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At the same time, I get the sneaking suspicion "knowing how to look things up the right way" is a skill a lot fewer people have than you'd expect
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I've discovered the best way to get good google results is to misspell a keyword. I don't know why it works, but I always get much better results that way. If I click on the "did you mean [word spelled correctly]" it reloads the search and I get trash again. It's cargo culting the algorithm, but who cares as long as it works.
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Aug 18, 2021 15:04
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've discovered the best way to get good google results is to misspell a keyword. I tried this but I can't seem to find anything about this Buttafuoco guy
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looking things up is a skill so rare it should be a degree in itself it’s not uncommon to find references in papers either misquoted or completely divorced from their context that they’ve taken a life of their own
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Aug 18, 2021 15:15
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I replaced most of my frontal cortex with the googling glands and now I know everything and understand nothing ama
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tokin opposition posted:I replaced most of my frontal cortex with the googling glands and now I know everything and understand nothing ama Why do kids like Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
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Aug 18, 2021 16:29
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Adrenochrome enhancers and sugar
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ArmZ posted:sorry you're a dumbass this is just anti-modernist bullshit it isn't and i don't know why you think it is lol. it isn't something i just dreamed up by myself. in the pre-literate days people could do things like recite the entire illiad from memory. this is something you could learn to do, too, if you put the same amount of effort in as they did, but you won't, because doing things like that doesn't matter to you in the way it did to them. this is exactly like the "we used to remember phone numbers but now our phones do it for us" thing, just writ large. in most of the ways that matter we're better at "remembering" things now, but we outsource much of our memory to external objects because that is more efficient. but yeah keep calling me an anti-modernist dumbass instead of reading the words that i'm actually writing, bithc
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Aug 18, 2021 16:52
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Then you risk touching the inside of the bowl, a fate worse than death. Thankfully evolution provided us an out! 
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Jazerus posted:it isn't and i don't know why you think it is lol. it isn't something i just dreamed up by myself. in the pre-literate days people could do things like recite the entire illiad from memory. this is something you could learn to do, too, if you put the same amount of effort in as they did, but you won't, because doing things like that doesn't matter to you in the way it did to them. this is exactly like the "we used to remember phone numbers but now our phones do it for us" thing, just writ large. in most of the ways that matter we're better at "remembering" things now, but we outsource much of our memory to external objects because that is more efficient. more people today can recite the entire iliad from memory than in the pre literate days
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Aug 18, 2021 18:02
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Memorizing all 151 pokemon (I'm a pokemon originalist) is a greater accomplishment than the library of Alexandria
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Aug 18, 2021 18:15
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Leaving the cartridge to melt on the dashboard of your minivan is worse than the library burning
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Aug 18, 2021 18:17
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please knock Mom! posted:more people today can recite the entire iliad from memory than in the pre literate days normalize by the fact that we have 400x the people now, tho...
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bob dobbs is dead posted:normalize by the fact that we have 400x the people now, tho... 
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Aug 18, 2021 18:25
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My ex managed to recite The Ancient Mariner's Rime from memory, and her and her family would casually replace dinner conversation with Shakespeare quotes. Anyway, I definitely remember reading serious research on theory of mind in apes, with fun experiments where one ape would only eat food if it was reasonably sure the other couldn't see it. And the save situation, except it was loving another ape instead of eating food. The theory is also disproven by anyone other than me being an NPC, or so I've heard.
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please knock Mom! posted:more people today can recite the entire iliad from memory than in the pre literate days Reciting the Quran is still absolutely a thing too.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:31
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BonHair posted:My ex managed to recite The Ancient Mariner's Rime from memory, and her and her family would casually replace dinner conversation with Shakespeare quotes. I assume she became your ex by the third time you asked her mom to pass the potatoes and she launched into Horatio
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Aug 18, 2021 18:32
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Proust Malone posted:Reciting the Quran is still absolutely a thing too. Or if you live in America, our equivalent religious document: the constitution. Just the preamble though, the rest is boring and nobody's ever read the whole thing probably.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:34
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Proust Malone posted:Reciting the Quran is still absolutely a thing too. I remember that being a mandatory part of passing into adulthood for some of my classmates. Anyway, I saw this is the meme thread:
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Aug 18, 2021 18:38
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bob dobbs is dead posted:normalize by the fact that we have 400x the people now, tho... why would you try to normalize for one variable with a billion other variables unaccounted for, that’s just flimsy statistical camouflage
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tokin opposition posted:Memorizing all 151 pokemon (I'm a pokemon originalist) is a greater accomplishment than the library of Alexandria at age 8 I could be given any number from 1-151 and name that pokemon, and I have never again reached such heights please knock Mom! posted:why would you try to normalize for one variable with a billion other variables unaccounted for, that’s just flimsy statistical camouflage perhaps the same could be said of all social sciences..........................
