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by eesmith 2y ago
PyPI uses (depends on, to be more precise) fastly. I get the fastly transient every time I use it.
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by eesmith 2y ago
There is no US law which prohibits the broad category of support, public or otherwise. There is US law, linked to by the article, https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:18%20section:... concerning material support
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by eesmith 2y ago
I would not. My taxes are not a burden on me. While on the other hand, the local politicians have sought tax cut after tax cut, causing the library to limit services, the schools to cut down on teaching staff, infrastructure maintenance del
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by eesmith 2y ago
If so, that means the ship cannot visit any port, harbor or waterway which requires a locally qualified marine pilot onboard. It also likely affects international treaties regarding the obligations of the master or officer in charge. If the
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by eesmith 2y ago
I don't think the author suggest a 10x-or-bust dichotomy. From the end of the piece: > I expect LLMs have definitely been useful for writing minor features or for getting the people inexperienced with programming/with a specifi
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by eesmith 2y ago
Lycos? I also used Archie for ftp search, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) and Veronica for gopher, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) .
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by eesmith 2y ago
One allowed exemption is: "I have practical difficulties in acquiring MitID, which gives access to Digital Post" (via Firefox translate). MitID is Denmark's digital ID system. It is only supported on proprietary US-based oper
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by eesmith 2y ago
The Geneva Conventions have a very high bar for when suspicion can justify action. Article 22, for example, has: > The following conditions shall not be considered as depriving a medical unit or establishment of the protection guaranteed
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by eesmith 2y ago
From the first and second paragraphs: > a 90,000 square foot facility which manages the nation’s only storage area for DOD-created nuclear waste and the only operating deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the world ... > An
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by eesmith 2y ago
This is the hospital where the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a video purportedly from a nurse who worked there, only to delete it a day later after it was widely derided as staged, right? https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by eesmith 2y ago
> how are you getting people to use your index? I switched from a FOSS license to a proprietary license, and charge for commercial users. The version on the index is for those who want to try it out. It requires a license key to unlock t
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by eesmith 2y ago
A Tennessee dirt farmer and a Texas ranch owner were talking about their land one day. The rancher boasted "I can get in my car and drive all day and never leave the ranch." The farmer replied "Yeah, I had a car like that onc
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by eesmith 2y ago
This is an inference based on a change in legal terms. No resolution yet if it reflects any deeper intent. (I suspect it's made by lawyers who default to 'make sure we control everything' when they write their terms, like eve
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by eesmith 2y ago
Some background might be useful. In the 1800s, geometry was seen as the best math to train one's mind. Abraham Lincoln, for example, "kept a copy of Euclid in his saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight; he related th
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by eesmith 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothe... > There is evidence of precession and changes in axial tilt, but this change is on much longer time-scales and does not involve relative motion of the
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by eesmith 2y ago
That refers to "title case", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case > Title case or headline case is a style of capitalization used for rendering the titles of published works or works of art in English.
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by eesmith 2y ago
You asked 'Where were the complaints about previous governments not growing them fast enough?' I answered with an example of a previous complaint. I take it then you did not read the report? It goes into details of why they were u
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by eesmith 2y ago
The modern weather service started in part due to the failures of the earlier model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard > The Schoolhouse Blizzard ... hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. W
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by eesmith 2y ago
Here's an earlier complained about NOAA being understaffed: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-shutdown-is-weakening-ou... from January 11, 2019: > The shutdown exacerbates a long-term problem within the
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Thus fulfilling the old adage, “... If you have neither the law nor the facts, hammer the table.”
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> they are largely inspired by Marxist philosophy either directly or indirectly As I wrote, Marx's critical analysis of capitalism touched on many social topics. You should not be surprised that his work had merit in later social re
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by eesmith 2y ago
Calling it a loophole doesn't make it a loophole, no matter how many time your repeat it. If you don't like the US Constitution, either change it or move to a country without jus soli citizenship. "Anchor baby" xenophobi
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Yes, that's the bullshit I was talking about. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus... > The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative champi
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by eesmith 2y ago
VOIPThrowaway's comment was all about the intent behind the amendment. Part of the intent may have been to "make sure Democrats couldn't say that former slaves weren't citizens" but the legislative history clearly s
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Do you have any idea of the breakdown? Because everything I've see is that no one knows , and the limited government publications are full of bullshit. Like, if a project studying biodiversity is cut, is that because it is "relat
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by eesmith 2y ago
Birthright citizenship for whites was already long-established common law (eg, Lynch v. Clarke, 1844). Quoting from US vs. Wong Kim Ark at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649 > Passing by
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by eesmith 2y ago
I take it then you don't live in Oregon or other state with postal voting, or no-excuse absentee voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St... > As of 2022, eight states – California,
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by eesmith 2y ago
I assume you are not suggesting that so long as it's possible to choose to be a hermit in the deep woods, then your technology use is all optional. In any case, stone tools are technology. Making fire requires technology. I'll set
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by eesmith 2y ago
If the nitpicking shows that you often misinterpret the citations you give, then showing more citations - especially to newspaper articles rather than the actual reports - isn't going to help. Like, I don't care about your views a
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by eesmith 2y ago
I'm quite taken by your Goat Island example - thanks for mentioning it!

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