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by jahewson 2y ago
ChatGPT needs two years of exceeds expectations for before that can happen.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Worked out great for Sonos when their timers and alarms didn’t work.
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1964 was 60 years ago.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Exactly - and it sounds harsh at first but consider that a family of four put up in a hotel for a month is going to cost a figure close to that and the insurance company is paying for it. Plus the timescales involved go beyond “emergency” t
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by jahewson 2y ago
Is the pure market outcome not that someone creates a competing insulin company? Patents and the buying practices of Medicare (both government interventions in the market) would seem to be the two biggest blockers.
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by jahewson 2y ago
No, fortunately random hosts on the internet don’t get to write a letter and make something a crime.
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by jahewson 2y ago
lol no
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Someone else will make a joke about police officers investigating tweets. That practice - which was put to an end a couple of years ago This claim is 100% false. We’ve seen multiple people jailed for tweets this year alone. > I have
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by jahewson 2y ago
Given that such porridges are only “unhealthy” to the extent that they increase risk factors for various diseases, perhaps eating them should be considered a form of gambling. Then government could tax it too.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Given that it’s not illegal to send children to schools that indoctrinate them with religious beliefs I’d speculate that the answer is a resounding “no”.
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GPT or not GPT? That is the question.
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> criminally negligent Well, civil reckless disregard, as it wasn’t a criminal case.
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That implies campaign material and finances are capable of swinging an election, surely that affirms the statement you’re replying to? Namely: > the general public is so easily influenceable that allowing them to vote is a danger for dem
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by jahewson 2y ago
TypeScript solves this.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Skia ships with a WASM build that supports node, called CanvasKit [1], whereas this module is Rust bindings? I’d be keen to know what the pros and cons of each approach are. 1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/canvaskit-wa
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by jahewson 2y ago
> In the US we've enthusiastically taken up arms against governments which did this type of thing If by “enthusiastically” you mean “reluctantly”, then yes.
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It’s clearly not an ideal situation. It might well be the start of something very dark. But also it’s worth examining how unserious some of Amnesty’s quoted claims are: > lack of precise information from authorities to detainees’ familie
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Work has already begun on turning this site into a new cultural and commercial hub, which includes the new London Museum. Yes, come to the museum to learn about all this culture we used to have, such as an awesome market.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Only if you don’t want transactions across tables?
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by jahewson 2y ago
I don’t think it’s helpful to use inflammatory labels like “toxic”. There’s no such thing. It’s an unfalsifiable claim.
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But not one of the things you mention is an “open standard”.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Cool now how do I get a table in my markdown file? And a chart? Also some diagrams.
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by jahewson 2y ago
> DOCX is a proprietary format. Perfect support is categorically impossible. A best-effort attempt is the best we'll ever get, and IME LibreOffice tries a lot harder than other office suites do. Nah - well you’re correct that DOCX i
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by jahewson 2y ago
I don’t think it’s transistors that the article is alluding to when it says “semiconductors” but integrated circuits. While individual germanium transistors were (as you note) already widely used, the AGC was the first computer to make use
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Current peace in Europe, after centuries of endless bloodshed, is nice to have. It’s like 80 years, let’s not get carried away. Europe seems woefully unstable to me.
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by jahewson 2y ago
There’s just better things to do nowadays. A YouTube video from my favorite expert on a topic is so much more engaging and enjoyable than reading a long article from some staff writer.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This strikes me as kind of a naive take in 2024. Even the AP has been pushing a politicized agenda. The newspaper I paid good money to read for many years is now unreadable propaganda. I’ve been forced to get my news from X if I don’t want
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by jahewson 2y ago
I’m not sure that citing three things that the traditional media has been happy to report on too is a very good way of making your point. The real danger is the content you don’t see: “A [Rutgers Univerity] study […] asserts TikTok’s algori
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Back in 2008 RFK Jr was a Democrat and Obama was considering appointing him to a cabinet post. Anti-vaxers have historically been crunchy-granola hippie folks. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/11/obama-cons
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After Stalin had all the scientists he didn’t like executed, he allowed the ones who were useful for developing weapons to live. Truly inspiring. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the...

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