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Reminds me of this Redbar clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0uZCDlS_YM tl;dw: you getting accused of rape or sexual misconduct isn't "cancellation." And I say this as someone who posts primarily on 4chan
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> But, USA is getting weaker and weaker Relative to China, perhaps. But surely not relative to Europe or Canada. > Trump is fearful when challenged, he backs down. That is a fact. Have you not been paying attention to the last nine ye
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> Trump to feel strong and that you are weak Trump (and the US) is strong , and Canada (and other individual trading partners) are weak . How is that not painfully obvious at this point, especially given Europe's recent capitulati
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> He tore it up like it was nothing. From what I understand, goods exempt under the USMCA are still exempt. EDIT: > You cant make a deal with Trump. He changes his position weekly, depending on what he saw on Fox News or who he last t
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Canada's real GDP growth has been flat for a decade and its cost of living, especially of housing, has exploded, to the point that the median home price in Canada is almost $700k. The idea that Canadians in general (not just the rich b
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I have, e.g., in Julia's UTF-8 library (utf8proc).
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> Europe will pay dearly for this unless they break the promise. Do any Americans really believe the other side pays the tarrif? You managed to contradict yourself in the very next sentence. If America is just foot-gunning itself, then w
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I was just noting the oddness of Lp(a) responding inversely to SFA intake (the reverse of LDL), which also contradicts the conventional wisdom that Lp(a) isn't amenable to lifestyle interventions. You could theoretically increase SFA t
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Oddly enough, there's evidence that saturated fat intake inversely affects Lp(a) levels: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10447465/
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> My cardiologist did all of these except the eGFR eGFR is typically inferred from serum creatinine (not creatine!), which is part of both a comprehensive and basic metabolic panel (CMP/BMP), which your GP usually orders, along with
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> Also, since you care so much, let's see what you've released, smart guy. Preferably code so that we can see how talented you are. I'm not the one telling everyone they're doing everything wrong, and did it not occur
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RAD was what, 15, 20 years ago? What has he released, in terms of proprietary or open source products, since then? Not just games, I mean ANYTHING. Refterm, and... what else? It's not like he was busy with his MSFT or RAD dayjob during
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Look, for whatever reason, he's not good at finishing what he starts: https://www.destructoid.com/he-worked-on-it-for-three-years-... How much of that is due to the programming practices he espouses, I'm not sure.
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For those unaware, Casey Muratori started a project called Handmade Hero in 2014 to build a complete game from scratch while livestreaming the entire process, with the goal of showing people not just how, but why, rolling your own engine (h
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> do NOT tell them the code When my father calls his bank, they actually verify him by sending a 2FA code to his email that he reads back.
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Not sure why you were downvoted. I have zero confidence that OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest respect robots.txt however much they insist they do. It's also clear that they're laundering their traffic through residential ISP IP add
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> my browser is now so rare it's considered "suspicious". I've noticed this as well. Also some banking sites don't even work with it anymore.
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The well-poisoning effect is especially strong in the AI space based on how blatant the big players have been in disregarding intellectual property law and how their crawlers behave like DDOS bot farms.
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Thanks for your reply, and good luck with your streak and your SVT staying in remission.
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> your content is not used to train any underlying foundation models (FMs). This implies your "content" may be used for anything else, including training non-foundation LLMs. Frankly, even if their disclaimer were broader, I&#x
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> heart procedures Do you have AFib, by any chance? Congratulations on your streak, regardless. EDIT: in another comment, you mentioned: > I needed a cardiac ablation a couple of years ago So I guess that's a yes? Was that when y
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Never use "_t" suffixes for your own types in C or C++: they're reserved by POSIX.
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Sounds like a great way to turn public opinion in the US against continued US participation in NATO.
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> If Europe must ban American Big Tech because of human and privacy rights Isn't the EU currently trying to force encryption back-doors?
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I'm too lazy to review the ANSI spec, but the Smalltalk Bluebook VM served as a reference implementation for Smalltalk VMs for years, and it used a method-scoped literal frame for string (and other) literals: > The selectors in pare
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> 'justastring' at: 6 put: $S; yourself Evaluating this yields an error in both Squeak and Pharo. What Smalltalk are you using? I'm going to guess Cuis, in which case your example holds, but is misleading. Consider:
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Specifically, it's non-literal strings that are mutable. Implementations of either may allow you to modify the literals, but it's likely to break something due to interning. The Common Lisp standard is clear that destructive lit
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7-zip, through its .7z format, also supports AES encryption. I'd argue it's probably the easiest way to encrypt individual file archives that you need to access on both Windows and Linux. I have a script I periodically run that ma
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The "other person" (only mention of NTFS) is me, here: > while MSFT still treats ReFS as unstable, and Windows servers still rely heavily on NTFS. By this I implied it's an embarrassment to MSFT that iOS devices have a bet
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> NTFS does copy-on-write? No, it doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of shadow volume copies or something else. CoW files systems never modify data or metadata blocks directly, only modifying copies, with the root of the updated bl
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