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Isn’t Facebook just as full of ads that can’t even be blocked by uBO? When I log into the FB account I haven’t really been using in more than a decade, it’s 99% “sponsored” stuff, ads and reels. Really I could scroll through pages and pages
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The Neo not only exposes functionality that would prove limiting on the iPhone too, but it’s mostly used that way. First thing that comes to mind is true multi-window multitasking. The apps are standard Mac apps that don’t assume a RAM limi
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Orthogonal? Every ally saw the US jumping into a war at a single country's calling, and only for their benefit, failing to protect its Gulf allies, and causing hardships for everyone in the world hanging on those oil prices. I have no
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There are no laws that force companies to store all (generic) data in Europe. If there were then the companies asking about migrations just now would already be in breach. You’re probably thinking of PII (GDPR/EUDPR) and even there the
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> For the US, the only pain is inflation That and its trust and geopolitical influence even among allies being quickly eroded to the benefit of countries like China. Inflation and ammo stockpiles are easier to fix.
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Why the Cybertruck? What does it bring to the table other than a futuristic name and a polarizing design? Why not a Ford Raptor or F-150 Lightning?
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It's about as useful as an F1 car if you see it as a development platform.
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I think what OP means is that these companies keep promising AI is exceptional for one thing but for some reason it's never used for that. The only visible outcome of AI in these companies is that they spend so much on it they end up l
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> its impossible for us to find multiple needles in multiple haystacks and chain them together Except "we" have been successfully chaining attacks long before AI started automating it. AI doesn't make any of this possible
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Their obvious ineffectiveness for the stated purpose, combined with the effectiveness for the unstated, hidden purpose.
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If a lawyer takes notes and puts them in a computer, or a cloud drive, or send it over email, they are still covered by attorney-client privilege, right? If they use an AI to do it, it's treated more like a third party no longer covere
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It's in the viewable text on the page. > A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege. By now everyone knows
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Not this. Let's reframe the problem. How many years behind do you think they are? By all accounts Gemma 4 is better than a frontier model from 3 years ago. Back then we were wowed by frontier models but when the local model reaches the
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In France there are 2 peaks in a working day, one around 12:00-13:00, and one around 19:00. On weekends there's a third peak around 22:00-23:00. https://www.rte-france.com/en/data-publications/eco2mix/ele
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People already showed that they will swallow anything as long as it's attached to "protect from the terrorists" label. Protect the children is an even more powerful extension. Few people ever really have to worry about terror
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The cases where the bully is truly irredeemable are few and far between. Most of the time the adults just abandon too quickly. Especially in school where teachers are stretched thin and have no “blood duty” to the child. But more importantl
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The moment you abandon any attempt to correct the behavior you guarantee they are “lost” to society.
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> You are basically using Google by proxy unless you use a truly independent browser engine This conclusion doesn't follow your premise. Google has to pay because if Mozilla dies, so does the claim of any real competition on the bro
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> No, I don't decide shit. Shareholders can't force you to make them money. Blame is probably shared but it's your pressure to have super fast deliveries for anything because you can't wait or walk to a store that
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> PS They have better conditions and pay in my country. It still isn't great. Again due to lack of leverage since a lot of them are migrants. Took a while to guide to horse to water. We circled back to what I said from the first com
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Consuming and needing to store are very different things. Most media is disposable, one-time consumption. How many people stored the newspapers they read? Why would you want to store every movie or series you watch? 30TB of data is somethin
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> had jobs that required no (At least not after a good amount of training) essential irreplaceable skills or experience and had plenty of purchasing power. The world changed. The skill pool was expanded significantly and skills are distr
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The product brief says maximum 30W and it looks like the whole enclosure is a heatsink, even has ribs on the back. The expected operating temp is 50C but it's probably rated to operate at higher than that. P.S. I had to shuck 20TB WD d
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The prices aren't going down for large consumer drives because the market is so small, and because the AI DC market is swallowing up everything. There's little demand from your average consumer to have 30TB of storage, let alone s
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Companies really want to use AI because they can cut the workforce. But today's AI is generally not able to fill in the gaps in processes and documentation a human could. Hence the renewed focus on formalizing everything properly becau
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> And that lowest possible salary is so low because we allow for wage suppression tactics such as this. When you're talking about better paid jobs you're right to point that out. But for the bottom of the barrel jobs this doesn
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> they are seen as equally expensive They go off shore because they are less expensive. Gotta love that switch to a passive voice whenever you're flagging your own guilt. You didn't see, things are seen . You see them as
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> It means that I get a lower quality service as I believe my people can do it better. It's hard to argue nationalistic beliefs. Maybe "your people can do it better" but they won't because they do it for the lowest po
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Except that if you want to save on RAM you'll also have to pick the lower resolution screen and lower rated CPU. These aren't easy upgrades later on.
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> It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs > The law, which takes effect May 6, doesn't make VPNs illegal — but it's a blow to your rights, even if you don't live in Utah. > websites subject

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