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by bambax 6mo ago
Another question is, how is Iran going to enforce this? It doesn't seem Iran still has a navy that could board ships and force them to stop without actual violence. What happens if a tanker decides to not pay and chance it? Will Iran s
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by bambax 6mo ago
> Altman does not recall the exchange. Altman SAYS he does not recall the exchange. Not the same thing.
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by bambax 6mo ago
> making this ridiculous war harder to stop If the US military would like this war to stop they could not fight it, that would be pretty easy I think. Probably not without consequences, but that would show actual courage. Whereas dropp
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by bambax 6mo ago
> They won't invoke nukes to overturn the table How do you know? Trump's frustration is on the rise; at some point he very well may threaten nuclear strikes. Another scenario is, he tries to invade, an Iranian drone makes it
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by bambax 6mo ago
> the world is divided into haves and have-nots Yes and the most important lesson of recent history is for have-nots to become haves ASAP.
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by bambax 7mo ago
> By staying silent and letting the memory study fall apart, the experimenter allowed an atmosphere of illegitimate violence to flourish. Many people are cruel. Not all people, maybe; not most people, also maybe; but some people enjoy
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by bambax 7mo ago
By that reasoning we shouldn't shoot at enemy soldiers during war, because they're not the ones who declared war and they have no power over its conclusion. We're at war with bureaucracy and the front line is, well, the front
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by bambax 7mo ago
I really don't understand the point of manned space exploration though? Landing on the moon in 1969 was an extraordinary achievement, perhaps the most beautiful thing ever done by mankind. But now? What's the point exactly? We kno
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by bambax 7mo ago
Absolutely agree. Also, the kind of Karens described in the post usually enjoy their position and the meager power they hold over other humans. They need to get bitten sometimes.
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by bambax 7mo ago
> For the recipient, a fax is a physical reality. It requires paper. It requires ink. Not in my time it didn't. It was thermal paper that grew grey after a while (or a short exposition to direct sunlight); it came in rolls and eac
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by bambax 7mo ago
> Early digital cameras were underwhelming, basically the equivalent of a 110 film snapshot camera. One of the first digital Ixus (IV maybe? from 2000?) made images of just one megapixels, but they were amazing. I miss that thing.
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by bambax 7mo ago
I use Lightroom 6 that I paid for, it still works and is still useful for my needs. But as said needs are mostly general curve + highlights down + shadows up, it's possible they could simply be a jpeg preset in camera. This line made m
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by bambax 7mo ago
> But more often than not, the problem that's being solved is "we have gotten money to throw at things" Yes, that's a great observation. Not easy to fix though.
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by bambax 7mo ago
This article is so true. "Collaboration" is how nothing ever gets done; we have this expression: "designed by committee"; we should also have "made by collaboration". What's depressing is that it's li
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by bambax 7mo ago
> A lot leaps from riflemen, who obviously didn’t want to die Yeah but you'd think not dying involves killing those who want to kill you, or at least shooting at them! Isn't it super interesting to learn that 80% of riflemen
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by bambax 7mo ago
Trump is now threatening to destroy Iran's power plants if the straight isn't reopened. Is this "doing the right thing"? And doesn't this show he cares more about oil prices than regime change? But the most importan
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by bambax 7mo ago
> Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait. Tree-lined roads, ol
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by bambax 7mo ago
> after Iran and Israel attack gasfields After Israel attacked gasfields and Iran retaliated. Iran didn't start any of this.
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by bambax 7mo ago
So the idea behind JPEG is the same as behind MP3: we filter out what we don't perceive. I wonder if other species would look at our images or listen to our sounds and register with horror all the gaping holes everywhere.
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by bambax 7mo ago
Aah thank you!!! Yes that would have worked, I will try that next time. The last image is more or less what the Python code produced, but being able to do it in the GUI would be nice.
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by bambax 7mo ago
Here's a photo of the church tower in question: https://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/40/25/08/20170227/ob_76f390... You can see that the square base is connected to the octagonal tower using altern
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by bambax 7mo ago
I didn't hook up anything to anything, I copied-and-pasted the Python output of Claude to the Python console of FreeCAD. Run, check, delete, repeat.
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by bambax 7mo ago
Just yesterday I used Claude to great effect in FreeCAD to model a church tower. The tower has a square base and an octagonal top, but connecting the two by creating a loft using the GUI in FreeCAD results in a wrong and ugly abomination. C
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by bambax 7mo ago
Sure; I was generalizing; my mother never taught us that stealing or killing or even polluting was fine if we would not get caught! However I don't think I agree with your way of thinking. The reason we have laws is because people will
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by bambax 7mo ago
Very true but not in all cases. In case of speed limit intent does not matter; "I didn't know I was speeding" is no excuse. Same with DUI. In fact DUI should be a mitigating circumstance, because when you're drunk your a
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by bambax 7mo ago
My mom, who's a lawyer, always told us that laws don't matter, what matter is how hard they're enforced, and we can simply ignore laws that exist but we know for a fact they're not enforced (or not enforceable). I once h
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by bambax 7mo ago
The quote from Douglas Adams is perfectly consistent with using AI for programming. The difficulty of programming, indeed the whole point, is to understand the problem; it's not typing if-then-else cases for the millionth time. Explain
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by bambax 7mo ago
True. This is indeed next-level shit. Although human HR are often not much better. There are many downsides to being an independent consultant/contractor but the main benefit is this: you never have to deal with anyone from HR, ever; y
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by bambax 7mo ago
Didit? I certainly didn't do it.
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by bambax 7mo ago
Congrats! But what is a spreadsheet "engine" as opposed to a spreadsheet program?

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