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by ThinkBeat 10mo ago
Who is "we". If "we" are autistic people, then I am part of "we" then "we" is in error since I don't use term "neurotypical" Perhaps you should say "I usually use the term &quot
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by ThinkBeat 10mo ago
"""Leaked documents [1] obtained by SOMO reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’""" I was a bit disappointed when I clicked the the link called "1" followin
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by ThinkBeat 10mo ago
This is highly accurate. Presently its a whole set of entirely different diagnosis make up "the spectrum". They even eliminated "Asperger" and then just folded that into the spectrum as well. I sometimes think about tw
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by ThinkBeat 10mo ago
I know several people who struggle with migraines carry tablets of grape sugar and if taken early they do say it helps a lot. (Note: FOR SOME, not all, probably a small minority could be all)
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by ThinkBeat 10mo ago
I find it a bit odd that they seem to have gone from having OpenBSD as the standard and are not moving to FreeBSD and Ubuntu. I an not sure what role these computers that may transition to Ubuntu do, there are probably good reasons, I wish
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
For a while I worked for a company that was doing some shady and unethical things, but just within the law. I took em a while to understand how things worked and when I did I found a different job. Now this enterprise I left, could never ha
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
Watching news coverage I am amazed if many are able to get their phone working (as in not broken by the war) and charged.
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
oh good Slack embedded inside my editor. Just exactly what I have always wanted. When it comes to writing tool the trend has been strong that people want distraction free writing with no interruptions. Seems like code editors are going the
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
"oday, we’re pleased to announce a new round of financing: our Series D of $2.3B at a $29.3B post-money valuation." What does that mean? They got $2.3 billion of VC money and are now worth $30 billion?
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
I wonder at what age they start getting upset that they dont have what all the other kids have. The peer pressure on conformity I think is still strong. thought not explicitly stated. I have seen older children cry that they dont have an
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in MICE lung microbiome after just one week. I really wish this would be included in the headline in such stories. Is there a repository somewhere that measures the number of studies on mice that go on
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
Using Starlink as your Internet provider does not protect you in any way when it comes to changes in pricing, speed or connectivity.
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
I wonder if something liked this could be found in Teslas.
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
Yes they have finally fixed some performance issues and that is a huge win
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
there are severe problems with npm as well. It is not a model I hope is replicated.
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by ThinkBeat 11mo ago
What they show is so far ahead of what other robots can do right now, esp in aggregate of everything it can do. There is not a lot of probability that this robot will deliver on its promises. That would be a major steppig stone, possibly wo
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
Hosting staging on a fundamentally different architecture and resources than prod (and dev I think) is a disater waiting to happen. Unless they plan to move prod and dev as well, and using staging now as a test platform. Once few problems
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
I am sure they could give Boeing a few more billion dollars to expand on their successful Starliner platform to build a moon rocket in way less time than SpaceX.
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
yes. but it doesn't get covered by western media. much like how NATO airplanes violating Russian airspace is not reported about either.
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
How large are the files?
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
As a soon to be graybeard think this has been fairly obvious from the start. And outside of specific workflows, you are adding unneeded complexity to a system that does not need it. In general, an anti-pattern. but it does have valid use
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
They could buffer a 2 second window and randomise the orders of the transactions.
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
Ever hear about: Inflation Reduction Act¹ It authorised $891 billion in total spending – including $783 billion on energy and climate change, and three years of Affordable Care Act subsidies in order to...... Reduce Inflation. https:&
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
Somehow telling airlines to fly what might be quite a bit longer, in order to avoid all the different contrail potenial spot, that will use even more fuel migth nto be a popoular sell?
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
The traditional way a central bank fights inflation, and take Norway as an example. The central bank raises interest rates, until there are enough bankrupcies and unemployment rate reaches a high enough level, The economy cools down. The na
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
Thank you. For taking a stand against Microsofts "social network", "ai training data", greed and proprietary tooling. I think sharing the source code as you do now is a perfect choice is it is what you are most comfor
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
So now you have all - your storage in one place - you own all backup, -- off site backup (hot or cold) - uptime worries - maintenance drives -- how many can fail. before it is a problem - maintenance machines -- how many can fail. before it
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
I have never given this a lot attention. I learned a few things from the post and I am always grateful for that. One question that popped into my head is that with that having a fleet that big the company must be rather vulnerable if the
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
It seems to me that the activity will just be continued. For some reason Finland didn't want to runt it anymore and Norway took over. """The Finnish Meteorological Institute is to discontinue its air monitoring in Sval
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by ThinkBeat 1y ago
I would say that it is the most complete typesetting system out there that I know about¹ It is not the optimal system that could possibly be created. for many reasons. However as people design new typesetting systems or various kinds, and

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