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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It smells like nail polish remover, well nail polish remover with the acetone subtracted, and it is noticeable well below any toxicity threshold. It's also a characteristic component of some fruit / fermentation aromas
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Like, it behooves one to know enough about one's car or house or computer in order to not get scammed/idiot-screwed by mechanics and contractors and tech support It would be surprising if one's body were different. The genera
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> It took us so long to get though the jar > Our first test doses implying there were more later I'm genuinely ... horrified, impressed, and much more.
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
The systemic bug killers are fucking terrifying. They're not approved for human use, so there's some baseline concern. They're neurotoxins which are "specific" to bugs [0], but, all living things are remarkably simi
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Only assuming "Bullshit" to be a though-terminating cliche: It could also be treated as a starting point to understanding how these circumstances came to be, and how to go about effectively untangling them.
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
perhaps these, and more, are all styles in a normal conversational palette + rigid adherence to one is itself the autistic trait?
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
I was reminded of this joke: > A city slicker shoots a duck out in the country. As he's retrieving it, a farmer walks up and stops him, claiming that since the duck is on his farm, it technically belongs to him. After minutes of arg
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
They probably did think of that, and they did it too: Science as it is practiced in the real world. This sort of stuff is related to our whining about replication crises, careerism, etc. But it can have its utility too, it's just more
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Believe it or not Dead Cells got me personally organized by highlighting the importance of good tool strategies with limited carry slots
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
In consideration of the placebo effect and sleep architecture, I have started trying to think of deep half-awake time as "stage zero sleep"
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Nonono it's the apprenticeship business school model where you work summers to learn the ropes from your uncle who speaks trade Spanish + bankrupts a leaf-node company on every claim and penalty
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
This kind of consumerist equation: Pay money, physically present to classes and follow explicit instructions, receive grade, [repeat at med school], get high paying job expectation etc. also has the side effect of totally lowering academic
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
I've heard the erection points downwards if you slice the ligament holding it up on the top side that could make it fit down the leg better
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
omg the name just sounds like "precision scheduled railroading"
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Now the popular portrayal of WWII seems kind of idealistic, but there's plenty of historical evidence to suggest many Allied troops really did not want to be there, and the scale of desertion [1] was quite high - In addition to corrupt
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
I mean lots of the comments in this thread exemplify the need for this book assuming it is well written enough to achieve its purpose [0] Take for example the dismissal that "waves are just a concept/model/way of describing t
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Even the spooky spy and torture people choose the crappy low bidding implementation partner
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It seems hard to disincentivize "data" in the same way it's hard to disincentivize "cocaine", e.g. to most companies "10 kg of cocaine" is a liability but there exist certain companies generally staffed by
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Consider that CTE chronic traumatic encephalopathy was discovered only a couple decades ago, despite the fact it could in principle be physically observed with stone age technology [0]. Knowing and caring where to look are important, and
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
+1 at this time of year it is simply incorrect in my location per my understanding of what a "shadow" is, unless their definition is like complete occlusion in the dead of winter or something
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It's surprising that the Watery nature of steam isn't mentioned in the article at all, as it is a terrible material on which to build any reliable consumer technology: * Corrosive * Heavy * Does not lubricate * H
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Is your username the way to ask for beer after-hours in Chinatown?
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> Do I understand this? A purely reductionist view of my understanding: this is quantified as "the amount of will to live"? If my understanding is proper, how do you measure this without killing people? I grok that it is an ext
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> Someone with a better grasp of the scientific method perhaps you can answer this. As a (recovered, former) neurobio phd it seems the "grasp" is mostly there + the clarity you want just doesn't exist here I.e., the concep
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Maybe overly cynical but "risks" of "AI" going to Congress seems mostly to be a submarine hype thing
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
TL;DR is (1) none of these methods effectively control transmission of AFB, and (2) AFB is taken extremely seriously. Like, where I live there is a state law allowing ag inspectors to burn hives at their discretion overriding any fire
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
> its capacities are focused on exactly the right place to feel magical. this focus subverts its intended effect on those of us with hair trigger bullshit-PTSD
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
Gardening is a link in the chain of land maintenance most places. I.e. where you want plants for erosion control, or blocking an ugly view, or especially fighting other plants away, etc. maybe that's 'landscaping' 'arbor
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It's a question of axioms. LLMs are by definition "biased" in their weights; training is biasing. Now the stated goal of biasing these models is towards "truth", but we all know that's really biasing towards &q
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by xkcd-sucks 2y ago
It's really just a matter of mindset -- Many things go faster if you chuck them into a microwave or a sonicator :) I'm definitely going to try this out with cold brew in a cheapie bath sonicator. The thing here is like a big ass p

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