Sparkle-san

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by Sparkle-san 11mo ago
Saab also had a feature where it would turn off all the lights in the instrument panel, but you could turn them back on by hitting the top of the dash. Might be a Swedish thing as Volvo had it too.
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by Sparkle-san 11mo ago
Like many others here, Project Euler was foundational in my education and growth as a programmer. Leonhard Euler himself is an incredible figure and arguably the most prodigious contributor to mathematics throughout history. So much so that
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by Sparkle-san 11mo ago
As Lenny once said on the Simpsons: "While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human bloodstream." https:&#
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
> I don't think the people in this thread have any concept of how much $$$ it costs to distribute a free container that is going to be downloaded billions of times. Not very much at all. It looks like they're hosting on Docker
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
It's a meme without a lot of real meaning behind it. While it has its origins, I wouldn't say it's a "reference" to anything specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_(meme)
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
They don't have to cease to exist. They can just choose to relocate or close that location because they're big enough to do that. Maybe extorting another town for tax breaks if they relocate there while they're at it.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
MacOS liquid glass is just Windows Vista.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Just look up any town that had a single large employer and what happened to those towns after that employer left. Small companies do not posses the same ability to impact an entire town of people and everyone who lives in it, even those tha
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
> The problem isn't really being liked or not being liked, the problem is the cognitive overload of trying to predict what will happen and respond to it in realtime, which is sure to set in when one's mental model of the potent
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
I asked Claude Code who the greatest composer of all time was (mostly on a lark) expecting something very non-committal that weighed the accomplishments of the various great composers. Instead, I got back a one word answer: Bach.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
He didn't intervene in the say way that a mobster doesn't make threats when he states "nice place you got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it."
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
ABC is owned by Disney, which owns many subsidiaries. The one thing they and their shareholders care about is cold, hard cash. If you don't agree with what they're doing, then consider speaking the loudest way you can, with your w
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Pretty sure it's supposed to prevent the FCC commissioner from threatening to pull your license though unless you fire a particular individual though.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
This effort is being lead by the FCC commissioner threatening to pull licenses so you just need the first panel.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to f
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Link is broken as there is an errant "o" at the end.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
That doesn't seem to check out. This isn't to say that Hamas hasn't killed doctors and there have been several notable incidents of Israel killing healthcare workers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
We have existing precedent that encouraging someone to kill themselves can result in you being criminally responsible. Is software doing its best to be human that different? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Having freshly heard the NY Times piece on a recent teen suicide stemming from ChatGPT, I don't think it's wrong to assume that it's playing a large role here as what ChatGPT did in this instance was egregious. Feel free to j
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Depending on the level of pedantry you want you could argue for either. Washington's measure went into effect first, on Dec 1st, 2013 while Colorado's went into effect on Jan 1st, 2014. Colorado opened retail shops that same day t
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
I wonder if this is skewed by the states where marijuana was legal/more accessible during that time window. Colorado was the first state to legalize it and is also the state with the lowest BMI.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Perhaps the background tasks are ones with obvious solutions? I use Claude code to write boilerplate terraform for me as I know what it should look like and I often don't want to write it myself as it is not novel or exciting. I could
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
That's not coverage, that's random people on the internet, often hiding behind anonymity. How much of society actually gets their information by seeing what randos on mastadon and bluesky are saying?
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
> No, this is completely false, for the general population [1]: > But this is true, at 56%, with caveats Yeah, that's why I said some degree of control instead of "a majority supports completely banning handguns".
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
Boy howdy, that escalated quickly
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
If our bill of rights was truly immutable, slavery would still be legal and women wouldn't be able to vote. Doesn't sound like protecting against fascism to me.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
It's when the minority functionally has more rights/say in things than the majority. Take the electoral college for instance, I consider the fact that you could win an election with only 23% of the population voting for you makes
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
The only thing worse than tyranny of the majority is tyranny of the minority.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
I mean, don't color me surprised if a civilian uses a drone to commit an act of violence in the future. We're on the precipice of autonomous drone assassinations.
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by Sparkle-san 1y ago
That doesn't preclude things with bipartisan support like: - uniform background checks including private purchase - waiting periods - red flag laws - raising the age to 21

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