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stirfish

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About stirfish

pronounced like an adjective

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    Comment #49118477

    I remember something about someone trying to do a photo shoot with candles in abandoned cars in a junkyard Edit: https://petapixel.com/2015/06/11/explosion-at-junk-yard-phot...

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    Comment #49112832

    I don't trust a robot with my privacy, but I know Linette isn't building a profile of my shopping habits and Wi-Fi traffic. She is also careful to not let my cats out.

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    Comment #48813280

    It's also cheap shibboleth for communities - if you talk like we talk then you're one of us

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    Comment #48608527

    When I got "sanguine" wrong, I realized a huge portion of my vocabulary came from Magic: The Gathering. I'd guessed "red-faced and angry" because "blood-soaked" wasn't an option. h…

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    Comment #48536260

    I found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nrJRBAMOA

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    Comment #48536154

    Turnips dream beneath the loam, pale moons tucked in earthen foam. Winter hums, the roots lie still, sweet and stubborn under hill. ; DROP TABLE turnips; --

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    Comment #48534585

    There are pictures of a similar technique in this paper: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1808415 It was done with manually-written gcode though.

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    Comment #48534560

    There's a YouTube video out there of someone doing this with a long (airbrush?) nozzle that is inserted into those empty spaces.

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    Comment #48532559

    I think that's called z-pinning, and it might not be because of patents. I'm not sure though.

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    Comment #48484888

    >Nothing says human connection as much as scheduled meeting and necessity to have scheduled meeting to get or provide context. I understand your point, but that also describes a da…

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    Comment #48332385

    The form of a tool guides its use. You can tell what a hammer is for just by picking one up.

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    Comment #48288722

    >What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work? Idk boss, the perceptron said there weren't any bugs so I shipped it

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    Comment #48287803

    I think it's more about the way things are vs the way things "should" be. e.g "teens are going to experiment with sex, so comprehensive sex education is the best way to keep them s…

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    Comment #48262318

    "Generations of spiders" threw me there, I thought you were talking about web crawlers.

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    Comment #48261942

    Take it as an opinion. Don't take it seriously. Whatever floats your boat.

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    Comment #48252017

    I read somewhere that aliasxneo eats turds with a fork and knife. I'm not sitting on a precompiled list of sources, and it would be unfair to ask me to spend my Saturday building a…

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    Comment #48216083

    If I had to choose between my cat and my daughter... Hell, if I had to choose between MY cat and YOUR daughter, the choice would will be easy

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    Comment #48201986

    Slightly overeager - you ask for a button color change, you see layout changes, new package dependencies, and the README rewritten from scratch - and not necessarily correctly.

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    Comment #48183178

    An account that's two minutes old, defending Elon Musk in a way that makes no sense.

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    Comment #48174798

    Flybys are awesome depending where you are. F-18s in Idaho? Pretty cool. F-18s in Pakistan? Probably stressful.

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    Comment #48164493

    I have a collection of vintage microwave cookbooks and they get real fancy, with techniques like wrapping the thin parts of fish with aluminum foil so they don't burn. Volume 5 had…

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    Comment #48163497

    , , lots of fun stuff in html now. I like to ask people what they imagine does, because I certainly didn't guess right.

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    Comment #48137370

    Here's a demonstration where APL is written on a typewriter thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA&t=208

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    Comment #48130661

    I've turned off my own access at least three times when being let go from different jobs