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JoeAltmaier

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JoeAltmaier
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
Largely genetic, though diabetes can contribute to it's appearance.
JoeAltmaier
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
So are cigarettes and liquor. And pot and on and on.
JoeAltmaier
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
I understand that caves were used on and off over sapiens history. We must be sure to temper our view of 'cave men' as a normal mode of living. Caves preserve artifacts, to a much greater degree than open ground or forests for instance. It can be appealing to imagine they lived in caves routinely. But we have little data on the frequency of sites outside caves - they've washed and weathered away. A true ratio is hard to come up with.
JoeAltmaier
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
Oral exams. Quickly evident who knows the material.
JoeAltmaier
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
Don't want to hire a student that has no facility with the area they are working in.
JoeAltmaier
·22 dagen geleden·discuss
And yet, claiming support for a feature doesn't tell all. Different implementations can have subtle differences. Knowing the browser and version can allow a client to survive that.
JoeAltmaier
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
That's one viewpoint. No moral nor ethical foundation; just a personal view.
JoeAltmaier
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
Soldiers don't use shit. It takes training, preparation, maintenance to use fancy gear. Soldier in theatre are operating on scant sleep, exhaustion, heat etc and have no bandwidth for fussing with tech. Or so my soldier reported from Iraq some years back.
JoeAltmaier
·30 dagen geleden·discuss
Well, currently 6 Billion active Android phones exist. Not lifetime total: current active. So there's that.
JoeAltmaier
·30 dagen geleden·discuss
Note that coal is dropping precipitously, which increased the effect.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
My son reports a burst of 'Jewish' soldiers when deployed. Because the rabbi had a rather long service period and he let the soldiers sleep on the benches. He still has his camo yarmulke.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Puff piece - just an AI slam with no content, just that number '95%' repeated.

My AI chatbot remembers most everything we've ever talked about. No way is it forgetting much.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Maybe could use to 'stitch together' arbitrary carbon chains? Do chemistry at scale? I see a big future for this.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Lovely ironic paper - positing that all you need to publish is an 'all you need is x' titled paper. Or is it self-referential?
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
They may refuse to learn multiplication tables (a popular subject if I remember right, reciting them as far as we could, a competition) while memorizing baseball stats.

Kids will learn anything that gives them social standing or self-worth in another way, whatever it takes to be a cool kid.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
My son went there! Andrew the cello player.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Just one big one? Saturn is surrounded by icy asteroids I believe.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Re: terraforming Mars. How about, crash an icy asteroid into it?
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
My grand-aunt was a Blanche. She was married to an Alfred.
JoeAltmaier
·vorige maand·discuss
Don't know why not. Human cells can. Routinely, in petri dishes, for research.