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Don't want to turn this into a beverage thread, but making cold brew coffee is easy and gives you a supply of ready made coffee in the morning. If you need hot coffee in the morning you can easily microwave some.
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Volcott posted:So, did anyone buy one of those Theranos monitors? You can get a chunk of their headquarters now. did the founders cash out in time, or did they really think they could keep their house of cards going until magic elves built the product they were advertising?
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fishmech posted:And they've certainly never managed to get their manned spaceflight capsule to successfully orbit with a human crew, even though now they claim they'll totes send people in a moon flyby in it next year. i won't get into the ins and out of your wider point, but here you're mixing up spacex's manned dragon capsule which does have a planned 2018 launch date, but no stated goals beyond orbital test flights, and the nasa orion capsule portion of sls, which had originally been scheduled for a 2018 unmanned lunar flyby as its initial test flight and is now under consideration as a manned mission to shorten the testing timeline. in my opinion it would be a bad call for obvious reasons, but all nasa is currently doing is initial feasibility studies GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 05:37
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fairly easy to read a paperback if sitting in those conditions or a paper with a commuter fold standing or sitting
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Aug 6, 2017 08:49
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reminder that auto companies are totally fine selling safety equipment that they know are actually shotguns pointed at your head, gas tanks that instantly immolate the interior when lightly tapped from behind, and eco-engines that actually spew out particulate matter that give everyone cancer when the inspectors aren't looking they might have a different sense of road ready self driving cars than the general public
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Aug 23, 2017 21:33
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Capt.Whorebags posted:What does the FBI do with the bitcoins they seize when taking down criminal dark web sites? i know in certain instances of fraud or other financial crimes (and maybe other types), the government is supposed to identify as many victims as they can and make them whole again this can be complicated, as recent seizures nominally worth billions of dollars have to be very slowly converted into dollars because converting all at once would absolutely tank the existing market
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Apr 15, 2021 18:21
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jumping through hoops to reinvent the jitney taxi
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May 23, 2021 18:46
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it should be noted that the fortune he built on this business is estimated to be one of the largest in all of recorded history
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Jul 11, 2021 22:03
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eXXon posted:Speaking of Amazon moving more into low-tech space, they're apparently just installing lockers on sidewalks in public parks because ??? i don't know the regulatory details, so i can't be sure if it's actually an issue, but i'm curious if there are potential ada concerns here
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Aug 20, 2021 22:37
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Ghost Leviathan posted:If you're going to make a car analogy, then what comes to mind is the millennial experience of boomer parents 'teaching' you by making you hold a torch as they lean over and swear without ever bothering to actually explain or demonstrate anything, then getting irate at you for not knowing how. Also, nagging you to get a driver's licence while refusing to actually give you any lessons. (See also: Sports, relationships, home maintenance and cleaning, basic social skills) is typing and basic computer literacy not taught in school these days? i'll buy that it was the result of growing up during the time that computers were the new hotness that we were going to ride into the future, but i had basic computer literacy and typing classes at several points during my primary and secondary education. some of it might have been elective, but a bunch of it was definitely mandatory Clarste posted:I mean, at some point most people are going to have to write a report or an invoice or something for work, right? maybe at some point ai and voice inputs will kill physically touching computers the same way computers killed cursive edit: makes you wonder why they had to keep touching input panels in star trek when they can just speak a vague directive at the compute GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Aug 24, 2021 |
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Aug 24, 2021 08:56
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blunt posted:https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1430152985938628610?s=20 dang, all of those turn of the century phrenologists would have killed for this poo poo PhazonLink posted:ah and there it is the weird goon hateboner for cursive. and maybe even ALL OF HANDWRITING i take no joy in reporting the death of handwriting, i am a dispassionate observer on our march to hand all responsibilities and duties to machines
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Aug 24, 2021 20:47
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there need to be penalties for filing frivolous takedown claims. maybe if computers sending out a bunch of half cocked bullshit cost the company money there'd be changes.
