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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
mammals are x86, birds are ARM
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
fr Nathaniel Hawthorne is immensely relevant in the present day
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
I'm taking an introductory economics course right now, and was surprised to find out that even hardcover books are a form of price discrimination: The manufacturing costs aren't significantly higher than paperback, but "ent
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Autostereogramming it doesn't help me lol If it's perfect, the overlapping regions just merge in color, i.e. the cat's paw becomes off-white. If it's not perfect, I still have to attend to which parts are popping in and
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Consider the liability to which a bad security guard can expose your organization! Not that pay guarantees quality but still
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Closer proximity to all the different vibration sensors in the skin helps with sensitivity as the bulk skin mass kind of acts as a low pass filter -- Consider the sensitivity with which you feel a splinter vs the sensitivity of that object
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
You know if you take a metal plate bolted down at it's center, throw some salt on it and bow the edge with a violin bow. It makes stable patterns depending on the frequency of the tone playing Now take this plate and turn it into a 3d
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
An underappreciated feature of nonmonogamy is that it makes ethical conflicts of interest a bit more challenging. This article doesn't discuss that explicitly, but does hint at it in some of the quotes
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It's completely rational just inverted -- Our understanding of biology is based on testing hypotheses of how drugs work, mostly. Some of the best practical understanding comes from "phase 4 clinical trials" i.e. those perform
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Some people don't want to be an interplanetary species at the expense of more urgent priorities; to them it isn't compelling that an ambitious man wants to immortalize himself using concepts from the science fiction of his childho
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> Why not [support bounties for ordinary people to enforce parking?] Because that kind of thing leads to a lower-trust society, especially when plausibly motivated by personal financial gain
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
The weapons are orthogonal to the culture; most of the police abuse volume is in beating, arrest and confinement, property destruction and confiscation, etc. The shootings make news, but lots of people don't get shot and still suffer l
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
making a tea with slightly acidic not-too-hot water helps quite a lot also chewing fresh ginger or ginger tea starting on an empty stomach, of course but surprisingly, sometimes a little bit of miso soup midway can help with the "gastr
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Moby Dick, Herman Melville VALIS, Philip K Dick Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + also Lila, Robert Pirsig Naked Lunch, William Burroughs Immortality, Milan Kundera Catch-22, Joseph Heller (pair with The Deserters, Charles Glass -
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
+1 for Valetudo, not only does it work, but it is also maintained and keeps getting better. Moreover old vacuums are still maintained as new ones are added
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
The key to enjoying it is (1) really caring about eating good food and (2) deeply feeling how absolutely horseshit the cost of good pre-prepared food is. After a while the cooking part just becomes instinct and muscle memory, and repetition
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> you get hired to work with mostly irrational actors (sellers and buyers). AI-scale personalization could help here, assuming macro scale irrationality is mostly rational in consideration of individual values (e.g. character o
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Really hope there isn't a sloppy geolocation ready to be confused by Lebanon NH
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Also, the video game Dead Cells, which might even be the reason the language exists. It is an exquisitely designed and executed game which illustrates the passion of its dev team
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing? Then I will gladly suffer FOMO while other people test this hypothesis over the next decade or so
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
"Hallucinate" is an interesting way to position it: It could just as easily be positioned as "too ignorant to know it's wrong" or "lying maliciously". Indeed, the subjects on which it "hallucinates&qu
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Or even a graduated approval scale with categories of limited liability, etc.: For example, when Vioxx and other cox-2 inhibitors were withdrawn from the market, some employees really stocked up on the reps' samples. And in the present
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Maybe "growth factor" as in "sunlight is a growth factor" is appropriately neutral? Case in point, melanin synthesis and libido systems are related: There's a drug "bremelanotide" and by now probably some
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> Webster’s New World College Dictionary, which we use in the newsroom, prefers “gantlet” when describing the act of running between two rows. The dictionary also accepts “gauntlet” in this usage, though the primary definition is a medie
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
A couple years ago before the current "AI" hype cycle, someone sent me an IPhone photo of their boston terrier on a black-and-white patterned Ikea rug. Although it was "just an unprocessed photo", the rug pattern had bee
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Being able to tune the intensity ratio of the bands, especially with source age, is nice so that everything's in the middle of the sensor's dynamic range ... optical filters can be pretty cheap at scale or as surplus, but, well
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> Do you think this is still true? Personal opinion, when intra org reciprocity is not discussed or measured, quality plummets as a necessary response to stress/burnout feedback loops at every scale. Coming to terms with this &quo
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
TL;DR This is what you're looking for https://firekasina.org/ > It would be SO cool if there was a drug that gave me this ability but didn't make me "high" or confused in the way weed or shrooms do. O
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
One caveat being, some high quality things really do get drowned out or conceptually polluted by loudly advertised crap. It's a tangly problem that's for sure
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> places where you see reverse engineering used, usually to modify existing software. funnily enough I have a team reverse engineering binary data formats, which is often more easily accomplished by other means + only dropping down to t

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