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by drweevil 2y ago
I have used deft on Emacs for years. It saves notes locally as text files (I use Markdown). I keep my notebook directory as a git repository, so that I can use my notes on any of my machines. Search and filtering is whole-text--no need to s
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>“We can no longer assume that funding will materialize to fix these longstanding issues.” This is blatantly disingenuous. An administration that is doing pretty much as it pleases with hardly a check, with friendly majorities in both ho
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This will fly like a lead balloon.
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If it were possible at all for Elon Musk to jump the shark, this would be it. This is utterly shameless.
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>“We are all very proud to work for the space program,” wrote Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer. “But in the current environment, with a lot of negative rhetoric coming in our direction, I want you all to please us
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We seem to have forgotten the point of having a functional economy, which is to provide people a means to exist. Bots writing code to interact with other bots, ad infinitum. Where will the revenue come from? Broke, jobless consumers?
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This, but here are some things I've learned to do: * Use a .local directory under my home directory instead of ~/bin. That's a great prefix when installing from source or tarball at the user level, keeps the top-level of the
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What if the trigger was the US annexing a NATO nation's territory? He's already made noises about Canada and Greenland (Denmark). That would be the ultimate farce.
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>"I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that." Amen, brother. RIP.
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This x 1000. This is one of the cognitive problems we're facing. All too many people think that these billionaires are like the rest of us, just with a bit more money. These people do not experience the world as we do . At all. And th
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That is clearly not the case in the US. With their repudiation of Sen. Sanders, the Democratic Party deliberately steered away from "pure" (whatever this ill-defined pejorative term may mean) and lost big. And when I say this, I m
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While still paying then peanuts.
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How much will it cost to repair the damage doge has done, is what I want to know.
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I'd take that sucker right back to the dealership and demand a fix or refund. WTF.
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As usual, all these claims by conservatives of "waste, fraud, and abuse" come with no citations needed. They are just taken on faith that it is so. They claim ppl over 200 are getting SS--"because Cobol." This is some ga
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Imagine a musician with an AI guitar. “It does scales! It can automatically play a piece in a different key!” How is that going to work out? The problem tho is if you take the time to learn and to understand, Kevin down the hall is going to
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I name mine after my cats, past and present.
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Rights holders could solve this problem by making their content accessible at reasonable prices. Instead they insist on exclusive deals with individual streaming services that, in aggregate, make their content prohibitively expensive to man
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>"unless you are really really self-confident." And then, WOW.
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And what about Elon’s tax returns?
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>”A Trump administration official said DOGE personnel needed IDRS access because DOGE staff are working to “eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and improve government performance to better serve the people.” My bet is that these people th
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Remember when ppl were freaking out about China's social credit system? Good times.
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Sure. But that would need to be funded too. It's not going to just happen.
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If we had a crystal ball that would tell us which piece of fundamental research will pan out, that would be great. But we don't. So we fund research with the understanding that a very high percentage of it will not directly lead us any
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These are all areas of contention, i.e. Malvinas/Falklands. This, otoh, is not, so we do (or did, anyway) agree on the name. It has been universally referred to as the Gulf of Mexico as long as I remember. I'd literally never he
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Word. "We've noticed you have an ad blocker. Please disable to..." or "you need JavaScript enabled to..." Nope, wouldn't be prudent. Not doin' it.
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>"To prevent this, Google has turned off posting." Silence, peasants! Names are things we agree on, or they lose their utility. Also, consistency would be nice. If you object (as Trump does) to Ft. Bragg -> Ft. Liberty, Ft.
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It’s the class, not the age. Young or old, they’ll always be exploiters.
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> the requirement … threatens to harm the country’s ability to compete internationally in research. Science has a lot of problems that are currently plaguing its credibility, and research as a competition between nations and institutions
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So, if a post contains the 4-letter acronym DOGE the Elon hall monitors jump into action and flag it. This is getting tedious, as are the arguments made to justify flagging the posts. "This has already been discussed." Fine. Start

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