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by causi 4y ago
Doesn't always work. I have firsthand experience trying to use it on an Asus X13 and it just happily goes to sleep like it wasn't even running and activated.
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by causi 4y ago
I used to be able to set up a new Windows installation from memory in less than ten minutes after finishing installation. Now it takes me damn near an hour and I have to keep a text file with all the steps to un-fuck Windows.
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by causi 4y ago
What gets me is the extraordinarily basic things you can't do without third-party software. You can no longer just drag a Start menu search result onto your desktop for a shortcut. The Taskbar cannot be set to automatically extend upwa
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by causi 4y ago
Too little too late. TikTok is embedded in the culture now. They could've banned it four years ago when all these privacy concerns were first making headlines but now that half the population uses it every day there's no chance in
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by causi 4y ago
I feel like somewhere around the release of Windows 8 Microsoft's OS division completely lost the plot and they've been coasting on profits from their other divisions ever since.
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by causi 4y ago
He and his family moved to Austin in 2021 from Southern California, eager to live somewhere slightly less expensive and vulnerable to climate change, he says. I know the article isn't about this, but seriously? Move into a place that
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by causi 4y ago
25 year fixed mortgages seem like a subsidy to homebuyers that protects them from the market. Can you explain how this is a subsidy when it's a private lender offering me the mortgage? Why would they offer it to me at that rate if it
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by causi 4y ago
I think the 10x will become a sad concrete things, with salaries crunching and a team lead expected to take up the work of teams being fired, resorting to AI minions. It's a crazy tables have turned situation. I don't really see
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by causi 4y ago
where variable rate mortgages (for example following Euribor) are the default That seems so reckless. Why would anyone risk the largest part of their budget spiraling out of control at the whim of the market?
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by causi 4y ago
RPi prices are so inflated they barely make sense at all, let alone for all these little "give my plants half a cup of water every day" projects.
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by causi 4y ago
Publicly it was an accident. Privately it was a suicide.
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by causi 4y ago
I'd gladly do the same if I could get all my extensions. It's so annoying to have to pull my laptop out when I need to capture an embedded video from a page or want to download all the pictures or capture a screenshot of the whole
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by causi 4y ago
Nuclear weapons are 1940s technology. It is not a mystery. What stands between backyard terrorists and nuclear armageddon are problems of scale and material sourcing. You can't gather the required ore and build the required refining in
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by causi 4y ago
Maybe if this really takes off, in a couple of decades they'll have enough money to dedicate a research team into finding a way for Firefox Mobile users to change their UserAgent. How does Mozilla seem to have the time and money to do
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by causi 4y ago
A biological microscope will not work, because the silicon substrate is opaqe to visible light; in a metallurgical microscope, the light reflects off of the sample rather than transmitting through it. Is there a reason you couldn't j
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by causi 4y ago
It was not a tech debt issue. He used it to commit suicide.
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by causi 4y ago
Just imagine half a million people in your state got killed by some foreign invader Half a million people were not killed by a foreign invader. They were killed as a result of a foreign invader destroying the existing power structure. The
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by causi 4y ago
And for what? Today, Iraq is struggling to rebuild itself. Iran and ISIS remain a serious threat. The Americans hoped to build a Jeffersonian republic in the heart of the Middle East, and failed. The whole thing seems like a horrible, trag
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by causi 4y ago
the way to persuade for the other side to use peaceful methods But being a pacifist has nothing to do with persuading other people to be peaceful. He's describing himself and his own attitude. I agree with the para bellum saying but
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by causi 4y ago
If one side gains a major advantage they may decide to attack knowing that you'll have the worst of it. The weaker side may be more likely to use thier ultimate out of desperation and "nothing left to lose" type thinking. T
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by causi 4y ago
we’ve also built in guardrails, like capping the number of exchanges in a dialogue, to try to keep interactions helpful and on topic So it's simultaneously more neutered and less stable than what OpenAI already offers, in addition to
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by causi 4y ago
short for President Reagan’s controversial Strategic Defense Initiative program, a proposed “missile shield” that threatened to further destabilize an already tenuous nuclear détente Not that SDI was going to work, but I will never unders
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by causi 4y ago
There is nothing in the etymology of the word "pacifism" that restricts it to use in the context or support of war or preparations thereof. https://www.etymonline.com/word/pacifism#etymonline_v_2963
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by causi 4y ago
What kind of hate speech could you possibly generate with ChatGPT that doesn't already exist in the wild, free to copy and spread?
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by causi 4y ago
Was he using the phrase or just calling himself a pacifist?
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by causi 4y ago
People who use the "bad apple" phrase like that are using it to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means and it drives me crazy. The phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch."
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by causi 4y ago
It's going to be truly exciting when we can run something as powerful as GPT-4 on home hardware. I'll be so interested in trying it out with the brakes removed and no "Sorry Dave, I can't do that" messages.
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by causi 4y ago
Yes. Honda, Toyota, and Ford drivers have complained to me about it.
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by causi 4y ago
So you sit there and watch every sponsor segment? You don't skip past them or mute them? Get sponsored by something worth buying and I'll watch the sponsor reads. Hell, get sponsored by something that isn't actively a scam an
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by causi 4y ago
Is a thing locked behind glass truly any better than a collection of photos, videos, and 3D scans? Is there even any difference between a working unit and a broken one when you can't touch either? Besides, if you're using somethin

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