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by calrain 2y ago
Could the legend of Atlantis just been a reference to early European sailors visiting North Africa, across the Mediterranean?
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by calrain 2y ago
Does anyone have good tips for removing dust out of the air in a room with computers? I run an Ikea air purifier all the time, but still get quite a bit of dust in the computer vents. Wondering if anyone has had a good experience with a set
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by calrain 2y ago
Don't down vote me, resist...
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by calrain 2y ago
This guy have some great insights into economics
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by calrain 2y ago
Please stop using X If the bar lets Nazi's in, it's a Nazi bar.
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by calrain 2y ago
Please stop using X If the bar lets Nazi's in, it's a Nazi bar.
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by calrain 2y ago
It's like those parents that don't give a shit about memes, and name their daughter Karen anyways. It catches up with you regardless
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by calrain 2y ago
You would have to be making a strong statement to buy a Tesla now, even a second hand one. And sadly, not a statement about cars.
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by calrain 2y ago
Are they really just going to use this to train AI models, to build the 'GrokGovAI' models?
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by calrain 2y ago
Every time I drive by a Tesla, the word Nazi pops into my mind. It's that type of word association and related customer behavior that will be a growing problem for them. I think an early indicator will be monitoring the secondhand mark
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by calrain 2y ago
I can imagine a time when you have to pay a monthly subscription for it to turn to the left.
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by calrain 2y ago
Lowering government expenses will not reduce the tax burden of the majority of Americans. Trumps original tax plan benefits the higher income earners at the expense of lower and middle income earners. Source: https://taxfoundatio
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by calrain 2y ago
Future America will understand that you don't treat government like a company. The money government spends on salaries is money directly injected back into the economy, it could be seen as a form of social welfare.
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by calrain 2y ago
It's true, once a secret is exposed then you become copy-able. But in reality it's more complex than that, because the secret maker has the advantage of momentum and someone copying you only has a snapshot in time (when they saw h
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by calrain 2y ago
A message from the trenches: - My startup was acquired a few years ago - Part of acquisition was to raise a patent for the core of the solution, the patent was issued in USA and UK - They then proceeded to mismanage and fail the startup - T
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by calrain 2y ago
I switched to Firefox for privacy reasons, and it took a while to get used to it, but I'm completely enjoying Firefox. There is some subtle tab / link click behavior that takes a bit to get used to, but after a while it just doesn
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by calrain 2y ago
This is a nightmare of a situation. It's true that it's probably over in a short time, but that is easily a stressful enough situation to cause people to have panic attacks, heart attacks, and have a range of other issues. I would
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by calrain 2y ago
No, the YouTube channel 'ThePrimeTime' has quite a few videos that talk about why programmers aren't going to be displaced by AI.
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by calrain 2y ago
Only to be instantly replaced with another 'World's oldest person'. Well done Tomiko! Enjoy your rest
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by calrain 2y ago
It won't affect it as 'usage models' are already used across a lot of verticals, they are not 'seat based'.
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by calrain 2y ago
If you can, have a Bird Bath in your back yard!
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by calrain 2y ago
Godot's 3D engine, I want to see if it's usable in business apps
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by calrain 2y ago
I'm sorry, but I never ask developers about things like FizzBuzz. When you get a developer, they are joining a project that they know little about, and the value they bring is how quickly they can adapt to the problem space and solutio
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by calrain 2y ago
When storing dates in a database I always store them in Unix Epoch time and I don't record the timezone information on the date field (it is stored separately if there was a requirement to know the timezone). Should we instead be stori
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by calrain 2y ago
Back when I was very young, with my family, cousins, all over at my grandparents place, having lots of fun. Here in Australia, Christmas is in our summer, so we used to have watermelon seed wars where everyone runs around the house eating w
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by calrain 2y ago
Recording the history of computing for future generations will be so important for a wide range of studies. It's great people collect, restore, and publish valuable historical pieces like these.
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by calrain 2y ago
Great to see your optimizations. I'm going through each day and asking ChatGPT to speed it up, it doesn't always work, but that is the way of the Gippity. The payoff is these heavy iterating operational scripts I run for work will
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by calrain 2y ago
It shows what happens when grid prices rise too high. There is a lot of good cheap tech to help provide baseline home power, especially when neighborhoods set up micro grids.
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Surprise solar boom in Pakistan helps millions, but harms grid and power cos(business-standard.com)
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by calrain 2y ago
I'm doing the challenges in PowerShell to see how it goes. I want to use it as a test to see how human programming can be improved by an AI, so I wrote the solution for day 1, got the right answer, and then gave my code to ChatGPT 4o t

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