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Alupis
2y ago
There was oodles of collaboration during the Trump Administration - how did I ever forget how willing to compromise and collaborate Democrats were back then! It was an amazing time for our Congress - so much collaboration was done that we g
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Alupis
2y ago
Clearly by "collaborate and compromise" you actually mean "so long as my side gets their way". This is the negative result of buying into entirely one-sided propaganda - it limits your perspective to, frankly, bullshit.
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2y ago
Care to explain what happened during the Trump Administration then? It's so easy for people to hyper-focus on "my side good" that they lose sight of the overall picture. Resisting an administration's agenda is pretty nor
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2y ago
100% Correct. People all too often look at Congress and say "gee, they aren't passing all the things I want them to do, therefore Congress must be broken!" This fails to realize Congress works entirely the way it was designed
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2y ago
Perhaps people should stop treating the president like a king, and you know, actually pass laws the way our government was designed to work...
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2y ago
One has to say - getting a AI-generated summary of dense material is not the same as reading, pondering and understanding dense material. You are at university to, in part, develop your ability to process and understand dense, difficult mat
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2y ago
> This is great, which means it covers states with income tax as well Does it? State taxes are not the same as the IRS forms - I don't believe this will enable you to file state tax returns using the same process. It may actually ma
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2y ago
> Otherwise you have a perfect workaround that would mean a person likeness is free-for-all to use, but we already decided that is not acceptable That is not decided. There have been high profile cases were someone's likeness was ex
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2y ago
> Johansson is a super successful actress and no doubt rejects 95% of roles offered to her > She doesn't need "go away" payments > According to celebrity net worth website, SJ is worth $165M. I have no idea what Joha
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2y ago
Just like with any substance - daily use increases tolerance of the substance and it's side effects. This includes "hangovers" for habitual over-indulging drinkers... they don't get hangovers like someone who drinks occa
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2y ago
I cannot read the article because of it's paywall - is there actual proof OpenAI reached out to Johansson - or is it just being alleged by her lawyers? It seems she has every reason to benefit from claiming Sky sounded like her even if
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Bitwarden Secrets Manager
(bitwarden.com)
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Alupis
2y ago
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2y ago
These projects don't need to take 10+ years to complete, and don't need to cost what they cost. Decades of fearmongering and NIMBYISM have created an artificial environment.
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2y ago
California also experiences rolling blackouts each summer - and lately turns off the power when it's too hot, wind blows too hard, wind doesn't blow enough, etc. It's incredibly unreliable for biggest state in the union. But.
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2y ago
> I would imagine it's massive. It has to be massive. There is no other way to manage a 70% production swing in as short as a couple minutes and not have the grid go dark. Which then begs the question of how green the batteries are
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2y ago
> but certainly pods should be talking to each other over TLS They do under that scheme. TLS is terminated at the gateway, but k8s/sidecars handle m2m TLS. This provides some advantages for automating short-lived certs, makes deploy
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Alupis
2y ago
If you were able to read the statement you would clearly see no such thing. Erecting more and more wind farms to make you feel fuzzy at night is absurd. We have the solution - metaphoric you just doesn't want it because reasons .
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2y ago
Scotland is microscopic in relation to the landmass and population that is the US. Yet... look at the sheer volume of wind turbines Scotland has to operate to get anywhere between 10% - 80% of their power generation, depending on the day an
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2y ago
They are ridiculous for a number of reasons, including the quantity needed and the storage problem. Neither are trivial issues to solve - making any stand-alone production numbers meaningless. The obvious answer has been staring us in the f
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2y ago
Can you elaborate for those of us who aren't up to speed on the TLS + HTTP/3 situation? Is there a problem somewhere? Also - are people still doing TLS in their app directly? Modern setups often terminate TLS at the gateway/
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2y ago
Exactly right. Government subsidies makes a lot of things appear viable and/or affordable, when in reality they are not. Subsidies are bolstered by politics. Wind farms appear as ridiculous as they are. Yet... they keep getting built b
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2y ago
How do you use these short video services? Are you searching for content then watching, or just "doom scrolling" while on the toilet? Searching then watching is effectively realigning the feed to your latest and most engaged prefe
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New Mozilla director Nabiha Syed wants to bring 'joy and creativity'
(fastcompany.com)
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2y ago
It usually starts off with just content you're overtly interested in. Then, they'll sprinkle in random clips every so many scrolls to guard against overfitting the model and getting stale for the user. Some of those random clips a
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Alupis
2y ago
I've attempted to use it as a guided learning mechanism - and had some great success, but also it's sent me down some very deep, dark rabbit holes that turned out to be entirely wrong. It frustrates me to no end... and then I go b
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2y ago
> and OpenAI for search primarily How is this in practice? Normal GPT is entirely untrustworthy for a lot of it's information. How can you trust it's "search" results/summaries? I've said it before, but it&#
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2y ago
> Your algorithm is a reflection of you. This is objectively false. "The" algorithm is designed to maximize engagement - so you will be shown content you are most likely to watch, click, listen to the most. As it turns out, &qu
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2y ago
Looks like you're right. I pay $35 a month for my line - there's some $10 monthly credit they applied to my account. With their annual payment option, it's $33 monthly.
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2y ago
On Visible, your first 50GB of mobile data are not deprioritized. Some people use a lot of mobile data - but I'm on my phone all day/night for business and pleasure, watch a lot of video content etc, but usually am within Wifi ran
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2y ago
You've probably been saying similar things about VR in general over the past decade... and yet here we are, still a novelty that collects dust. It's ok to be excited about tech toys. But let's not pretend these things are goi
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