DinaCoder99

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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Sadly, I can say from experience the American draft does not count the number of birthdays celebrated to figure out if you're eligible to serve.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> It's obviously a political decision to remove the Arabic from the movies, especially as it deals with religious war and extremists. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how much they've taken from MENA countries visually—the
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
I think they bought HBO a couple years back.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Is it because you call `C.function_name` instead of `function_name`, the latter of which some other languages will allow? No, it's because they use completely different stacks. It has nothing to do with the aesthetics of the langu
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Okay, sure, you have to bend to C to some degree, but that's true of every language that wants to integrate with C. Most of the languages I'm aware of integrate with the C runtime much more naturally than go is capable of. Go
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Maybe i'm nuts but I think attempts to be senantically cute with queries almost always backfires. I'd much rather treat it like a full text search.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Pragmatically, there's a lot of great reasons to not use your personal address as a business address. I still have unemployment claims and financing offers chasing me for a company I started five years ago and closed four years ago.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
People always claim Bing has bad results, but I honestly don't think Google's are any better. Their extra metadata is regularly incorrect and their actual results have been polluted with SEO bullshit and ads for over a decade now.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Those sites are not illegal in all countries.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Semicolons should always be in your toolbelt; they can elevate a sentence's elegance and grace, improve and control the rhythm and clarity, and really improve readability. They can , but not all prose needs to rely on them. Indee
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
This is hardly surprising in a society that prefers to dole money to contractors rather than invest in any practical technology. What value has SpaceForce demonstrated to justify its investment? That's just graft.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
A "defensive play" would hardly involve investing in a technology with zero demonstrated value.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Ok? That doesn't contradict anything I said.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Ok, I don't particularly contradict the idea that we do not live in the best or worst possible worlds, but this doesn't change the fact that people who claim that the world is better in every measurable way conveniently don't
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
GM is hardly a car brand that knows what consumers give a shit about, this is just enshitification to squeeze their remaining customers.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> I can’t see them ever competing even with the small makers like Jaguar or Polestar or Lamborghini. None of these are practical luxury car brands. Certainly their competitors would be, say, BMW or Porsche?
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Was the car supposed to have self-driving or something?
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
I just don't see how they can make any more money with "generative ai" than a useful tool that actually can get me around. Seems like chasing after fool's gold.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Our species is better off in just about every measurable material way Ahh, I smell Pinker Bullshit in the air. It is true that if you only measure things looking for positive change, you'll only find positive change.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Excitement about space What does this even mean if we can't scrape together funding for NASA
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> I wonder if this established leader position somehow could make people less optimistic and willing to explore? The market seems like a bad fit for pro-humanity technology—researchers at least have that (albeit fading) potential in thei
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> OpenAI has signed partnerships with other prominent news industry outlets including the Associated Press and Axel Springer Well that's horrifying news.... I hope this is in a data-processing capacity that's able to be indepen
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Also, they're advertised as a generic "feel better" thing, while most people won't be deficient in 90% of what those pills include. So what's the point them? That seems like more of a problem with advertising t
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Lack of vitamin C. I'm surprised this isn't better known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Keeping people on red alert, all the time, about everything - does not seem like a recipe for human flourishing overall. It would help if we had some sort of mechanism to turn these "alerts" into action, which seems to be a s
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Anyone even little serious about gaming will get a dedicated GPU This is just not true—I do the vast majority of my gaming on my laptop and only switch to the dedicated GPU for super graphics-intensive games like city skylines. As usua
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> this will still just barely match the memory performance of Radeon 7600 Wow, I had no idea integrated GPUs had come this far. This is fantastic news.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Which is why multivitamins seems to be a bit of a scam and studies can't find any benefit from them. As someone who has had scurvy before, I can guarantee you some people can find a benefit from them. Of course if you expect them
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Hah!
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> Domestic fabrication is still at the 28nm phase at most. Allegedly SMIC has both 14nm and 7nm fabs as of last year.

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