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by Smoosh 5y ago
The expression "lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas" comes to mind...
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I always assumed that the "God/Heaven in the clouds" meme came from the same source as Greek gods dwelling atop Mt Olympus being obscured by clouds.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Me also. I'm holding off because if I upgrade my scanner driver will be obsoleted and I'll have to buy a new scanner. I hate throwing away perfectly good hardware. When I have the time I'll try to set up a scanner station usi
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I agree with you but I also think that part of it is: - If you make the SSD replaceable, many more people will replace theirs. - Apple doesn't want to put an SSD access port into their laptops for design/strength/reliability
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Anecdata: My wife is still rocking a ~10 year old Macbook Air, which is fine for "household" duties. I have a Mac Pro 2013 for my main computer.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I wrote my first programs for computers I didn't even have. Through magazines and maybe some books I learned BASIC and would write simple programs for the TRS-80. Not that I had access to one. Later, my brother bought a VIC-20 which is
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by Smoosh 6y ago
"The buck stops elsewhere".
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Here's the details from a popular online encyclopaedia website which I would expect to be factual and relatively neutral on important public subjects like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report Note t
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by Smoosh 6y ago
At this point, are you wearing the watch, or is the watch wearing you?
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by Smoosh 6y ago
* not fully fermented
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Oh boy, are you gonna be mad when you find out that Tesla are allowing the general public to beta test their self driving software on public roads!
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I thought along similar lines, but apparently they are using a particular variant of the drug, which I assume is not the one regularly prescribed currently.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I've long thought that to reproduce animal-like intelligence artificially, you need to simulate an environment and stimuli, some unequivocally positive and some unequivocally negative. Of course AGI does not need to be "animal-lik
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Not in the world/culture/political/economic system we have developed into. There are only two ways to get things done. 1. Companies develop/supply a "product" because they can profit from it. 2. Companies are f
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by Smoosh 6y ago
or https://about.qwant.com/
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by Smoosh 6y ago
And yet, I have first-hand witnessed a scenario like the one described in an AU government department. A small system developed by business (one person who had subsequently moved on) using Excel and Word and macros to keep track of informat
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by Smoosh 6y ago
From Wikipedia: Électricité de France (EDF) – the country's main electricity generation and distribution company – manages the country's nuclear power plants. EDF is substantially owned by the French government, with around 85% of
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by Smoosh 6y ago
How are you with fennel or anise? I assume you don't like ouzo or sambuca.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I'm a total layman in this field, so these are just unsupported thoughts. It seems to me that a brain going meta - thinking about thinking - could be what leads to a sense of self and thus consciousness. So, do these results imply thos
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Have you looked at Crystal? https://crystal-lang.org/
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I selected our oven specifically because of the sensible analogue controls (large knobs) for selecting the function and temperature. https://www.fisherpaykel.com/au/cooking/ovens/contemporary-o...
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> sacrifice the economy for the elderly’s two years No. It isn't just 2 years off some elderly people who were going to die soon anyway (not that that isn't an extremely callous position to hold): https://www.busines
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by Smoosh 6y ago
Can a stone plucked from a riverbed be beautiful? Why? If you look closely, it is imperfect. If you look around you can find others, very similar. Perhaps any river could have produced it. It isn't saying anything. It isn't tellin
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by Smoosh 6y ago
With a single Federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) as in Australia, you know it is 10%. All prices include the GST and are the price you will pay. There are no other sales taxes . Everyone knows what the government's cut is. Everyone
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by Smoosh 6y ago
The same thing happens here in Australia with banks (4 major companies) and petrol stations (2 major companies).
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by Smoosh 6y ago
The list also missed formalware which, I assume, is still a thing.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I think this reveals that Facebook don't care if you love it, hate it, or just find it interesting - all they care about is engagement.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> It's not really the car design I think it partly is the car design. They were the first manufacturer trying to make a mainstream car which was designed from the ground up to take advantage of being a BEV (for example with batterie
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by Smoosh 6y ago
I still have one under my desk near my feet now. Big rather than just bright. But very blue.
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by Smoosh 6y ago
> metal rotating so quickly *reciprocating It's also why racing engines (when not limited by regulations, or when only limited on total capacity) tended to have 8, 10, 12 or more cylinders. Despite the increase in the physical size

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