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by davoneus 2y ago
I wouldn't believe any missionaries statements of fact. After all, their history is as bad or worse than Columbus wrt the treatment of the native peoples in the Americas.
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by davoneus 2y ago
LOL... yea, I suffer the same problem. Case in point: I've been trialing Luculent for a week or so after seeing it here.
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by davoneus 2y ago
Iosevka is a great font, but it has SO MANY options, that I doubt one person's Iosevka is super comparable to anothers. =) I know I certainly customized the heck out of mine.
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by davoneus 2y ago
Nature relayed one from the British Dental Journal (2023) on the acid protection granted by BioMin F. ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-024-7876-8 ) Here's another from 2022 that compares Colgate fluoride too
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by davoneus 2y ago
From the article: "Instead, they are helping people to make their own, identical pirated versions of proven and tested pharmaceuticals by taking the precursor ingredients and performing the chemical reactions to make the medication the
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by davoneus 2y ago
What petty BS; it's a rounding error of a press release! If you want numerical precision, go read American Mathematical Society papers.
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Meta releases an open-weights GPT-4-level AI model, Llama 3.1 405B(arstechnica.com)
32 points by davoneus 2y ago|3 comments
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by davoneus 2y ago
"It's potentially the first time anyone can download a GPT-4-class large language model (LLM) for free and run it on their own hardware. You'll still need some beefy hardware: Meta says it can run on a "single server nod
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by davoneus 2y ago
Let's not forget Charles Lindbergh in that group either. He was wildly anti-semitic, and spoke glowingly of Hitler frequently, even into the 40s. Maybe it was due to that medal he received from Hermann Gohering.
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by davoneus 3y ago
Typical; someone with only half of a story pushing an agenda. You can look at the data yourself(*) No state pays more outright than California. Followed closely by NY, Mass, Ct, NJ. Look at per-capita income, and California is receives less
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by davoneus 3y ago
Home Assistant: The State of Matter (Jan, 2024) "We believe in Matter: it’s open source, and most importantly, it’s fully local by default... Matter launched only one year ago, compared to twenty years for a standard like Zigbee, so it
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by davoneus 3y ago
I've got a lot of respect for Oki. Granted they've left the US market but still in the EU and Asia. Heck, we were getting security firmware updates 7 years after initial purchase. Of the 10 we had at work, still rocking 9 of them
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by davoneus 3y ago
Yeah, a creator who gets money from the very entity he complains about. I unsubscribed from his channel the very day I saw that video. As a YT premium subscriber, I'll support creators who have at least some self honesty For goodness s
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by davoneus 3y ago
If you shove a bunch of $100 dollar bills on a thorn tree, it doesn't make it any less dangerous or change it's fundamental nature.
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by davoneus 3y ago
Yeah, DDG in my personal experience stinks. I've tried it several times over the past couple of years, and it always gives midgrade results (at best). Maybe I've just trained myself to phrase questions that return better results o
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by davoneus 3y ago
The idea that knowledge didn't disappear during the "dark ages" is blatantly wrong. Entire swaths of knowledge disappeared simply because the Christian monks only preserved matter favorable to Christianity. If the Roman (paga
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by davoneus 3y ago
No, the terms of service (TOS) mandates how and what you can do on their site. A snippet: " Permissions and Restrictions You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and applica
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by davoneus 3y ago
Absolutely, and I agree. I am a YouTube premium subscriber, and while nothing is perfect, YT does a fairly good job. Heck, they actually publish how much they pay their creators (45% - 55% of ad revenue). Sure, it could be more, it could be
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by davoneus 3y ago
Bull. I don't open up my browser and get fed YouTube videos. I choose to go to YouTube and watch videos. At no point did they "send me" a YouTube video for free.
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by davoneus 3y ago
I'd blame the prevailing economic mantra that "profits are the only things that matter" more than any set of UD presidents.
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by davoneus 3y ago
Also aggregating the entire situation is Wall Streets unhealthy laser focus on each Quarter's profits. Because we all know if a company needs to spend 100mill and a year to bring up a new supply source, their stock price will plummet d
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by davoneus 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not convinced, given GM's (and most automakers) reaction to Covid and the continuing chip shortage. Maybe things have changed; I'd certainly be glad to hear it. But we all know of Wall Street's long history of
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by davoneus 4y ago
Up front: I don't play the game, nor have I bought it. The brouhaha over it in the non-technical, broad journalistic sites was both generally lazy and biased. I browse a couple dozen 'news' sites each day, and I know my news
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by davoneus 4y ago
Anyone who presides what Musk had done at Twitter is obviously either a Musk-can-do-no-wrong acolyte, or an ignoramus who's out of touch. I'd bet the former, if for no other reason than pity.
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by davoneus 4y ago
Hell, India's democracy damn well should be; it had a chance to learn from the US and others mistakes. That said, Indian democracy is a pale imitation to post WW2 European democracies.
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by davoneus 4y ago
Recommended away, but ease of use matters. I can use, and am comfortable with keepassxc, but there is no way in he* my wife, daughter or parents would be. It was hard enough getting them used to using BitWarden.
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by davoneus 4y ago
Amen. People are amazed when I fire up SysInternals 'ProcMon' and show them how many hundreds of thousands of times their AV fires off in one single minute of monitoring. ( ) I'll grant that kind of sustained checking is what
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by davoneus 4y ago
I half suspect the only reason Twitter had the status it did is because all the news organizations pushed it so hard. Hell, it did all the hard work of finding interesting "new/hot" topics for them to cover. Made their job e
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by davoneus 4y ago
IMHO, Bluesky is nothing more than Dorsey's attempt to clone what Matrix was set out to do. And truthfully, Matrix already has already achieved a great deal; namely passing the 60 million user mark back in June of 2022, 70 million by
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by davoneus 4y ago
I tell everyone I know to check Mastodon out, but that IMHO, it's fundamentally flawed for what most people expect from Twitter. Simply because Mastodon has a NUMBER of major issues which include deep, hard to resolve issues. For examp

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