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by dessimus 2mo ago
BMW: The Ultimate Advertising Machine
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by dessimus 2mo ago
Our government chooses to not punish those companies. Unfortunately, the lawmakers have decided that the donations to their PACs are more important than actually doing something about it.
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by dessimus 3mo ago
Post your domain and we can see if that is still the case in a few days.
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by dessimus 3mo ago
And miss the chance to rewrite it in Rust?! How dare you, good sir!
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by dessimus 3mo ago
The issue for doctors isn't medical school but the bottleneck is residency slots available post graduation. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12256077/
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by dessimus 3mo ago
We couldn't get people to wear masks to reduce the spread and help keep beds open for all the other typical needs, why would they let harm from fireworks impede them?
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by dessimus 3mo ago
BitTorrent transfers files, so should a BT client be bolted on too? Typically the Unix philosophy has been do one thing well, not do all the things.
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by dessimus 3mo ago
Sure, if those functions added were related to configuring network interfaces, but it would be odd if someone added functions for configuring storage controllers.
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by dessimus 4mo ago
He could have finished the series long before the Game of Thrones adaptation was in full swing, much less the general availability of LLMs. I think the HBO money made him care a lot less about ASoIaF mainline and went back to editing Wild C
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by dessimus 4mo ago
Security Best Practices change all the time. Failing to implement MFA because "it takes time and energy" and "besides we implemented 12 character, complex passwords years ago" will not be valid excuses for government reg
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by dessimus 4mo ago
Did you read the article to the end? It does bring speed ups for high resolution, like 4K. It's at more conventional laptop display sizes that its roughly on-par with, but the GPU scales better with pixel count.
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by dessimus 4mo ago
It's not like those consultants recommended something the CEO and Board didn't want to hear. They are paid to be the shield that blocks the arrows from shareholders. If they can get paid twice, once to recommend laying off 350 eng
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by dessimus 4mo ago
A game that I get bored of in 20 hours versus a game I sink 200 hours into have provided different levels of entertainment value. Even for books, a book that one enjoys reading so much that they return to multiple times is providing more en
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by dessimus 4mo ago
Another way to consider it is to think of it in terms of entertainment value. The average movie runtime in the US is 114 minutes or 1.9 hours, and the average movie ticket is $11.50. This means I'm paying on average ~$6.05/hr to s
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by dessimus 4mo ago
>Prices should get cheaper. That's a progress dividend. We get better at growing food every year, why shouldn't food get cheaper? This can only really happen if the rate of efficiency gains consistently out pace resource and la
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by dessimus 4mo ago
>most apps don't have any need to access the internet in the first place. It would severely depend on how you categorize "most apps" because I would say I pretty much only use apps that need the Internet, barring Calculato
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by dessimus 4mo ago
Are you not permitted to bump to current LTS on work laptop?
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by dessimus 4mo ago
Sure, if there's many paintings scattered around the house of various sizes, but if there's only one painting, in your office, behind the desk, mounted to cover a safe at standing height, then you might as well hang a neon sign sa
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by dessimus 4mo ago
>Why do problems caused by anti scientific behavior occur in a country like the United States, which has so many outstanding scientists? Simple answer, consider the normal distribution bell curve, the more outstanding scientists we have,
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by dessimus 4mo ago
> Meanwhile I can't use teams in our meeting rooms, since any form of internet access was deemed a security risk in rooms where customer projects could be discussed. This is in a day and age where 90% of customer meetings are done o
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by dessimus 5mo ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say if Canada wasn't willing to let Quebec leave, and they've tried with significantly more effort than Alberta ever has, then they're not going to let Alberta go.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
You don't know why they are tailgating or in a rush. For all anyone knows, they could have a passenger in a medical emergency.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
So then by your arguments above, you're good with California leaving since they'd be a G6 nation on their own? Because as you would might say: I'm sure this Canadian government would love to see an "independent" Cal
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by dessimus 5mo ago
Most of my physical junk mail is from local businesses like Eye Doctors, Dentists, or Trades, not National Brands unless its a local franchisee.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
I mean yeah, who would rather spend time at their job helping other users figure out how to include the right add-in for Dropbox to work with their various apps vs how Office integrates with OneDrive or Google Mail, Sheets, et al. integrate
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by dessimus 5mo ago
> It's a huge, disgusting waste of resources on multiple levels. The companies on the ads wouldn't do it that way if they were not getting a positive ROI from it. They probably only need to get 2 maybe 3 new customers to offset
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by dessimus 5mo ago
Or you could find a local tailor to adjust any shirt to be well-fitting on you.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
How are tanks working out in the Ukraine against an almost inexhaustible supply of cheap drones?
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by dessimus 5mo ago
They aren't the only ones: on average there are 1.5 guns for each person in the U.S.
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by dessimus 5mo ago
Given what Microsoft has done with the state of Windows with built-in telemetry, the attempts to add Recall, and now AI features they are adding to many customers dismay, you have them doing anything different with Windows Phone if it had g

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