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by gustavus 3y ago
Its funny you mention that. The enormous variety of games is what kept me on WC3 Battle.net for hours and hours at a time.
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by gustavus 3y ago
If I could find a 1980's Ford pickup truck I'd buy it in a heart beat, cars used to be simple enough anyone could fix it, the parts were all just large pieces of metal and they ran fine.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I don't think the problem is they were successful, I think the problem is more that they are using their success to effectively lock down the entire internet until only their approved platforms are allowed.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Godot and yes although it isn't at parity at this point as more people adopt it it will increase in the number of features, especially if people choose to support it monetarily.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I need to clarify here, the GSL is far far too salty to desalinate, and Utah is pretty close to the head of the Colorado, not the other way around. It's AZ and NM and CA that are having problems with the CO not providing enough water.
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by gustavus 3y ago
"Our report indicates that we don't have resources to provide definitive answers and we need more resources" - The report With political acumen like that they will quickly have the best run UAP program in the world https:&#x
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by gustavus 3y ago
The cycle of tooling Step 1: Look I've made this new great tool that uses a declarative language, you simply declare what you want your environment to look like and boom it will build it out. No more having to figure out a complicated
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by gustavus 3y ago
Here's the thing I can be sympathetic to the plight of climate activists, but many times it strikes me as having a lot of uncomfortable parallels to the end of days Christian millenialists that got big in the late 90s and early 2000s.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Link to actual study: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00351-3
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by gustavus 3y ago
> The Australian system is deliberately 'overbearing' in it's rules because there's an understanding its not going to be uniformly enforced and the average joe's are going to break the rules according to a relat
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've heard multiple explanations, some of them include. 1. The moving off the gold standard 2. A large number of women started entering the workforce essentially doubling the supply of labor. 3. The rise of MBAs and downsizing really b
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by gustavus 3y ago
Social Media (Basic Expectations and Defamation) Bill 2021 > 6 Investigation of complaints > (1) The Commissioner may investigate a complaint made under section 5. > (2) An investigation under this section is to be conducted as
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by gustavus 3y ago
Maybe it works great and is super advanced, but my experiences so far with ChatGPT (even 4) shows that it tends to make basic mathematical errors sometimes. You'll excuse me if I am skeptical that an LLM is going to do a better job at
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by gustavus 3y ago
You know this reminds me of a point made by C.S. Lewis in his book the abolition of man. He points out that when we say we've conquered nature (or in the modern parlance "made progress") what we have really done is taken powe
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by gustavus 3y ago
This article explains a phenomenon I've been observing with growing uneasiness that I couldn't quite put my finger on till now. Which is basically the number of laws I've seen popping up (more especially in the UK and Aus) wh
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by gustavus 3y ago
The DEA whose motto is "At least we aren't as bad as the ATF"
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by gustavus 3y ago
Excellent article in my estimation, stressing the need for some sort of nuance beyond "Other side bad". For those curious as to how a volcanic eruption could cause an increase in tempratures when often volcanic detonations are cor
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Among the first recipients are: the Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Institute for Secur
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by gustavus 3y ago
So the law they are suing over is here https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB587/id/2599787 I think the part that they probably have issue with is the "(5) (A) Information on content that was flagged by th
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by gustavus 3y ago
Where are you living that it is that hard? I am the sole breadwinner for our family, have been our whole marriage, and we have 4 little kids and live a fairly comfortable middle class lifestyle. Although if food keeps going this way we may
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by gustavus 3y ago
Does this surprise anyone this has been the way households have been structured for millennia, even among the elite aristocrats of ancient Rome, or Egyptian dynastys there would always the woman was primarily responsible for the running of
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by gustavus 3y ago
The "meat" of the article > A USDA certification program for producers who demonstrate a 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from their cattle below an industry baseline will earn them a certification that allows them to
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by gustavus 3y ago
They have ironclad contracts with the DoD and other government organizations, and with the way those processes work if every person from the president to the peon decided they wanted to move everything off of IBM and were going to move heav
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by gustavus 3y ago
> I guess China is the obvious candidate due to reduced costs in pretty much everything Achievement: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor. Get the poster
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by gustavus 3y ago
The turkey got to the farm. The Chickens all told him to fear the farmer, that one day the farmer would kill and cook and eat him. When the farmer came the first time the turkey hid full of fear, but the farmer came and instead of death and
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by gustavus 3y ago
You're telling me that the huge disparity between Audience and Critics reviews on RT isn't because the unenlightened masses are to stupid to realize what a cinematic masterpiece <insert preferred culture war movie> was? Well
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by gustavus 3y ago
Ya, many people are concerned about how various interest groups are attempting to hobble AI in the west by pushing certain world viewpoints comparing it to Russia and China. But have you even seen how much more strict China is with censorsh
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by gustavus 3y ago
The whole point of this country is if you want to eat garbage, balloon up to 600 pounds and die of a heart attack at 43, you can! You are free to do so. To me, that's beautiful. - Ron Swanson
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by gustavus 3y ago
So Texas almost got close to a blackout in the last 2 years? Is this newsworthy, are we reporting on things that almost happened?
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by gustavus 3y ago
Please Don't create the Torment Nexus

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