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by fwip 2y ago
> What are we even doing here with capitalism, democracy, etc if we don't generally trust people to make their own decisions? Laws are the primary mechanism by which democracy safeguards threatened community resources. You may be lo
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by fwip 2y ago
Doesn't have any scaling losses - it's a very parallel problem. Divide the keyspace N ways, run N brute-force searches. Similarly, it doesn't benefit from a faster connection to other nodes or main memory. Most bit-flips won&
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by fwip 2y ago
Asking everybody nicely to stop contributing to climate change does not work to stop climate change. It is an individualized solution to a societal problem. We didn't clean up our water by asking people to stop buying lightbulbs from t
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by fwip 2y ago
I think you might have your dates confused. Pyenv was first released about 8 years ago.
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by fwip 2y ago
Just downloaded it and mucked about. It definitely works without the cloud, because it works while I'm offline. Looking at the code, it looks like an opt-in feature where you can provide your API key to Tavily. That said, it seems buil
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by fwip 2y ago
> In other words, the current egg crisis is what the Sovietization of American business looks like. On the contrary - there's nothing more American than corporations abusing their oligopoly status for financial gain.
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by fwip 2y ago
Economically, make-work programs would probably be useful right about now.
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by fwip 2y ago
Can you install bcvi on that remote machine? (Genuine question - when I've been in similar situations, it also would have been a no-go to install a binary.
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by fwip 2y ago
We sure can choose that world. Not individually, but as a people.
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by fwip 2y ago
For many use cases, blowing up loudly is strongly preferable to silently doing the wrong thing. Especially in the presence of hostile actors, who are trying to use your out -of-bounds error for their own gain.
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by fwip 2y ago
Astroturfed by whom?
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by fwip 2y ago
I used to be a libertarian too, when I was 17 years old and I thought I was the smartest person in the room. Then I realized that my kindergarten teacher was onto something when she told us we should be nice and share our toys, and I grew u
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by fwip 2y ago
Simply pitch shifting somebody doesn't make them sound like a normal male/female speaker. There's a lot more to it, including musicality of speech, word choice, resonant frequencies, etc. If you pitch shifted the average Amer
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by fwip 2y ago
I think you misread something, because that's not true.
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by fwip 2y ago
Nukes haven't yet wiped us out. They still may.
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by fwip 2y ago
Is it? There's a sibling comment to yours about somebody who went through this - seems like the rate is higher than the "gold coin in the woods."
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by fwip 2y ago
Note that this proof-of-concept implementation saves latency on first load, but may add latency at surprising points while using the website. Any user invoking a rarely-used function would see a delay before the javascript executes, without
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by fwip 2y ago
Sorry for any confusion - the parenthetical (cis) was meant to narrow my statement according to my specific first-hand experiences, not to imply that trans men don't do it. I can see how my wording implied that, though.
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by fwip 2y ago
This is the answer. On paper, we have laws preventing monopolists from abusing their power. In reality, it's easy to disguise any predatory pricing or "special offers," running at or near a loss in your upstart competitor&#x2
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by fwip 2y ago
Most communities act differently when it's just themselves in a space they own, as compared to when they're in a space that is less homogenous. The queer scene is a lot more open with sexuality than the cishet one. Even (cis) men
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by fwip 2y ago
I often use my thumb on the touchpad, but doing it now it does seem like I usually move my index finger a bit off home row. This is on a MacBook, where the top of the touchpad is basically right under the spacebar.
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by fwip 2y ago
Because human beings care about things that aren't the economy. Do you actually evaluate all public spending on this sole metric, or just the things you don't personally desire?
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by fwip 2y ago
Scientists aren't saying it because it's not true.
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by fwip 2y ago
The intro of the movie makes it pretty clear that their premise is "IQ is heritable, and stupid people have more kids." It's not a coincidence that the "high IQ" couple is portrayed as wealthy and the "low IQ&
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by fwip 2y ago
Their next sentence explains. Other databases might not make that guarantee, including future versions of Postgres.
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by fwip 2y ago
The name of the maintainer.
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by fwip 2y ago
I'm one of those people who claim not to "think in language," except specifically when composing sentences. It seems just as baffling to me that other people claim that they primarily do so. If I had to describe it, I would s
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by fwip 2y ago
Exactly. English text is thought to have about 10 bits per word of information content, yet you can read much more quickly than 1 word per second. That includes not just ingesting the word, but also comprehending the meaning the author is c
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by fwip 2y ago
Are those prices in USD, or a local currency? (Apologies for not knowing which local currency to ask about; it seems that Zimbabwe changed currency recently and no longer uses the Zimbabwean Dollar?)
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by fwip 2y ago
In your first post, you said "can already do," which is not true.

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