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by black6 4mo ago
You don't understand! I NEED to drive a one-ton pickup every day to and from work! I MIGHT stop by the feed store on the way home to pick up some fence posts and fertilizer for my hobby farm. I HAVE to have the flexibility of a daily d
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GentleOS: A Hobby Operating System for Vintage PCs(adamsdesk.com)
4 points by black6 4mo ago|0 comments
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by black6 4mo ago
What were the Belfast arson and Edinburgh stabbing in response to?
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by black6 4mo ago
I've lived in Mississippi Hill Country, the Delta, and the Mississippi coast. The Delta is awful. Mechanization in farming and fleeing industry left the population behind to wither. North MS and the coast both have great things going f
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by black6 4mo ago
> Accounts you can create inline as you go. Scheduled and automatic movements that just happen. Things Gnucash does.
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by black6 4mo ago
Considering the rampant fraud in a certain country's university system, give me local CC graduates.
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by black6 4mo ago
This is the concern I have with all the driving aids: adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, lane departure assist, et cetera. It all leads to drivers paying less attention to the road and more attention to their @#$%&*! phones bec
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by black6 4mo ago
Nothing made me doubt the moon landings more than working for NASA.
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by black6 4mo ago
Absolutely, and the future where everything digital is "in the cloud" seems closer and closer every day. RAM and SSD costs skyrocketing sure is squeezing out the consumer and making her more dependent on cloud-based services.
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by black6 4mo ago
> Buyers and sellers alike pointed to the same reason: growing up in the digital age has intensified the desire for analogue objects and tangible connections to the past. There is something special about holding history in your hands. Bo
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by black6 4mo ago
Lotta middle managers here goofing off instead of working :D
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by black6 4mo ago
No, because the state owns a monopoly on violence and cracks down hard on vigilantism.
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by black6 4mo ago
Thinking that middle management is useless isn't a fad, it's an acknowledgement of reality.
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US Military personnel are being targeted using location data(reuters.com)
4 points by black6 4mo ago|0 comments
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by black6 4mo ago
If I own property in multiple municipalities/states, then I should be able to vote in all of them on local issues.
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by black6 5mo ago
> Malawi has also long been a darling of donors. Malawi’s aid per capita in 2023 was roughly 2.5x the global average. Maybe the population doesn't feel like it needs to be productive, if they're continuing to receive such gener
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by black6 5mo ago
The legislative process has a check valve. Vote on it until passes, then it can't be undone ever.
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by black6 5mo ago
> There's an incredibly serious lack of education with how LLMs & carb-counting works The public's education comes from the incessant marketing from AI companies that their models are the panacea for everything.
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by black6 6mo ago
> Each knob on the Master Control Panel has a different geometrical shape, allowing the user to distinguish the knobs by feel. Auto manufacturers should take a clue here.
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by black6 6mo ago
The tragedy of the commons doesn't seem to exist in Japan to the same extent it does in Western nations, especially the US. As you said: that's largely due to reasons not mentioned in the article.
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by black6 6mo ago
Medical malpractice consistently ranks in the top three leading causes of death in the US. Student use of AI to pass courses can only exacerbate the issue.
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by black6 6mo ago
Not mentioned in the article is that whales were once able to communicate globally, but the low frequency noise generated by maritime traffic killed the "Whale Internet."
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by black6 6mo ago
This. That crowd is constantly shoehorning themselves into non-pertinent issues as part of their pathological attention seeking behavior.
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by black6 6mo ago
If you prefer not to deal with an app store: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/rwth-aachen-university/phyphox...
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by black6 6mo ago
Oh we're doing this again.
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ADL Shut Down Sora(twitter.com)
4 points by black6 6mo ago|1 comments
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by black6 7mo ago
He probably didn't even read all of them once. Books are like wine: you don't have to drink all the wine you have before buying more.
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by black6 7mo ago
AI is not at all like real intelligence. Computers do not know what words mean because they do not experience the world as we do. They don't have the common sense or wisdom that people accumulate through the experience of life. Humans
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by black6 8mo ago
Not all mortgages require two incomes. Ones that do are evidence of the mortgagees getting out over their skis.
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by black6 8mo ago
Same goals; different roles.

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