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Aug 26, 2021 23:10
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Tuxedo Gin posted:At the end of the day we don't really know though. Look at what leaded gas did to boomers. Who knows what'll happen to us when (if) we grow old. It might not cause cancer but we are still woefully ignorant about the inner workings lf the brain and how environmental factors affect it. the toxic effect of lead in general and the lead compound used as an additive in gasoline were well understood prior to their widespread introduction to american infrastructure in the early to mid 20th century. workers would regularly die in the early 20's while working in the manufacturing process. it wasn't some super subtle mystery effect that only could be teased out retrospectively http://www.hvonstorch.de/klima/pdf/blei/seyferth_2003.pdf
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Sep 5, 2021 09:10
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if i remember correctly, a week or two back an adult website bought out a defunct video platform that used to service a bunch of websites in the early to mid 2010's and a bunch of previously dead links to the old video player suddenly went live again with adult videos this affected a bunch of decade old washington post articles
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Sep 5, 2021 09:16
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Bubbacub posted:Flawless logic here, amazing too be fair, human drivers do a lot of crashing into poo poo and exploding, so they definitely did an a+ job replicating that
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Dec 7, 2021 03:15
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my understanding is that much of the influencer status symbol stuff is rentals and props. almost none of them have the level of material success they portray, it's prop money, "private plane" interior sets, and rented cars of course that does take seed money and having the cash reserves to put full time work in, but that's true of so many careers at this point
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Jan 18, 2022 07:18
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Riven posted:My main issue with it is how hard it’s going to make it for less privileged people to interact with essential govt services. I was doing my return the other day and needed to double check our child tax credit payment numbers, and encountered this thing. I had to take approximately 24 pics of my ID in three different areas of my coworking space before they were accepted and then the only way I could get the facial scanning to work was standing with my back against a plain white door with my elgato key lights on me. Brick was an unacceptable background, and anything less than full power lighting directly on me, but behind the camera, was unacceptable. Bright overhead lighting didn’t work. If I had been home I don’t think I could have finished my taxes. as someone who doesn't own a smartphone (both because i'm cheap and snobbishly contrarian), anytime i have to deal with an id.me verification has been a giant headache it was especially stressful when i had a ticking clock to retroactively prove my identity or the state of california would claw back my unemployment insurance money. i can't imagine what folks on the margins who have less time and resources to navigate the opaque alternatives to a smartphone would have gone through
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Jan 20, 2022 21:47
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His Divine Shadow posted:Trucks are so loving stupid nowadays. I never had high opinions on trucks as a useful vehicle to begin with except in edge cases but hell they're so ugly now. i work in conditions that require pickups, and they're super useful working vehicles, but the trend towards taller and heavier tends to actively make them worse at their job. i don't really give a poo poo about my vehicle aesthetics, but what's the loving point if you can't easily reach into the bed and haul poo poo out?
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Feb 21, 2022 08:52
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i don't know if this qualifies as a tech nightmare, but i just got served this ad and it struck me as one of the most horrific dystopian visions of an isolated, disconnected form of existence i've ever seen. right up there with all the big names in science fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad35s2Opd3E thank god corporations are allowing me to insert software between myself and the rest of my household so i won't need to ever carry out even the most basic forms of human interaction
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Mar 23, 2022 19:21
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apple and meta gave user data to hackers who forged legal requestsquote:Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. if law enforcement it security is so lax that there are already issues with hackers using existing processes to compromise accounts, i can't imagine what would happen if mandatory backdoors ever became a thing
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Apr 1, 2022 02:06
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:there's no way 25 gigs of useful data comes out of a car per hour. position, bearing, speed is a few MB at best, typically just a CSV of lat/long and other indicators. biometric data would be similar. even if they recorded every bit of audio and did SD video streaming of the interior of the car it wouldn't clock up to 25 gigs maybe it's continuously transmitting super hi-res 3d lidar scans of every single man, woman, and child it passes to aid in the production of the synthoid replicants during phase 2?
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i also wonder what the expense per student looks like, and how much of the expense is education related and how much is social service. if things like extra campus security, free or reduced price meals, transportation, etc. are funded through the listed per student funding, poorer districts are generally going to be spending a larger proportion of the per person funding on things other than teachers, counselors, extra-curriculars, etc
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Oct 1, 2022 02:35
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Like just the 75% worst-scoring across the company? Like, "whoops we just fired an entire department" sort of thing? i think spread across all of departments to some extent, but if i remember right he called out the health/safety and i.t. departments for the brunt of the layoffs which i mean, lol
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Oct 26, 2022 05:51
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it's very tech ceo brain to pledge to fight the bots, then complain that you didn't know there were bots, then pledge to fire all the people who fight the bots
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Oct 26, 2022 07:26
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Tayter Swift posted:What then is the hubub about laying off workers the day before new stock options vest? There's no more stock, right? apparently the merger agreement includes provisions that it would be paid in cash instead https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoffs-musk-jobs.html
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as much as 'mostly harmless' isn't my cup of tea, it's absolutely wild that douglas adams called the poo poo show around trying to securely authenticating your identity, and how it will inevitably lead to all your biometrics and passwords eventually being combined into an easy to use single point of failure like 30 years ago was password management remotely a thing in 1992?
