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by g-b-r 10mo ago
It's dangerous to think that nothing can ever happen to your repository, corruptions or weird states you don't know how to recover from are not even rare. So do take backups, of the whole local repository. At the beginning of usin
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Except that with this article's advice (delete the repository and clone it again) the reflog and the unreachable commits get lost all the time
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
It's so weird that it's not enabled by default, although occasionally it can lead to surprising problems (when it records wrong resolutions). I had it enabled for years, and the time when I tried turning it off the rebasing esperi
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Places where you have to use your real name, like Facebook, are typically more toxic
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Not sure why you link to a screenshot of LinkedIn, or to LinkedIn at all, but you might want to spell-check what's written there
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
If that would really be the only option, don't make the app. If it gets very popular, those who don't want to be tied to Google will be excluded from something important. And the maker of this app thinks it could have a tremendous
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen ads and articles along those lines in the '80s
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Except that right now almost everyone hates AI-generated entertainment products (slop), with a passion
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Wow, this seems so good !!!
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Despite those billions of people not ending up electing Trump?
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Taiwan's £7.5T secret weapon is disintegrating(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by g-b-r 10mo ago|1 comments
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
uhm, 13 people upvoted the single comment of this newly created account
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
God, that's how today's kids see drm-free software? As something hard to wrap your mind around?
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
I think a prohibition to lie to the public would already be incredibly impactful (if it had no statute of limitations and adequate punishments). A delicate issue I see is how to handle personal matters that the public don't need to kno
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Not being elected again is a ridiculously mild punishment, and it turns out that you can avoid even that if you lie well enough. Not to mention its absence in a president's second term...
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Are coal and oil not dying technologies? We can debate how much nuclear is needed, but renewables can do a lot, and just hoping that AI will bring nuclear fusion in 5 years is not a great strategy
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Might it be that you can't rely on private funding for things that don't result in a profit? And that there's some disincentive for wealthy people to go against the current administration's policies?
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Examples?
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
I'm sure plenty of oil tycoons will step in
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
I've been thinking for a while that the only fix democracy needs is accountability for everything the politicians do and say (in public). If you think of any (societal) issue you care about, there's a good chance it would get solv
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
If it doesn't turn into a nothingburger *, can we get back the glaciers, the climate and the people who died to help your own cronies get some more billions? * (that is, if there's not a global conspiracy of pedo-scientists set t
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
(I'm slightly skeptical)
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AI can help get fusion from lab to energy grid by the 2030s – WEF(weforum.org)
3 points by g-b-r 10mo ago|3 comments
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
From two weeks ago, but it wasn't submitted yet Energy secretary Chris Wright (pretends to) believe that AI will bring fusion to the grid in few years...
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
> A vocal minority of tech guys raving about how Electron apps are resource hogs don't dictamine what's performant and what's not. Because only tech guys have limited ram?
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
Shorter version at https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey/video/745204058322228... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4MmAwkB0Fc
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The AI Bias Before Christmas (2023) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by g-b-r 10mo ago|1 comments
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
It's very worrying that this comment was downvoted
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by g-b-r 10mo ago
And now flagged and vanished from any page

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