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by est31 2y ago
not sure how the CSS subsystem is included (I remember it is shared with Servo?), but in general all of the Rust dependencies in mozilla-central is vendored, so nothing is in your ~/.cargo directory.
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by est31 2y ago
If you run cargo vendor, they end up in a neat directory.
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by est31 2y ago
What about Deno? https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/security/#key-pri...
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by est31 2y ago
Trump wants to make the Fed, which is supported and defended by the biggest military on this planet, hoard bitcoin. It turns out you can buy politicians with money, and Bitcoin supporters have done just that.
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by est31 2y ago
Sure you can create 10 different blockchains but will those have "stable" value 10 years from now? In China, it's nearly impossible to invest your assets without friends in the government. The government strictly controls con
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by est31 2y ago
Ponzi schemes usually involve promises to get back X times the money after N time. And in terms of actual cash. So whoever runs the Ponzi scheme needs to keep it growing exponentially in order to create exponential payouts. Eventually, it w
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by est31 2y ago
Search engines also return websites with mistakes, sometimes even the stuff they quote directly in their search. But the good part is that they can put the blame onto the individual website if it's wrong. Similarly, you can also use th
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by est31 2y ago
This is what was often said about Wikipedia. Don't use it as main source of information, but using it as a starting point is fine (if it's just to get a list of sources it quotes).
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by est31 2y ago
> For informational content, like Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, Yelp, recipe websites... perhaps this will end up looking something like the journalism industry that aggregate and publish the information to AI companies, so they can avoid free
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by est31 2y ago
There is multiple effects fighting against people who want to lose weight: * habits. often times, obese people use food as a stress response, as a reward, etc. this then makes them relapse. * "target weight" of the body. there is
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by est31 2y ago
Oh very nice, they just moved the location. Thanks for pointing this out!
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by est31 2y ago
TSMC also builds facilities in europe but they are not as advanced. Europe's strategic budget to finance such moves is much smaller. And this is purely strategic, these plants are a technology transfer program meant to de-risk the Taiw
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by est31 2y ago
Often, very often, foreign investment is directly correlated with tourism-gentrification, aka driving out the poor working class people from some location, because it looks "authentic" and is centrally located, into ugly looking p
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by est31 2y ago
One thing I really loved is automated transcripts on youtube. I love watching youtube videos, but sometimes I want to remember where I heard some statement, so I can just copy paste the entire transcript and do ctrl+f on it. So sad that the
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by est31 2y ago
I suppose it's easier to reach a deal with a company that is selling/renting out their model instead of giving it away for free, so they went against them first? Both from a budget at FB point of view, because probably they alloca
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by est31 2y ago
I understand it if you look at the receiving end. Say in Germany they built natural gas plants shortly before the war under the premise that they must be Hydrogen ready, aka right now we use natural gas but promise in a few years when Hydro
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by est31 2y ago
If most of the local people are going to move to that location, they could also move to a different location which is a bit further away from where it's planned now.
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by est31 2y ago
It comes down to moats. Does OpenAI have a moat? It's leading the pack, but the competitors always seem to be catching up to it. We don't see network effects with it yet like with social networks, unless OpenAI introduces househol
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by est31 2y ago
ISBN's are hierarchical, what do you mean? Like Gaul, ISBNs are divided into multiple parts, where one part is for the language, another is for the publisher, and the last is for the title. The last part is a checksum. https:/&#x
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by est31 2y ago
Executives are paid handsomely because of the value they bring to the company. Part of an executive's job is to meet with executives of other companies and make deals with executives of other companies. Those deals work, but they requi
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by est31 2y ago
> China has 93% Note that "homeowner" in China means leaseholder. So strictly speaking, they aren't really homeowners. Land in cities is owned by the state as per the Chinese constitution, and then pieced up and handed out
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by est31 2y ago
I think part of this issue is that people expect a lot from Apple. They exposed the technology to many people who aren't early adopter types, but more "mainstream" types. With an entirely new product and brand, the tolerance
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by est31 2y ago
Yes and you do these things during the day and not during the time when everyone else is home from work. I go shopping at various times, but when I go to the stores during the "return from work" rush hour right after common work e
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by est31 2y ago
Babies can heal from heart damage really well, the ability is lost in your life's first few months. So this is just turning on a flag.
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by est31 2y ago
You can say this about any medical procedure as it improves the lifespan and health of someone. In theory this should mean that asset managers would like to have public healthcare so that workers can always give their 100%, and also have re
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by est31 2y ago
From what I read, AI "winters" have not just had less progress but also have had less research activity in general: during them, AI was seen as a dead end that didn't provide value, which translates to less funding, which tra
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by est31 2y ago
As long as we live in a society of humans, there will be humans controlling millions of dollars, billions, trillions, and then yes, -illion dollar conversations do happen, sometimes randomly even. That's one of the purposes of all the
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by est31 2y ago
Yeah, generative AI can create cool looking pictures and video but so far it hasn't managed to create infinitely engaging stories. The models aren't there yet.
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by est31 2y ago
Is it really required to be an LEO constellation? It would certainly be good, so that eventually the satellites deorbit and contribute less to Kesseler syndrome risk. But some nation state might chose to not care about that and deploy at hi
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by est31 2y ago
Opera is not a browser at this point but a chrome skin. Yes, there is some engineering still going on, but they don't run as much engineering as would be needed to build world-class browser software.

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