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Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



as long as we gots eukaryotes and prokaryotes it's all golden, baby! just gotta wait another several hundo million years and then we're back in business!

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Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



jesus WEP posted:

purposeless walking is non trivial to motivate yourself to do, in my experience

i used to do it when i lived in the suburbs but went into the city to get drunk, i'd stagger home the 5km on foot for fun!

but now i have a hyper hydrosis problem which makes any activity awful. still i walk 0.75km to work each day

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



i'd walk all over if i didn't just turn into a giant pile of hosed poo poo!

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



someone gave the weird comic guy a job?

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Jose Valasquez posted:

tiahura 37 minutes ago [–]

“Even though these problems are societal, not really caused by the minorities themselves but rather lack of opportunities etc”
That’s the line of thinking that keeps many of them in that situation. We need to be honest -African American culture is largely dysfunctional and self-destructive. 120 years ago my ancestors were dirt poor, they didn’t have “equitable” opportunities in education, housing, or employment, yet they managed to not go around shooting each other, having children out of wedlock, or abusing drugs.

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i hope someone kicks hn poster tiahura down a storm drain

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



NihilCredo posted:

1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago [–]

That's great, but personally I do not use an ad blocker because I do not need to use a browser to search, download or watch video. Nor do I need python or youtube-dl. I download videos with something like

code:
curl -4o 1.mp4 $(curl [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1234567890a[/url]|sed  "s/\\u0026/\&/g"|grep  -o "https://r[0-9]\{1,2\}--[^\"]*"|sed -n /itag=22/p)
except I do not use curl.

I play videos with ffmpeg-based players. I do not need to be online to play video.

this is the gentoo grey-beard version of "i don't own a TV"

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



dude probably still adds "hd=1" to the URL query params on YT

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007




hah yeah that's the OG poo poo

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



fritz posted:

jollybean 10 minutes ago [–]

"my job is to do the absolute minimum amount I can do to stay under the radar, why would I try?"
Because it's a form of systematic corruption, maybe the biggest kind of corruption in the White Collar world.
The objective is to 'do a good job' , not the minimum, in every endeavour.
Doing the 'bare minimum' to keep a job is actually generally far under-performing, as most companies won't generally let people go.
It's how entire industries stagnate and sink.
When internal participants spend most of their time fighting over the surpluses, it's over.
This applies to companies as whole as well of course, i.e. the $1B government contracts that should only be $500M etc. etc..
Do a good job. If there's a better fit elsewhere, that's fine too.
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truly im speechless. this is a stunningly bad post.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



showdead reminds me of browsing at -1 on slashdot

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



fritz posted:

systemvoltage 3 hours ago [–]

Zeitgeist is caused by the pandemic x social media outrage x hardships due to lost jobs. Everyone is glued to the internet and we've started to form factions.
It's hard to conjecture this, let alone prove it, but a strawman take I feel like is adversarial foreign powers have influenced the social media outrage narratives to destroy the western spirit from inside out. HN is reflecting larger trends. Western spirit was about putting behind differences and doubling down on cooperation. Looking back, from post-WWII to now, I get goosebumps and feel sad that this is what we've become.
Nothing has changed in terms of good vs. evil of technology. Fundamentals are still the same. Not even space exploration has escaped HN's cynicism. It's time for me to move onto some other place.
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lol this post reads like it was written by gpt-3

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



that has to be a troll i refuse to believe otherwise

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Plorkyeran posted:

anti-woke people loving hate rust because rust very clearly told them they weren't welcome in the community so they adopted this whole ideology where not only is rust bad, but its goals are bad too. it's a mix of really depressing and really funny.

that explains a lot

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Cold on a Cob posted:

lol that loving owns

also it reminds me of how people mix their hdds from different batches when building storage

that was less "people" and more "enterprise storage vendors" or so ive been lead to believe. not sure if they do it any more but the idea is that you'd stagger the MTBF of the drives so that they'd potentially fail months apart instead of weeks apart.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



interesting, they believe that implementing a bespoke federated privacy-preserving dating protocol would make getting a date easier and yet it is that belief and others like it which are the sole reasons preventing them from getting a date

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



mfer is like "getting a date is hard. lets try using excel"

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Cybernetic Vermin posted:

tbf excel is real good at randomly making things that aren't dates into dates

ftfy

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



:(

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Mr.Radar posted:

yanderekko 11 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

Serious question: Is there an alternative narrative here? People are acting like Musk changed course for no reason, but are there no real claims that the account perhaps had started to engage in other rule-breaking content?

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incredible. "i don't like this. is there perhaps a version that fits with my personal views and expectations?"

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



they edited their post and now it's even funnier:

yanderekko 2 hours ago | parent | context | favorite | on: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

Serious question: Is there an alternative narrative here? People are acting like Musk changed course for no reason, but are there no real claims that the account perhaps had started to engage in other rule-breaking content?

Note that I'm asking for an actual steelmanned argument for why there's no possible defense of Musk here, not why people have high priors to just assume there's no defense.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



SolTerrasa posted:

if the only thing they ever mention is bayes rule, probably they just read Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality

“steelmanning”, also a clue

i'd never heard the phrase "steelmanned" in my entire life until i read that HN post. i refuse to believe that it exists as a thing outside of high-school debate clubs

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



SolTerrasa posted:

unfortunately, the high school debate club metastasized

lol. lmao.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



distortion park posted:

if you imagine that musky acted completely differently, he's actually a lot more reasonable

honestly im surprised that sentiment towards the boer is shifting on HN. at least that's what it looks like from the comments posted where people are pre-emptively defending their defence of muskman

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



drat get a load of that fuckin scab

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



the torment nexus is clearly a reference to the Punishment Sphere base facility from SMAC

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



someone oughta nerve staple the hn posters

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



so as ive learned the term "financial violence" aka "financial abuse" is an aspect of domestic violence in which control of money is used as a means to control and further abuse victims. imo this makes that fuckheads post even more dogshit garbage.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



that poor bastard just got awaken from cryo sleep after being put under in '07.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



fritz posted:

abudabi123 1 hour ago | prev [–]

Whatever Tesla's teams in sw/hw/fsd are doing appears to be state of the art at industry scale, improving year on year. Certainly, more sophisticated than F-35 sw/hw vtol control.
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i looked it up, apparently for the USAF theyve had zero pilot fatalities from F-35B mishaps since 2000. meanwhile the more sophisticated tesla has an unquenchable bloodlust

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Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



lobsterminator posted:

nvrgrls posted:

I think I'm gonna stop reading

ah yes, the slashdot gambit

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