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by chii 9mo ago
> they think the audience is now fully captive. the audience is captive. Do you have a choice to move from android, if you didnt want to have an apple device? Do you want to use a different search engine other than google? Is there anoth
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by chii 9mo ago
> But that is marketing not coding. it's the network effect. If normies who don't care for things (which is most people tbh) don't decide to switch, do you, as a techie/early adopter, just turn off whatsapp and discon
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by chii 9mo ago
a project is a dictatorship, not a democracy. The dictator could be benevolent - as is most, because it's the most beneficial to be one. However, there's no rules that says they must be. They could run it with an iron fist. The co
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by chii 9mo ago
> i've heard it as a dismissal countless times. a project owner have the right to be dismissive about anything regarding their own project. This is why "just fork it" is both dismissive, but also power. If you are simply a
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by chii 9mo ago
> you can't transfer large sum of money because money laundering rule when did that happen? I can transfer as large an amount, provided i can prove the providence of said money wasn't from crime.
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by chii 9mo ago
So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?
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by chii 9mo ago
> This has always been the case, and not just the US either. the difference is that the US used to pretend that international laws mattered - at least, they selectively only ignore some when it's advantageous, but pay lip service to
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by chii 9mo ago
Yep, exactly this. The cost of CO2 capture, and conversion into usable fuels, is in the cost of the setup of the infrastructure etc (as well as cost to run the pumps once setup, which in this case is where the free electricity goes). The re
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by chii 9mo ago
> make synthetic fossil fuels from atmospheric CO2. that would actually be my preferred solution (if only it was less energy inefficient, sigh).
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by chii 9mo ago
> refusing to respect the site owners wishes should a site owner be able to discriminate between a bot visitor and a human visitor? Most do, and hence the bots treats it as a hostile environment. Of course, bots that behave badly have cr
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by chii 9mo ago
In the long run, we're all dead. So shareholders might suffer the same fate, but they're more comfortable before we all drown.
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by chii 9mo ago
If anything, economic collapse of the USA is more likely to lead to war (which then increases the likelihood of nuclear weapons usage).
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by chii 9mo ago
While you cannot put the blame on climate change onto iran alone (all of humanity has a part in it), the regime wants to deflect the blame conveniently onto climate change so as to absolve themselves of being responsible for their current w
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by chii 9mo ago
> good endings to this insanity. and why would that be a good ending? Or are you saying that such an event would collapse the superpower, in which case, it's good (but for everyone else other than that superpower)?
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Jerome Powell's being threatened [video](youtube.com)
13 points by chii 9mo ago|0 comments
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by chii 9mo ago
while the drought was the last straw, i think the mismanagement of their water resources by the regime (for embezzlement of public funds, direct or indirect, into insider pockets etc) is the true root cause. There's "enough"
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by chii 9mo ago
i wonder if such a mechanism could be "enhanced" to produce a true "universal" binary, using a source-to-source compiled language like Haxe? With Haxe, you can write the application once, target both win32 and linux by c
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by chii 9mo ago
> Huh, although, how does it do that without using Windows API? without knowing anything, i am going to guess that they could either directly import the same code that the windows api uses (either via knowing where the implementation cod
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by chii 10mo ago
Would it not be a new paradigm, where the generated code from AI is segregated and treated like a binary blob? You don't change it (beyond perhaps some cosmetic, or superficial changes that the AI missed). You keep the prompt(s), and m
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by chii 10mo ago
> Things get exponentially cheaper as you make more of them. not all things. Things that can scale are things that have a non-linear scaling production output vs input. For the LCDs (and semi-conductors), the area of the output is square
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by chii 10mo ago
not OP, but for clojure : https://github.com/bobschrag/clolog
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by chii 10mo ago
i treat it like i treat SQL.
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The Single Most Undervalued Fact of Linear Algebra [video](youtube.com)
1 points by chii 10mo ago|0 comments
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by chii 10mo ago
or figure out how to build it yourself from source. But you can count on the lazy tax - esp. for windows (as building from source on linux is likely to be much more convenient).
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by chii 10mo ago
> I would do this as a tree of possible consequences instead Games like Detroid:Become Human has a good UI for showing the decisions, and outcomes (as well as unexplored ones in grey). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfil
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by chii 10mo ago
it's not so black and white. If a student is willing and desire to learn, an LLM is better than a bad teacher. If a student doesn't want to learn, and is instead being forced to (either as a minor, or via certification required to
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by chii 10mo ago
> Just hastening the inevitable shift to Linux i do feel the ecosystem isn't broad enough for linux to become consumer facing. E.g., if you buy a random chinese made writing tablet and tried using it on linux, it has less than even
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by chii 10mo ago
> I don't consider it "malware" anymore than I consider a driver for my graphics card to be "malware" even if they do operate in kernel mode. the bloggers/journalists calling it malware is doing the conversa
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by chii 10mo ago
> your eBPF program triggers but how does the anti-cheat know that the kernel is not modified such that it disables certain eBPF programs (or misreports cheats/spoofs data etc)? This is the problem with anti-cheat in general (and th
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by chii 10mo ago
the OP isn't wrong about insider trading - it's just that it lacked the crucial bit about being _transparent_ about insider trading. Current insider trading laws are about _preventing_ it (but it still happens). This makes it so t

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