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A Google employee of 11 years says he and his wife stared at each other in 'disbelief' when they realized they'd both been laid off by the companyquote:A Google engineer said he and his wife stared at each other in "disbelief" upon learning on Friday they'd both been laid off by the company. i knew that the h-1b visa program is severely hosed and allows companies to be highly exploitative with their foreign workers, but i guess i still hadn't realized the scale of the problem. is it typical to for someone to have been in the country for over a decade and still be on an h-1b? i guess i naively assumed that there would be an easy transition to permanent residency after a number of years i know how stressful layoffs can be when you have kids and a mortgage, i can't imagine the extra layer of stress that must come with having two months before you have to move your entire family to another country. loving inhuman
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it's comforting to know that whatever happened to people in the past, and what happens to people now, we live in the best of all possible worlds
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Jan 29, 2023 21:18
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PT6A posted:An AV demolition derby would actually be fun as gently caress, and a good proving ground for generalized autonomy/AI. Good idea, old chum! yeah, and for extra fun why don't we give the cars guns and missiles
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Jan 31, 2023 01:37
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OddObserver posted:Aha, thanks, I was missing the connection to interest rates. So if I understood your clarification it went something like this: a lot of the problem is that svb had all of its depositors concentrated in very specific niche. it made it much more likely that many of their deposits would move in the same direction at once. historically startups have done poorly in a rising rate environment, and long term treasuries have done poorly in a rising rate environment. not my area of expertise, but it suggests that they either should have sought out more diversified depositors, or put a portion of their assets into something that hedges against a rising interest rates
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Mar 10, 2023 20:17
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it varies by recipe source and recipe author. kenji lopez-alt will have some crazy long intros but by and large it's detailing why specific ingredient and method choices were made. i don't mind intros in that style
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May 26, 2023 20:06
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a lot of modern cookbooks have huge glossy photos and tons of prose. these days a lot of them are semi-autobiographical like this is the 2022 winner of the james beard cookbook award for pastries and sweets https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mooncakes_and_Milk_Bread/R_sIEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 sure doesn't look like a list of ingredients and some instructions
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May 27, 2023 18:37
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unfeeling computers blaring insane and confusing sounds as part of an inscrutable test of humanity actually finally manages to be part of what dystopian literature promised us
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May 30, 2023 05:33
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didn't see this posted national eating disorder association takes ai chatbot offline after complaints of 'harmful' advicequote:An eating disorder prevention organization said it had to take its AI-powered chatbot offline after some complained the tool began offering “harmful” and “unrelated” advice to those coming to it for support. quote:NEDA did not provide specific examples of the advice Tessa offered, but social media posts indicate the chatbot urged one user to count calories and try to lose weight after the user told the tool that they had an eating disorder. weird, why roll out a feature that clearly wasn't ready for prime time? quote:NEDA’s move to take the chatbot offline also comes in the wake of the organization reportedly firing the human staffers who manned its separate eating disorder Helpline after staffers voted to unionize. aaahh
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withak posted:Internet. "can you believe the old timers knew from the start it made you stupid?"
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Jesus III posted:If so, ew. Human soda pop spraying out of a can if i had to choose, i'd rather become goo faster than my nervous system can react rather than reenacting no exit with my fellow trapped billionaires
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Jun 22, 2023 21:06
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Seph posted:I know the implosion happens quickly, but would it be more like a bullet to the head, or a few seconds of the hull crushing you before you die? you might have some warning ahead of time that there's a problem, but when the actual failure happened you'd be dead on the order of milliseconds. the pressure at that depth is one of those things were it's extreme enough that it's hard for the human brain to properly quantify
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Jun 22, 2023 21:18
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Professor Beetus posted:I came across this twitter thread in the timeline and thought it might be of interest to folks in here talking about groversub. It's an armchair expert side-by-side breakdown of Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger and the Titan. Pretty fascinating and also darkly hilarious. The Oceangate CEO might have been the world's biggest Dunning-Kruger example in the world if he really bought into the idea that his sub was safe enough. And since he piloted it himself I think he really just assumed that nothing would ever go wrong because he was just that smart and good at making a submarine with literally zero redundancies or safeguards in place. wow, foam made of tiny glass spheres in epoxy resin to provide bouncy and structure under extreme pressure. that is real cool materials science
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Jun 23, 2023 04:59
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i don't have the background to think through the implications of a commercial real estate collapse, but i have to wonder what losing what is the nucleolus of high paid white collar jobs at the core of many major cities will do to the shape of those cities. after the atomization of white collar work, do major cities still attract people through high density of desirable services and infrastructure, or does it lead to a hollowing out similar to what happened to cities built around blue collar work
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a return to the moral clarity of bundled cable packages
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