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Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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Controversial opinion. If you really publish 40 papers per year you are not really a big part of the actual research. Just other people including you because politics and all you do, hopefully, is proofreading them.

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Everytime I see “riddled” and “virus” together I cannot help but think of that Ricky Gervais/Liam Neeson sketch… “riddled with AIDS”

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It still says 40% chocolate on both packages though.

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Yes, exactly. The upvotes did not reflect actual real engagement for a long time. I don’t remember anymore where I read about it, but allegedly there is also some artificial correction applied. Maybe to combat brigading of upvotes but can of course be used for manipulation.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

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I let you in on a secret: scientific literature has its fair share of bullshit too. The issue is, it is much harder to figure out its bullshit. Unless its the most blatant horseshit you’ve scientifically ever seen. So while it absolutely makes sense to say, let’s just train these on good sources, there is no source that is just that. Of course it is still better to do it like that than as they do it now.

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I think this post is retiring that GIF. There can be no better use for it anymore. Well done!

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Was there any explanation that I missed what this rectangular icon in the middle is?

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Well, which one. There’s many now. And many of them had issues.

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Ah, its that weird episode of Evangelion again.

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Oh man, when I saw Frakes name I had high hopes for this. Not going to write too much about the episode but I have no clue how they are giving this series a satisfying finale in that very last episode after this!

One thing though, what the hell was going on with Discovery when they tried to find that clue within the two black holes. They go in, get out of the two black holes, see the container and are like, let’s talk this over how to get this thing. Then the Breen swoop in and tractor that bucket into their cargo hold within 5 seconds! What gives? That was just needless incompetence. The Discovery crew is seriously not that stupid.

Why not having the Breen swoop in as Disocvery is attempting to escape. Then while Discovery is heading out the Breen grab the clue. Could have made up some technobabble about how some radiation from the black holes obscures Discovery from the Breen or whatever.

Anything else but what was shown. Damn. How is this so hard?

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That’s not true! That’s not true at all!

I had a colleague proofread it and my PI also read it once… probably.

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That’s a weird take on this. Which person who loves travelling then proceeds to do absolutely nothing at the destination? I mean, maybe you met people like that, but I have never in my life talked to anyone like that.

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Your buddy: I can… fix…her…

Narrator: he started smoking 2 days later.

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Not like that

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It’s for Yes, No and Cancel. You’re welcome.

Best regards, Albanian Virus

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Yes. It might even be that Sweden is second in Europe at least, but I may remember the last statistic I saw on that wrong.

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Yeah. It says 2nd. After the USA. Guess who is first?

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I will never forget his iconic role in Rampart… AmA.

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Let’s get back to questions about Rampart. Also don’t ask about that incident with the high school girl.

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OK, certainly this season now follows all previous seasons and Picard. After half the season the writing drifts off from good start into eh whatever.

Nice surprise I found was “Captain” Rhys! Damn he looked fly as hell in that chair!

But the episode itself, what’s going on with that library. So it changes location every 50 years but also is in the badlands for a century already. It seems to have relations to all kinds of species, but also is kind of secret. They have strict rules against misbehaving. But when a big bad ship with heavy weaponry comes along, they are helpless. Ah and almost forgot, they require you have that metal slip to even get there, but the Breen are welcome without it if they are nice. So much promise with it and so poorly written.

Don’t get me started on Moll and her takeover of Breen society, like what. Most xenophobic race ever and its that easy to turn the average Breen? Not believable.

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Oh you know what the hell it is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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“piracy”

… Wait, no. Piracy is the answer!

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She later said Telstra had contacted her and offered a free Fetch box, which she acknowledged was a “reasonable resolution”.

And we have learned exactly nothing here. See you in 2 years when Fetch closes down and you are not getting anything back because you actually did not “buy” those movies on Fetch but on the previous platform.

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Haven’t heard a stronger backwards boomer opinion in ages. Gheez…

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Jeep ducking certainly sounds more like some sexual kink explained in the urban dictionary.

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Ah right, we are in the meme community. Carry on.

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I am always amazed how these github pages often have 0 information what the software is actually doing.

For this one too you need to follow a link on the mainpage to get to a different site that tells you its for backups. I might have missed the word backup on the github page though… Ah no, it is mentioned a few times but the context makes it hard to get that’s the purpose of the software.

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Awesome! Also great its just one breaking change. I think I don’t use that variable, don’t recall it at all.

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Sorry, that’s just for the developed world.

r/sysadmin and the size of this community

So I have been a part of this community for a while and it seems pretty quiet. I know Lemmy is not as big as Reddit so this community will always be much smaller but I kind of miss the activity on r/sysadmin. Infinity for Reddit still works for view only so I have been scrolling though posts on Reddit as some of the stories and...

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Fully agree. I see this sentiment so often, “we gotta tell people from reddit how great it is here!” This might work with something like a meme community, but once it becomes a bit less mainstream you need people to make that decision themselves. It will look needy and annoying to try and “educate” them about how supposedly great it is here.

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Rayner being an ass the whole time

Michael: get out!

Rayner: I know these few random facts about Primarch Tahal that are completely unrelated to any negotiations we might or might not have had…

Michael: you did well, Rayner!


Eh? Sorry, but that negotiation scene made no sense

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Honestly, 88 1TB drives would make me envious too.

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