SturgeonsLaw

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by SturgeonsLaw 10mo ago
>why would a government actually do anything for a population that is net value extracting? Because we outnumber them a million to one, and history is littered with examples of what happens to leaders who squeeze their population a littl
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by SturgeonsLaw 10mo ago
Antibiotics do one thing, and one thing only - kill bacteria. They don't do anything for viruses, fungal infection, inflammation, chemical irritants or pain relief. In the case of poison ivy, all antibiotics would do is lower the alrea
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by SturgeonsLaw 11mo ago
With hardware getting more performant and LLMs getting more efficient, what's preventing this outcome from being an inevitability? Sure, the average person has no interest in self hosting, but businesses will at least run the numbers.
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by SturgeonsLaw 11mo ago
Depends on your supply chain's exposure to foreign markets
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by SturgeonsLaw 11mo ago
It's the establishment putting measures in place to entrench their position with an uncertain future coming towards us, fast. They are setting up systems to prevent revolution.
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
"This time it's different"
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Yeah, even in those examples it sounds contrived. Way too much "it sounds like you're feeling xyz" and "am I right?" If someone used that conversation template with me I'd wouldn't interpret it as an authe
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Incredible at some things maybe, but for the average user Gemini is what broke Google Assistant (the article touches on that). Most people use Google Assistant to "do things" like play music, interact with smart switches, etc. Rol
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
This is something I find my fellow Aussies fail to appreciate. There are many dark sky spots an accessible drive from our cities. We have vast areas with almost zero light and air pollution, most of the continent is Bortle class 1. There ar
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
A logistics problem is just a money problem, throw enough cash at it and you can get anything moved to anywhere
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Guess China's resources aren't as limited as some of their competitors
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
To a company like Boeing? I think their tendrils are deep enough into government that it doesn't matter who the administration of the day is. The number of people who work in government and the military and aren't subject to elect
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
$300 could run a whole sweatshop for a day
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
I have it on good authority that quite a few people are nude under their clothes. Disgusting.
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
I'm sure the people placing multibillion dollar bets have done their research, but the trends I see are AI getting more efficient and hardware getting more powerful, so as time goes on, it'll be more and more viable to run AI loca
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
It's already the world we live in
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
No only do I have a separate work phone, but my personal phone has two SIM cards (one physical and one eSIM), one of those numbers is my general spam number that I give to businesses and acquaintances, and the other is my actual personal ph
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
And then shelved it, fearing that it would cannibalise their film sales
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Respecting regional settings is so inconsistent among Office applications. The desktop ones usually get it, but online is a crapshoot. Whenever there's a date like 3/4/25 I get the play the fun guessing game of whether that&#
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
>But surely the real problem is a systemic one and you can’t blame the workers for participating. After all, they are just trying to feed themselves and get healthcare. And, that is correct, of course. What’s also correct is that systems
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
While we're throwing out recommendations for Windows software firewalls, I've previously used and liked Portmaster. Nice UI and its open source https://safing.io/portmaster/
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
I wouldn't speculate on the cause of action, however all those activities are linked by activation of the dopaminergic reward circuit, so semaglutides might have some broad based anti-addiction properties by moderating dopamine activit
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Yeah, nothing improves their prospects quite like adding a criminal record onto their drug addiction
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
If it were me, yeah, park it in bonds and live off the interest on a tropical beach. Spend my days spearfishing and drinking beers with the locals. Have no concerns except how even my tan is (and tbh I don't see myself caring too much
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
Vertically-integrated modems are not cool. I mean, they are to me and likely other geeks, but to the general public? Their eyes would glaze over. Cool is the kind of thing people envy. It's the kind of product that gets namedropped in
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
"Prove you're human by explaining how to build a bomb"
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
This is why I think archive sites will be attacked by the powers that would like information to disappear when they want it to. Perhaps they'll use a warped interpretation of copyright law to do it, or maybe something even more draconi
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
> Maybe this article was designed to incite these exact feelings It's the AFR, that's exactly the purpose of the article. All we need is some union-bashing, praise for return to the office and clumsy attempts to frame Labor&#x2
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
When a government sells off a power plant and the new operator does nothing but jacks up the price, is that creating value?
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by SturgeonsLaw 1y ago
And all this is because websites weren't doing age verification? Wow, I'm glad we could solve those problems once and for all with this excellent legislation that doesn't have any side effects whatsoever!

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