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by Avshalom 2y ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-some-families-are-ba... Not to mention the actual difficulty of getting, maintaining and living off snap.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
To be clear these fees are just as bad at government run prisons and jails.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
I do not think the government was at all surprised, punitive charges are very much a part of the prison system in this country[1] this is people deciding to lessen the burden slightly. [1] https://www.abcactionnews.com/news&
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by Avshalom 2y ago
I just changed it to 'charges', the headline was too long so I was chopping words off.
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FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges(worthrises.org)
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by Avshalom 2y ago
At the end of the day "practical" means library support and community knowledge, by which measure Prolog and more specifically SWI and Sicstus are far more practical than any of the other logic languages or implementation options
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by Avshalom 2y ago
You can use https://logtalk.org for oop in Prolog, use it on top of SWI and you have bidirectional bridges to Python an Java https://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/Python.md https://www.swi-prolog.org&#x
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by Avshalom 2y ago
>>urinate [on] command Wait, what do you think potty training is?
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by Avshalom 2y ago
>>apparently most people find it useful enough to the point they're reluctant to pay that $20/month. Or they find it useless enough that they're unwilling to pay for the upgrade.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-136/the-imperial-supr...
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by Avshalom 2y ago
yeah, and the number of people who use a non-android linux and aren't "tech savvy" rounds to zero. It is very weird to ask "what's in it for the regular user" with the assumption that "the regular user of
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by Avshalom 2y ago
what do you think "a regular user" of ubuntu/suse/fedora/arch/etc. looks like? back when I was using arch I wrote pkgbuilds instead of configure/make/installing to my home folder. kept my ./local
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by Avshalom 2y ago
It actually contains less fructose than cane sugar, it just has more fructose than normal corn
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Well the general solution is to invent a field with force mediating particles that have the exact same properties as dark matter but insist it's not dark matter.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Recording is trivial. monitoring at scale, in real time? getting a concise "what did bob do on his computer all day" those are hard.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
It's a system that constantly surveils you, of course it's meant for surveillance. The only question is who gets access, is it just you, or is it you and the cops, or is it you and the cops and anyone with a checkbook.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Preventing mergers is regulation.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
anything worth doing is worth doing poorly
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by Avshalom 2y ago
While Krita has been pretty good for most of its existence it really wasn't until about ten years ago that it started having a life of it's own outside KOffice, then add some time to pick up more features and gain a reputation and
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by Avshalom 2y ago
RHEL AI, because IBM still hasn't washed the Watson stench of itself.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Tom Waits won a lawsuit against Doritos too.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
I can't afford an ambulance thanks to someone else's political cause.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
If it takes 100 billion to train and run an llm then only companies with 100 billion can train and run an llm. That's their moat.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
To be fair, regular chess is 4d and playing isn't the same as winning.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
I've been banging this drum for a while now but everything has become a Market For Lemons.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
On one hand, he has definitely become more unhinged as time has gone on. Some combination of stress, drug abuse and social-media-audience-capture. At the same time tho: remember https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Oh on the battery swap note I heard recently that may have been a ... scam? Apparently there was an increased credit available for EVs that could be fully charged in under x-time and by claiming that they could battery swap tesla got a bunc
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Have you played kobctpyktop? http://thesiteformerlyknownas.zachtronicsindustries.com/kohc...
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by Avshalom 2y ago
To be fair "we don't down-rank sites for being 99% google ads" is a technically accurate way to read that sentence.
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by Avshalom 2y ago
Ben Collins says they're bring back ONN https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3kqyj7u...

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