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that's a bad analogy, because bozo became the world's most famous clown. the name is basically synonymous with clowns even though bozo hasn't been culturally relevant for decades
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i don't actually have any clue who bozo is/was and for a long time i didn't realize he was a specific clown and it wasn't just a generic stand-in clown name
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Plorkyeran posted:a generic stand-in clown name
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that would be a pretty good username actually
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but doctor, he said with tears in his eyes, i am the generic stand-in clown
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The_Franz posted:that's a bad analogy, because bozo became the world's most famous clown. the name is basically synonymous with clowns even though bozo hasn't been culturally relevant for decades unless i'm not understanding what you mean, being famous is not the same as being a genius
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true but then again maybe he was a genius of comedy
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:unless i'm not understanding what you mean, being famous is not the same as being a genius some good ideas being laughed at does not mean that every laughed at idea is a good one. he tries to reinforce this by saying that people laughed at a silly non-genius clown as well, but bozo was a brilliant piece of character design and marketing. they made him so famous that, even now, when a huge number of people have never actually seen the character, it's generally the first name you will hear if you asked random people to name a clown, regardless of age if you are looking for a trivial counter-example in the form of something dumb that was laughed at, a character who clowned his way into the cultural lexicon is not the best example
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tbf when Carl Sagan said that Bozo was current.
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The_Franz posted:some good ideas being laughed at does not mean that every laughed at idea is a good one. he tries to reinforce this by saying that people laughed at a silly non-genius clown as well, but bozo was a brilliant piece of character design and marketing. they made him so famous that, even now, when a huge number of people have never actually seen the character, it's generally the first name you will hear if you asked random people to name a clown, regardless of age I would have said Homie the Clown if you asked me op
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Armitag3 posted:I would have said Homie the Clown if you asked me op *hits u with sock*
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Plorkyeran posted:i don't actually have any clue who bozo is/was and for a long time i didn't realize he was a specific clown and it wasn't just a generic stand-in clown name we're basically a few short steps away from the equivalent of bugs bunny calling elmer fudd "nimrod" and people adopting it as a generic insult instead of a facetious comparison of fudd to a great hunter of antiquity
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the nimrod press sponsored some PBS show I used to watch, and it was always hilarious after having grown up watching Bugs Bunny cartoons
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narrator 9 minutes ago | next [–] Banting and Best came up with the idea for synthetic insulin, tested it on themselves, tested it on animals, tested it on comatose diabetic children, developed and released a commercial product, and won the nobel prize in a span of 3 years back in the 1930s. Doing things on this kind of timeline now would be totally illegal and they would have lost their medical licenses and been thrown in jail no matter how well the whole thing worked. Longevity science overseas is embracing this no rules, we want the future now, kind of mentality. It's amazing what Bioviva has done with adult gene editing. It's probably some of the more underreported science news in modern history. I could see Bioviva getting shut down by the feds and gene editing for longevity going back to the realm of stuff we don't have anymore like the Concorde or a moon landing capable space program. reply
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if they are lucky, nothing will happen if they are unlucky, it's tumor time, baby
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quote:landemva 7 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]
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quote:veselin 14 hours ago | prev | next [–] looking at their publications, over half their work is on ffts, followed by graph algorithms. typical cloud workloads.
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what’s that from? i’ve definitely seen people make claims like optimization doesn’t matter because everything’s limited by memory performance anyway, and the first part is a reasonable enough argument against that (or at least a reference to one) the idea that databases are optimized so obviously there’s no perf to be gained there is a pretty hilarious hn take, though
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from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29444746 the person is applying his second hand understanding of what a research group was doing optimizing a specific set of problems in isolation to the actual workloads people are running on cloud infra. and is also just wrong about dbs lol.
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poo poo, just throw a dart at the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463051 the economist says the great resignation isn't real because it hasn't affected japan. 90% of hn fails to consider how current job market trends impact anyone who isn't a six-figgy fuckface
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quote:aspax 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] quote:globular-toast 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–]
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DaTroof posted:poo poo, just throw a dart at the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463051 If YOSPOS had a thread on Blind it'd be nonstop insanity and toxicity
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quote:djsbs 1 hour ago | undown | next [–] lol
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that whole drat thread pvaldes 1 hour ago [flagged] | prev [–] Cherry-picking is useful to promote agendas, but I would prefer to ask the opinion of a true historian about that. > one of the most important and idiosyncratic texts of Indigenous American literature remained forgotten Hem, nope. I don't buy this BS. In the roman empire tradition, Spanish crown registered absolutely anything of interest. They funded the first global, -global-, scientific studies about American Flora and Fauna. The whole stuff. Just one book in the series would gave us a much better picture of the history than this text. And they spent a lot of money in that huge task, just to publish and share it with the rest of Europe. We have 'English' tomatoes and 'Dutch' potatoes and 'Italian' peppers or avocados because they shared the discoveries. Think about it. Try to culture some Asian spices in Europe instead. There are probably hundreds, (if not thousands) of more relevant texts about the early history of the New World. And unlike the old tale of "boy finds big thing gathering dust in a library" they are available to anybody interested. Spaniards or Portuguese crowns did a lot of things wrong but also a lot of things right. The last week somebody was talking on TV about if is time to repatriate the remains of Hernan Cortés to Spain to protect them from haters, The man was dead for centuries, for Pete's sake!. Lets put it clear, this "miraculous discovering" is just another cancel latinoamerican culture stunt.