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the required data complexity of dealing with n variables is often asserted by social science types to be O(n) (this is the assumption of linearity writ differently) but in practice its O(a^n)
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BonHair posted:Anyway, I saw this is the meme thread: I'm in a polylaborous relationship with my main employer and a younger, hotter nightshift who's into freaky poo poo (cash in hand)
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Aug 18, 2021 20:25
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've discovered the best way to get good google results is to misspell a keyword. I preferred the days when judicious use of double quotes and plus and minus signs worked to show the results you really wanted to see, not Google's loving awful interpretation of "I'm going to show you results for <homophone of X> and <synonym of Y> and completely ignore the fact you enclosed this phrase in quotes, because I know what you're looking for better than you do". I have to search for a lot of error messages and weird edge case elements at work and half the time the relevant hit is buried under pages and pages of close-but-no-potato links, hits to loving rssing.com, and awful, awful Dell/Microsoft open-source "tech support" pages.
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Shame Boy posted:Or if you live in America, our equivalent religious document: the constitution. If anyone's curious, this is absolutely a thing.
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Aug 18, 2021 20:29
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Today my landlord told me I'm getting kicked out of my apartment in 2 months. Apparently while the renting contract has a minimum duration of 5 years (as in, the landlord can't cancel it before that), there's a law that says that after the first year you can just cancel it anyway if the landlord or a direct relative needs the place. This is already bullshit when taken at face value but what's fun about it is that they can basically use it as an excuse to kick anyone out anytime, and the renter's only recourse is moving out, waiting 3 months and then somehow proving that the landlord lied about needing the apartment.
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Aug 18, 2021 20:36
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burn it down on your last day he probably has insurance anyway so its legal
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Aug 18, 2021 21:01
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Release some bedbugs on the way out.
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Elman posted:Today my landlord told me I'm getting kicked out of my apartment in 2 months. Apparently while the renting contract has a minimum duration of 5 years (as in, the landlord can't cancel it before that), there's a law that says that after the first year you can just cancel it anyway if the landlord or a direct relative needs the place. This is already bullshit when taken at face value but what's fun about it is that they can basically use it as an excuse to kick anyone out anytime, and the renter's only recourse is moving out, waiting 3 months and then somehow proving that the landlord lied about needing the apartment. Get in touch with the San Francisco Tenants Union. They can help you negotiate for better terms on how soon you can leave and so on. https://sftu.org/tenants-rights/
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Get in touch with the San Francisco Tenants Union. They can help you negotiate for better terms on how soon you can leave and so on. https://sftu.org/tenants-rights/ Oh I live in Spain so I don't think that will help. Honestly this is the best time of the year to move and it's not like I know for sure they're bullshitting, so I'm not too shaken about it. But it's still infuriating.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:29
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Do something to gently caress him over please
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Aug 18, 2021 21:35
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Elman posted:Oh I live in Spain so I don't think that will help. Sueltas los chinches
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I mean I said it in the first place because I got 10 points of extra credit added to my score in civics class for reciting the preamble lol
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Aug 18, 2021 23:45
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skooma512 posted:Release some bedbugs on the way out.
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BonHair posted:My ex managed to recite The Ancient Mariner's Rime from memory, and her and her family would casually replace dinner conversation with Shakespeare quotes. Ugh
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Personally I think long term memory is brain fascism and short term memory strasserism, live in the infinite now
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tokin opposition posted:Personally I think long term memory is brain fascism and short term memory strasserism, live in the infinite now so do i call you mr du bois or tequila sunrise
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Aug 19, 2021 00:11
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Wow @ that Malthusian posting.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:so do i call you mr du bois or tequila sunrise It was tequila sunset  Also I think that post fits Idiot Doom Spiral better anyway
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500excf type r posted:the OP says this dumbass He was repeating it so you'd remember, obviously.
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