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721.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Delightful read, but the title should really be “Two Horses’ Asses Constrained the Space Shuttle’s SRBs”. I admit it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
722.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Admittedly in my experience (primarily VFX industry) pretty much every coder was also gamer.
723.
by yawpitch 2y ago
At least 90% of the time if you’re warning a tourist about either you’re telling them to avoid something about as capable of harming them as food gelatine. Ignorant people are vastly more dangerous than all the phylum Cnidaria.
724.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> Portuguese man o’war [..] were spotted in the water. The sting of this siphonophore (it is not technically a jellyfish, but they are closely related) is especially painful. They share a phylum, not even a class. They’re as “closely rel
725.
by yawpitch 2y ago
I don’t know of any authoritative academic work on the topic, but yes lots of (probably most) programmers develop repetitive strain injuries during their careers. The problem is there’s as many injuries as that are permutations of human bod
726.
by yawpitch 2y ago
tl;dr summary: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
727.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Bit strange to post this, since it closed a month after this was posted.
728.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Ahh, spam.
729.
by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/IcidM
730.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> Conclusion: It can be reasonably assumed that this subject have had protective effects from his yearly fasting. No, it bloody well can’t. > [before his first fast he] smoked around 10 cigarettes per day [then he] stopped smoking wit
731.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> Find me any statistic that puts any COVID vaccine within three orders of magnitude of these numbers or (maybe not so) kindly see yourself out. Quantitative amen.
732.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> The Biden Admin has censored, and are currently censoring, stories they disagree with or dislike - without regard to truth. On a massive scale. No American administration has ever not censored stories it didn’t agree with or like. Ar
733.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Curiously that has the effect of making me more positively inclined towards the Biden administration.
734.
by yawpitch 2y ago
A typical human being’s fingers can reach both its anus and its mouth. In other words, no shit.
735.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Try “a child playing with a potato Chip and Dale farm implements”. Monterey Jack is a named character in a Disney property, not just a cheese variety too old to be trademarked.
736.
by yawpitch 2y ago
The FDIC insures deposit accounts (savings, checking, money market deposit accounts, and certificates of deposit) only and there’s a cap of $250K at any single institution. I’ve no idea what accounts this bank offered, but anything in exces
737.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Grifter gonna grift and felon going to felon, I guess, but I really wonder what the FEC and the SEC will have to say about this one. Also, to make this at least vaguely tech related, would the Haskell signature look something like this?
738.
by yawpitch 2y ago
https://csvbase.com/blog/13 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41307011
739.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Both the contractor and the help already in the office can think and understand the reason why the minutiae exists. Nothing whatsoever about current AI should encourage anyone to use it in a governmental scope of any size… down that pat
740.
by yawpitch 2y ago
In all seriousness it would be an exceptionally bad idea to let any current AI do anything whatsoever in your local government, except maybe summarize emails and write boilerplate letters that someone would then vet very carefully. No c
741.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> They also could not be sure to exactly whom else the several bone flaps in question – all stored in a freezer – belonged. Ok, if that’s true, do not get your skull sawn open in Atlanta.
742.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Having been to Cheyenne, I’d have to say ChatGPT >= 2.5 could probably significantly outthink both the local electorate and their locally elected. Now, if we were talking about Casper, maybe not.
743.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> writers […] not related in any way with life science… LOL, whut? All the contributors are very related to life sciences. Also, yeah, it’s labeled as a commentary piece, meaning of course it’s opinion, albeit the opinion of people w
744.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Arguably 99.99999% of all art is pure and steaming crap, the vast majority of which gets pinched off and discarded down the toilet of obscurity before anyone but the creator of that particular crap has a chance to see / hear / tas
745.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Before we leap into demography communism maybe let’s establish that this is actually a long-term trend in need of stopping.
746.
by yawpitch 2y ago
First suggestion is don’t bait and switch. If the article is titled “just use SQLite” then that’s what the content should be, this is either spam or should be in “show”.
747.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Yes. No. iOS device, both Safari and Firefox focus, location services disabled.
748.
by yawpitch 2y ago
From what device? I just did the same search from within the UK and it localised via IP address and served me the booksellers as the top search result. From anywhere outside the UK I’d be shocked to see the booksellers listed at all.
749.
by yawpitch 2y ago
> [LLMs] cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity. Interesting… guess I really don’t need to worry about meteors, greenhouse gasses, zoonotic diseases, nuclear weapons, or, you
750.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… because Novo Nordisk really wants it to?

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