users' personal lives, not any other web service. They have been ruthless in crushing that competition.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>It certainly seems that there was an intentional decision to disband departments in the military last year that were intended to confirm targets are appropriate before a strike (although I can't find a reference now). On the Media
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by vharuck 7mo ago
My favorite example of poka-yoke is when the pieces and hardware in build-it-yourself furniture kits won't fit anywhere except the correct places: two screws only have the same width if they're interchangeable, wood bars refuse to
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Ecological vaccination: strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats(science.org)
2 points by vharuck 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>But why should the government force me to change that by taxing it? Because the government ends up paying for the medical treatment of a lot of smokers when they're older. And it's incredibly expensive. You can say you won&#x2
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by vharuck 7mo ago
People who make data visualizations should try to learn the "rules of thumb" to not confuse or exclude readers: 1) Avoid contrasting red/green and blue/yellow, as these are common colorblind pairs. 2) Pick shades that st
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>We are getting to this weird situation where instead of Alice sending a message to Bob, Alice sends the message to her AI, which sends it to Bob's AI, which then tries to recover Alice's original message. Somebody's going
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by vharuck 7mo ago
It's like going to a hardware store for a root canal. The goal might be laudable, but the execution and results are just as important.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>Grokipedia operates by Grok writing what it considers the true and interesting facts. That doesn't mean it's always right, but it's a model far less influenced by influencer operations. If Grok is trained on a corpus of i

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