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by copx 11mo ago
First steps towards the Holodeck.
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by copx 11mo ago
>Epstein, who killed himself Okay, I cannot take this article seriously.
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by copx 1y ago
>You really can't go wrong browsing our list of the best games of all time. https://ifdb.org/search?browse You can, because those games are the best according to the preferences of interactive fiction connaisseurs,
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by copx 1y ago
Zionism was founded as a secular ethno-nationalist movement and to this day your entitlement to Israeli citizenship depends on your ethnicity, not your religion. An atheist Jew is just as entitled to live in Israel as an ultra-orthodox one.
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China is making AI education mandatory(businessinsider.com)
1 points by copx 1y ago|2 comments
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by copx 1y ago
Something more people should know about the Rwandan genocide is that the Tutsi were not innocent victims but had previously committed genocide themselves - against the Hutu [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiza ]. The
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by copx 1y ago
The author wrote this article on a device produced in a factory powered by coal. In case you haven't noticed: Pretty much all the electronic devices you use are made in China and China's industry runs on coal. Coal is nasty, the a
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by copx 2y ago
>the US Government could disrupt “business as usual” or turn into a hostile state actor a la China You typed this on hardware made by a hostile state actor: China. As long as the hardware side of digital civilization is completely depen
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by copx 2y ago
>Now electric car transition there is done It is not. Only 18% of newly registered cars are electric i.e. over 80% of the people are still buying new CE cars, to say nothing about the massive used car market which is almost completely
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by copx 2y ago
I am amazed that ChatGPT can simulate such a believable "persona". Kinda scary actually. A lot of people falling prey to these "digital parasites" seems to be inevitable. Even if you warn people about them. It's li
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by copx 2y ago
The UK is infamous for housing illegal immigrants in hotels, and they don't just get free food but free money, too. Oh, and free healthcare. Free money, housing, and healthcare for everyone is also the law here in Germany, which is why
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by copx 2y ago
Tl;dr: It is just pointer dereferencing. I.e. C's *ptr is ptr.* in Zig.
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by copx 2y ago
It seems AI is profiting from a bilateral arms race here, just like the competing US and USSR space programs did back in the day. I am betting on the East this time, though. Western AI companies are ultimately about monetization, while the
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by copx 2y ago
I think it's the same phenomenon as with the Kurds. Both groups need the West because they are existentially threatened in their native region and have no other allies. The Kurds are surrounded / occupied by Turks, Arabs, and Iran
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by copx 2y ago
>The point being that new stuff isn’t just competing with new stuff but also old stuff. I think that this will become a bigger and bigger problem for the games industry. While movies, TV shows, literature, and music are always expression
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by copx 2y ago
I think calling Brutalism a crime against humanity would not be an exaggeration.
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Microsoft LISP(edm2.com)
27 points by copx 2y ago|4 comments
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by copx 2y ago
>Cuis rendering was so much better than Pharo out of the box and it provides native vector graphics… I installed the stable version of Cuis (7.0) on Windows according to the instructions. Then I did New morph.. -> Vector Graphics -&gt
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by copx 2y ago
If people need a 40-year mortgage to be able to afford a house.. society needs a reboot.
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by copx 2y ago
>How do you know if someone is a care provider or they just say so? We have central authorities for that and as a patient I don't have to worry about it. In the case of public insurance (which over 80% of Germans use) the care provi
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by copx 2y ago
Man, American healthcare sucks. Who came up with this "network" idea? I hope they are burning in hell. Here in Germany I can just go to any doctor/care provider. The insurance companies don't have networks I need to worr
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by copx 2y ago
>Depreciated by 'who'? By the very Khronos Group you mentioned. They are developing Vulkan now, which they consider the successor to OpenGL. There will be no new OpenGL versions, again it is deprecated technology. Deprecated by
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by copx 2y ago
OpenGL is a questionable choice given that it is deprecated technology. I don't get why somebody would start a new project based on OpenGL these days.
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by copx 2y ago
I assure you, that no Western right-winger likes the Islamist Erdogan.
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by copx 2y ago
So you are telling me, Musk is a fan of the Islamist regime in Turkey and its persecution of non-Islamists.. Somehow, I don't believe that. Especially given that X also censors for India's anti-Islamic government.. Seems pretty ob
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by copx 2y ago
That's nothing. In the community of the mobile game Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes you are not even a proper whale if you have not spent six figures. Unsurprisingly the game has generated over a billion dollars of revenue by now.
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by copx 2y ago
The population density in Singapore is much higher than in Detroit. Guess where you are more likely to become the victim of a crime..
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by copx 2y ago
A Lua table is data structure which contains both an array and a hash map part i.e. it accepts both indexed and keyed entries. E.g.: myTable[1] = "red" myTable.name = "Color Codes"
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by copx 2y ago
They get 900 USD a month of stable income from Patreon. Add to that income from art commissions etc. and realize that they don't have to pay rent, car insurance etc. Looks sustainable enough.
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by copx 2y ago
I can't see the file there.

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