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b00ty4breakfast

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About b00ty4breakfast

no professional code has ever left these fingers, strictly amateur hour

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48239663

    there is a specific, very modern strain of mostly anglosphere protestant christian religion that can hinder intellectual progress. When I say "very modern" I mean within the last 2…

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    Comment #48239511

    I can't help but think that there is a deliberate effort to remove the US from it's position in the global geopolitical arena. And not merely as a by-product of policy decisions bu…

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    Comment #48230308

    Holy cow, I never even thought about that in relation to AMP. It's not a new thing, then.

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    Comment #48228029

    Of course they are, because they are not primarily concerned with the reporting of noteworthy events. They are most worried about profit with the secondary goal of reporting but on…

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    Comment #48225128

    >Why look at a website when it's all in AI? well, at least in the case of google, I'm pretty sure that's the point. Or at least, they are doing things that would seem to be moving …

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    Comment #48188721

    "UM ACTUALLY THOSE SWEATSHOP WORKERS ARE LUCKY TO BE WORKING FOR PENNIES AN HOUR TO MAKE MY OVERPRICED CONSUMER ELECTRONICS AND THESE FLY-ASS Js"

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    Comment #48188708

    This would be more of an indictment if we were closer to the 19th century rather than 5 popes deep into public denouncements of American militarism.

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    Comment #48174143

    There are too many grad students, is my point. Like, obviously, not all grad students go into academia, but that is the main career track for a graduate degree in a lot of fields.

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    Comment #48174138

    as far as I know. She also had to do serious therapy and addiction recovery stuff, so it wasn't like she was magically cured of being addict simply by using ibogaine, in, case that…

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    Comment #48174101

    I have a friend who received ibogaine as a treatment, in mexico, for opiate addiction and it is not at all like your average hallucinogenic drug. for starters, she had to go throug…

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    Comment #48139165

    There are simply too many candidates and not enough roles to fill and certainly not enough money for research. This is great for the universities but it's awful for grad students a…

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    Comment #48139043

    this sounds like donning a TNT vest to diffuse a bomb

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    Comment #48130192

    boy, if we treat it like junk food, things are only going to get worse for some places in the world. The food over here in the states is pretty awful if you aren't paying attention…

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    Comment #48130176

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48116795

    if people are reading the articles through wayback, then they aren't making any money because no data is harvested and no click-thrus or impressions or whatever the metric is are r…

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    Comment #48114921

    a metric buttload is exact 1.114 imperial heaps

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    Comment #48104463

    I haven't read the article (because I hate Medium) but I reckon the biggest reason why LLM-assisted projects use Python is because there is a metric buttload of python code on the …

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    Comment #48099051

    See, the thing that makes a genocide is all the dead people. The dead people who were killed by Israeli missiles and bombs. Or when they, the Israeli military, denied aid workers e…

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    Comment #48098847

    This is their entire MO though; they offer a free product to build a customer base then they figure out how to get to know them biblically in an attempt to extract a profit and it …

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    Comment #48098724

    sometimes it's an acquisition of some product and sometimes it's to explicitly to kill off the thing without concern for any product.

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    Comment #48090263

    what is the appeal of blindly blasting open source projects with high-volume PRs? If you're trying to help the project to accomplish something, it doesn't follow that a firehose ap…

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    Comment #48077056

    Nah, I would never be using an Apple product to begin with because I'm not a magpie to be wooed by a shiny nickel in the mud.

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    Comment #48070178

    Being in a prison cell is a great way to avoid traffic accidents, I agree.