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@ben_lubar Twain had an excellent long example of this in .
"What's the difference between a duck?"
Each leg is both the same.
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@Tsaukpaetra Ehhhh... true. I'll go true. I'll be honest, I might have heard that one before, sort of cheating.
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I like the description:
Are YOU tired of typing every git command directly into the terminal, but you're too stubborn to use Sourcetree because you'll never forgive Atlassian for making Jira? This is the app for you!
Edit: @ben_lubar abused his powers to create a new thread for free
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@Tsaukpaetra It wasn't at the time.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It wasn't at the time.
I don't think much has changed about it for a very long time, except perhaps the location. Ugly then, ugly now.
Here's another site that takes the inverted scheme and almost makes it usable:
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
But... why? It's literally the same thing that happens when you go to YouTube.com and type something in the search bar at the top... :/
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Why yes, your web browser was probably implemented by interns ...
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@svieira said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Why yes, your web browser was probably implemented by interns ...
Interns with a vague grasp of history:
Since the beginning of the web we have been used to deal with physical CSS properties for different features
No, CSS wasn't invented until about six years after the beginning of the web, and it was ten or more before it received wide enough support to actually become useful.
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@HardwareGeek Also CSS isn't at all physical, it's all bits and bytes and boop boop robot noises.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@HardwareGeek Also CSS isn't at all physical, it's all bits and bytes and boop boop robot noises.
You can set sounds in CSS directly? </missing the point>
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@HardwareGeek Also CSS isn't at all physical, it's all bits and bytes and boop boop robot noises.
Did you not read the link or is this just typical idiot moron stuff?
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@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Did you not read the link or is this just typical idiot moron stuff?
Reading's for nerds.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Did you not read the link or is this just typical idiot moron stuff?
Reading's for nerds.
Ah, but not idiot moron nerds, apparently.
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@boomzilla said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Ah, but not idiot moron nerds, apparently.
Idiot morons tend to find reading hard, whether or not they're nerds. Dr Seuss never did a primer on the detailed history of the modern Web, after all…
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What Haber and Stornetta described in their 1991 research paper is a prototypical version of the blockchains that power most cryptocurrencies today. In fact, when Satoshi Nakamoto first described Bitcoin in a 2008 whitepaper, three of the eight papers cited were written by Haber and Stornetta. [...] But 14 years before Bitcoin was invented, Haber and Stornetta created their own timestamping service called Surety to put their scheme into action.
Clients use Surety’s AbsoluteProof software to create a hash of a digital document, which is then sent to Surety’s servers where it is timestamped to create a seal. This seal is a cryptographically secure unique identifier that is then returned to the software program to be stored for the customer.
But it leaves out an important part of the blockchain equation: Trustlessness. How can anyone trust that Surety’s internal records are legit?
Instead of posting customer hashes to a public digital ledger, Surety creates a unique hash value of all the new seals added to the database each week and publishes this hash value in the New York Times. The hash is placed in a small ad in the Times classified section under the heading “Notices & Lost and Found” and has appeared once a week since 1995.
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@Zecc said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."
I hope the guy who wrote the quoted sentence was fired.
How does anybody in 2018 think the "this gives a new meaning to X" joke is still funny? I hope they all get fired. Then trampled by rhinos. "This really gives a new meaning to the phrase: 'laziest cliche in journalism!' Please kill me!"
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@blakeyrat Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!
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@Zecc Actually, when you put it that way, the first blockchain was during the Crusades, when the Knights Templar ran international banks. Travelers would put their money with one chapter, and receive a paper with coded symbols on it, and hide it well. Then they would make the long trek to wherever they were going, completely safe from thieves, and present the paper to the nearest chapter at which point they would be given all their money.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How Penn Jillette successfully divested himself of millions of dollars worth of brand identity, film right up above here right now.
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@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How Penn Jillette successfully divested himself of millions of dollars worth of brand identity, film right up above here right now.
what?
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@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How Penn Jillette successfully divested himself of millions of dollars worth of brand identity, film right up above here right now.
Do you think Penn Jillette's act was to be chubby, and has nothing to do with his magic show, voiceover work, or investigative journalism (in that Bullshit! show a few years ago)?
Yes a lot of comedy duos back to Laurel and Hardy have one overweight and one underweight comedian. But you seriously don't think Penn Jillette has grown above that in the last few decades?
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How Penn Jillette successfully divested himself of millions of dollars worth of brand identity, film right up above here right now.
Do you think Penn Jillette's act was to be chubby, and has nothing to do with his magic show, voiceover work, or investigative journalism (in that Bullshit! show a few years ago)?
Yes a lot of comedy duos back to Laurel and Hardy have one overweight and one underweight comedian. But you seriously don't think Penn Jillette has grown above that in the last few decades?
Also, if there's any dumb thing you could say is a defining characteristic of Penn and Teller's act, it's that Penn is the only one who talks.
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@ben_lubar Right; his weight was never even the gimmick from their start in the 80s.
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@blakeyrat I'm disappointed the video wasn't him debunking bullshit diets
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@sockpuppet7 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@blakeyrat I'm disappointed the video wasn't him debunking bullshit diets
He's at least got that bit of recognizable Penn humor in there. 'If you take medical advice from a Las Vegas magician, you are an idiot and you deserve to die.' 'I don't respect moderation. Anyone I know who is able to do moderation, I don't like them.'
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Anyone I know who is able to do moderation, I don't like them.
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Live feed off the North Carolina coast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deG4NxkouGMAnd the view under water (the fish are really flying around in the current):
https://youtu.be/a-gJoO9A6so
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A surprisingly realistic simulation of what two Earths colliding would look like.
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@pie_flavor I didn't expect that
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@boomzilla
WHO THE F DOESN'T TAKE THEIR FLAG DOWN BEFORE A MUDDA FUKKIN HURRICANE?
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There's a cool interactive map:
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How to make a racist AI without really trying
Rob Speer July 13, 2017
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Here’s the outline of what we’re going to do:Acquire some typical word embeddings to represent the meanings of words
Acquire training and test data, with gold-standard examples of positive and negative words
Train a classifier, using gradient descent, to recognize other positive and negative words based on their word embeddings
Compute sentiment scores for sentences of text using this classifier
Behold the monstrosity that we have created
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@bb36e Machine learning just exposes the biases in the inputs, either in the basic classifier (the part that turns the input into a bunch of numbers in the first place) or, more commonly, in the training data. That's why it has sometimes been called money laundering for prejudice.
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
money laundering
Today I've found a coin inside the washing machine.
It was quite shiny.
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Recently found in a Twitter post, still need to read it:
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@JBert said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
still need to read it:
Ugh, that's a tall article. Pass.
Please to be providing the Tl;dr: when you do?
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@Tsaukpaetra I read it. tl;dr in some cases, weight isn't associated with unhealthiness, and in some cases, people feel ashamed about themselves and overeat, therefore every single social stigma against being fat is wrong and stupid.