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by halestock 5mo ago
Because society functions a lot better when it has people in it who like each other.
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by halestock 5mo ago
> In a letter sent to Wendy Smith, who revoked her donation to UCSD after the Annenberg Media story broke, the school stated: “We will not be responding to factually inaccurate reporting by student reporters who have an agenda.” Pretty e
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by halestock 5mo ago
But that's not idempotent? If I'm a client and I don't know if the original request went through, getting a 409 on any subsequent requests tells me nothing about whether the original request was successful or not.
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by halestock 5mo ago
Why?
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by halestock 5mo ago
Sorry what?
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by halestock 5mo ago
I'd say it's more like you're not a real driver if you use Waymo to get around everywhere.
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by halestock 5mo ago
I found a couple: https://resources.culturalheritage.org/osg-postprints/wp-con... https://www.zoicpaleotech.com/pages/paraloid-b72-in-fossil-p... acetone will dissolve it, dunno about turpentine.
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by halestock 6mo ago
> A 200 OK response tells you the request was accepted. It tells you nothing about what actually happened after. ??? From [0]: > The HTTP 200 OK successful response status code indicates that a request has succeeded. From [1]: > Th
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by halestock 6mo ago
There what is?
40.
by halestock 6mo ago
Do you mean the flamethrower guitar? That was real.
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by halestock 7mo ago
It doesn’t.
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by halestock 7mo ago
The pen is the material.
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by halestock 8mo ago
Some alternative reporting: https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social... https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mark-zucke...
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by halestock 8mo ago
There's a difference between "things you are interested in" and "things that will make you addicted".
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by halestock 8mo ago
> The Moroun family - the American owners of the neighbouring Ambassador Bridge that also connects Detroit to Canada - appealed to Trump during his first term to stop construction of the new bridge, arguing that it infringed on their exc
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by halestock 8mo ago
> A subset of the population doesn't have self control? Ban it everyone. Even if it's a wildly popular form of entertainment Like gambling?
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by halestock 8mo ago
You can only let that go so far, because at the end of the day you need to pay the military to keep you in power.
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by halestock 9mo ago
Ok sure, but now you’re just describing something completely different.
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by halestock 9mo ago
No, it depends on whether they have an ownership stake in what they’re funding or not.
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by halestock 9mo ago
> The lesson is that you should stop caring about breaking people’s code who go against the documentation this way. When it breaks you shrug. Their code was always buggy and it just happened to be working for them until then. You are not
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by halestock 9mo ago
It's fully supported as of version 139[0], so since ~June of last year. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by halestock 9mo ago
What?
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by halestock 9mo ago
You know AI is a great solution that will succeed on its own merits when people need to be told it's "inevitable".
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by halestock 10mo ago
Yeah but by the time that revolution is here, the contract will have ended.
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by halestock 10mo ago
How do any of those things fit that definition?
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by halestock 1y ago
I know that Google's Spanner[0] uses atomic clocks to help with consistency. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
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by halestock 1y ago
It was independent (I think it predates the CNCF actually), but was acquired by Apple in 2015 and disappeared until it was open sourced in 2018.
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by halestock 1y ago
That is a discussion that inflation resembles a tax. And in any case, how does that refute the idea that taxation in general is not a solution? That’s like saying soda taxes are bad so we shouldn’t have income taxes either.
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by halestock 1y ago
You’re arguing that because inflation (which is not a tax) is kinda sorta like a tax, therefore taxation in general isn’t a solution?
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by halestock 1y ago
? > Under a decade-old state law, California police are prohibited from sharing data from automated license plate readers with out-of-state and federal agencies. Attorney General Rob Bonta affirmed that fact in a 2023 notice to police.

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