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by Barrin92 1y ago
>my first child is due in a couple months and it’s difficult to imagine tweeting as a parent. why would i argue with a childless blue haired atheist about Islam’s (in)compatibility with Western values? why would i tolerate The Algorithm
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+1 for Nine Sols. Also the setting of the game which the studio dubbed "Taopunk" for its combination of Taoism and Cyberpunk is very unique artistically. Also it had a very endearing cast of characters. As good as Hollow Knight is
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>It's easy to look virtuous when you have other countries handle the 'immoral' military stuff,[...] Europe is a 24-year old trust fund kid working in a vegan commune Europe has a higher industrial output than the US. In Un
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>All other IDE features like auto-completion happen asynchronously in the technical sense, but you as a developer don't use auto-completion asynchronously. It's not like you autocomplete and continue typing and then come back t
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>unless you mean that in thw sense of wake up, eat, work and sleep kind of way. this is what 99% of people spend 99% of their time on. If you give most people the choice between a place that has jobs, clean trains and where women can wal
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>If you don't feel that VSCode is slow, it's because you are used to it. I don't think this is a fair claim. When you start doing an apples to apples comparison, that is to say make full use of IDE and auto-completion feat
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>Google is bleeding so hard right now from Gen Z and especially Gen Alpha deciding to use ChatGPT Is this an evidence based claim? From the Q2 2025 numbers Google saw double digit revenue growth YoY for search. https://www.the
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Twitter is still the best place to hear and read about breaking news. only if you don't care if what you're reading is true or not. I never really understood twitter or sites with user generated content as a medium for news. I
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>You don’t really own your house This is a feature, not a bug. One of the reasons why Singapore develops its land a lot more sanely than most places is that its leasehold structure and progressive property taxes rationalize land use and
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>The history of computing can be viewed as a steady progression toward more intuitive human-computer interaction. You can probably make the opposite case, as Dijkstra did in his piece of "On the foolishness of "natural language
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>Providing a place to live is surely not one of those services though that's not what landlords are. That's the construction company or the building manager and he or she's indeed doing a great service. Landlords are absen
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>That's a trillion dollar market not if you have to constantly expend enormous sums to stay ahead of your competition or otherwise you lose your edge. It's not the best coding model because they got some mystical treasure in th
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>Remember it doesnt matter what the video shows, it only matters who showed it to you In an age of mass media (where there's a video for anything) or now one step further synthetic media knowing who makes something is much more impo
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>but it feels… cringe? are people nowadays unable to be enthusiastic about anything without someone chiming in from the peanut gallery and calling it "cringe"? Typefaces have always had a pretty passionate community, it can be
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>Population of Seoul metro is 26 million people. It's suppose to drop by 2/3rds by 2060 (or worse) This doesn't make any sense at all. The median age of Seoul is 42, slightly younger than the national average. 2060 is in 3
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Yes. We're not living in the world of some naive 90s internet libertarianism. If a country wants to maintain its sovereignty people need to collectively control their own infrastructure and have a state capable of doing so, unless you
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It's pretty straight forward, using its dominance when it comes to internet platforms to try to impose American speech standards and values on foreign countries, the vice president has been quite explicit about that when he interfered
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>The whole idea of supressing stupidity in a democracy leads to some sort of elitist society. there's nothing wrong with this. Stable democracies tend to be republican and elitist. One of the reasons why the US has been, until recen
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>People take it as an assumption that cronyism will always happen if the government invests too strongly/consistently in a certain thing. No, it's the opposite. It's a conclusion taken from empirical evidence looking at su
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>It does not matter that the home grown product can only compete with government support, Even that isn't a given, because unless you have amassed a certain amount of technocratic and governmental competency chances are it can'
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If it's a routine call from a service provider or what have you I'll also let it ring but this from the article is crazy to me: "When I see 'Dad mobile' pop up on my screen, I will let it ring. I don't have th
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>hand to twist and reframe CS Lewis and also Tolkien obviously with the name of the company. I never understood the whole Peter Thiel LOTR-industrial-complex thing that makes a mockery out of the Christian universalism of Lewis and Tolki
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The Chinese have been surprisingly willing to let companies and sectors die even at the expense of growth (see real estate), I think it's honestly too charitable to compare the US to China, which has at least some degree of technocrati
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it can work but it's far from science fiction. LLMs tend to produce extremely subpar if not buggy ffmpeg code. They'll routinely do things like put the file parameter before the start time which needlessly decodes the entire video
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there's a reason anecdotes aren't data. While people are more divided on the effectiveness, there's pretty overwhelming pubblic support for laws like the Online Safety Act. https://yougov.co.uk/technology&#x2F
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>has been wildly successful as CEO of a publicly traded company. That has a lot to do with the fact that it's a business centric company. His acumen has been in user growth, monetization of ads, acquisitions and so on. He's ver
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>If efforts like this are to be sustainable in any lasting way, participants need to be cooperative, not parasitic that is an odd demand for a site that thrives on piracy. Don't steal from the thieves? When you take from others it&#
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As an American citizen you're pretty safe. I don't think there's even a single record of an American being targeted on American soil. They tend to only go after their own for diplomatic reasons. That said I think regardless t
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>Only tangentially related, but during the height of the Covid crisis I remember Taiwan's response was particularly efficient I think it's pretty related on the cultural side. If you look at how Taiwan succeeded, it's basi
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>But that's because, at present, AI generated video isn't very good. It isn't good, but that's not the reason. There's a paper about 10 years ago where people used some computer system to generate Bach-like music

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