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by chmod775 2y ago
> There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, would you pay >$80 a month for it?
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by chmod775 2y ago
> China proved the Great Firewall was possible. Technologically? Maybe. Practically? I'm posting this while using uncensored Internet from within China, and not because I'm going out of my way to evade any blocking. The GFW is
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by chmod775 2y ago
These models are not trained to act like a single human in a conversation, they're trained to be every participant and their average. Every instance of a human choosing not to engage or speak about something - because they didn'
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by chmod775 2y ago
Read the room and maybe don't do it to that unhinged looking guy from the subway. Personally I enjoy a bit of excitement, but most people don't want confrontation, which is why appearing confrontational before they're committ
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by chmod775 2y ago
If they don't take the polite "no", immediately reach for insults. People who intentionally annoy you don't deserve civility - they're not showing any themselves. My personal favorites is along the lines of: "A
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by chmod775 2y ago
The value of something is whatever someone else is willing to pay for it. It does not matter that something is not valuable to you - I can guarantee that if you priced the mission as low as $1m/$10m/$100m dollars, some PHD, weal
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by chmod775 2y ago
Good point. I'm used to most libraries being part of a national system of libraries, which will get you volumes shipped from another one if they don't have it there. Local curation doesn't mean much since your main interface
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by chmod775 2y ago
I'm fine with the idea that some books aren't appropriate to be read by younger people, but a lot of those bans seem to be about wanting children to not be intellectually aware of anything not sanctioned by the board of censors
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by chmod775 2y ago
> No one would bat an eye at banning films or websites from schools that have the content that some of these books have. Only some of these books? It's already hard to defend censorship with saying "it deserved to be censored
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by chmod775 2y ago
> It feels intuitive that a thin fluid on a low-friction surface (like water) would spread out "as much as possible" given enough time. Most fluids do not behave this way in most circumstances, because of surface tension, so
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by chmod775 2y ago
> It's a 20 minute long video You mean 20 minutes short . There's enough in there to blow it up into a 45 minute documentary at least. You already spent more than 20 minutes commenting under this story. > The information de
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by chmod775 2y ago
Asianometry's videos are good precisely because of the detail and background he goes into. If you summarize them you take that away and pretty much just end up with what has already been said here.
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by chmod775 2y ago
Yes. The idea of socializing or bonding at work is bizarre to me. Work is for... working. The sooner I get that done the sooner I can leave and spend time with people I want to actually socialize with. Like sure, let's have a celebrati
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by chmod775 2y ago
Given that the full AWS setup that would replace that one server would cost closer to $6000-8000 / month, they could just use that money to buy a bunch of extra hard drives, a backup server, and hire a junior dev/sysadmin whose o
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by chmod775 2y ago
If I could maintain a worldview that simple my life would be so much easier.
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by chmod775 2y ago
The subsidies are contingent on Intel building a plant. Germany's finance minister is already eyeing those 11b to balance books, because it looks like they won't be needed for now. This stuff rarely takes the form of the governmen
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by chmod775 2y ago
Backup plan? You are missing the point. If you need a backup you already messed up. The only entities that should need backups of anything but treasured photos are businesses. If you don't bank on the assumption that you will always
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by chmod775 2y ago
Prime satellite photo time is probably not the time of day most people get to play basketball recreationally.
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by chmod775 2y ago
> What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? I think most people would be... just fine? Personally I'm from a culture that is very distrusting of those big platforms anyways, so people are
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by chmod775 2y ago
That chart shows one unfortunate person getting a prediction of 400 days, and dying one day after the prediction was made. I wonder whether the cause of death was even related to the disease. That may explain some of the discrepancy: Doctor
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by chmod775 2y ago
Here's an idea: get a USB-C hub that can use auxiliary power/passthrough charging/whatever it's called: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XF5489G Make sure it can support 100W (that one only goes to 85W)
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Both in terms of the cost of components and the labor needed to figure out each vehicle's specific conversion, this seems expensive, slow, and perhaps is a source of quality/safety concerns. We are speaking about countries wh
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by chmod775 2y ago
They're not blaming it on politics. However the explanation can be politically hazardous (if you at all care what Twitter says, which you shouldn't). Wanting to play as conventionally attractive/cool characters is not some
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by chmod775 2y ago
> I don't see demand for real diamonds going anywhere. Calling one "real" and not the other is the wrong. Synthetic diamonds aren't an imitation. The distinction is "natural" and "synthetic". >
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Right now, we have about 800 monthly donors and about $7,500 in monthly donations. That covers our server costs pretty much exactly. For only 2M registered (not even monthly) users? Tell me you are using AWS without telling me you ar
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by chmod775 2y ago
You could argue against seatbelts the same way: seatbelts can cause abrasion of the skin during everyday driving, which is a more present and pervasive threat to most than car crashes. In both instances it turns out that the difference in m
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by chmod775 2y ago
> I don't see what that has to do with anything, and I don't see what that has to do with productive debate. You can't have a productive debate about this topic with not-verifiable anecdotes and second-hand accounts. &gt
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by chmod775 2y ago
For all we know that court case could have never even happened! If it did just as you reported, then that would be bad, but please understand the following: It's a tall order to ask random strangers on the internet to trust your second
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by chmod775 2y ago
> I think alluding to modern day problems The quoted part is not an allusion. Rather it's stating plainly that "rape is hard to prosecute", which is an opinion stated as fact, and it further opines that too many times th
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by chmod775 2y ago
> Probably because it’s talking about a historical practice? The article is indeed talking about historical practices... while making explicit references to, and expressing opinion on, present day practices. What is it you are trying to

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