Suppafly

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by Suppafly 2y ago
>The solution is making all homework optional and having an old-school end of semester exam. Not really. While doing something to ensure that students are actually learning is important, plenty of the smartest people still don't alw
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>We’re either handicapping our brightest, or boosting our dumbest. Honestly it seems like we're doing both most of the time. It's hard to only optimize resources for boosting the dumbest without taking them away from the bright
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>How many people are "good drivers" outside their home town? My wife is surprisingly good at remembering routes, she'll use the GPS the first time, but generally remembers the route after that. She still isn't good at
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Were they wrong? People who rely too much on a calculator don't develop strong math muscles that can be used in more advanced math. Yes. People who rely too much on a calculator weren't going to be doing advanced math anyway.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Pointing it out didn’t help either, it just apologized and went on to make the same mistake in a different way. They really should modify it to take out that whole loop where it apologizes, claims to recognize its mistake, and then cont
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by Suppafly 2y ago
To be fair, self-hosting is often over-rated and mentioning that is part of the discussion.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>If a company in the US moves a call center to a lower cost city, that's hardly foisting externalities onto anybody. Sure it does. That new small city then needs to upgrade their infrastructure to support that business.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I'm not even sure why most people want to bring manufacturing back to the US. If this was a video game with a tech tree, becoming a mostly service and consumer economy would be the final winning position. Bombing our economy to go back
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>In Cambodia, they pay $208 per month, which is assuming a 160 hour work month, which I guarantee is the bare minimum which gives them $1.30 in wages per hour. That means nothing without knowing what other jobs pay and what the overall c
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>And if a US shoemaker wanted to undercut the import, a Made in USA shoe that sells for $100: Somewhere in there you have to also figure in the cost of the fact that shoe factories and the suppliers of the goods to make shoes also don&#x
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Wait, why do you need a shop to cash a cheque? Isnt that one of the last few things you go to a bank for? In the US, a lot of poor people (and illegal immigrants) are unbanked. But also check cashing places also tend to do title loans (
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>It's a symptom of the decline of high street retail and high long-term vacancy rates for many retail properties. Do you guys not have pawn shops, smoke shops, and check cashing shops over there?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
We have two second hand bookstores in my area. One of them has changed hands a couple of times over the years, so I don't think they make a ton of money, although they are in a large, albeit older, retail space so they must do ok. The
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Those are cool machines, but I think their website would be better if they focused on that instead of making you click several times to see them.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Windows Defender, that's all you need.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> and then we more or less agreed that it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up with no recourse. No we didn't agree with that.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>You don't see a massive difference in the shear number of images that the AI can look at and the speed at which it can imitate it as a fundamental difference between AI and a human copying works or styles? I don't. >For a h
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>This is because in the workflow that is one of the steps that is naively applied without consideration of multi edit possibility. If this was a one shot solution where editing is done within 4o image model by itself, the sepia problem w
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Image generation is still very slow. Only because the free ones slow things down.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>so I suppose it's no surprise I have no real use for "generate any image on demand". Other than stock photos, porn is the killer app for that, but most of the AI companies don't want to allow that.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
With a lot of the products I support, I suspect the real reason is that they had originally hired outsourced programmers, or got rid of most of their in house programmers over the years, and literally have no ability to fix simple issues in
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by Suppafly 2y ago
> I hope they expand it to include middle aged women in the community too. Neighborhood MILFs and Cougars?
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by Suppafly 2y ago
I suspect it's worse in Japan.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Pocari Sweat is so good. I always grab a bottle anytime we go to the japanese store outside chicago. I assumed it was a fake anime product like the way they always turn pepsi into bepsi or something, but no it's real and it's deli
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by Suppafly 2y ago
was it just broth? the vending machine at my college, had that where it'd have coffee, cocoa, or chicken broth.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Stripe is 2.9% + 30¢, I think most of the popular providers are pretty competitive with that. Gumroad does handle some hosting and analytics and stuff though, its not just a payment processor afaik.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
Opensource.org doesn't get to redefine what words mean to the rest of us. They should have chosen words that weren't already being used with common meanings if they wanted to be the say in what those words meant.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
This, there is a small subset of people who are good with directions and they just assume the reset of us are too lazy to figure it out instead of realizing that directions aren't actually intuitive to most people.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
>Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out I don't see how that's a problem. People that agree with them can upvote them and ungrey them out and push them back up.
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by Suppafly 2y ago
My son is into retrocomputing, mostly using older hardware I have from when I was younger, and we have a stack of old compaq desktops where you can't access the bios because it requires a specific floppy that is nearly impossible to fi

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