water-data-dude

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by water-data-dude 3y ago
that was my first thought too, lol
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
See also the last two panels of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/792/
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
No one etched the actual password into anything for them, they bought a product[1] that includes a bunch of steel disks or tiles with letters engraved on them. You then assemble the pieces - either by sliding the tiles into the grooves of a
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
“Guys, you won’t believe this, it was in my other pants!”
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I agree. I’m circumcised and I turned out ok - but I probably wouldn’t have chosen it, I don’t like the idea of forcing it on people, and it doesn’t seem as though there’s a lot of benefit in a country like the US. In t
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Warning: this wikipedia article on circumcision includes pictures of penises (as you’d expect). You need to scroll a while to find them, but they ARE lurking. Basically, it looks like there’s a consensus that for vaginal sex (and probably a
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
They didn’t get filthy rich.. .I mean, so well endowed, by /giving money away/.
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
pins a name-tag to her shirt “You are the Bob now”
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Today I learned the phrase “gish gallop”, which is both really useful and really fun to say.
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
This one is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkmtkAO4p0 Disarming a nuclear bomb with excel
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Helluva good read! The early days of personal computing were wild, super interesting time :)
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
This took place over ~800,000 years, and a lot of this is theory, but the Azolla event is an interesting parallel. Basically, you had a fast growing fern that was growing in an arctic basin. When they died, they sank to the bottom where con
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Or velcro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
“until we can fix prod”, but then other stuff comes up, and just look at the backlog! And, I mean, it works pretty well for now…and before you know it, it’s been there forever
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Bummer, I was hoping for shark teeth powers
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
I really want head mounted displays to get good. I’ve have an irrational burning desire to build a wearable computing rig since I read Snowcrash in college. There is no upper bound on how stupid I am willing to look to achieve this goal.
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Asimov used this idea in a bunch of his stories. It’d be cool to see it make the transition from sci-fi to real life! :)
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
Nuclear winter leading to crop failure and famine is still a terrifying specter. Even if there was a magical pill that made people 100% radiation proof that could be easily manufactured and distributed without any logistical problems, there
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
You mean “create a business-sona and engage in some text/live-action roleplay”
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
I’ll admit that I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. I scrolled down a little bit, saw the citation info and author affiliation, and assumed there wasn’t anything else.
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by water-data-dude 3y ago
With glowing red eyes and prominent horse junk!
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
The article only cursorily mentions what is, to me, the most glaring flaw in their work. “Baby and Infant Screen for Children with Autism Traits” to “BISCUIT” is a criminally bad acronym.
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
Always glad for an excuse to read some Vonnegut :) He’s not always my favorite author stylistically, but he’s got such amazing IDEAS
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
Alastair Reynolds (one of my favorite hard sci-fi authors) used the idea a few times as well. Mostly as a minor detail, but “A Spy In Europa” had cities supported by hyperdiamond vacuum balloons, which is a pretty great image.
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
I grew up in a town with a lot of feedlots, and I still don’t notice the smell when I visit. I definitely think your brain will block out background smells you grow up with. I wonder if that’s how people were able to live in medieval towns
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
I recently got out of a job where I had nothing to do, and it was soul crushing. I actually had a boss I really liked, but the company had so much red tape and bureaucracy that our team didn't have any real work to do. I didn't wr
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by water-data-dude 4y ago
Oh nice! I figured out the fan and spike, but for some reason I didn't think to try to wave the want around :)