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>an influencer marketing company

I really, really, really wish this sequence of words did not exist in modern society.

/my unsubstantiated reddit-tier comment which I'm only posting because I'm sure someone will piggyback off of it with something related and actually insightful.

Mildly related, but I think this is a good time for our yearly moment of silence for Radioshack.

The OLD Radioshack, obviously.

I was there, 3000 years ago when Walmart didn't even sell groceries, I still remember mom commenting "It feels weird buying food at Walmart now and not even going to [regional grocery chain]".

And now, decades later everything is full circle. I avoid Walmart and Amazon like the plague and try to only shop at smaller outlets, whether brick-and-mortar or online. It might be slightly more expensive but I assume that's just the tax you pay to avoid a corporate monopoly hellscape.

Your ancestors probably had plant-based cures like garlic or walnut hulls for the same infections. Modern medicine improved on the spectrum of parasites that can be treated but there's still some caveman-level stuff that works reliably for some species.

I found it pretty good as a standalone book, but what stuck me the most was this random interaction: I picked it up at a library discount sale, where they give you shopping bags and you can fill them up for a flat 10USD each. I was browsing and some old guy just walked by me and commented "oh YOU FOUND WIZARD! That's a good one" me- "I haven't read it before" him- "Oh if you like scifi you're in for a treat."

...But yes if the other two books are along the same lines, I might try going through the whole trilogy again, just... in order this time.

>For a solid trilogy I can recommend the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon),

I only read Wizard, how much am I missing out on the other two?

Question for both you and GPP; is this fear limited to real life depictions, or basically anything? E.g, if you ever played Skyrim or a game with spider-like enemies does it have the same effect as a real spider?

Answers I've seen to this question tend to vary wildly.

Anyone find an actual link for the finished track? Credits are mentioned on his site and twitter but I didn't find it anywhere when searching for the artist names.

Ngl, I had a split second of "oh damn did I just pick up a url hijacker somewhere?" Especially with awkward gifs at the bottom.

So...... was there ever a resolution with that persistent incompatibility in ROCm/certain AMD drivers and Cycles that made it impossible to render in almost every version of blender? As in, it literally doesn't even detect the GPU outside of eevee

Every time I hit a "buy" button it brings nothing but horrible anxiety over what future bullshit I'll have to deal with, either because the product will be garbage or the seller will be garbage. And that's after doing an hour of more research for every god damn thing.

Getting groceries is practically relaxing at this point

The actual error bar of "typical time-to-infection", as per CDC guideline is 36 hours minimum. 24 is my generous amount of error factor in the most optimistic (or worst, if you're a human and not a tick) direction.

So in other words, this was my experience, and it was at least 50% worse in timescale than the cdc predicted

I got a ~1600 character reply from gpt, including spaces and it worked first shot dumping into an html doc. I think that probably fits ok in the limit? (If I missed something obvious feel free to tell me I'm an idiot)

I'm having a hard time believing this site is honest, especially with how ridiculous the scaling and rotation of numbers is for most of them. I dumped his prompt into chatgpt to try it myself and it did create a very neat clock face with the numbers at the correct position+animated second hand, it just got the exact time wrong, being a few hours off.

Edit: the time may actually have been perfect now that I account for my isp's geo-located time zone

This is the one area where the CDC actually does have accurate advice, Lyme is excellent at hiding itself from your immune system and tends to burrow into joint tissue where antibiotics have difficulty reaching. DON'T assume the disease is temporary, as the bacteria is well-known to cause lasting nerve damage even after it dies off completely. I have more than one friend who wasn't as lucky as me and still suffers with symptoms to this day.

"Around 24 hours" means approximately 1 day. "More than 24 hours" means more than approximately 1 day. Please do not comment further unless you actually have something useful to add.

First year:

Very covid-like symptoms, to the point where I initially did a quick home covid test (or multiple tests if I remember) that was negative. Very distinct soreness around the crease of the hip/leg joint, probably a lymph gland.

Second year: exact same symptoms but less intense, still started antibiotics immediately

third: again same but less intense, I ignored it until general full-body joint pain occurred then immediately went on antibiotics, after a few months of that it started to clear up.

Lyme desperately needs more attention and revised CDC guideline as it's becoming an epidemic in the northeast United States.

