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by b112 2mo ago
OK. Now compare the entire world's militaries, over the last 50 years, worst-for-worst act. Or since you mentioned WWII, what's the worst done by armies during that time? Hmm? After all, you're trying to find and hold up t
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by b112 2mo ago
And yet, compared to every military in the past, compared to the fact that war was seen as a normal thing in the past, compared to how it used to be standard to rape and pillage in the past, and that was just expected and fine and normal, c
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by b112 2mo ago
And perhaps, then the alternatives are more devastating, and it must be done. I've written about this in other comments over the last couple of years, but the root of all of this is quite simply, foreign interference. We all remember
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"Genuine diamonds" sold fake diamonds after trademarking the name, I thibk. However a decade later I read about them losibg a lawsuit. This tricks don't work any more.
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SETI@Home was the coolest thing
29 points by b112 2mo ago|7 comments
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by b112 2mo ago
It's a bizarre take, too. I'll state it plainly, your hands are clean before you start to wipe yourself. As long as you put your phone aside, on the counter for example, it's as clean as if reading in an easy chair. And I&#x
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by b112 2mo ago
There's North and then there's North. Canada already uses all the sensible land to use.
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by b112 2mo ago
This is a classic example of book knowledge, and reality. The type of light is important. Days of sunlight mean little, if the sun barely gets more than a few degrees above the horizon. And our human bred crops? Well, we'd need to t
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by b112 2mo ago
Canada expand agriculture. Where? Certainly not to land up north. Growing seasons are bracketed by more than just land and temperature. It's also bracketed by sunlight. Very little will grow north. (22 hour long summer days for a one m
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by b112 2mo ago
There are entirely different reasons. War. Make a people's land unliveable, and make it so they cannot grow crops any more, and those people will come for your land. Imagine if 1B people decide to move to where another 1B people live
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by b112 2mo ago
This whole thread is a bad analogy. Take all potatoes out of the market, and: 1) Some people won't be able to afford alternatives. They will starve to death 2) There may not be enough of other foods, so even if people have money, p
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by b112 2mo ago
Except, lots of devs use github, and see what using Azure means. Management is seeing that downtime too. So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly? Hotmail used to run on bsd, and they tried to move it to WinNT, back in the da
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by b112 2mo ago
Unfortunately, Kagi relies heavily on Google for search data. All do. Alternatives such as Kagi seem less cpgent too. At least no capchas though.
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Google Captcha on Search, absurdities beyond belief
6 points by b112 2mo ago|4 comments
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by b112 2mo ago
Some hate mailing lists, not understanding how valuable the format and medium is. So they deride out of reflex, I suppose. Mailing lists are a lot like democracy. Imperfect, but nothing else is less-Imperfect.
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by b112 2mo ago
Time to get a Personalized Pico Pal(tm), your own Power Pal in orbit, solar power microwaved to your mower, from now on it's batteries included, thanks to Blazbro!
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by b112 2mo ago
There are whois servers, and the whois command, so no, it has not. I agree that this is the goal.
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by b112 2mo ago
And look correct is accurate. Not only does it look correct, it looks correct with an extremely Subject Matter Expert degree of authority. Often I'll work with an LLM, and it simply just misses so many things. I've worked in all
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by b112 2mo ago
shaping the rainforest for centuries without destroying it. That's the myth. A lot of native populations farmed. Where do you think that farmland came from? It came from tearing down forests and tearing down trees. And yes, ancient
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by b112 2mo ago
But the report is! Simply because some people don't value them, doesn't mean all institutions don't. And being able to convey information by text, is as important as the verbal part too. That may not be fashionable in so
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by b112 2mo ago
One thing I mentioned in my prior post, is the difference between internal discord, and externally amplified disinformation. As democracies, we've always had healthy debate, but when you add fuel to the fire via external influencers, i
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by b112 2mo ago
None of that is relevant without you, the person architecting the questions or the idea, being able to cogently convey this to others. If you cannot understand it enough to transfer the knowledge, or if you are incapable of expressing your
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by b112 2mo ago
I agree with much of what you say, except the timing is a bit off. It's really only been 20 to 15 years since the "average person" even knew what that "Internet thing" was. It was the early 2000s, and later where
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by b112 2mo ago
An interesting point to bring up. Why? Well, because the issue with vaccine doubt, is misinformation. It's disinformation, spread for either profit (followers on youtube), or foreign actors working to reduce the cohesion of the West&
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by b112 2mo ago
The only way to have age verification on an international level, is to have treaties allowing for the sharing of information about citizens, digitally, in that context. And this is that level of cooperation. And it has all the hallmarks of
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by b112 2mo ago
Ilium by Dan Simmons was an exceptionally good read, if you're looking for another review. Often people just haven't heard of him, even well and widely read people, though he has several great series. I don't read info on bo
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by b112 2mo ago
Yes, I've read the book, the two movies (one modern one from the 60s?), and the sequel, very well done!, by Stephen Baxter. It's a good concept, but for some reason I thought of a military movie I watched recently, where someone w
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by b112 2mo ago
Yes, I agree on modern trends for that. There are some modern authors not too bad in that respect, but it may be why I find older sci-fi books more appealing.
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by b112 2mo ago
That is what humans are for!! Ask people! There is no way a summary of these things fron an LLM has the correct context. (not really frustrated at you, as much as where society is going)
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by b112 2mo ago
I wonder if reading cooking recipe sites in training contributed to this. 9 pages about how it felt to be a kid eating the dish, for 7 ingredients and a one line recipe.

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