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by Hilift 1y ago
A lot of the flower at stores are not very good now. There has been a proliferation of flavored strains that just taste weird and bad. Lilac Diesel anyone? On the other hand, the tried and true traditional strains have and always been excel
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> I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of Windows 10 workstations that cannot be upgraded. It's the same situation as last time with Windows 7. You can get three years of extended support for the monthly cumul
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by Hilift 1y ago
There were probably zero arrests from that seizure. There would probably be more seizures if they simply scanned used vehicle VINs going out for export, but there's no resources for that. The whole "export used garbage vehicles to
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California has 25% of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US. Last year, while Biden attempted to promote an immigration bill that did not pass, California made Medicaid available to unauthorized immigrants. 22% of California resi
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This grossly understates the current 2025 financial impact of the problem, and is directly linked to the ~$36 trillion debt. There is a target to reduce Medicaid recipients by 4.8 million by 2033, by requiring them to attend school or volun
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> Isn’t that subsidizing a whole business sector? It is if the only thing your company does is create software. No operations, no sales, no physical assets to purchase sell or manage.
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The company does not pay payroll taxes. Individuals pay those taxes.
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> end of US software dominance. What is that? Software sold by companies that have HQ in the US? Or software created by someone in the US? Because if it is only the first, good riddance.
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There is this year. Maybe not going forward. I tried to use it but it was easier to print the PDF and mail it. I also recall there were two different systems, DirectFile is one of the two, and it integrates with participating state tax syst
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100% test coverage (fingers behind back).
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$70 billion per year net profit. Basically printing money at this point.
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Oracle just announced they are spending $40 billion on GPU hardware. All cloud providers have an AI offering, and there are AI-specific cloud providers. I don't think retail is invited.
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Reddit has fairly intense device fingerprinting. And they sell data for AI training.
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Meta makes $70 billion net per year, after fines.
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Reddit has fairly extensive device fingerprinting. And they are selling data for training AI models. It's only a matter of time before there is some premium phone app that monetizes data that otherwise isn't available/for sal
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The context, stated in the article, is "crackdown on unsafe cyclists". This is in part an intervention. In Washington DC last year, people finally were fed up with all the psycho moped riders zipping around. When the police invest
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A clone may be created without stem cells.
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https://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/june/policing-by-design... "The paper calls for “a harmonised EU regime on data retention” that is “technology neutral and future-proof,” covers all types of telecomm
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That's going full speed ahead though. Every major cloud provider has an AI offering, and there are now multiple AI-centric cloud providers. There is a lot of money and speculation. Now Nvidia has their own cloud offering that "dem
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This is totally on-brand for Apple. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS." That's an RCE, but nowhere near as ba
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"The Baroness Kidron amendment would require companies to provide a log of all of the URLs their models were trained on, and keep this up-to-date every month." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39xj284e1
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/... Beginning in Windows 10 version 1809, the default policy is Quick removal. In earlier versions of Windows, the default policy was Better perform
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Windows 10 1809 changed the default behavior for most endpoints to disable caching. Before that it would trash your data.
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"are humans safe from AI in a bunker?" While an underground bunker might offer some protection against certain AI threats, it's not a guaranteed sanctuary from all potential AI-related dangers. Here's why: 1. Physical Ac
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Devices such as this are cloned and used for fraud. It can be done without triggering any of the sensors. Secret service confiscated multiple cloned devices in an enforcement operation recently in NYC. "Recent incidents in the U.S. inc
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> LLMs have nothing to contribute to political discourse A non-trivial percentage of the population is easily influenced, which is leveraged by social media being there 24x7. It's likely that LLMs will be there to craft political me
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Microsoft created a doozy of a bug when OpenSSL changed gmt_unix_time to a random value. They were using that for startup sync of hosts. Strategically, I don't think WSL is a real product that would be customer facing due to "WSL
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That was a pretty good back to reality flex. There really isn't much of a market for expensive products. An inexpensive product that has a few tradeoffs will probably have the advantage. Given how proficient China is at accessing techn
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"Mistakes"? These are confabulations. There is a reason it is occurring, the code was written by people, who exhibit the same behavior. If you wonder why, what possible disincentive does an AI agent have to not confabulate the tru
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Are you ready for the deluge of networking questions for all the buck wild configurations?

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