As and outdoor-hobbies type person I've had it 3 out of 4 previous years and have begun sourcing antibiotics from agricultural suppliers, or directly from India. Contrast this to my childhood in the same region, when tick-borne diseases were never even a blip on the radar. Supposedly this is because of climate change and much warmer winters allow deer ticks to spread rapidly.

From my own anecdotes and research, none of the traditional guidance is accurate:

-Never had a bullseye rash

-Never had a tick attached more than 24 hours

-When a tick was attached around 24 hours, infection rate was close to 50% and symptoms appeared within 10 days. Contrast to ~3% infection rate per cdc average.

...I suppose the sad irony here is that lyme is not getting attention because well... current generations never touch grass and the outbreak never appears as bad as it actually is.

For anyone who's actually wondering about this, 100-200mw is extremely damaging to camera sensors(also eyes) and doesn't cause birds to burst into flames from a stray reflection.

Most cheap pen-size laser pointers sold as "5mw" are actually 100+. As a general rule, if you can see the beam brightly when doing star pointing it's somewhere in this range

(but if Parent's laser is one of those sealed-tube Co2 lasers, it'll never touch the camera sensor itself because the beam doesn't go through glass. Might crack it after a couple seconds though)

See also "glitch tokens"; words that cause unexpected output on some LLMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_token

A notable example was "petertodd" which was a bizarre case studied extensively in a lesswrong article:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petert...

Might be unrelated in this example, but when a message is written in a lazy ROT13-like cypher, the letter e becomes a notorious rat that allows anyone to break the entire thing in very little time.

Randomizing/obfuscating the letter case might buy you a little time, though I think it's something else entirely here.

ctrl+f "furthermore"

>the server would have to do occlusion tests for each player pair, but a bounding box and some reasonable spatial partitioning should make that reasonably efficient.

Shadows and reflections are the hard part. Especially when light can be cast by your own/other players' weapon. It gets even more complicated with ray tracing becoming common.

Well what's the alternative? Get in a week long battle with the hospital while they struggle to locate and send a 500kb jpg? I AM talking about the American healthcare system here.

Yeah, I'll just grab it myself. It was a standing workstation right in front of the exam table and he didn't even close the browser. Would have taken 3 seconds to lock and unlock if they cared about security.

I know basic things like cpr, how and where to apply pressure to stop bleeding, signs of a stroke or hypothermia, you know, basic vital stuff to keep someone alive in case of emergency.

Similarly, I'd expect a doctor to be familiar with things such as "save as" or "print screen" if they used a computer every day.

Sure did! I think you're vastly overestimating the security of... basically everything computer related in the 2010 and earlier era.

I did not poke around obviously, because I was only interested in my personal files and assumed I only had a few minutes. Could I have been 'evil' and accessed other stuff maliciously? Maybe idk.

Years before I also had root access to my entire school district's records and probably could have wiped them if I really wanted to. I'm not a hacker or programmer by any means, just a random idiot that figured out how to use ophcrack back when XP was the primary operating system. It was a different time.

This is probably one of the best, and maybe the most shot-in-the-dark responses I've received on hn to the point I wish I could upvote it multiple times. I was really expecting nothing at all.

I did skim read a few papers on the subject and honestly I'm wondering how this stuff even grows naturally, everything has to be so specific it just doesn't seem possible at all.

Me(2010 ish): Hey can I get my x-ray pictures before I leave?

Doc: No, there's no way to get pictures off of this computer

I had the pictures saved on a flash drive about 30 seconds after he left the room. They were using some awkward browser-based system where everything was served as an html page. It was still quite concerning that someone that spent 4-8 in med school lacked even basic computer skills.Just a personal anecdote.

What I really want to know is how do I CULTURE Bacillus thuringiensis, sure its available readily on the web as a pesticide, but only at very high prices for anything beyond a small hobby garden; -what if I have an acre of crops to treat? ~20 usd a pound for a spray bottle liquid solution is not even remotely acceptable.

2004 eastern US reporting in, can confirm the school Mountain dew conspiracy. I wonder if there's a site dedicated to tracking these kind of pre-social media viral memes and conspiracies. (I should say 'mass' social media since myspace was a thing, just barely anyone used it)