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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.

  • After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design

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  • Very cool, thanks.

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    Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows

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  • You're getting a lot of downvotes - I think it might be helpful if you explain you are using a different sort of AI rather than LLMs or gen AI.

  • What album cover goes the hardest?

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  • What's your favorite childhood cartoon that everyone else seems to have forgotten about?

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  • I'll start to sing the original theme song if I want to torment my adult aged sons....

  • What album cover goes the hardest?

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  • Came here to post this. But it's not the White Album (so called; it had no title) but rather Yesterday and Today . It's known as the "butcher cover," and the only printed a couple thousand of them.

  • How to support a grieving person?

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  • I have far too much experience with grieving personally. But, because of that, I can say people are giving you great advice OP. These are considered and thoughtful responses in this thread. Sometimes humans can be good to each other online.

  • Why do Chinese sites often use a Serif font?

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  • Thank you. I have noticed this for years but never understood why.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • Second book in the same trilogy as Neuromancer - Count Zero.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • The intelligence AGIs. They adopt voodoo as a metaphor for how they work, so humans can (somewhat) understand it.

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • Yes yes, but did they have Voodoo!?

  • Which computer-related belief do you hold without any foundation?

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  • William Gibson would like a word with you about copyright....

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Yet it was written by the director's teenaged son, on the set (of the original movie, not the TV show, which just ran with it).

    Ninja edit - the song refers to the final scenes in the movie.

  • Is it impolite to ask someone about their roots?

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  • I have kind of the reverse situation. If I were anymore white I'd be transparent. I'm from the States originally, but I speak Dutch with some degree of fluency and ...am very white.

    In everyday interactions my roots don't often come up. But if I talk to someone long enough after 15-20 minutes something about my grammar or accent will tip people off to the fact I ain't from around here.

    Mostly people just complement me for my Dutch and add that most Americans don't bother to learn it (this however is changing rapidly since we have had so many people from N America move here and immerse as quickly as they can the last few years.)

    But once in a while they will ask some rather pointed questions about things like religion - assuming I'm a crazy xian - or racism - assuming because I'm white and from the States I must be a racist - etc.

    My wife (100% Dutch, couldn't possibly be more Dutch) works with refugees, and I've helped on many occasions over the years. One of them has become a good friend of ours. And to the refugees it definitely matters where someone is from and it's the first thing they will ask one another. It is sometimes critical to segregate people from different places or cultures, for safety. I think because of this they don't mind when whitty asks them where they are from also. Most will want to talk about their home country.

    But, these are refugees, not someone whose parents immigrated here three generations ago and just happen to have brown skin. Asking a non-white person where they are really from is Not Done. But once you get to know someone they will probably bring it up in conversation.

    All that said, some Dutch people can be hella racist despite our reputation for tolerance.

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  • Same with Safari on MacOS - hit skip.

  • caww caww

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  • There are two - the original and the AI fake.

  • What made you choose Signal over WhatsApp (if applicable)?

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  • All the reasons the good folks have set out here are great.

    I tell my employee: if you don't have a secure line of communication already installed when you need it, it's too late. Ask me how I know....

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  • And what's going to happen to him now!?

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  • Flocks of migrating birds. I feel like they know something important that I don't.

  • FCL vs LCL – what's your decision threshold for maritime shipments?

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  • Believe it or not, some of my clients have to deal with this very question.