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by bilekas 1y ago
Great, another way companies can offload the responsibility of looking after their staff to the customer. It sounds like a win for the employee, "ah but you don't need to pay tax on your tips". But in reality it's govern
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by bilekas 1y ago
Verizon disputed this not because the fine was in ANY way impactful, but because they wanted to push to see if they could legally do it without any repercussions. In their last quarter alone they made over 9k million USD, if I'm readin
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by bilekas 1y ago
It's okay, while he may start it he will then end it and look to claim a nobel peace prize.
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by bilekas 1y ago
Backdoor layoffs. It's always backdoor layoffs. If they really appreciated and needed you at the company, they would cater for your needs when you're delivering your work.
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by bilekas 1y ago
Fair point, a local offline llm with siri does actually sounds quite nice.
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by bilekas 1y ago
> "This is MacBook Pro levels of compute in an iPhone, perfect for GPU-intensive AI workloads." Am I just an old man screaming at cloud here or is it unnecessary for a phone to be focused on GPU intensive tasks ? Impressive as
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by bilekas 1y ago
> By 1980, Europe was rebuilt. What did they do then? No it wasn't, and also the EU wasn't even in it's crawling stages. Negotiations were still taking place about EU memberships so no, you are objectively wrong. > Cont
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by bilekas 1y ago
> First you claim that the lack of tech companies rivaling with the US ones is because the EU countries had to rebuild themselves after the war and now you claim that is because the EU itself was just a baby back in the 90s and that some
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by bilekas 1y ago
> GP is correct the EU rested on it's laurels, it wrongly thought that the US would always be there in case of crisis. This was a big mistake and now the chicken have come home to roost. The EU didn't rest on it's laurels,
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by bilekas 1y ago
> EU secretly just wants to buy Russian gas because it's cheap and easy. It's no secret, reliable cheap source of the most important resource on the planet right now is essential for any economy today. What do you expect us to
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by bilekas 1y ago
> Sorry; it is Europe’s fault. Did everyone forget after WW 2 central Europe had to rebuild basically all of its infrastructure ? The hubris in this chat today is deafening.
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by bilekas 1y ago
> Their gamble did not pay off because they mis-underestimated Russia. Like all economies we depend primarily on fossil fuels. It's unfortunate that we can get it ridiculously cheap from Russia but that's the free market. We ar
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by bilekas 1y ago
Wow there is a lot to unpack here.. Firstly don't speak as if 'they' in some absolute consensus please, in the EU we are nothing if opinionated about our own interests, hence the amount of bureaucracy and the length of time i
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by bilekas 1y ago
> Yes, it's the responsibility of the state that it's citizens can acquire their needs, but that doesn't mean it has to be government owned. Absolutely agree, it may not need to be government owned, however it should absol
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by bilekas 1y ago
No, so each household has an allowance, to avoid obviously exploitation. For example 0-4 residents have an annual allowance of 213,000 liters. Anything above that is charged at €1.85 per 1000 liters. Note : The average amount of water used
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by bilekas 1y ago
The responsibility to look after the citizens basic needs such as water is on the government. Not private for-profit companies. If they can't do their job, then we shouldn't pay our taxes ?
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by bilekas 1y ago
I remember they tried to privatize water in Ireland a good few years ago and there was so much backlash that it had to be binned. Basically everyone was destroying the meters that were being installed. Water is a human right, not a commodit
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by bilekas 1y ago
> PS5 has something like 16GB unified RAM, and no game is going to really push much beyond that in VRAM use, we don’t really get Crysis style system crushers anymore. This isn't really true from the recreational card side, nVidia th
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by bilekas 1y ago
Agree with you actually, I think every 'gamer' has bitten the bullet on a pre order and been very disappointed. It's usually the publishers decision in the end and it's to guage demand, but in this case, it shows there i
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by bilekas 1y ago
Leaving out that your comment is opinionated and objectively wrong, pop culture is also knowledge.
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by bilekas 1y ago
No system is completely redundant proof. It's just a matter of money and infrastructure. They didn't have any preorder system in place even so everyone had to search, buy and download all at the same time. It's probably close
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by bilekas 1y ago
> I'm no frontend expert but cant you just open a websocket and when the websocket dies from the server's perspective, you have your cue to do whatever cleanup you wanted to do? If I'm not mistaken, and I very well might b
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by bilekas 1y ago
Okay so it's basically just a baked in implementation of what people did already but instead of using onUnload they have more visibility into the client context. Seems dirty in a way, the agent could basically internally call the same
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by bilekas 1y ago
This would be nice but I can't see any option for Chromium/Brave inside the chrome://flags .. Do you know if there is one ?
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by bilekas 1y ago
So this is kind of interesting, and I had a look at the spec. > The data parameter is the BodyInit data that is to be transmitted. However I couldn't find any information in the Spec itself about the size of the data until it said t
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by bilekas 1y ago
From my perspective, I'm so tired of ads being the main source of revenue on the internet. If they're added to chatgpt for example I will most definitely be moving to another that has no ads. Probably I don't represent the ma
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by bilekas 1y ago
Can be financially the only viable option, also they present an amazing opportunity to train up to fit better into your ideal.
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by bilekas 1y ago
> Logically it follows that anyone who "has something to hide" will seek the safe harbor of a political position Politicians are the new clergy then. You're not wrong.
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by bilekas 1y ago
You mean you sis the math yourself? Novel idea these days. /s
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by bilekas 1y ago
> The United States paid nothing for these Shares The president has been known to not know all the facts or exaggerate about what is known. Personally, and sadly, his tweets are worthless than my fortune cookies. > https://

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