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by deminature 4y ago
The W6800X Duo was released in the Mac Pro update in December 2019 [1] and is long overdue for a refresh. If anything it's impressive a card from 2019 is still competitive with top tier cards released in late 2022. [1] https:/&#x
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Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off engineers days before Christmas(sfgate.com)
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by deminature 4y ago
Involuntarily inflicting second-hand cigarette smoke on a child is unambiguously harmful and there's no credible alternative interpretation or slippery slope involved here.
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by deminature 4y ago
Those other forms of entertainment don't have nearly the destructive potential on a person's life and finances that gambling can have. A movie is a $5 one-time purchase, gambling is an endless recurring purchase that may not stop
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by deminature 4y ago
The contract Musk signed relinquished any right to diligence. >It added another degree of uncertainty to whether Mr. Musk would complete the deal, even though he had waived his rights to do due diligence on Twitter when he bought it. h
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by deminature 4y ago
WHO claims 17 million long COVID sufferers in Europe total during the pandemic period, these are hardly 'paltry' numbers [1] [1] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/13-09-2022-at-least-17-...
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by deminature 4y ago
Just a guess if I were responsible for making the decision. All these methods will probably disappear or get much tighter on how they can be used: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkuserconte... h
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by deminature 4y ago
They're going to heavily lockdown WKWebView after the Instagram and Tiktok revelations, probably in iOS16.1. They may even remove it entirely and force people to use SFSafariViewController (heavily locked down web browser, opaque to de
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by deminature 4y ago
Dems attempted to stop gerrymandering entirely by creating an independent districting body with the bill HR1, but were blocked from doing so.
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by deminature 5y ago
It's risk mitigation. Feature flagging everything is a pointless waste of time until suddenly you have to roll something back in production and it's not feature flagged. The value of feature flags increases with the greater the co
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by deminature 5y ago
It's fascinating to see Facebook threatened by a company they can't just acquire to put down their competition. Their response in the form of Reels is consistently much worse at recommending quality content than Tiktok is and gene
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by deminature 5y ago
Isn't this punishing Youtube for their own success at achieving a dominant market position? They didn't position themselves as the de-facto public square so much as became one due to lack of competition.
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by deminature 5y ago
People don't understand the difference between VC backed startups and public companies backed by institutional and retail investors
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California Capitol reinstates mask mandate after Covid outbreak(sfchronicle.com)
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by deminature 5y ago
TikTok's recommendation algorithm is incredible, Instagram Reels is fundamentally the same feature on the mobile side, but the recommendation portion really lets it down and ensures TikTok is going to remain the dominant player in this
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by deminature 5y ago
The early research emerging on possible brain changes from COVID is pretty alarming. Obviously further information is needed, but it's fairly shocking this can happen under any circumstances. https://twitter.com/ScottGo
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Just 2% of workers at VMware showed up for the first day of in-person work(sfgate.com)
76 points by deminature 5y ago|97 comments
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by deminature 5y ago
The fact that posters have to engage with a contradictory post instead of just downvoting it as on reddit has always been the strongest suit of 4chan. It's a great foil to the tiresome hivemind-eyness and tendency for only 'approv
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by deminature 6y ago
Last time I was there, someone was openly defecating in front of city hall, next to multiple people shooting heroin. I had to step over someone who had collapsed apparently from drug use, in front of a restaurant entrance, and nobody seemed
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by deminature 6y ago
Market St in SF is what most Australians see when attending conferences. The homelessness, human waste, open drug use, and visibly serious mental illness is pretty confronting for anyone not used to it, and that's at daytime - it gets
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by deminature 6y ago
NYC is one of them. Still requires you relocate 10000 miles away from your friends and family, which isn't for everyone.
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by deminature 6y ago
The mRNA vaccines have a turnaround of only a few weeks to produce a variant booster, so this is less of a concern than with older vaccine technologies. Moderna and Pfizer are currently trialing their SA strain booster that was formulated a
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by deminature 6y ago
>I write software and have no experience doing what I'm suggesting. This should be attached to a lot of posts here.
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by deminature 6y ago
Prefabs are interesting because a high quality house that would typically take a year to build can be constructed in 5-10 days. Huf Haus is one of a number of prefab house builders who do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by deminature 6y ago
A million dollars or some other significant sum of money doesn't nourish the soul the same way something you're actually passionate about does. You can fake it for a long time, but it's never quite the same, at least that I&#
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by deminature 6y ago
My point is that true freedom of speech of already only partially possible on the platform owing to moderators selectively taking down millions of posts daily that violate the 'community guidelines'. Extending this to anti-vaccina
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by deminature 6y ago
Allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to proliferate on the platform is fairly unambiguously harmful to society, especially during a pandemic that may rely on a vaccine to escape. It appears to be choosing engagement, which drives clicks, pag
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by deminature 6y ago
You would hope that the custodian of the world's most popular communication platform would have a greater sense of obligation to the social responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately we don't live in that world, and Zuckerbe
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by deminature 6y ago
They are being affected, just not as publicly as the transportation example https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-d-a-chesa-boudin-takes-action-t... What is particularly egregious is how traditional taxis are being ignored, des
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by deminature 6y ago
The RideShareGuy is the most prominent blog for drivers and their annual survey seems to reflect that [1] >66% of drivers said they wanted to be independent contractors vs 15.8% who wanted to be an employee [1] https://theride

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