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RecursiveParadox

@ RecursiveParadox @piefed.social

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Dual national, accidental shipping and petroleum expert. Likes cookies. Definitely a primate and mostly friendly.NP complete.

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    If there a fediverse version of r/askculinary ?

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  • Thank you, subbed.

    And hard agree with your comment vis a vis the Fedivese and expectations.

  • What's your secret ingredient?

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  • A small dash of sugar in savory dishes.

  • Authentic

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  • I am NOT a food purist and fully support this meme, but Indonesian and Thai food are nothing alike at all.

    The only thing they share in common is sate which pretty much every country in SE Asia took from Indonesia.

    And I suppose congee/juk/whatever your country calls it (and now I want some even though it's not breakfast time here)

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • " Experimental Beef Jerky" is the name of my new Bluegrass/Metal Bee Gees cover band.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • Spartanburg, SC in the States, Purmerend in the Netherlands.

  • Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations

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  • So ...if you never let any Microscope product update on your Apple product, you should be fine, right?

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • The authors actually have cameos in the show. They were very involved in its conception and making. The books had a lot more details, little sub-stories, etc. The show made a few substantial changes, but IMHO they all made for better TV (like making Arwin a major character in Jackson's LotR).

    Fun fact: the authors initially intended for The Expanse to be a table top game.

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • The phrase I've heard is "epistemically privileged." And deservedly because from a standpoint of pure ethics, "science" has done way more good than damage than competing ways of looking at the world.

    But let's say someone asks you how a car works. You go into a bit about the internal combustion engine. You explain how little explosions make pistons go. They ask you about these explosions, so you have to take them to a chemist to explain. Then they ask the chemist why does this reaction happen, and the chemist sends them to the physicist. You go through the Newtonian bit, which seems intuitive enough, but when you ask about atoms, you have to go into subatomic physics. Which is something you cannot experience without special equipment that you trust the physicist is telling the truth about.

    So, yeah, while the empirical method is fantastic and the best model we have, in the end it relies on faith as much as any religion.

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  • We have those in NL. A few other European countries as well.

  • The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)

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  • Thank you for the explanation.

  • The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)

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  • Can you elaborate on the social security thing? I have lived most of my life outside the States and hope to never need SS, but, well, best to know what's going on just in case.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • And the absolute greatest part of his cover is that when it comes to the guitar solo at the end you think either he or Belew (whomever was on that tour) are about to shred Jimmy Page's solo they do not.

    Instead he does a homage by having this horn section cover Page's solo note for note.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • Slight thing, Campbell didn't write Withita Lineman, but it was written for him.

    Fun fact, Jimmy Webb, who wrote it, hated the "And I need you more than want you / And I want you for all time" line and begged the producers to change it when that plus the ambiguity of the key its in are arguably what make the song.

  • What color is the letter E?

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  • Red, totally red and somewhat bright.

  • Number bOne

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  • Oh I have seen this one!

    I thought maybe he did something else in the last two seasons, which I have not seen yet.

    But as John Lennon said, "A working class man is something to be!"

  • German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns

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  • Thanks for the very detailed reply! I'll check into it.

  • What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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  • I didn't get any fucked up things about neurodivergence, and my son is way on the spectrum.

    (But, yeah it is kind of a shaggy dog story - but with some interesting philosophic experiments along the way, the main one of which is directly relevant to LLMs now).

  • Number bOne

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  • Never finished DN9 but have heard this joke before - what's the meaning?

    [don't worry I'll finish it someday!]

  • German members of parliament (MPs) advised to drop Signal in favor of Wire over security concerns

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  • But I hate how much metadata that Wire leaks.

    This is the first I have heard of this - can you point me to any sites?