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by bArray 1y ago
> between tons of bugs (waiting for printers on startup is a default..), Never had issues with printers to be fair, but it sounds like something that could be done in a background thread. Bare in mind that we are contrasting this with Of
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by bArray 1y ago
I use LibreOffice for 99% of documents completely fine, and generate my own documents via Pandoc. The setup has served me really well so far.
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by bArray 1y ago
You might think so, but in reality, what happens is people say this publicly and then try to befriend the bully privately to get favourable treatment. I'm not saying that it's right, it's just an observation.
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by bArray 1y ago
> China thinks in terms of decades and their population is very culturally disciplined. They will endure years of economic downturns if necessary. Historically they have. I think this is a lie that somehow gets propagated in the West. Th
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by bArray 1y ago
True, but I think it's important to point out that JPMorgan's concerns don't overlap with those of normal working people.
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by bArray 1y ago
> You’ve misinterpreted your first source — that’s the _youth_ unemployment rate and not the overall rate. The correct comparison is 5.1% to the US’s 4.2%. You are correct, I cannot edit any more. In any case it is definitely trending up
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by bArray 1y ago
> While President Donald Trump pressed pause on his sweeping tariff regimen and placed a 10% blanket tax on other countries, he taxed China more. He placed a 145% tariff on China, which retaliated with a 120% duty on American goods. No t
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by bArray 1y ago
AI didn't exist before 2022. One day an LLM appeared and that is where AI began. /s
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by bArray 1y ago
Are these prominent events? Some of these models are just trained a little longer or cooked with different data? I think it would be better to list pivotable events, i.e. significant changes in architecture or approach, or a benchmark being
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by bArray 1y ago
The tab groups make a great case for having more active tabs in an organised way, but I'm concerned that over the past few years I have observed Firefox become more and more resource intensive. I have an auto tab suspender extension an
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by bArray 1y ago
From an AI perspective, I have a rough idea of what intrinsic motivation means to me: To allow an embodied agent to perform actions within an environment that would generally be considered positive, without the definition of an objective fu
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by bArray 1y ago
Just to add, I was at a University campus when the entire building's electrics went out and there was a significant pull due to relatively powerful computers in every room. They initially tried to bring the building back online altoget
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by bArray 1y ago
My first time seeing presenterm, very cool. I will seriously consider using this in the future.
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by bArray 1y ago
I need to check that out, thank you!
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by bArray 1y ago
I would love it if was possible to download the rendered chart, ideally headless. In peak traffic I would prefer to switch to a pre-rendered version, have the pre-rendered version available encase of an error (i.e. data retrieval), or for u
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by bArray 1y ago
Unfortunately it is not an April Fool's joke, but it should be. > Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst The title sounds as if he is still recognised as a Donkey Kong Champion, where clearl
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by bArray 2y ago
Does anybody have materials regarding how you would go about writing an autorouter? I was thinking to maybe use something like this [0] as a starting point? I have a few major nags about current autorouters: 1. No way to prioritise connecti
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by bArray 2y ago
> Virtual machines still suck a lot of CPU and bandwidth for nothing but emulation. Containers in Linux with cgroups are still full of RCE (remote command execution) and priviledge escalation. New ones are discovered each year. The first
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by bArray 2y ago
Sure, but there is a lot of interpretation to be done (hence the need for a judge) - and at the point where judges see their role as interpreting the law maximally in favour of stopping the president, then something is wrong.
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by bArray 2y ago
Simplistically it looks like that, but the US (or any other Country) never used to tax so much. The idea is to go back to a time of high GDP growth and lower taxes. Part of that is spending reduction (i.e. inspecting each arm of the governm
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by bArray 2y ago
If the Excel file is just a snapshot of the financial situation and it doesn't feed back into the main system, I find it harder to see the issue. Essentially it sounds like a manager takes the Excel file, makes some small changes, writ
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by bArray 2y ago
> The judges who provide the last, best hope of constraining the President and the richest man in the world face a historic wave of threats. The role of the judges is not to contain the President. It's exactly this idea where each d
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by bArray 2y ago
In the UK "GPS" is used as a general term for GNSS. I don't doubt that the aircraft already use multiple satellites.
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by bArray 2y ago
> The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 had already descended to around 850ft (259m) when the disruption occurred. Instead of landing, the plane was forced to climb back into the sky and divert nearly 400km (250 miles) south to Warsaw, Poland. Lithua
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by bArray 2y ago
https://archive.md/DvdcV I cannot tell you how infuriating it is as a UK tax payer on a UK-based ISP, that pays for this content to be made, to be blocked from viewing it. Worse still, if I view the article in 'Private
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by bArray 2y ago
> What internet points do you have to spare? What are these points that let your posts be on the top even though everyone is voting you down. I always had doubts that HN is taking some sort of bribe to force disliked and false posts into
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by bArray 2y ago
Memes are shared because they are both funny and relatable, and get their message across concisely. In order for any joke to land, the audience has to already be somewhat receptive. > These communities attribute social events to hidden p
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by bArray 2y ago
> In the long run, society goes to 100% electric transportation due to global warming. Any analysis that treats this as a simple matter of consumer choice is going to miss the biggest driver of adoption. As @Ray20 pointed out, this is We
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by bArray 2y ago
> That's unfortunate for first adopters and is a significant problem for adaption in lower-income circles (those typically buying second hand), but not a reason for going back to gasoline cars. I'm not advocating (here at least
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by bArray 2y ago
I won't comment on geopolitics, but I believe (unfortunately) that the scales have tipped on global order. Irrespective of geopolitics, I suspect we will see electricity prices come down and then go back up, for several reasons: 1. As

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