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Jan 13, 2008

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Luigi Thirty posted:

meanwhile in rocketry,

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/

the guy who owns Copenhagen Suborbitals and the largest amateur submarine may have murdered a reporter and sank his sub to cover it up

i think this is the first goon project with a confirmed kill

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Jan 13, 2008

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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

proposal: a watercraft for "responsible boat pilots" and "submarine enthusiasts"

reality: a man falls through shallow water and into a shittily welded steel tube. taking a torch from the wall he spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, he shakes it madly, yelling "my nigga do u write for the guardian"

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Jan 13, 2008

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Powaqoatse posted:

man even if you discount literal soldiers and suicides there are 5 more goon murders than cph suborbital who never even had an account (a member of his club did once)

oh I thought the suborbital guy was a goon

joke retracted

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Jan 13, 2008

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yes let’s relitigate 2016 Democrat primary again this is new and fertile grounds for discussion that will leave everyone better off

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they could put it somewhere near NYC

comedy option: yonkers

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this thread has a strange idea of the kind of money you need to pull in to buy a house anywhere vaguely worth living that isn’t either a flyover hellhole or extremely inconvenient to anything. I live in upstate ny and make six figures before factoring in my wife’s salary and home ownership is a hilarious fanciful dream for us because of massive student loan debt and the fact that anything you’d want to live in is around 180-200 to start, and property taxes are ridiculous.

if we were to move closer to nyc then it’d be even worse, I don’t think we’d come out ahead even commuting and getting city pay bumps.

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rjmccall posted:

um. even at ridiculous upstate ny property tax rates (they're actually some of the worst in the county, much worse than in nyc, although of course assessments are a lot lower), a 200k house ought to be easily affordable on a six-figgie salary. maybe it isn't for you because of your debt, or because you have other major expenses you didn't mention (healthcare, kids), and you certainly shouldn't buy a house just because you can theoretically afford it, but a $1500 monthly payment is not an unreasonable burden on that income, even budgeting very generously for your house being a money pit

no, we could certainly afford $1500 a month (i mean, that's rent) but people (read: boomers/parents/etc) act like house payments are 500-700 a month or something and can't understand why we just dont buy a house already gosh!!

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I feel like there’s probably a racket for baby’s first code boot camp only $3k/mo

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i think my favorite part is that they were expensing the bribes. I need to look for that section in concur

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gee it must really suck for people to pile on to you for no other reason than who you are, biz :thunk:

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Jan 13, 2008

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kids and manchildren freaking out over some dumb fad poo poo? shocking

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Optimus_Rhyme posted:

Xposting from sci-fi thread



fandoms are universally terrible

lol if ur a 'fan' of something

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the best intentions can still be foiled by the laws of thermodynamics

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muckswirler posted:

It's always been this way. You just didn't know for SURE that your fourth grade teacher was a nazi, but you heard the rumors that he had a picture of the fuhrer on his dressing table. The solution is bubbling yourself in just like you do in real life with people you like and things you like and limiting your exposure to the absolute batshit bottom quartile dregs.

whoops we did this and now there's a nazi president who's deporting everyone who doesn't pass the paper bag test

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Jan 13, 2008

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if hq2 winds up being somewhere reasonably close I’d think about trying to go all career salaryman for Amazon, idk. I get aws recruiters up in my poo poo every 6 months or so and it seems like there’s interesting stuff to be done there.

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fishmech posted:

something awful is only 4-5 years younger than the commercial internet as a whole (18th anniversary of the site founding is november 15 2017).

something awful has been a site for at least78% of the time that any random person could get an isp account (without having to go through a university of large defense corporation, or the defense branch of the goverment) and load up a graphical web browser capable of showing inline images.

just kinda meditate on how that makes all of this.

if twitter charged people 10 dollars to post it'd probably be better

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meatpotato posted:

lol chomebook

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atomicthumbs posted:

on this note, a neural network researcher/artist has taken Nvidia's Progressive Growing of GANs image generation neural network, which is trained on celebrity faces to create new high-resolution faces, and is using it to create faces specifically tuned to be misrecognized as various objects by various standard image recognition networks.

https://twitter.com/dribnet/status/927832351492546566

See if you can spot the encoded bias in the standard solutions

what people seem to be missing here is that it's not "feed in these images, get these words"

it's "feed in these words, get these images"

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although technically it's not as simple as i made it sound, sounds like he's trying to fit faces to classifiers somehow and i'd presume that there's a lot of training data of asian people in kimonos and muslim women in abeya (and black dudes in prison!) so yeah it's gonna spit out what it got in

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infernal machines posted:

we created an incredibly racist classifier entirely by accident! whoever could have foreseen this? no one, probably.

i'm not defending it, i'm just suggesting that it's merely reflecting bias rather than creating bias, like basically everything else.

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sushiritos are ok

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Suspicious Dish posted:

i dont understand why cities are tossing themselves at companies head-first to get them to move there and then reap none of the rewards

rising tide lifts all boats says man chaining himself to the bottom of the river

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Jan 13, 2008

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these aren’t exactly novel ideas that are being pitched, it’s not like places are whoring themselves out just because bezos came calling. they’d suck a golf ball through a garden hose if it got 5000 jobs, let alone 50k.

there’s a certain theory that it’s still a benefit for the municipality because people will move there, those people buy houses, those property taxes will go to the city, etc.

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one of the finest posts

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Facebook is going to get regulated into the ground and it’s gonna be hilarious

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"hello congressman jimmy fucknuts from sistertoucher, al. remember last year when russia got a literal idiot elected because your constituents are dumb as gently caress? how would you like for that to be used against you by your primary opponent? no?"

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remember, even in tech buble thread, never engage with a stymie!

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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

and what if jimmy fucknuts is happy that his party's literal idiot won, and what if jimmy is also a literal idiot with presidential ambitions

jimmy fucknuts is more worried about jimbob kidkiddler beating him in a primary

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hobbesmaster posted:

are there enough whales that want to spend $50/day to mod fyad/fyad-lites?

look inside your heart

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infernal machines posted:

i would personally contribute to a crowd fund to make tori IK of SAS

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yospos could probably run a successful and self-sustaining offsite by itself without even growing the userbase

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I’m not quite sure what ldr actually did other than try to get they dick wet and slide into dms

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lancemantis posted:



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i dont understand the problem here. why wouldn't you buy search ads against your competitors product? like, that's... sort of the point

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Jan 13, 2008

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idiot republican controlled states doing stupid bullshit to spite the libs? why, I never.

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duz posted:

they tried filtering them out but then conservatives kept complaining their articles were disappearing

it's almost like facebook is bad

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lol boston fuckin' sucks

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this is a documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU

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