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by yissp 5y ago
Meanwhile I was trying to find a romantic partner in Cambodia and Google kept giving me useless calendar-related results.
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by yissp 5y ago
> #MeToo maybe best to avoid that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement
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by yissp 5y ago
To be fair, a lot of the criticism is constructive in nature (not all of it, of course). Personally, I'd prefer that to pats-on-the-back.
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by yissp 5y ago
They could support reproducible builds, then any third party could verify the binary they distribute hasn't been monkeyed with.
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by yissp 5y ago
Maybe 1k for the index and 2k for a reasonably high-end desktop, so 3k or 10x the price of a quest. Obviously that's not really a fair comparison for various reasons, though.
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by yissp 5y ago
Exactly, all-cause mortality studies always seem so prone to confounding factors. The abstract of the linked paper doesn't mention if they tried to control for anything. Granted they do acknowledge this - "He cautioned that the bi
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by yissp 5y ago
You can do 3D modeling directly in Unreal, but it's very limited compared to something like Blender.
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by yissp 5y ago
But if a cheater really is subtle enough to be indistinguishable from a highly skilled player, is it really a problem? I mean, I guess it's "unfair" to genuinely skilled players but come on, it's just a game.
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by yissp 5y ago
The Technocracy movement had a somewhat similar ethos, and gained a decent following in the '30s, but obviously nothing really came of it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
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by yissp 5y ago
Plugging a peripheral directly into the expansion bay would be awkward, you'd need to sort of reach under the chassis. $9 for the "pass-through" USB modules doesn't seem too outrageous, though.
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by yissp 5y ago
This is the premise for a pretty funny Spongebob Squarepants episode (The Great Snail Race).
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by yissp 5y ago
Gah, I'm beginning to think the git CLI is trying to be confusing on purpose.
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by yissp 5y ago
They were able to completely shut down entire sectors of the economy pretty quickly quickly.
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by yissp 5y ago
Bidets also sold out pretty quickly, along with exercise equipment, hair clippers, and so on.
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by yissp 5y ago
If I was offered a job with great pay, benefits, and company culture, but all of my programming would need to be done in brainfuck, I'd probably turn it down.
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by yissp 5y ago
Unless the miners themselves benefit from the work, there would still be an opportunity cost to them, no? If it happens to be useful to someone else that shouldn't matter, right?
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by yissp 5y ago
Reminds me of how a rhinovirus infection can supposedly prevent sars-cov2 from taking hold https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445
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by yissp 5y ago
Any idea why? I've heard Windows OpenGL drivers are less performant, especially AMD's, could that be part of the reason?
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by yissp 5y ago
And then it removes any challenge in the end-game when you can just drip-feed yourself from the huge pool of potions you've been hoarding.
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by yissp 5y ago
because management usually has no better way to determine how much you're actually contributing than how many hours you put in
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by yissp 5y ago
Julia Evans pointed this out as a common problem in explanatory writing https://jvns.ca/blog/confusing-explanations/#pattern-2-havin...
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by yissp 5y ago
It seems increasingly likely that if FB keeps ignoring these concerns they're going to get hit with some sort of government regulation. So I still think it's in their long-term self-interest to try and avoid that happening, even i
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by yissp 5y ago
Is it common for companies to check the credit history of job candidates? Why would they care? they're the ones paying you.
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by yissp 5y ago
it costs $27,000 to fire this weapon... for 12 seconds.
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by yissp 5y ago
I remember reading a children's book about getting an orange for Christmas https://www.amazon.ca/Christmas-Orange-Don-Gilmor/dp/1550050...
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by yissp 5y ago
Wow, quite a few, and this isn't even an exhaustive list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_in_the_wild
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by yissp 5y ago
this ;)
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by yissp 5y ago
> although your reference leaves much to be desired Is NPR not considered a trustworthy source? I thought they were generally fairly well regarded in that sense.
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by yissp 5y ago
European contact with the new world was pretty disruptive indeed.
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by yissp 5y ago
Or you could be like Stephen Wolfram and walk around with a laptop harness https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...

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