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Readit Newsjerkstate commented on Vanity activities quarter--mile.com/vanity-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jerkstate commented on Beneficial Bloodsucking pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/CGMthrowaway
> The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy.
> Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.
I sure hope my tax dollars paid for this garbage
jerkstate commented on The R47: A new physical RPN calculator swissmicros.com/product/m... · Posted by u/dm319
I have an embarrassing question... math has always interested me but by luck and circumstance I have had a pretty successful career without needing anything beyond college Algebra. Can anyone recommend a curriculum that a busy adult may be able to follow in their spare time? I just want to fill in blanks and explore what is possible.
mathacademy.com is pretty awesome IMO. one hint: don't take notes/allow yourself to refer to notes during quizzes and reviews, the point is to be able to recall using just your brain, even if your progress is much slower that way, you'll learn a lot better.
jerkstate commented on Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer? · Posted by u/evolve2k
I would recommend installing Scratch[1] - it's a programming language designed for kids from 8yrs old onwards. I would recommend pairing it with a Raspberry Pi, as you can do fun real-world physical stuff with using Scratch, and I think kids can find that very interesting. Eg, start with a simple program to turn LED lights on and off, programming buttons, playing sounds etc. Eventually this could lead to making simple games or other programs. Regardless, would highly recommend getting a Raspberry Pi as its just so much fun using it to interact with the physical world and getting to learn actual electronics.
seconded, Scratch is a wonderful learning environment. I would pair it with ChatGPT and supervision, LLMs will really help flesh out ideas and figure out how to implement them for kids who won't know how to start, and since you can't just copy-paste into Scratch, the kid will have to actually do the work of dragging the blocks around. We did some amazing stuff with Scratch - visualizing algebra and trig functions by drawing them as a graphing calculator would, we even made a binary tree based morse code decoder, a rocket simulator (using real-ish rocket equation physics, air resistance, etc). Now we have mostly moved onto Desmos (graphing calculator) and Python.
So, "verifiable" here means "we ran it twice and got the same result"?
> Quantum verifiability means the result can be repeated on our quantum computer — or any other of the same caliber — to get the same answer, confirming the result.
A key result here is the first demonstration of quantum supremacy; from TFA
> This is the first time in history that any quantum computer has successfully run a verifiable algorithm that surpasses the ability of supercomputers.
jerkstate commented on Google 'Times New Roman' to see the results in that font google.com/search?q=Times... · Posted by u/liquid99
Does not work for Wingdings, unfortunately.
While I've got some eyeballs on the subject, I'm tiring of mistyping this across my local network devices. How many of you folks alias this, and in what way? /etc/hosts works for my *nix machines, but not my phones, I think?
I'm also tired of remembering ports, if there's a way of mapping those. Should I run a local proxy?
mDNS works well for names on your local network, you can integrate it with your dhcp server, works on hosts and phones. I don't have a good answer for ports.
> sponsored by taxpayers: true (funded by DHS)
Everything in the government is "sponsored by taxpayers". That's how it works.
> clear political goals: my opinion, debatable
Yes as I said, false. Believing it true doesn't make it true.
> The Washington Free Beacon did engage...
Yes as I said it started out as Republican opposition research. You aren't refuting anything I said. You are deflecting and confusing matters, on purpose, so as not to appear wrong in public.
And it's not working.
> The point is what the FBI did with it afterwards
You are right, but not in the way you think. The FBI sat on a credible document from a trusted source regarding high level foreign compromise of a US Presidential candidate as to "not interfere with presidential elections".
This is the same FBI that launched a public investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server (which of course ended with no charges) 11 days before the election.
You are right about FBI interference, just not in the way you think.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hi...
I could keep going but this appears to be your red herring to get away from your claim.
> The person in this cringe video is none other than Nina Jankowicz, the head of the Disinformation Governance Board,
She didn't work for DHS when she made that video, and she never actually ran anything because in response to criticism, she was removed and the office was dissolved.
And if you are claiming it is improper to hire partisans to staff critical government functions i'd like to introduce you to the Trump administration, who would never show any level of shame or accountability in response to an awful hire that fucked up and committed crimes, not just made a silly video.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-...https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/gabbard-abruptly-ous...
> describing the exact disinformation campaign enacted above
Oh lol this whole thing is just a tin foil hat thing huh? Everything you "know":
- The government takes down content on a partisan basis
- The head of a DHS agency that was created in 2022 (and lasted 3 weeks) was part of a conspiracy to surveil Trump in 2019
- The Steele dossier was "debunked" and the FBI used it against Trump
Depends on secret knowledge or insight only you can see, but for some reason you can't prove.
If you were a serious person, this might matter to you. But you aren't, so it doesn't.
Refusal to engage with information I’ve provided and putting straw man words in my mouth doesn’t make you a serious person. Disinformation is a frame. The fact that some people consider it to be an objective category of information is dangerous.