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we don't even know how to read quipus and there's debate over whether they only record numeric information or if they can also represent non-numeric data
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lmao the Spanish conquest of the americas (death toll around 10 million) being Actually Very Humane is definitely a take
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also "SPAIN HONORABLY SHARED THE DISCOVERIES THUS ITALIAN PEPPERS!!!1!" when (a) i'm sure that's not the history at all lmao and (b) um the story here doesn't involve europeans discovering anything, it's europeans assigning themselves credit for food crops developed by the inca and other pre-conquest american civilizations
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:lmao the Spanish conquest of the americas (death toll around 10 million) being Actually Very Humane is definitely a take i think there's some right wing influencer peddling this crap at the moment, because in the past month ive interacted with two people claiming that the spanish expeditions didnt start doing slavery until much later, a claim ive never heard in my life and which only makes sense if you take "much later" to mean about 10 minutes after any of them met their first indigenous person
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so, there were actually major differences between chattel slavery and the encomienda that the spanish imposed on native americans, but the encomienda was still communal slavery even at its most reformed point, and it was usually way worse than that. the spanish eventually fought wars against their colonies to try to reform it to be "merely" a sort of communal short term of service, and they didn't really win those wars. and of course the spanish also practiced chattel slavery against africans
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i'm trying to assume as much positive intent as i possibly can when i say this: well, actuallying about slavery is always a bad look. at best you are acting like neil degrasse tyson
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Breakfast All Day posted:i think there's some right wing influencer peddling this crap at the moment, because in the past month ive interacted with two people claiming that the spanish expeditions didnt start doing slavery until much later, a claim ive never heard in my life and which only makes sense if you take "much later" to mean about 10 minutes after any of them met their first indigenous person lol, the african slave trade to the americas was up and running like 10 years after columbus landed, and within 100 years the native population of hispaniola was extinct
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high_byte 17 hours ago | prev | next [–] I just joined a startup about 6 weeks ago. yesterday I've been told it was quite boring before I joined and they dread the day the company grows and HR starts watching you. unfortunately today I've been "language-policed" for the first time and probably not the last  it's been fun. that's one of the reasons I don't support rapid growth, but investors expect that (ceo said that) and nearly every day there's a new face and to be honest it looks like they will accept anyone who's willing to work there because offices not in central location. sad. I'd much rather keep a tight culture of close friends who are always on top of what's going on. reply lewispollard 15 hours ago | parent | next [–] What do you mean by, "language policed"? reply rgrs 15 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] Use of politically correct language, I guess reply dbavaria 9 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] Please avoid using the word police in this context, it detracts from the work done by actual police officers. reply fzil 6 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] that's a pretty good example of language policing. reply dbavaria 3 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] The comment even got downvoted, so yes a good example all around. reply
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Everybody has won, and all must have prizes
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the "tight culture of close friends" after working with them for 6 weeks
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mostertoaster 23 hours ago | prev | next [–] Yes and no. I am myself, my mannerisms, my mode of communication, the way I treat others, are all “me”. But I rarely talk about anything I value, because my values are more traditional and classical, and tech companies values are what is popular. It doesn’t bother me that my values are different, what bothers me is how you can loudly proclaim your opinions provided they’re in line with the status quo, but you will be cancelled if you hold a differing opinion, even if your differing opinion doesn’t cause you treat others badly. At My current, more progressive, work place, I would be labeled as a conservative, yet at my previous more conservative work place, I was thought liberal. The difference was at my previous place it was ok to have and share differing opinions. reply
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Chris Knight posted:the "tight culture of close friends" after working with them for 6 weeks When all your role models treat close friends as transactional labor objects...
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quote:opinions oh_you_know_the_ones.tweet
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I keep seeing people saying "oh, I can't be my TRUE SELF" at work, and all I can see is "well, your true self must be ridiculously lovely then". I am a Dude with ADHD who was raised Libertarian/Catholic and a lot of times I cannot control the leap from brain to speech. (You guys should know, you have to read my posts) If _I_, an old man -- after nearly two decades of computer touching -- have not been pulled into HR and officially reprimanded for saying something lovely, then I think the average Jim-Bob should be able to as well. Like, I'm not saying I'm perfect, or that I've never offended anyone. That's impossible. But come ON guys... there's a difference between having to apologize and make amends occasionally and being a Seriously lovely Human Being.
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also, since when are workplaces supposed to be places for expressing your True Self? they are places for getting work done and behaving in a professional manner. if you feel the overpowering need to express your True Self, well, thats what all the hours and spaces outside of work are for
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yeah I was going to say something along the same lines. I suppose it's the same dudes who are all like "ugh, why do I have to treat strangers nicely? I don't know them. they could be assholes!"
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