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by jacknews 1y ago
Partly true, but let's be clear about who is being indoctrinated about culture. Khmer culture is basically an offshoot of the original Hindu, and then Buddhist culture from India. The language is the 'latin' of the region and
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TIL, Thanks. 'Landed table'? Is that the 'fact table', the one that contains the codes that need to be looked-up?
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Of course it is, OTOH the nature of this 'enterprise' has been visible for quite a while now, and I'm sure, investigated quite intensively (by more than DoJ), and 'missing' only means that the general public doesn&#
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"When handling large CASE WHEN statements, it is better to create a dimension table or view, ideally sourced from the landed table where the original status column is populated." Is this code for 'use a lookup table' or
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What I read is they hacked wallets that had the 'Milk Sad' vulnerability (predictable private key), but I'm skeptical as that's an old CVE, IMHO it's more likely an infrastructure or communications hack or a wrench
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My 16yo son did exactly this over the last week as part of his Rust minecraft mod manager, using http range requests to get the file length, then the directory, then individual file data. I'll dig up a link.
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Yes of course, but this claim is a response to Korea's claim that they are 'missing', presumed trafficked to scam compounds. Cambodia is claiming they are 'detained' by immigration, and refuse to leave, making it so
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No, some Cambodians are seeing a very sizeable benefit, probably the standard 20% that the leading family cream off of any major investment in the country. And BTW it is not just the Chinese, there are innumerable other operators, including
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by jacknews 1y ago
Militarily you are right, but remember war is politics by other means. Thailand's Thaksin is now in jail and his daughter, basically his avatar, has been removed from government. Mission accomplished. And to get a sense of how powerful
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Cambodian people are suffering, no doubt about it, but what you say about the surge in nationalism and entrenching his position is certainly true; the 'leadership' has only gotten stronger. It's surreal how Cambodians are bli
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And this isn't the only one. The ruling family in Cambodia is a big part of it, via their ownership in HuiOne (now renamed), which is essentially the clearing house for the 'industry'. In fact the Thai-Cambodia border conflic
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It's one product, sure. Arguably more important is standard time. Before the railways towns ran on local-noon time, so the railways and their timetables required time to be synchronized across regions.
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maybe code should be stored with no formatting, only the required whitespace, and the editors/viewers are responsible for applying formatting. Then formatting will never cause confusion in diffs.
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It should be very obvious that the 'infosphere' (media, culture, education, day-to-day interactions and environment) heavily influences people, and ends up controlling them by setting the 'normal' for society, and it&#x2
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"intelligence is not necessary to wield power." Great quote, which should be obvious when we look at our 'leaders', especially in recent history.
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Now we're expected to believe a rag-tag crew of Ukrainians used a leaky sailboat to simultaneously detonate deep water pipelines, lol. Denmark and Sweden gave up thier investigations quite quickly, probably they arrived at the truth bu
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The title in the article is 'How I trained...' yet there is no explanation of how it was done, just that it was.
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'I don't know, but I'll get back to you?' you can add the reasons why the question is more complex than it seems nothing worse than people pretending to know when they don't
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It seems rather more likely to me, even if it's millennia way, that we get a semblance of an autonomous agentic AI, than what you suggest. It might be impossible, or just need some innovations (eg, transformer), but my point is the inv
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I mean, the limit to renewables is to capture all the energy from the sun, and maybe the heat of the earth. But then you start to have some issues with global warming (the temperature at which energy input = energy radiated away) We probabl
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I don't think it's that obvious, in fact the 'bitter lesson' teaches us that simple scale leads to qualitative, not just quantitative improvement. It does look like this is now topping out, but it's still not sure.
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When you can use AI as though it's an employee, instead of repeatedly 'prompting' it with small problems and tasks. It will have agency, it will perform the role. A part of that is that it will have to maintain a running cont
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How so? The maximum possible benefit of fusion (aside from the science gained in the attempt) is cheap energy. We'll get very cheap energy just by massively rolling out existing solar panels (maybe some at sea), and other renewables, H
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I think these articles slightly miss the point. Sure, AI as a tool, as it currently is, will take a very long time to earn back the $B being invested. But what if someone reaches autonomous AGI with this push? Everything changes. So I think
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I think we can agree that a 'starving' company is not the same as a starving human. Your other points about differentiation are especially valid, now, but the great mass of people have limited capability there. Should they just st
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Most of big tech enjoys some degree of monopoly power through network effects, so it's a little disingenuous to wave "It's the market, stupid" in this case. Quite apart from the fact that in the jobs 'market',
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The next step will be to impose tariffs on code developed abroad. Not that I agree with tariffs, but there are import taxes on physical goods and parts and so on, even when they are produced by the same company, so why not on services?
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This gets at an underlying concept, but arrives at entirely the wrong conclusion IMHO. Through history clocks and time have been used to regulate and control society. eg read "About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks&quot
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I think it should apply to renewals etc as well. It will be quite telling how well-subscribed the upcoming lottery is with this new rule. If H1-B is truly about finding rare talent, it should have limited effect.
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Not content with having microsoft at the heart of the airforce's logistics, now they want palantir to do the decionmaking and targeting.

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