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by irrational 1y ago
From what we’ve seen recently, the federal government and federal agencies are no longer following the law, not even the constitution. I’m not sure what makes this case unique.
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by irrational 1y ago
It’s not worth doing because it is easier, but because all of our eggs are in one basket (planet). We know of disasters that can wipe out almost all life on a single planet. Of course, there are also disasters that can wipe out all life in
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by irrational 1y ago
This is so odd. Firefox is my primary browser and this is the very first time I have ever even heard the name Fakespot.
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by irrational 1y ago
Personally I’m more into sheep, but I won’t kink shame.
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by irrational 1y ago
But, isn’t European data modeling of hurricanes better than that of the USA? I assume this is only the USA forecasting that is being set back?
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by irrational 1y ago
As long as the tots are crispy and I have ketchup to dip them in, I’d rather have the tots.
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by irrational 1y ago
I did leather working as a kid in the 80s and only knew Tandy as the leather company. I’ve been a programmer for decades now and had heard of the Tandy computers but never connected the name to the leather company. I’d especially never hear
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by irrational 1y ago
I think Wikipedia is wrong. It’s not like Wikipedia is the arbiter of absolute truth.
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by irrational 1y ago
I don’t consider Reddit to be social either.
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by irrational 1y ago
There can’t be that many iOS developers that the $99 really affects their bottom line. I always assumed it was a barrier to entry to help discourage low effort apps.
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by irrational 1y ago
I don’t consider an anonymous link aggregator with a forum bolted on top to be social media. To the best of my knowledge I’ve never read a comment from the same person (assuming they are people and not bots) in more than one post. Strangers
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by irrational 1y ago
I don’t use social media. Is the assumption that everyone does use social media?
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by irrational 1y ago
> and historical romance novels will rightly remember us as rugged and sexy. Damn straight we are.
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by irrational 1y ago
The 8th and 9th Star Wars movies were such a mess. What if space balls 2 parodied these movies, but ended up with a more coherent plot?
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by irrational 1y ago
Except, the elderly aren’t the majority. There are just as many Millenials as Boomers. It’s a matter of getting Gen x, millenials, Gen z and Gen alpha to actually vote.
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by irrational 1y ago
That there will be nobody to care for the great mass of old people, nobody to work jobs to make 401ks worth anything, nobody to prop up social security, nobody to buy old people’s houses so they can use that money to pay for nursing homes S
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by irrational 1y ago
Does that work for homemade food as well? The vast majority of the food we eat is homemade with recipes that don’t have any sort of nutritional information. I’ve always wished there was a simple way to figure out the calories. Taking a pict
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by irrational 1y ago
Is it the time of day or how long the patient has been awake that matters? It seems like someone could change their sleep cycle to match the doctors schedule if the latter.
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by irrational 1y ago
> do you even remember a phone number that is useful now? This is the one that would get me. Back in the 1980s and 90s I had lots of phone numbers memorized, now I don’t even know my wife’s phone number.
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by irrational 1y ago
TIL there is a markup language war. Who are the combatants?
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by irrational 1y ago
I’m still a developer, I just don’t do web development anymore. I now do integration work (take files or data from one system, maybe massage the data and/or reformat it, and send to a different system).
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by irrational 1y ago
That was nearly my great-grandfather. Completely healthy until he was 103. Didn’t need glasses, walked without support, lived alone, completely there mentally and had a fantastic memory. Then he got shingles which affected his throat so eat
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by irrational 1y ago
I was a web developer since the mid-90s. I got out of it a few years ago because the direction web development was going in was so not fun. I still do personal web development because I find it enjoyable, but feel so much relief not to be d
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by irrational 1y ago
That’s the kind we have. The kids enjoy seeing how fast they can pump the pedals to try to get the songs to play faster.
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by irrational 1y ago
I’m speaking about his linguistic theories such as universal grammar.
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by irrational 1y ago
At my current job, I need to write quite a bit of python. I been programming for enough decades that I can look at Python code and tell what it is doing, but creating it from scratch? No. But copilot “knows” Python and can write the code th
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by irrational 1y ago
Do your local grocery stores not sell spaghetti?
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by irrational 1y ago
I have a degree in linguistics. We were taught Chomsky’s theories of linguistics, but also taught that they were not true. (I don’t want to say what university it was since this was 25 years ago and for all I know that linguistics departmen
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by irrational 1y ago
I still think confabulation is a better term for what LLMs do than hallucination. Hallucination - A hallucination is a false perception where a person senses something that isn't actually there, affecting any of the five senses: sight,
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by irrational 1y ago
I forgot for a moment what website I was on and expected the link to be about the board game Root and getting your friends to play it with you. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237182/root

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