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by CivBase 1y ago
This article completely misses the point from the start. The reason em dashes are a giveaway for AI generated text is simply because there is no em dash key on the keyboard - only an en dash key. The dash I used in that last sentence was an
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by CivBase 1y ago
> This seems to be what ICE/The current administration are using as the justification for the masks, but I'm not sure it matches reality. This thread is literally about an assassination of a political figure. It's a very b
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by CivBase 1y ago
That is certainly alarming and I am firmly opposed to what ICE is currently doing and what they've been ordered to do. However, they are obviously keeping their identities a secret because they know if they don't, they will become
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by CivBase 1y ago
Genuine question: What makes you believe actual nazi and fascist beliefs are being normalized? I have personally not seen this at all. I've seen a lot of talk about it being a thing, but I've still never seen it. I know and talk
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by CivBase 1y ago
I can't imagine hosting a small-time project on rented infrastructure without some kind of mechanism to terminate it once costs exceed a reasonable threshold.
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by CivBase 1y ago
Is Pinephone still going? I was excited for it a few years ago, but I checked in recently and a lot of people are calling it dead. They discontinued to "pro" model and it doesn't sound like the software has much active develo
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by CivBase 1y ago
Why doesn't the FCC put together a new communications solution to replace phone calls? We already have capable devices and robust infrastructure. What's stopping them from dropping a new protocol on top of that? The costs of maint
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by CivBase 1y ago
Are they a car company? A software company? An AI company? A robotics company? They seem to switch identies a lot and it makes them come across to me as a jack of all trades.
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by CivBase 1y ago
As someone who is interested in owning a 3D printer someday and is leaning towards Prusa, I'm very interested in what dark patterns you're alleging.
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by CivBase 1y ago
Bingo. When distributors get exclusive rights to media, there is no competition anymore. You either do whatever the publisher wants, pirate, or go without.
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by CivBase 1y ago
I feel like I must be the crazy one for never having a problem with just vanilla pip, PyPi, and venv (or virtualenv for old Python 2 stuff). Maybe it's just my use case?
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by CivBase 1y ago
You can donate, but who's going to pay $10 for beer when the same stuff is being given away for free?
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by CivBase 1y ago
This isn't new. It's just an increasing problem in a digital, cashless world and people are getting sick of it.
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by CivBase 1y ago
I want to believe the headline, but I've seen too much "gamer fury" to think it will result in meaningful change. Then again, things are looking good for the Stop Killing Games campaign so maybe the "gamer" demograp
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by CivBase 1y ago
> Are they 1% as inspiring as what the DoD does with their budget? I dare say a great many people are very inspired by what the DoD does with their budget. Inspired to what... well, that's another subject. And the most inspired peop
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by CivBase 1y ago
If the US can maintain even just 5-10% of production volume, that's a huge win IMO. It means the US has a foundation of knowledge, equipment, and supply chains to expand on in the event of an emergency. Taiwan is in a precarious positi
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by CivBase 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is reaction to Elon and how much is a reaction to the cyber truck. For me personally, any consoderation I had for purchasing a Tesla has died thanks to the cyber truck. Its well-documented littany of defects and de
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by CivBase 1y ago
5-20% more expensive? That's way cheaper than I expected. That's pretty good, especially for 4nm.
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by CivBase 1y ago
They're facts, but they aren't helpful on their own. The article is about convincing Chrome users to switch to Firefox. If all you do is criticize Mozilla - no matter how much they deserve it - then you are signalling to users tha
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by CivBase 1y ago
Sorry, but I can't stand posts like this and they always come up in discussions about Firefox. If you have a better alternative than Firefox, please say so. Mozilla has many problems and has done bad stuff. Firefox is better than Chrom
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by CivBase 1y ago
> But the `// TODO:` doesn’t need to be a plan to actually do something. Instead, it’s a note about “here’s an edge case that wasn’t handled” or a suggestion for a better structure that the author didn’t make time to implement
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by CivBase 1y ago
I haven't watched it recently, but here are the main takeaways I remember: Peltier coolers are neat because they're very small and quiet - as opposed to vapor compression systems solutions. However, they are an order of magnitude
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by CivBase 1y ago
16/26 I always use a reference when doing anything non-trivial with format strings of any kind and this quiz confirmed I should keep doing that. Also I've been using Python professionally for over a decade but TIL about the Ellips
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by CivBase 1y ago
I didn't know video translations were a thing. Is this not configurable?
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by CivBase 1y ago
> People have the right to be greedy capricious dickheads with the property (physical, intellectual, and real) that they own and you are infringing on that right. ...why?
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by CivBase 1y ago
Game publishers are strangely aggressive about people playing pirated copies 20+ year old video games which haven't been available for purchase for over a decade. Meanwhile they are actively arguing for their right to destroy copies of
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by CivBase 1y ago
Yeah but nobody argues that bulldozers are soon going to make human labor obsolete and force us to re-think our economic systems from the ground up. There isn't trillions of dollars being invested into bulldozers expecting big returns.
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by CivBase 1y ago
For what it's worth, I agree. It never crossed my mind that the phrasing could lead anyone to believe the suicides were "unavoidable" or an "act of God", especially when the title clearly ties the suicides to a caus
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by CivBase 1y ago
Can you explain what part of the rule you believe was being implemented incorrectly?
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by CivBase 1y ago
> It makes X an increasingly niche website. I did not use Twitter. I do not use X. I'm even less inclined to become a user after the Musk takeover. I don't even know anyone who is active on X. However, I still constantly get li

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